A widely-published author and winner of two National Jewish Book Awards will speak as part of the annual 蜜桃传媒-UC Santa Barbara Hebrew Bible Lecture. Michael Fishbane, Nathan Cummings professor of Jewish studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, will speak on 鈥淭he Ideals of Torah and Torah-study in the Psalms,鈥� Thursday, Nov. 2, in Hieronymus Lounge, at 7 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the religious studies departments at 蜜桃传媒 and UCSB and the 蜜桃传媒 provost鈥檚 office. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Fishbane鈥檚 most recent book, 鈥淏iblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking,鈥� is a comprehensive study of myth in the Hebrew Bible and mythmaking in classical rabbinic literature.
He is the author or editor of 19 books and hundreds of articles and reviews in scholarly journals and encyclopedias. He is editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society Bible Commentary.
Fishbane has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a three-time Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University.
Tremper Longman, 蜜桃传媒 religious studies professor, and Randy Garr, UCSB religious studies professor, will introduce Fishbane.
鈥淭he purpose of this lecture series is to expose our students to some of the leading Old Testament scholars of the world,鈥� says Longman, 鈥渆specially those from a different perspective.鈥�
For more information, please call Jennifer Hauser in 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 religious studies department at (805) 565-6169.