University of Michigan Near Eastern Studies Department: Mendenhall Symposium - (Ancient) Law, Society, and Religion and Professor Bart Ehrman Keynote

[Dwyer]

The material will be presented from a secular perspective.

It appears to be a free event and no registration required.

University of Michigan Near Eastern Studies Department: Mendenhall Symposium - (Ancient) Law, Society, and Religion and Professor Bart Ehrman Keynote Address on Jesus, the Law, and a “New” Covenant October 6-7th, 2016

Mendenhall Symposium** - Law, Society, and Religion: Keynote Address

Professor Bart Ehrman - Jesus, the Law, and a “New” Covenant

Thursday, October 6, 2016
7:00-8:30 PM
Rackham Auditorium Rackham Graduate School**

Jesus of Nazareth was a Torah-observant Jewish teacher whose followers, after his death, came to adopt a variety of attitudes toward the Law of Moses. Some of them insisted on strict observance; others argued that only parts of the Law needed to be observed; and yet others claimed that Law had never been part of God’s plan.

These early Christian groups did, however, agree on one point: Jesus’ own words
were to form the basis for his followers’ ethical and communal lives. This lecture will examine how the Christian faith moved from embracing the “old” covenant focused on Torah to adopting a “new” covenant centered on the life, death, and teachings of Jesus.

Professor Bart Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Mendenhall Symposium**** - (Ancient) Law, Society, and Religion**
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Friday, October 7, 2016
8:30 AM-5:00 PM
The Henderson Room Michigan League **

9:00-11:00 a.m.:
Welcome and Opening remarks
Professor Gottfried Hagen, Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
**
Law and Covenant in the Hebrew Bible:**

Chair: Brian Schmidt, University of Michigan
Respondent: Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan

Panelists:

Bernard Levinson, University of Minnesota -
“Revisiting the “and” in Law and Covenant in the Hebrew Bible”

Jacob L. Wright, Emory University
“Defeat and the Biblical Origins of Covenant”

Joel S. Baden, Yale University
“The Transformation of the Decalogue into Law and Covenant”

11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
**Tribute to Professor George E. Mendenhall **with an introduction by Gary Herion, Hartwick College

1:00-3:00 p.m.:
Law and Covenant in the Ancient Near East:

Chair: Gary Beckman, University of Michigan
Respondent: Jay Crisostomo, University of Michigan

Panelists:
David Wright, Brandeis University
“The Adaptation and Fusion of Near Eastern Treaty and Law in Law Collections of the Hebrew Bible”

Bruce Wells, St. Joseph’s University
“Law and Covenant in the Neo-Babylonian Period”

Rachel Magdalene, United Theological Seminary
“On Contracts and Covenants in the Ancient Near East”

3:30-5:00 p.m.:
Law and Scripture after the Bible:

Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan
Respondent: Yaron Eliav, University of Michigan

Panelists:

Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel Aviv University
“To See the Voices: Midrash as Revelation”

Carol Bakhos, University of California Los Angeles
“Revelation and Law: Mount Sinai and Mecca”

Reception to follow


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[PaulfromIowa]

It is something of an understatement to say that Bart Ehrman presents “from a secular perspective.”

 

[Tomdstone]

It is something of an understatement to say that Bart Ehrman presents “from a secular perspective.”

He says that the Resurrection was most likely a hallucination of some sort.

 

[tomgosse]

I would not waste my time with Bart Ehrman.

 

[ctb95]

I would not waste my time with Bart Ehrman.

I certainly dissagree with him about a lot of things, but I wouldn’t pass up a lecture if I was in Ann Arbor.