C News fromirca the University of Chicago Divinity School

On the morning of July one, two thousand ten, I became the twelfth dean of the Divinity School. Over the cool tiles in the entryway of Swift I walked through the row of black and white portraits of the eleven prior deans on my way into the office for my first meeting with the staff. When we had taken our places I began, “Since my deanship was announced bythe President and Provost in February I have been eager for this moment, eager to get down to work.

But as much as I long to do that—to run University-related Divinity School set through that door and into the thick of smack in the middle of a premier research the deanly tasks ahead—I think we need University. This “graduate professional to pause at the threshold for a few minutes, School” represents a unique alchemy, con- and talk about what this transition means.” Letter sistent with its foundational values but It is reflexively natural at first to think also transformed over time. As a textual about the transition in personal terms, and scholar I stand in the company of faculty what it means to carry out my vocation colleagues who study the literatures of all as a research scholar and educator for the from the the world’s religions, from rabbinic aggadah next five years as the Dean of the Divinity to Tibetan Buddhist Terma literature to School. In one sense I know precisely what Norse and Hindu myth. As an historian of that decision means—a dramatic change Dean ancient Christianity I join colleagues who of course for me, which will require some focus on the history of all the Abrahamic significant realignments of my time com- religions, as well as those from the near and mitments and teaching and publication far east, from pre-Christian Europe, and schedules for two books in progress, a trans- beyond, whose approach to the tasks of lation volume and commentary. But in historiography embraces social, cultural, another it is a perfectly reasonable extension intellectual and theological perspectives. not only of my own wish to contribute As a student of religion I have colleagues to the fullest scholarly discussion about who explore it particularly from the point religion, but also of the place of my own of view of the human sciences and a host field of study—New Testament and early of theoretical vantage points, and others Christian studies—at this University. Two who ask how the world’s religions have and of the faces of former deans who peered at still might engage in constructive (as well me from the corridor wall that morning as destructive) tasks for human life, such were Shailer Mathews and Shirley Jackson as philosophy, ethics and theology. All of Case, eminent scholars who in their day these endeavors are housed in the single saw the work of a textual scholar as part unique institution that is the University of of something larger, contributing to big Chicago Divinity School; the profession questions of world and society. Since I that unites them all is the task of speaking was a student here in the 1980s, learning This “graduate professional about religion in a manner that is deeply Greek from William Rainey Harper’s text- informed, uncompromisingly rigorous, book, I have been acutely aware that this is School” represents a unique critical and engaged. a University founded by biblical scholars alchemy, consistent Two figures animating this transition who cared about their craft and saw it as for me and for the School are not depicted part of a University: a non-sectarian and with its foundational values in the hallway gallery of the eleven prior non-apologetic, philological, historical and Deans of the Divinity School, although both critical enterprise that demanded diligence, but also transformed served as Associate Dean. They are for me curiosity and unyielding honesty in the pur- exemplary embodiments of the vision, scope suit of knowledge on the basis of argument over time. and values of the School. Martin E. Marty and evidence, not dogmatism. (my advisor when I was a student in the But the transition this threshold marks M.A. program) remains one of the most is not so much about me as it is about an developed in the century-plus since in a influential scholars of religion in the world institution. Our Divinity School, fashioned way that remains distinct on the landscape today. He represents the marriage of keen by those biblical scholar visionaries back of the academic study of religion in this intellect and formidable knowledge with in the late 19th century, has organically country and abroad, a most uncommon Continued on page 16

A utumn 2 0 1 0 | N umber 3 4 Mitchell Named Dean

Theological Seminary in Chicago. She rofessor Margaret M. Mitchell has been appointed the received her bachelor’s degree in 1978 from Manhattanville College before coming to next dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her the Divinity School, where she received her A.M. in 1982 and her Ph.D. in 1989. appointment was effective July 1, 2010. Mitchell, an alumna Among her institutional activities, Mitchell has served since 2008 on the University of ofP the Divinity School, joined the faculty in 1998. Her scholarship has Chicago Women’s Leadership Council. covered a wide range of topics in the New Testament and early “What makes the Divinity School unique is the wide range of traditions, methodolo- Christian literature, including the cultural context and religious legacy gies, dispositions and commitments that all come together here in a spirit of rea- of those early texts. soned, critical debate,” Mitchell said. “We believe serious inquiry into the The announcement was made by President subject of religion requires a university Robert J. Zimmer and Provost Thomas F. context where all ideas are subject to Rosenbaum. “The University of Chicago rigorous standards of evidence. The Divinity School occupies a special place among Divinity School is a tough-minded, its peers as a preeminent and unique place sprawling, lively, engaging and on- for the rigorous study of religion, past and going conversation about what reli- present,” Zimmer and Rosenbaum wrote in gion is and why understanding it is a joint e-mail. “Professor Mitchell’s interna- so vitally important.” tional scholarly profile, dedication to teaching An advisory committee elected and record of University-wide service make by faculty of the Divinity School her a perfect choice to carry the Divinity recommended Mitchell to Zimmer School’s hallmark tradition forward.” and Rosenbaum. W. Clark Gilpin, Mitchell is the author of four books, the Margaret E. Burton Distinguished including Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconcilia- Service Professor and a former Div- tion and the forthcoming Paul, the Corinthians, inity School dean, chaired the five- and the Birth Christian Hermeneutics, based member committee. Gilpin said that on her 2008 Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical “Professor Mitchell has established an Interpretation at Oxford University. She is international reputation for outstand- also coeditor of The Cambridge History of ing scholarship and understands the Christianity, Volume 1. Some of her most academic study of religion in its wider recent work involved the exhaustive exami- and medieval bookmaking, Mitchell’s team humanistic context. She is well-informed about nation of the Archaic Mark, a 44-page codex definitively proved the work to be a forgery. the full range of scholarly questions pursued once believed to date to the 14th century. Before coming to the University of in the Divinity School, and she is passionate Working with experts in chemical analysis Chicago, Mitchell taught at McCormick about the school’s distinctive character.” ❑

