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James L. Crenshaw Retirement Lecture Nov. 8

“The Reciprocating Touch: Revelation in Wisdom Literature”

Oct. 24, 2007

James L. Crenshaw, Robert L. Flowers Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School, will deliver a retirement lecture, “The Reciprocating Touch: Revelation in Wisdom Literature.” The lecture will be Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in 0012 Westbrook Bldg., Divinity School.

Crenshaw
Crenshaw, who will retire June 30, 2008 after being on sabbatical spring semester, is one of the leading interpreters of wisdom literature and also has published widely on biblical prophecy. His Old Testament Wisdom has introduced thousands of students to biblical wisdom, as have his two collections of essays, Urgent Advice and Probing Questions and Prophets, Sages, & Poets. He has written commentaries on Ecclesiastes, Job, Sirach, and Joel, monographs (e.g., Education in Ancient Israel, Defending God, Prophetic Conflict, A Whirlpool of Torment), and numerous scholarly articles.

A former editor of the SBL Monograph Series and chair of the section on wisdom literature, he currently edits Personalities of the Old Testament.

Crenshaw, who is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Guggenheim fellow, taught at Vanderbilt Divinity School for 18 years and has been at Duke for 20. He was the McCarthy Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome during spring semester of 2007. He is currently writing books on Job and Qoheleth, as well as an analysis of twentieth-century research on wisdom literature for Brill.

For more information about the lecture, call 919-660-3575.