George Nickelsburg Lecture
"A Priest, a King, or a Prophet: Were the Jews Expecting the
Messiah, and Did the Early Christians Think He Had Come?"
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a
lecture by
George Nickelsburg
Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa
Friday,
January 26th
5:00PM
Werkmeister Reading Room, Dodd Hall |
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George W.E.
Nickelsburg is an internationally known specialist in the field
of early Judaism and the origins of Christianity. He is a graduate
of Valparaiso University and earned his Th.D. from Harvard Divinity
School in 1968. Nickelsburg is Professor Emeritus at the University
of Iowa, Iowa City, where he taught New Testament studies and
early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies for thirty-one
years. Prior, he was pastor of a Lutheran Church in Akron, Ohio
for three years. Dr. Nickelsburg has written seven books (among
them Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah,
Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins, and 1 Enoch: A Commentary
on the Book of First Enoch), over 90 articles for scholarly
books and journals, 200 entries for dictionaries and encyclopedias,
and edited seven other books. He has been on the editorial board
of the journal Dead Sea Discoveries since its inception
in 1994. Also, he has served on the editorial board of the Catholic
Biblical Quarterly for eight years and was an editor of The
Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period and of the forthcoming
Dictionary of Religious Writings in Antiquity.
This event
is the 4th annual lecture in the John
Priest Lecture Series. A reception will follow the lecture.
Please RSVP by January 22 to Lindsey Morrow 850-644-1652 or lmorrow@fsu.edu.