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(Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007). This book Doniger Honored engages the conflicting iterations of divinely revealed law in the Torah and seeks to dem- In January 2010, Wendy Doniger’s 2009 onstrate the nature of and motivation for book The Hindus: An Alternative History was interpretive revision in these differing corpo- named a finalist in the nonfiction category ra and argues that the competition between for the National Book Critics Circle book pentateuchal authors paradoxically motivates awards. Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distin- both their radical religious innovation and guished Service Professor of the History of their fundamental conservatism. Religions. The book was a #1 bestseller in Stackert’s current research focuses upon the nonfiction category in India in 2009. the composition of the Torah and especially Doniger is also being honored with the literary interactions with Israelite and non- publication of a festschrift by her colleagues Israelite sources in the book of Deuterono- and former students. Notes from a Mandala: my. One outgrowth of this research Essays in the History is a new book tentatively titled After of Indian Religions Revision: The Wake of Inner-biblical in Honor of Wendy Exegesis in the Composition of the Doniger was pub- Torah. This book will address what lished in January 2010 happened to textual sources after under the imprint Jeffrey Stackert Receives biblical authors employed and of the University of Templeton Award revised them for their own composi- Delaware Press. This tions. He is also working on several book was edited by article-length studies on various Jeffrey Stackert, Assistant Professor of Laurie L. Patton and issues in pentateuchal criticism, and Hebrew Bible, has been granted a Templeton David L. Haberman. is coauthoring a new handbook on Award for Theological Promise for his publi- Deuteronomy for the Anchor Yale cation Rewriting the Torah: Literary Revision Bible Reference Library. in Deuteronomy and the Holiness Legislation

2 C irca Peters Named Alumnus of the Year

he Board of Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union has named TheodoreF . (Ted) Peters the Divinity School’s Alumnus of the Year for 2010. Peters, M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1973, is Professor Tof Systematic Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California.

Peters’ areas of interest include systematic He has received four Templeton Book prizes, theology, science and religion, the evolution including for Evolution: From Creation to controversy, genetics and society, and bio- New Creation (with Martinez Hewlett) and ethics. He is an ordained pastor in the Evan- Playing God? Genetic Determinism and gelical Lutheran Church of America. Peters Human Freedom. received his B.A. from Michigan State Univer- The Alumnus of the Year award recog- sity and his M.Div. from Trinity Lutheran nizes outstanding achievement by graduates Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. of the Divinity School, and He was awarded the Joseph A. has been awarded annually Sittler Award in Theological Scholar- since 1947. Past recipients ship from Trinity Lutheran Seminary include Peter Paris, Lisa the responsibility for creating a post-human in 2007 and was the 2009 Martin Cahill, Robert Franklin Jr., race that will supplant the homo sapiens we E. Marty Professor of Religion and and Jaroslav Pelikan. have come to know), the theologian must the Academy at St. Olaf College. Peters’s lecture will address ask: would such advances in human intelli- The author of numerous books, theological concerns that arise gence and prowess affect in any way our Peters is currently coeditor (with from recent genetic and status before God, the imago dei?” ❑ Robert John Russell) of the journal technological advances: “If Theology and Science (published by the ‘techno-visionaries’ plan to Alumnus of the Year Address Center for Theology and the Natural take control of the next stage Peters will deliver his address, Sciences in Berkeley) and served as of human evolution (through “Can We Enhance the Imago Dei? editor-in-chief of Dialog, A Journal guided changes in the human A Theological Assessment of 1993 2007 of Theology, from to . Peters genome, cognitive and phys- Genetic Alteration, Pharmacological also serves as director of the Institute ical enhancements through Enhancement, Nanotechnology, of Theology and Ethics drugs and nanotech implants, and Transhumanism” at 4:00 p.m. His books include GOD—The uploading human minds into on Thursday, October 28, in World’s Future; Systematic Theology for computers, and crossing a Swift Lecture Hall. a Postmodern Era; God as Trinity; and threshold where our more Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society. intelligent progeny will take A reception will follow.

Don S. Browning — Scholar of Marriage and the Family, 1934 – 2010

on S. Browning, the Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Ethics and the Social Sciences in the Divinity School and a leading scholar on marriage in America, died June 3 at his Dhome in Hyde Park. He was 76.

