Logistics
- Wednesday, October 2 | 7:30 – 9:30 pm
- Offering Format: Public Event, Lecture
- Recommended for grade 12 and adults
- Cahners Theater
- Admission: $15; buy tickets
Associated Persons
With Bernadette J. Brooten, PhD, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies, Brandeis University; author, Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism; Karen L. King, PhD, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School; author, The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle; and Carol Meyers, PhD, Mary Grace Wilson Professor of Religion, Duke University; author, Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context
Introductory remarks by Steve A.N. Goldstein, MD, PhD, provost, Brandeis University
Description
Was Israelite society really patriarchal? What stand did early religions take on female enslavement? Was Mary Magdalene an apostle of Jesus or possibly even his wife? Modern technologies have revealed details of ancient documents that are shedding new light on the role of women at the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls. How is this new information changing our understanding of Judaism and Christianity?
Engage in a thought-provoking conversation as we rethink the position of women, the beginning and development of the two religions, and the shifts in contemporary faith that may result from these fresh insights.
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