DIOCESAN NEWS
09/10/10
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Lecture on St. Paul set Sept. 26
MADISON — The majority of the books of the New Testament are comprised of documents referred to as “letters” or “epistles.” Most of these letters have been attributed to St. Paul; some have been dated earlier than the Gospels themselves.
Dr. Tim Carmody of Spring Hill College will give a lecture on “The Letters of Paul,” at St. Francis of Assisi in St. Clare Hall on Sunday, Sept. 26, from 9:15 - 10:15 a.m.
The lecture will introduce modern trends in Catholic biblical scholarship using examples from the study of the Letters of St. Paul.
The presentation will look at the value of historical criticism (especially from modern archaeology and anthropology), the importance of knowing and understanding the Old Testament and its use by rabbis in the first century, the value of narrative and rhetorical criticism for understanding Paul’s arguments, and the importance of community and pastoral theology in understanding Paul’s relationships to his communities.
Carmody, a member of the theology faculty at Spring Hill since 1989, has a doctorate in Biblical Studies from The Catholic University of America and is an active member of the Catholic Biblical Association. He is the past president of the Association of Graduate Programs in Ministry and was named the Thomas E. Caestecker Chair of Liberal Arts at Spring Hill College in 2009.
His area of specialization is narrative criticism, and his topics of interest include the Gospels, Genesis, the Letters of Paul, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Following “Reading the Bible” published by Paulist Press in 2004, Carmody’s second book for Paulist, “Mark: Question by Question” was published in spring 2010. His current research is on the use of the Garden of Eden image throughout the entire Bible.
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