Browning was born January 13, 1934 in Tren- Culture and the Family Project. ton, Missouri. He received his B.D. (1959), Over the course of the project, A.M. (1962) and Ph.D. (1964) from the Div- Browning examined the social inity School. He was an ordained minister implications of the decline of of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). marriage. The research resulted From 1977 to 1983, he was dean of the Univer- in numerous books and scholarly sity of Chicago Disciples Divinity House. articles, as well as a nationally Professor Browning studied the influence televised, two-hour documentary, of religion on American family life, as well as “Marriage: Just a Piece of Paper?” the intersection of psychology and religion. Professor Browning, a long- His early work focused on the integration time Hyde Park resident, was an Memorial Service of psychology and pastoral care. His second avid moviegoer who loved spending time A memorial service will be held Saturday, book, Generative Man: Psychoanalytic Perspec- with his grandchildren and searching out October 23, 2010, 10 a.m., in Bond Chapel. tives, was a finalist for the National Book local ethnic restaurants. Award in 1974. Browning is survived by his wife, Tributes will be given by Professor Jean He was instrumental in the advancement Carol; his daughter, Elizabeth; his son, Bethke Elshtain and Professor William of the practical theology movement, which Christopher; and his granddaughters, Schweiker, among others. A reception emphasizes the integration of religious theory Kristin and Lydia. ❑ will follow. and religious practice. His 1991 book, A Fun- damental Practical Theology, is widely con- Memorial contributions may be made to The Browning Family Fund at the Disciples sidered a classic in the field. 1156 57 In 1990, Browning received a grant from Divinity House of the University of Chicago. Donations can be sent to East th the Lilly Endowment to start the Religion, Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60637. They can also be made online at http://ddh.uchicago.edu.

A utumn 2 0 1 0 | 3 Faculty News and Notes

Robinson Awarded Tenure Givenness; Being Given: An Essay on the Phenomenology of Givenness; In Excess: Studies James T. Robinson is now Associate Pro- on Saturated Phenomena; and The Erotic fessor of the History of Judaism. His research Phenomenon: Six Meditations. He has recently focuses on medieval Jewish intellectual history, published Au lieu de soi. L’approche de saint philosophy, and biblical exegesis in the Islamic Augustin (first edition, 2008; second edition, world and Christian Europe; he is also co- 2009; English translation forthcoming). leading this year’s Martin Marty Seminar. He is currently working on two books, one titled Negative Certitudes and another on the myth of Carte- Margaret M. Mitchell sian dualism. Awarded with Awarded Guggenheim the 1992 Grand Prix du Philosophie de Margaret M. Mitchell, Dean and Professor l’Académie Fran- of New Testament and Early Christian çaise, and the 2008 Literature, has been named a John Simon Karl-Jaspers Preis, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow he succeeds in his in the Humanities. The award, a powerful title David Tracy, recognition of her work, supports her project the Andrew Thomas to translate twenty-five of the late antique Greeley and Grace homilies of John Chrysostom (c. 349–407), McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service as part of the series Writings from the Greco- Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies and Roman World (published by the Society of Professor of Theology and the Philosophy Biblical Literature and Brill). According to of Religions. Mitchell, “Chrysostom felt an intimate rela- Marion Receives Named Chair tionship with the dead apostle Paul which Jean-Luc Marion virtually brought him to life in the reading has been named the Coyne Appointed and interpretation of his letters. Such a her- Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace meneutic, a ‘reading of resuscitation,’ meant McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Assistant Professor that in his private study and in the public Studies in the Divinity School. Marion is Ryan Coyne study based thereon, Chrysostom was about also Professor of the Philosophy of Religions has joined the Divinity School the work of introducing the Paul we know and Theology, succeeding David Tracy. as Assistant Professor of the Philosophy of 2008 1 2010 so well to others” (The Heavenly Trumpet: A member since of the distinguished Religions and Theology, effective July , . John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Académie française, he is among the best- Coyne studies both the history of Christian Interpretation [2002]). known living philoso- thought and modern continental philosophy. Guggenheim Fellowships are intended phers in France and In the former field, he is especially interest- for those who have already demonstrated is widely regarded as ed in the history of Christian mysticism, as exceptional capacity for productive scholar- one of the leading well as the relation between mysticism and ship or exceptional creative ability in the Catholic thinkers of scholasticism. In the latter field, his research arts. The Fellowships are intended to fur- modern times. interests include the development of the ther the development of scholars and artists He has published philosophy of religion, hermeneutics, phe- by assisting them to engage in research in several books on nomenology and deconstruction. He is any field of knowledge and creation in any Descartes’ ontology, currently working on a book exploring the of the arts. rational theology and role of Augustine’s theological anthropology Dean Mitchell has deferred the award metaphysics, focusing especially on medi- in the formation of Martin Heidegger’s leave until academic year 2012–2013. eval sources and using modern patterns philosophy. of interpretation. Coyne received his M.A. (2002) and He is the author of The Idol and Distance Ph.D. (2008) from the Divinity School. and God Without Being; Reduction and

New Sightings Editor Named

Shatha Almutawa has been named the new of the tenth-century Ikhwan Al-Safa. She Managing Editor for Sightings. Under the studies the use of narrative in medieval sponsorship of the Martin Marty Center, philosophical texts, and the cross-cultural Sightings reports and comments on the role exchange of philosophical and religious of religion in public life on our website and ideas through the medium of tales and via email twice a week to a readership of parables. over 7,000. Shatha is eager to invite international Shatha comes to Sightings after working perspectives to Sightings, where she looks in the Divinity School’s Office of Com- forward to taking part in the ongoing munications and the University of Chicago analysis of religion’s presence in politics, Press. She has also worked at CrossCurrents, business, education, the arts and the published by the Association for Religion media. and Intellectual Life, and at Inc. Magazine. She received her B.A. from Mount Potential contributors should contact Holyoke College and her M.A. from the Shatha at [email protected]. Divinity School, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Read more about Sightings online Judaism. Her research focuses on Muslim at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/marty and Jewish philosophy, especially the work center/publications/sightings

