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Interviews with Divinity / GDR Faculty About Recent or Forthcoming Publications

 

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New! Lisa L. Thompson talks about her book Preaching the Headlines: Possibilities and Pitfalls   Recorded May 4, 2023

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Joerg Rieger talks about his book Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity   Recorded March 23, 2023

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Stephanie Budwey talks about her book Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology   Recorded November 3, 2022

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James P. Byrd talks about his book A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War   Recorded September 29, 2022

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Laurel Schneider and Thelathia Nikki Young talk about their book Queer Soul and Queer Theology: Ethics and Redemption in Real Life   Recorded September 8, 2022

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Jaco Hamman talks about his book Just Traveling: God, Leaving Home, and a Spirituality for the Road   Recorded August 11, 2022

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Lenn Goodman talks about his book The Holy One of Israel   Recorded July 8, 2022

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William Franke talks about his book On the Universality of What Is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking   Recorded September 3, 2021

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Tony Stewart talks about his book Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination   Recorded May 26, 2021

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Joerg Rieger talks about his book Jesus vs. Caesar: For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God   Recorded October 30, 2019

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Daniel Patte talks about his book Romans: Three Exegetical Interpretations and the History of Reception. Volume 1: Romans 1:1-32   Recorded April 19, 2019

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Jaco Hamman talks about his book The Millennial Narrative: Sharing a Good Life with the Next Generation   Recorded March 14, 2019

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John McClure talks about his book Speaking Together and with God: Liturgy and Communicative Ethics   Recorded February 22, 2019

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Myrick C. Shinall, Jr. talks about his article "The Social Condition of Lepers in the Gospels," Journal of Biblical Literature 137, no. 4 (2018): 915-34.   Recorded February 5, 2019

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William Franke talks about his book Apophatic Paths from Europe to China: Regions without Borders   Recorded November 1, 2018

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James Hudnut-Beumler talks about his book Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South   Recorded October 5, 2018

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Joel Harrington talks about his book Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within   Recorded August 29, 2018

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Jay Geller talks about his book Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews   Recorded July 23, 2018

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James Crenshaw talks about his two-volume book set Sipping from the Cup of Wisdom (Exploring Diverse Paths of Research [vol. 1] and Faith Lingering on the Edges [vol. 2])   Recorded March 8, 2018

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William Franke talks about his book A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities   Recorded March 8, 2018

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Anand Vivek Taneja talks about his new book Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi   Recorded December 15, 2017

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David Wasserstein talks about his new book Black Banners of ISIS: The Roots of the New Caliphate   Recorded October 27, 2017

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Jaco Hamman talks about his book Growing Down: Theology and Human Nature in the Virtual Age   Recorded October 6, 2017

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Amy-Jill Levine talks about her book Who Counts? 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, and 2 Sons , coauthored with Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and illustrated by Margaux Meganck   Recorded June 26, 2017

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Bryan Lowe talks about his book Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan   Recorded April 10, 2017

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William Franke talks about his book Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante   Recorded March 6, 2017

Joining the conversation is Chance Woods, a doctoral candidate in English using Franke's book in an Introduction to Poetry class.

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Visiting lecturer Robert Alter talks about scholarly trajectories, disciplinary identity, and translation   Recorded January 30, 2017

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Bruce Rogers-Vaughn talks about his book Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age   Recorded January 24, 2017

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Lenn Goodman talks about his book Judaism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation   Recorded December 13, 2016

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Joerg Rieger and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger talk about their book Unified We Are a Force: How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America's Inequalities   Recorded November 17, 2016

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Volney Gay talks about his book On the Pleasures of Owning Persons: The Hidden Face of American Slavery   Recorded October 27, 2016

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Bruce Morrill talks about his book The Essential Writings of Bernard Cooke: A Narrative Theology of Church, Sacrament and Ministry   Recorded August 31, 2016

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Ellen Armour talks about her book Signs & Wonders: Theology After Modernity   Recorded May 11, 2016

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Idit Dobbs-Weinstein talks about her book Spinoza's Critique of Religion and its Heirs: Marx, Benjamin, Adorno   Recorded September 10, 2015

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Lenn Goodman talks about the book Lenn E. Goodman : Judaism, Humanity, and Nature , edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes   Recorded March 31, 2015

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David Michelson talks about his book The Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug   Recorded March 3, 2015

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Robin Jensen and Patout Burns talk about their book Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs   Recorded January 30, 2015

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Jaco Hamman talks about his book Becoming a Pastor: Forming Self and Soul for Ministry (revised and updated edition)   Recorded December 11, 2014

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Christopher Paris talks about his book Narrative Obtrusion in the Hebrew Bible   Recorded November 17, 2014

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David Michelson talks about Syriaca.org, the Syriac Reference Portal   Recorded November 14, 2014

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Lenn Goodman talks about his book Coming to Mind: The Soul and Its Body , co-authored by D. Gregory Caramenico Recorded September 19, 2014

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Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman talks about his book The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt   Recorded April 4, 2014

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Lenn Goodman talks about his book Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere   Recorded March 6, 2014

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Jack Sasson talks about his book Judges 1-12: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary   Recorded October 21, 2013

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William Franke talks about his book A Philosophy of the Unsayable   Recorded July 17, 2013

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Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman talks about A Jew's Best Friend?: The Image of the Dog throughout Jewish History (which he co-edited with Rakefet Zalashik)   Recorded June 13, 2013

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Sandra Barnes talks about her book Live Long and Prosper: How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology   Recorded February 6, 2013

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Paul Lim talks about his book Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England   Recorded October 19, 2012

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Bruce Morrill talks about his book Encountering Christ in the Eucharist: The Paschal Mystery in People, Word, and Sacrament   Recorded September 14, 2012

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Diane Sasson talks about her book Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality   Recorded July 20, 2012

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William Franke talks about his book Dante and the Sense of Transgression: "The Trespass of the Sign"   Recorded April 20, 2012

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Bonnie Miller-McLemore talks about the book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology (which she edited and to which she contributed the introduction)   Recorded April 19, 2012

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Melissa Snarr talks about her book All You That Labor: Religion and Ethics in the Living Wage Movement   Recorded January 27, 2012

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John McClure talks about his book Mashup Religion: Pop Music and Theological Invention   Recorded January 19, 2012

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Daniel Patte talks about the book Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (which he edited and to which he contributed articles)   Recorded July 27, 2011

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Robin Jensen talks about her book Living Water: Images, Symbols, and Settings of Early Christian Baptism   Recorded May 6, 2011

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William Franke talks about his book The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante   Recorded December 2, 2010

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Lenn Goodman and Richard McGregor talk about their book The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn   Recorded October 26, 2010

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Shaul Kelner talks about his book Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism   Recorded August 13, 2010

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Dennis Dickerson talks about his books African Methodism and Its Wesleyan Heritage: Reflections on AME Church History and African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago   Recorded July 21, 2010

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Lenn Goodman talks about his book Creation and Evolution   Recorded June 14, 2010

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Douglas Knight talks about his book Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel   Recorded May 6, 2010

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