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Jesus in the First & Twenty-first Centuries

October 3–4, 2008

Joanna Dewey & Roy W. Hoover

The gospels portray Jesus through the eyes of early Christian faith as the Messiah and divine savior; but they also preserve information about Jesus before he became the object of Christian belief. What is the evidence about Jesus as a figure of history and how do we find it?

Lecture
Excavating Jesus
Friday evening, 7:30–9 P.M.

Workshops
The Jesus of the First Century
The Jesus of the Twenty-first Century
Saturday, 9:30 A.M.–4 P.M.

Cost:
Friday Evening Lecture $15
Saturday Morning Workshop $25
Saturday Afternoon Workshop $25

For the entire program $60
Additional family member $40

Joanna Dewey (Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union) is the Harvey H. Guthrie, Jr. Professor Emerita of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books, including Mark as Story (with David Rhoads, 1999).
Roy W. Hoover (Th.D., Harvard University) is Weyerhaeuser Professor of Biblical Literature and Professor of Religion Emeritus, Whitman College. He is co-author (with Robert W. Funk) of The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus (1993) and editor of Profiles of Jesus (2003).

George Schwab
Editor
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