4 C irca Autumn and Winter Events

lect u re ser i es For calendar updates, please consult the Divinity School’s website at http://divinity. Jewish Communities uchicago.edu. Access the most up-to-date events information, sign up for our events of the Second Temple Period listserve (“At the Divinity School”), and get current news. Please see p. 7 for detailed information on upcoming Marty Center conferences, symposia, and talks. A lecture series bringing together new work by international scholars on forma- tive aspects of Jewish life and identity E v ents i ncl u de in separate communities in and around Alumni Receptions at Judea in the Second Temple period. the AAR and SBL Meetings All lectures are scheduled to take place in the Common Room, first floor, at The Divinity School’s tradition of a Sunday 4:30 p.m. A light reception will follow. night reception for alumni and friends at the AAR and SBL meetings continues. All Cosponsored by the Chicago Center for Divinity School alumni and friends are Jewish Studies cordially invited to join us at one or both of the receptions. October 4, 2010 “Jewish Calendars and Sects in American Academy of Religion (AAR) the Hellenistic Period” Reception Jonathan Ben-Dov Sunday, October 31 9:00 –11:00 p.m. Senior Lecturer, Department of Bible, Atlanta, Georgia Haifa University; Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

October 25, 2010 Memorial Service for “The Jews in Hellenistic and Roman Professor Don S. Browning Egypt: A Case Apart?” Sandra Gambetti Saturday, October 23, 2010 Associate Professor, Department of History, 10:00 a.m. in Bond Chapel The City University of New York: College of Staten Island Tributes will be given by Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain and Professor William Schweiker, among others. A reception will follow.

thro u gho u t the q u arter Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Reception Wednesday Community February 1, 2011 Sunday, November 21 9:00–11:00 p.m. Luncheons Atlanta, Georgia “Markers of Identity in the Jewish Colony of Elephantine” For more information about either event, Eight Wednesdays per Quarter please contact Mary Jean Kraybill at 773- 12:00 noon– 1:15 p.m. Alejandro Botta 702-8248 or [email protected]. Swift Common Room Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, Boston University

Bond Chapel Worship February 28, 2011 “The Samaritans and other Troublesome Every Wednesday when school is in session Doubles from Jewish Antiquity” 11:30 a.m.– 12:00 noon Joseph Bond Chapel Steven Weitzman Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion, Stanford University

A utumn 2 0 1 0 | 5 An Interview with Simeon Chavel

“Critical study of the Bible keeps the Bible from becoming a form of idolatry.”

Circa: You’ve stated you would like to revivify the ideas and history of ancient Israel. Explain how the literature of ancient Israel can inform our understanding of contemporary issues.

SC: The past and tradition generally and the Bible especially have been, and continue to be, used to wield power, displacing rigorous, open debate by the discourse of authority. At worst, they serve as a recepta- imeon Chavel is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible. He began cle of current ideas then held aloft as sub- jugating. The production of knowledge his appointment in Fall of 2009. Chavel discusses scholarly through the study of the ancient world— primarily its texts and approaches to biblical literature. paradigmatically for S Western civilization Circa: You take both a literary and a histor- ship between bibli- the Bible—aims first ical approach to the Hebrew Bible. How do cal literature and to open up a self- you determine when to ask literary questions Israelite history: that critical distance of your source and when historical questions Moses’ speeches in between ourselves —and is there overlap? Deuteronomy were with our ideas and composed in the the past, then to SC: Because tradition had taken biblical lit- seventh century BCE bridge that distance erature to provide accurate factual accounts in connection with with pan-human of the past, on the one hand, and to articulate a religious reforma- thoughtfulness. timeless unimpeachable truths and principles, tion by Josiah king Through critical study on the other, the initial, defining moments of Judah. However, of the Bible and of modern critical study of the Bible were a paucity of outside ancient Israel we can at once historical and literary. So for the sources for the replace an immobiliz- seventeenth-century philosopher Benedict reconstruction of ing discourse of iden- (Baruch) Spinoza and so for the nineteenth- Israel’s history tification by a more century theologian Wilhelm Martin Lebrecht skews the endeavor supple one of descent de Wette, fountainheads of biblical criticism, of re-contextual- or even analogy. To who distinguished between narrator or speaker izing the texts of recognize such dis- in the text, a literary figure, and author of the Bible. Indeed, tance allows us to take the text, an historical one. To recover the the historical events ownership of our ideas, human dimension of biblical literature and and circumstances to which scholars key to be held accountable for our actions, and to pursue it unyieldingly is to subject the biblical texts are those described in the to open ourselves up to improvement. To text to historical circumstance and to release Bible more or less as the Bible describes put it in ironic biblical terms: Critical study history to a more robust set of data and them. Additionally, the conflicting eigh- of the Bible keeps the Bible from becoming self-critical approaches. teenth-nineteenth centuries ideas of a form of idolatry. As an anthology of The result remains complex. In Spinoza’s Romanticist privileging of natural origins Israelite compositions produced over a period case, the thrust created a new space for polit- and of biological evolution both played of seven hundred years in places as far apart ical theory and philosophy. In the case of to the scholarly impulse towards schemati- as Jerusalem and Babylon (in modern Iraq), de Wette, it developed a working hypothe- zation, leading scholars artificially and and as an anthology that itself was “pub- sis that serves still today as one of the basic subjectively to realign biblical texts relative lished” over time in several different versions, points of departure regarding the relation- to each other, in accordance with their the Bible does not have the uniformity, religious taste. consistency, and coherence of a composition. The combination of literary and historical The mundane, pragmatic wisdom of Proverbs “The combination of questions and analyses and the debate about offers a different point of departure for the most rigorous way to combine them ethical questions than does the holiness of literary and historical questions remain at the heart of biblical studies today. Leviticus, which organizes all aspects of and analyses and the debate My approach is deliberately non-dogmatic. Israelite life around the idea of the imma- about the most rigorous way to A combination of personal interest, the nent presence of God at a fixed locale in the anticipation of a substantial contribution, people’s midst. The incoherence of human combine them remain and the characteristics of the subject matter experience delineated in Ecclesiastes speaks at the heart of biblical will shape my project. Often, whether the to the modern appreciation of the fragmen- leading question is historical or literary, the tation of the individual and the constructed studies today.” argument I develop integrates literary and nature of one’s story very differently than historical aspects. the historical vision and the great chain of Continued on page 15

