Building H, Theatre H125 Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road Monash University Victoria3800 Australia
Amy-Jill Levine presents her only Melbourne lecture, “Paul the Jew—Continuities and Contradictions”.
Amy-Jill Levine is Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus.
Saul of Tarsus was a Jew who became St. Paul, the church’s foremost missionary. Today he is both hailed as the inspired evangelist who brought the God of Israel to the Gentiles, and condemned as a self-hating Jew who distorted the teachings of both Judaism and Jesus. In this lecture Amy-Jill Levine will explore Paul’s Jewish identity, his understanding of Torah, and his views on the role of the Jewish people in the divine plan.
Professor Serhii Plokhy, the Monash Dnister Visiting Fellow in Ukrainian Studies, will deliver this year’s lecture ‘Ukraine’s Quest for Europe: A Historian’s Perspective’.
Professor Plokhy holds the Mykhailo Hrushevs’kyi Chair in Ukrainian History at Harvard University. His many publications include The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History (University of Toronto Press, 2005) and The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (Oxford University Press, 2001).
The lecture will be followed by a cocktail reception.
Cost: $25.00
RSVP by Wednesday 20 May 2009 to Ms Jocelyne Mohamudally or Ms Linda Beyer on 9905 2223.
