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I would like to draw attention to an event that will be of interest to students and scholars in Biblical studies. This lecture will open up a range of topics in this field!<\/p>\n
The University Core at Seton Hall will virtually host its second Scholars\u2019 Forum in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) on March 29, 2023 from 4:00 \u2013 5:00 p.m. (EDT) on TEAMS. Jeffrey Morrow will be presenting on his book, Murmuring against Moses: the Contentious History and Contested Future of Pentateuchal Studies<\/em> (Emmaus Academic, 2023), which he co-authored with John Bergsma.<\/p>\n According to the publisher\u2019s abstract, Dr. Morrow\u2019s and Dr. Bergsma\u2019s volume offers a shifting paradigm for Biblical studies. Their research outlines the history on Pentateuchal research and contests conventional approaches that view the Torah as a fragmentary, and often disconnected, collection of sources. Alternatively, the two scholars advance and reclaim academic positions that view the Pentateuch as a predominately cohesive collection of pre-exilic sources:<\/p>\n “For much of the history of both Judaism and Christianity, the Pentateuch\u2014first five books of the Bible\u2014was understood to be the unified work of a single inspired author: Moses. Yet the standard view in modern biblical scholarship contends that the Pentateuch is a composite text made up of fragments from diverse and even discrepant sources that originated centuries after the events it purports to describe. In Murmuring against Moses<\/em>, John Bergsma and Jeffrey Morrow provide a critical narrative of the emergence of modern Pentateuchal studies and challenge the scholarly consensus by highlighting the weaknesses of the modern paradigms and mustering an array of new evidence for the Pentateuch’s antiquity. By shedding light on the past history of research and the present developments in the field, Bergsma and Morrow give fresh voice to a growing scholarly dissatisfaction with standard critical approaches and make an important contribution toward charting a more promising future for Pentateuchal studies.”<\/p>\n You can read more about the event, including how to join, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jeffery Morrow, Ph.D. is Professor of Undergraduate Theology in Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology (ICSST). He was named Researcher of the Year at ICSST in 2013, 2017 and 2022 and was a Visiting Scholar, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2015-2016. Morrow\u2019s other books include Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700-1900<\/em>), co-authored with Scott W. Hahn, (Emmaus Academic, 2020), and Alfred Loisy and Modern Biblical Studies<\/em> (The Catholic University of America Press, 2019).<\/p>\n John Bergsma, Ph.D is Professor of Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville.\u00a0 He is the author of\u00a0The Jubilee<\/em>\u00a0from Leviticus to Qumran\u00a0<\/em>(VTSup 115; Brill, 2007);\u00a0A Catholic Introduction to the Bible:<\/em>\u00a0Old Testament\u00a0<\/em>(Ignatius, 2018), and\u00a0Jesus<\/em>\u00a0and the Dead Sea Scrolls\u00a0<\/em>(Penguin Random House, 2019).\u00a0His peer-reviewed scholarship on Old and New Testament topics and the Dead Sea Scrolls have appeared in the journals\u00a0Biblica<\/em>,\u00a0Catholic Biblical<\/em>\u00a0Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0Dead Sea Discoveries<\/em>,\u00a0Journal<\/em>\u00a0of Biblical Literature<\/em>\u00a0Vetus Testamentum<\/em>, and in essay collections, festschrifts, dictionaries and encyclopedias published by Brill, Continuum\/T&T Clark, Eerdmans, Eisenbrauns, Harrassowitz, Kohlhammer, Oxford, and Westminster\/John Knox Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I would like to draw attention to an event that will be of interest to students and scholars in Biblical studies. This lecture will open up a range of topics in this field! The University Core at Seton Hall will … Continue reading