6 C irca The Martin Marty Center builds on a long-standing Marty conviction of the Divinity School that the best and most innovative scholarship in religion emerges from Center sustained dialogue with the world outside the academy. In all of its projects, the Center aims to serve as a robust circulatory system that strengthens, deepens, and extends scholarly inquiry by moving News and it through the deliberating bodies of the students, faculty, and Events public. — William Schweiker, Director of the Marty Center Marty Center Conferences

U PCOM I NG 2011 CONFERENCES he Martin Marty Center holds conferences throughout the January 14, 2011 academic year. To learn more about upcoming conferences, Comparing Religions: On Theory and Method visit us online at http://divinity .uchicago.edu/martycenter/ A conference in honor of Martin conferences/.T Riesebrodt, Professor of the Sociology of Religion

February 4, 2011 Politics as a Moral Conference to Honor Franklin I. Gamwell Question: A Conference Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service on Process Philosophy Professor of Religious Ethics, the Philosophy of Religions, and Theology and Political Theory February 22, 2011 14 16, 2010 Thursday–Saturday, October – Irish and Jewish Identities: Swift Hall Links and Parallels This conference will be of interest to In coordination with the Center for scholars of Irish and Jewish history, as well Process Studies in Claremont, California, as those studying Diasporas, nationalism this conference is designed to be a discus- and Joycean literature. sion between political thinkers who work within the tradition of process philosophy April 15, 2011 and thinkers who pursue political theory 2011 Ministry Conference within other philosophical contexts. April 18–22, 2011 This is a working conference; nonparticipants may sit in as observers. Images of the Divine Conference For more information email Matt Petrusek May 8–10, 2011 at [email protected]. Theological Reflection and the Pursuit of Ideals

New Religion and Culture Web Forum Editor Named

Vince Evener is the new Managing Editor for concepts were creatively reworked to meet the the Religion and Culture Web Forum, the Marty intellectual and social crises of the splintering Center’s monthly online forum for thought- of Christendom. Themes of interest to Evener provoking discussion on the relationship of include individual and communal holiness, scholarship in religion to culture and public life. the valorization of life outside the cloister, the Mr. Evener received a B.A. in History from theological interpretation of history, and the Kenyon College and an M.A. from the Univer- meaning of suffering. sity of Chicago Divinity School. He is currently Mr. Evener brings to the web forum pro- a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Christianity fessional experience in editing and web-based at the Divinity School. As a scholar, he engages outreach. Most recently, he was editorial assis- in the contextual study of the theology of the tant for the Journal of Religion, a publication of sixteenth-century reformers, magisterial and the University of Chicago Press. He is eager to radical, with particular emphasis on how tradi- serve the Martin Marty Center as it works to tional theological, exegetical, and mystical foster the engagement of scholars of religion with contemporary religious and cultural concerns.

Read more about RCWF at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter.

