Professor Wil Gafney (Brite Divinity School) provides a short talk on light and darkness in the Bible, and its employment as a basis for White Supremacist interpretations of the Bible.
Anti-Semitism
Free, online: Popular Visual Media and the Bible Conference
The Popular Visual Media and the Bible Conference, hosted by the University of Exeter, will now be run as an online/digital conference, on Mon April 6, 2020, 09:00 – 17:30 BST. Enrol here to view the conference online (no charge).
We will explore the varied relationships between the Bible and contemporary popular visual media (including TV, video games and fantasy literature)
Our conference schedule is as follows (subject to change):
9:30 – welcome
9:40 – 10:30 Panel 1
Siobhan Jolley (University of Manchester)– “I can’t be physical with you” – Reimaging John 20:17 through Fleabag (S2)
Laura Carlson Hasler (Indiana University) – The “Good” Book?: Protestant Television Without the Bible
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 Panel 2
Bea Fones (Durham University) – Daddy Issues: Angelic(Mis)Conceptions and Gender Binaries in the CW’s Supernatural
Mat Collins (University of Chester) – Subversive Screenings: Rethinking Genesis 22 in Popular Visual Media
Rebekah Welton (University of Exeter)- Sibling rivalries and reconciliation in Supernatural: God, the Darkness and Genesis 1:1-5
12-1 Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 Panel 3
Tom de Bruin (Newbold College) – Reception of the Bible in My Little Pony and Christian Apocrypha
Stephanie O’Connor (Dublin City University)– The Batman and the Bible
Zanne Domoney-Lyttle (University of Glasgow)– Wrestling with the Bible: “The Monday Night Messiah”, a “David and Goliath Battle”, and other ways the Bible influences pro-wrestling
2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 3:30 Panel 4
Tim Hutchings (University of Nottingham)– “My Jesus Would Be Chunky” Visualising Virtue and Vice in a Christian Videogame
David Tollerton (University of Exeter)– Anti-Judaism in English History and the strange moment when Doctor Who appeared to propagate biblical supersessionism
3:30 – 4:30 Keynote
Holly Morse (University of Manchester)– Serpentine Saviours and Woke Women: Twenty-First Century Television Goes Back to the Beginning
Philosemitism and Antisemitism in Biblical Criticism
On November 22, 2017, Professor Hindy Najman (Oriel College, Oxford University) presented a paper on “Philosemitism and Antisemitism in Biblical Criticism” at Tel Aviv University. There was also a reply from Dr. Ofri Ilany (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) and a further response from Prof Najman.
Amy-Jill Levine on The Carpenter, Gender, and Sexuality: The 42nd Annual Antoinette Brown lecture
Professor Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt Divinity School) delivered the 42nd Annual Antoinette Brown lecture on March 31, 2016, at Benton Chapel, Vanderbilt University Divinity School. The lecture also celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality.
Levine’s lecture was entitled “The Carpenter, Gender, and Sexuality: The Use and Abuse of the Gospels in Politics and Piety”. Her lecture looks at what the Bible teaches about rape, adultery, and women’s sexual pleasure. She also discusses the contemporary deployment of the Bible as a weapon: contemporary interpretations of the Bible which result in people dying, such as condemnations of homosexuality and abortion, and domestic abuse. Lastly, she examines the roles and authority of women in the Bible.
The lecture begins at 9:00.
Troubling Legacies: Anti-Judaism in Antiquity and Its Aftermath
The 2014 Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism Annual Conference examined “Troubling Legacies: Anti-Judaism in Antiquity and Its Aftermath”. The four panels are available for viewing on YouTube.
Panel 1: Non-Christian Greek and Roman Anti-Judaism?
Erich Gruen, “Was there Judeophobia in Classical Antiquity?”
Benjamin Isaac, “Greek and Roman Hostility: Cultural Incompatibility”
Dale B. Martin (moderated session)
Panel 2: John’s “Jews” and their Effective Force in Reception History
Adele Reinhartz, “The Devil Incarnate: John’s anti-Jewish legacy”
Ruth Sheridan, “Reproducing Johannine Anti-Judaism: The Case of Commentary on John 8:32”
Harold Attridge (moderated session)
Panel 3: Nineteenth Century Philosophy and Theology
George Kohler, “Supersessionism in Jewish-Christian Debates in Germany between 1830-1870”
Anders Gerdmar, “The Construction of the Jews in 19th Century German Protestantism: the Case of Tübingen professors Beck and Baur.”
Paul Franks (moderated session)
Joshua Ezra Burns (respondent)
Panel 4: Contemporary Legacies
Sarah Hammerschlag, “The figure of the Jew and the New Universalism”
Ward Blanton, “What is an Apparatus?” Machineries of Paulinism and the Force of the Name ‘Jew'”
J. Kameron Carter, “(In-)Sovereignty in Palestine: Négritude and the Reproductions of Colonialism.”
Amy-Jill Levine on Anti-Jewish New Testament Interpretation
Professor Amy-Jill Levine delivered the Comparative Theology Lecture at Harvard Divinity School on October 17, 2012: “From Donation to Diatribe: How Anti-Jewish Interpretation Cashes Out”.
In Mark 12:41-44, Jesus says of a poor widow who makes a donation to the Jerusalem Temple: “she has thrown in her whole life.” Is the widow exploited by a Jewish system that values money over compassion? Is she a faithful worshiper who reveals the Temple’s welcome of rich and poor, male and female? Is she a foreshadowing of Jesus, who will give up his life as a “ransom for many?” The answers depend upon the reader’s sensibilities.
Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences.
Levine’s lecture commences at 5:57.
Paula Fredricksen: Paul and Augustine on the Redemption of the Jews
On University of California Television, Professor Paula Fredricksen compares the views of Paul and Augustine on the divine redemption of Jews. The 2009 lecture was sponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies. Fredricksen discusses some of the content of her book Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism (Yale University Press, 2009).
Paula Fredriksen, author and Aurelio Professor of Scripture, Boston University sheds new light on the origins of anti-Semitism and opens a path toward better understanding between two of the world’s great religions. She focuses in particular on the vast change from Paul to Augustine in the Christian message of Jewish redemption.
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