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The Department of Religious Studies
invites you to the 2015 Griset Lecture with Dr. Lee Martin McDonald,
The Formation of the Bible: Where Scholars Disagree
, on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 7 p.m. in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel.

This lecture will focus on some of the most important issues and debates related to the formation of the Bible, and will clarify issues that regularly divide biblical scholars and raise questions among people of faith about the books included in the Bible. Such issues are at the heart of the multiple variations in modern translations and highlight the historical, theological, and sociological contexts of the formation of the Bible. This lecture will explore the significance of these issues for biblical faith, both Jewish and Christian.

This event is free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dr. McDonald holds the Distinguished Visiting Griset Chair in Bible and Christian Tradition for 2015-2016 at Chapman University. An internationally renowned New Testament scholar, he has written or edited twenty-seven books and more than a 150 refereed articles and essays in prominent journals and major academic publications. He is president emeritus of the Acadia Divinity College, the graduate school of theology at Acadia University, and dean of its faculty of theology in Nova Scotia, Canada. The past president of the Institute for Biblical Research, he holds academic degrees from Harvard University and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. One of his six books focusing on the origins of the Bible has become a standard textbook for graduate and doctoral students in academic institutions across the USA, Canada, and Europe.