A utumn 2 0 1 0 | 7 Marty Center Fellowship Programs

A Report from the Wilson Teaching Fellow explore this issue. During the next weeks, we studied immigration, assimilation, and “hyphenated identities” (Jewish-American ach year, the Alma Wilson Teaching Fellowship, made pos- or American Jewish?) as we read about the lives of mainly German-Jewish and Russian- sible by a generous endowment gift, provides one advanced Jewish immigrants during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We considered student in the Divinity School an opportunity for supervised race, racism, and antisemitism in the United States using the turn of the twentieth century Eteaching experience in the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college. and Jewish relationships with African Ameri- Sarah Imhoff cans as the historical context. We sought to , who received her Ph.D. in the History of Judaism this understand Zionism and Israel in the context August, reflects on her year of teaching. of the first half of the twentieth century, a significant time of women’s orga- nization for supporting sustainable I’d like to say that it was the intrigue of the the class came to nar- Jewish life in Palestine. Then we historical documents, or the perennial ques- rate its own story of turned to look at ritual and reli- tions of identity, or even my own preparation how and why Jewish gious experience, considering studies that made the class excellent. But in truth, women’s lives have of twentieth-century religious it was the students. When I taught Women changed over time women and their struggles to find in American Jewish History in the Autumn and what that could a Judaism meaningful to them. quarter of 2009, I assigned primary documents mean for writing his- We explored women’s activism and secondary sources. The students wrote a tory. Along the way, in seeking greater leadership by short analytical paper on a single source and we explored ques- exploring Jewish women’s partici- completed a take-home exam which examined tions about what it pation in woman’s suffrage move- a secondary source. The best moments of the has meant to be ments as well as second-wave class, however, were those that I could never Jewish in America: feminism in the 1970s. Finally, we assign: we had lively and challenging discus- Are Jews defined by their religion? What probed the meaning and place of “Jewish sions where the students showed me not only does it mean to be a Jew? Is Judaism a cul- culture,” looking at ideals of the home, that they had learned, but that they had taken ture, or an ethnicity? The primary sources consumerism, and social constructions of a stance on how we could and should read we read suggested that, during America’s the Jewish woman in America. Although the history of American Jewish women. history, these questions have had different any of these themes could be traced all the The class explored the role of women answers. What does it mean that the defini- way through American Jewish history, the in American Jewish history and the role of tions of Jewishness—to both American Jews hybrid thematic-chronological approach Jewish women in American history. It had and non-Jews—have changed over time? allowed us to explore Jewish women’s lives no “textbook,” or even a book that would The class never came to definitive con- throughout American history while also provide an overarching narrative of the his- clusions; indeed, no group of students so allowing us to grapple with many of the tory of Jewish women in America. Instead, astute and engaged could have. The sources recurring “big questions” about American of American Jewish history and women’s Jewish women’s history. history are entirely too rich to submit them- On a cold November day, I looked around “... the hybrid thematic- selves to easy answers. Even the cross listing the classroom in the basement of the Gender of the course—Religious Studies, History, Studies building. Every student was in atten- chronological approach allowed and Gender Studies—hinted at its com- dance, and they brought insight and vigor us to explore Jewish women’s lives plexity. Nevertheless, the students neither to the analysis of Jewish women’s relation- became unmoored by the discontinuities ships to American feminism. Taking a mental throughout American history and contradictions nor gave up trying to step back from the discussion, I remember while also allowing us to grapple relate historical contexts to one another. thinking that some of my admiration for The course progressed both thematically my students must have been reciprocated. with many of the recurring and according to a rough chronology. The That class session ended at 4:30 on the day “big questions” about American beginning of the course considered the before Thanksgiving, and none of the students Jewish women’s history.” experience of being a minority community packed up to leave even a moment early. ❑ and used the lives of early American Jews, mostly Sephardic in heritage, as a way to — Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University

8 C irca Marty Center Fellows 2010–2011

The Marty Center, continuing its emphasis on global interactions and aspects of religion, will have three senior fellows and thirteen dissertation (junior) fellows in the upcoming academic year.

Senior Research Fellow Symposia

The Senior Fellow Symposia will allow each Senior Fellow to present his or her work in a public forum to members of the seminar, the entire Divinity School community, mem- bers of the University, and any interested persons. All symposia are Thursdays from 4–6:00 p.m. in the Divinity School’s Common Room, first floor. January 27, 2011 Vaseilios Syros his year’s Marty Center dissertation Senior Research Fellows March 10, 2011 seminar is being offered in two sections, Curtis L. Thompson one led by William Schweiker, Director Reid Locklin is Associate Professor and Tof the Center and Edward L. Ryerson Distin- Programme Coordinator of Christianity and guished Service Professor of Theological Ethics; Culture at St. Michael’s College, University the other led by James T. Robinson, Associate of Toronto. His project is “Advaita Mission, Professor of the History of Judaism. Christian Mission.” The Senior Research Fellows and Junior Vasileios Syros is currently Visiting Assistant Dissertation Fellows, listed below, will participate Professor at the John U. Nef Committee on in the seminar, which is designed to advance Social Thought and The College, University interdisciplinary research in all areas of religious of Chicago. His project is “Jewish Political and studies. Dissertation Fellows will be required to May 12, 2011 Religious Thought at the Intersection of the present their individual projects not only within Reid Locklin Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: the seminar, before their peers, but before public The interaction of the Jewish and Christian interlocutors at a special spring meeting. political and religious traditions between the The seminar’s goal is to advance scholarship Mediterranean and the Alps. mindful of the public setting of all inquiry. The spring meeting helps participants articulate Curtis L. Thompson will be working on a project their projects in ways that will be intelligible to tentatively titled “Dancing in God: The Relevance specialists and non-specialists alike. of Ritual for Conceiving the Divine Today.” He is Professor of Religion at Theil College in Greenville, Pennsylvania.

Dissertation Fellows Elizabeth Sweeny Block, Elina Hartikainen, Ethics, “The Virtue of Department of Anthropology, Of our thirteen dissertation Conscience: Reclaiming “Ritual Hierarchy, Secrecy, (junior) fellows, eleven are the Significance of Freedom and Public Discourse: Forming Divinity School students and of Conscience for the an African Religious Public two are extradepartmental. Formation of Moral in Brazil” Identity” Karl Hefty, Philosophy Joshua Daniel, Theology, of Religions, “The God “Forming Faith: H. Richard of Appearance” Benjamin Schonthal, Niebuhr and Paulo Freire History of Religions, John Howell, Religion on Moral Education” “Regulating Religion: and Literature, “Civil War Buddhism, Pluralism, and Helen Findley, Department Literature and the Prospect the State in Contemporary of East Asian Languages of America” Sri Lanka” and Civilizations, “Moveable Anne Mocko, History of Feast: The Place of Sekkyô Michael Turner, Religious Religions, “Demoting Vishnu: in Meiji Buddhist Ethics, “Does the Laborer Ritual, Politics, and the End Discourse” Deserve to be Paid?: The Place of the Monarchy in Nepal” of Desert in a Christian Pierre-Julien Harter, Seth Perry, History of Conception of Distributive Philosophy of Religions, Christianity, “The Bible Justice” Anthony Banout, Ethics, “The Role of the Path in and Religious Authority “Islamic Modernism and the Gnoseology of the Dov Weiss, History of in Early-National Possibility of Democratic Abhisamayalamkara– – Judaism, “Confronting God America” Religious Freedom” Literature” in Rabbinic Literature”

