Celebrating Marc Brettler's Scholarship: The Bible in the Public Square Revisited

This half-day symposium brings together scholars to celebrate the achievements of Marc Brettler in the field of Hebrew Bible, Jewish Studies, public education, and interreligious engagement. In addition to the Bernice and Morton Lerner Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies, participants include: Kata Gellen, Associate Professor of German and Director of the Duke Center for Jewish Studies, Anathea Portier-Young, Associate Professor of Old Testament at Duke University Divinity School, Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Rabbi Dr. David Starr, Congregation Mishkan Tefil and Founder of Me'Ah; Rabbi David Steinberg, co-founder and director of the Academic Torah Institute and TheTorah.com, Tova Hartman, Dean of Humanities at the Ono Academic College, Jennifer Knust, Chair and Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, Ellen Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke University Divinity School; Marc Chancy, Professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University, Pete Enns, Abram S. Clemens Professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University, Amy-Jill Levine, Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita, Vanderbilt University; Professor Joanna Homrighausen, Judaic Studies and Religious Studies at College of William & Mary; Dr. Susie Tanchel, Head of School, JCDS Boston; Mark Smith, Helena Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary; Baruch Schwartz, JL Magnes Emeritus Associate Professor of Bible at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Leela Prasad, St. Purandar Das Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. This event is open to the public.