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Barbara Thiede is delivering a three-part series at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Concord, NC, in which she explores Yhwh’s expression of emotions through bodily organs and his embodiment as a nonhuman animal in biblical texts. The series addresses the following pivotal questions: Can we expand our understanding of the biblical God beyond the obvious? Is the deity of the Hebrew Bible more […]

Julia Moore gave a plenary talk at the Center for Christianity and Public Life’s Annual Summit in Washington, DC on October 20, 2025. See more about the organization here.

Barbara Thiede delivered a lecture in a seminar series sponsored by the Centre for Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds on October 9. The talk was titled “Not Fixing the Bible’s God: Reflections from a Rabbi and Biblical Scholar.” She also served on two panels as a respondent. 

Eric Hoenes gave the L.J. and Linda Kutten Religious Studies Lecture at the University of Nevada at Reno, hosted by the Department of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts. The title of Hoenes’ talk was “Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith”

Julia Moore traveled to UC Irvine to present the findings of work on the history of Catawba Presbytery with UNC Charlotte Library archivist and fellow researcher Adreonna Bennett

Dr. Thiede’s newest book forthcoming from Routledge This edited volume “offers readers the opportunity to hear from prominent and influential biblical scholars and scholar activists as they reflect on their work on sexual violence vis-a-vis the Bible. This book covers major points of inquiry in the field, focusing primarily on the Hebrew Bible and the […]

October 20 in Halton Reading Room at 5:00 pm (reception) and 6:00 (lecture) Sylvester Johnson, Professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University, will give a lecture on “Governing the Ethical Future of AI: Automation, Humanity, and Democracy” as part of our Phillips Lecture Series. From Northwestern’s website: Sylvester A. Johnson is Professor of Black Studies […]

Join us in Macy 110 at 4:00 pm Dr. Hillary Kaell (McGill University) speaks in Macy 110 at 4:00pm on “Haunted Nature: Spirit and Power in a Public Garden.” The Elizabethan Garden in Manteo, NC (pictured here) was designed in the mid-twentieth century as a living memorial for sixteenth-century English settlers who died on Roanoke […]

Congratulations on her fifth book! Barbara Thiede has contracted with Routledge for Divine Abuse of Children: Samuel and Mary in the Holy of Holies, co-authored with Eric Vanden Eykel.

at the Centre for Religion and Public Life in Leeds, U.K. Dr, Thiede will be presenting a lecture in a seminar series sponsored by the Centre for Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds. The talk, titled “Not Fixing the Bible’s God: Reflections from a Rabbi and Biblical Scholar,” will be on October […]