A utumn 2 0 1 0 | 9 Ministry Program Update

“More recently the integration seminar for first-year M.Div. students has extended the meaning “integration” beyond the walls of Swift Hall to include a quarter of practical engagement with a local ministry or community.”

has extended this ministry to create The Gilead Project, ensuring quality pastoral care for those in need at Jackson Park Hospital while providing a unique, hands-on learning experience for seminarians. Student chaplains in The Gilead Ministry are professionally trained and supervised with the support and resources of both JPH and HPUC to offer care for those in acute medical emergencies as well as for those suffering chronic condi- tions: persistent poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, inadequate healthcare, and homelessness. The founding director of this expanded ministry partnership is Rev. Wesley Sun, a licensed American Baptist minister who has served as chaplain and department director to several homeless shelters and hospitals in this city. Wesley completed his M.Div. A Homegrown Collaboration in Ministry at the University of Chicago before taking a position as a Lilly Resident at Hyde Park Union Church, under the supervision of he ministry program at the Divinity School has long acknowl- longtime HPUC pastor and community advocate Rev. Susan Johnson, a Divinity edged the importance of collaboration as we educate and shape School alumna and trustee of the Baptist religious leaders. The M.Div. curriculum requires students Theological Union. Wesley has completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education and toT work at the confluence of historical and constructive studies and the will begin ACPE supervisory training while overseeing Gilead’s chaplaincy services and human sciences, while the Divinity School’s situation at the heart of student interns. The Gilead Project hosted its first student interns this summer. Second- the university, in the midst of a complex and diverse metropolitan year M.Div. student Amanda Guthrie area, invites nascent professionals to hone their practice in conversa- reflected on the impact of her work at JPH: “It really is an honor to spend time with so tion with a variety of scholarly disciplines, informed by a number of many patients and hear all of their stories and struggles. Their hospitality is overwhelm- contexts for ministry. ing and when- ever patients Increasingly, innovations in the ministry Juvenile Detention thank me for curriculum are bringing these essential Center; last year’s visiting a conversations to the classroom in more class studied the room, I make tangible ways. model of interfaith it a point to Over the past three years, courses in engagement em- say that it is preaching, worship and pastoral care have ployed by Chicago’s really I who been taught by teaching teams—Divinity Interfaith Youth am blessed to School faculty, Ph.D. students, and prac- Core. During the have met ticing ministry professionals who model current academic them. I am interdisciplinary collaboration as they help year colloquium still discerning second-year students engage the ministerial students will engage the work of The Gilead my vocation, but I know that the patients, arts. More recently the integration seminar Project at Jackson Park Hospital, a collabo- staff, and colleagues here have made a great for first-year M.Div. students has extended ration in ministry which itself has deep roots impression on me. The conversations I’ve the meaning “integration” beyond the walls in the Divinity School and the wider Univer- had with them will continue to challenge of Swift Hall to include a quarter of practi- sity community. me to push myself in my ministry.” ❑ cal engagement with a local ministry or Through a grant from the Lilly Endow- community. Two years ago colloquium ment, Hyde Park Union Church has provided — Cynthia Gano Lindner students accompanied a team of prison chaplaincy services to Jackson Park Hospital ministers working in Cook County’s for over a decade. Recently, the congregation

