The Education Department, UCC in association with the Honan Trust will
offer a series of six public lectures commencing on Thursday, 26
October.
In this series, a number of religious thinkers, scripture scholars and
theologians present the approaches of their tradition to the reading of
the sacred scriptures. In particular they ask: what link exists between
the Sacred Scriptures and the Revelation of God?
1. Thursday, 26 October 26 at 8pm
Dr Moojan Momen will present
"The Reading of Scripture: a Baha'i approach"
Dr Moojan Momen is author of many books including The Phenomenon
of Religion, Introduction to Shí`í Islam, Buddhism and the Bahá'í
Faith, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith . He is a medical doctor and presents
talks on the Bahá'í Faith around the world.
2. Thursday, 2 November at 8pm
Professor Carmel Mc Carthy, Professor of Near Eastern Languages, University College, Dublin.
"How the Hebrew Bible Came to be"
Professor Mc Carthy is author of Saint Ephrem's Commentary on
Tatian's Diatessaron, an English Translation of Chester Beatty Syriac
MS 709 with Introduction and Notes and also editor of Biblical
and Near Eastern Essays: Studies in Honour of Kevin J. Cathcart.
Sheffield University Press, 2004. She is particularly interested in
Syriac texts and is a distinguished reader of Aramaic and Hebrew
Scriptures.
3. Thursday, 9 November at 8 pm
Professor Sean Freyne, Professor Emeritus Trinity College Dublin,
"How the early Christians read the Hebrew Scriptures"
Professor Seán Freyne is currently President of the International
Society for the Study of the New Testament (SNTS). His main research
interest is to "integrate historical and archaeological evidence in the
study of social and cultural relations in Hellenistic and Roman
Palestine." His recent publications include (2000) Galilee and Gospel.
Selected Essays, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr, (2002) Texts, Contexts and
Cultures. Essays on Biblical Topics, Dublin, Veritas and (2004) Jesus,
a Jewish Galilean. A New Reading of the Jesus Story, London and New
York: T. and T. Clark International (Continuum).
4. Thursday, 16 November at 8pm
Rev. Dr Seamus O Connell, St Patrick's College Maynooth
"Reading Sacred Scriptures- the exegete's problem"
Dr O Connell is an outstanding teacher and well known author of
articles relating to the reading of the scriptures. His question deals
with how the scriptures can be used as teaching documents. He is author
of "Towards the First Gospel: Redactional Development in the Gospel of
Mark" Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association 26 (2003) and From
Best Sources: The Nature and Text-Critical Use of the Greek Old
Testament Text of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. (Orbis Biblicus et
Orientalis 215) Fribourg: Academic Press and Göttingen: Vandenhoeck
& Ruprecht, 2006.
5. Thursday, 30 November at 8 pm
Professor John May, ISE and Trinity College Dublin
"The Buddhist Reading of Scripture"
Professor John May has been set the difficult task of linking
Buddhism to its sacred scriptures. Professor May is former head of the
Irish School of Ecumenics and a tireless worker for interfaith
dialogue. He is the author of Transcendence And Violence: The
Encounter of Buddhist, Christian and Primal Traditions.
6. Thursday, 7 December at 8pm
Dr Margaret Daly-Denton,
"A Christian Reading of The Song of Songs"
Margaret Daly-Denton is a liturgical composer and a scholar of the
writings and worship of the early Christians. She is an experienced
teacher of liturgy and biblical studies. Her published articles and her
book, David in the Fourth Gospel: The Johannine Reception of the
Psalms, explore ways in which the early Christians revered,
appropriated and re-interpreted the Scriptures of Israel. Dr
Daly-Denton has been asked to deal with the story of both Jews' and
Christians' appreciation of the Song of Songs, a controversial biblical
book often charged with being entirely pagan in origin.
This series is part supported by funding from the Honan Trust. The
talks are organised and chaired by Dr Fiachra Long, Department of
Education, Tel. 021-4902262 or email flong@education.ucc.ie
The lectures take place on Thursdays in Room G19, Kane Building,
University College Cork. Members of the public are invited to attend
and admission is free.
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