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Enrollment

This fall, the Divinity School enrolled eighty-seven entering degree College Graduates in Religious candidates (seven A.M.R.S., forty-six M.A., fifteen M.Div., and nine- Studies 2009–2010 teen Ph.D.) Nine students completed fourth-year B.A. papers in Religious Studies this Convocations year, led by the B.A. paper preceptor, Emanuelle Burton. Summer 2009 M.Div. David N. Gottlieb They and their topics are (advisors’ Joleen M. Preuninger William D. Hahn M.A. names follow in brackets): Benedict Jules Varnum Sandra Ann Ham Adam Lee Beitman Sarah Eileen Hanson Gregory Howard Douras Ph.D. Avi Gurelik (R. Fox) Jennifer Ruth Jennings Steven Michael Malone Maura Campanelli Katarzyna Anna Kasiarz Nina Giviyan-Kermani (Lewis) Annette Bourland Huizenga M.Div. Sung Chun Kim Miles Hopgood (M. Mitchell) Elizabeth Ann Pérez John Marlow Edgerton Justin King Tali Hurwich (W. Doniger) Ian Michael Gerdon Spring 2010 Jennifer Jeanne Kullas Daniel Andrew Puchalla Daniel Adam Meyer Katherine Jasa (W. Gilpin) M.Div. Natasha Leeann Mikles Nicholas Johnson (M. Mitchell) Ph.D. Rebecca Ruth Anderson Joshua Aaron Milstein Barbra Barnett Benna Kessler (C. Lindner) Emy Natsu Cardoza Monika Khanum Minehart Meira Ziva Kensky Brett Daniel Colasacco Margaret Anne Patton Catherine Stolar (D. Nirenberg) Zhan’ge Ni Daniel Paul Cooperrider Craig Stephen Peters Molly Zimmerman-Feeley (B. Lincoln) Alexander Van Der Haven Daniel Garrett Kuckuck Sarah Anne Reynolds Andrea Christina White Jeffrey Thomas Lehn William Coale Ricketts Samuel Mendenhall Student Fellowships, Grants, Autumn 2009 Dahlia Rizk Beau Thomas Underwood Catherine Joanna Runde and Awards M.A. M.A. Seiko Sato Betül Avci Jordan Eugene Skornik The John Gray Rhind Award Daniel Patrick Albertson Nicole Renee Egley Adam Yale Stern Abby Eileen Arganese Jeffrey T. Lehn Claudia Lynn Persico Natalia Theodoridou Mark Evan Beitman Micah Davis Thompson Ph.D. Kelsey Marie Blomeke The William Rainey Harper Daniel Louis Wyche Amy Collier Artman Katrina Alexis Brooks Dissertation Fellowships Donald Yurmanovich Carlos Andres Manrique Gareth Collin Campbell Anne Mocko Jonathan Peter Ziemba Edward Silver Nicholas Ethan Collins Roger A. Willer Shannon Corinne Copp Ph.D. Provost’s Dissertation-Year Emily D. Crews Courtney Ellen Fitzsimmons Fellowship Winter 2010 Erin Anne Dickey Amanda Jean Huffer Anthony Banout M.A. Michael Franks Nicolas Meylan Philip Carroll Friedrich Harriet and Ulrich Meyer Teddy Kenneth Golder Bruce Pantaleo Rittenhouse Jami Garton Alan Thomas Terlep Dissertation-Year Fellowship in John Arch Schroedel IV Jewish Studies Andres Tupac Cruz Some of our Ph.D. graduates are available for Heather Miller Rubens appointment. Their resumes can be accessed online at: Dov Weiss http://divinity.uchicago.edu/employment.

A utumn 2 0 1 0 | 11 Gifts to the Divinity SchoolM 2009‒2010

he Dean, the faculty, and the students in the Divinity School extend their sincere thanks to all who support the work of the School. The following alumni, friends, and organizations generously con- T tributed cash gifts during the 2009– 2010 fiscal year (July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010).

The Dean’s Circle Shirley Jackson Case Fellows Scott R. Martin and Linda Martin Joan B. Gottschall $25,000+ $5,000 – $9,999 Daniel R. Murray Larry L. Greenfield Charlene Posner John B. Hillman and Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai America, Inc. Thomas R. Brous and Alexander E. Sharp II Linda H. Hillman The Ford Foundation Mary Lou Brous Richard W. Shepro and Matthew Kapstein Lear Family Foundation The Chicago Community Foundation Lindsay E. Roberts Wesley A. Kort Lyn Lear and Norman Lear John C. Colman and Jane B. Colman Mary Jean Kraybill Matthew R. Lawrence McDonald Agape Foundation Shawn M. Donnelley and Eri B. Hulbert Fellows The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Christopher M. Kelly David W. Maher and Marjorie Lindsay Reed Ruth Durchslag and $1,000 – $2,499 Jill C. Maher Tsadra Foundation Stephen P. Durchslag Martin E. Marty and Trust Estate of Gary A. Bousman The Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc. Harriet Marty John A. Bross and Judy C. Bross Emily Huggins Fine Margaret M. Mitchell Lisa A. Cavallari Ernest Cadman Richard P. Strubel and Ella Strubel North Shore Baptist Church Colwell Fellows Chapin-May Foundation Wayne Parman of Illinois $10,000 – $24,999 William C. Pate Shailer Mathews Fellows Church of The Incarnation Emery A. Percell Episcopal Robert L. Berner, Jr. and $2,500 – $4,999 Joseph L. Price II Robert W. Crowe and Sheila R. Berner James T. Rhind and Elizabeth R. Crowe Joan Feitler and Robert Feitler Accenture Foundation Laura Campbell Rhind Richard D. Cudahy and Linda Lee Nelson Baptist Theological Union Erroll F. Rhodes Janet Cudahy Oliver Nicklin Stephen S. Bowen Richard Alan Rosengarten Victoria J. Dorgan Nuveen Benevolent Trust Carl H. Boyer and Mary Boyer Jennifer M. Schuberth Alexandra C. Earle and John S. Nuveen Robert Wells Carton and Jean Carton Estate of Emaroy June Smith David P. Earle Robert K. Parsons and Thomas J. D’Alesandro IV Fredrick H. Stitt Norman Farnsworth Victoria J. Herget The Donnelley Foundation Lynn Straus William Trent Foley Robert G. Schloerb and Nina Donnelley and Carey Turnbull James L. Foorman and Mary W. Schloerb James R. Donnelley Joan W. Ward Margaret Foorman Smart Family Foundation, Inc. Sally B. Fand and David I. Fand Arthur B. Francis Jeanne M. Sullivan Patricia E. Kauffman Carlson Gerdau Richard F. Kaufman and Sylvia Kaufman W. Clark Gilpin thank you to our donors

12 C irca Midway Club David H. Fong David C. Casto $500 – $999 Freddie Mac Foundation J. Harley Chapman, Jr. Stanislaus Grabarek and Jean B. Chapman Gifts in Memoriam Gifts in Honor Anonymous David P. Grandstrand Rolf H. Charlston of Individuals Ann L. Anderson and Karen R. Guberman and Richard N. Chrisman The Divinity School Douglas E. Anderson Craig Kennedy John B. Cobb, Jr. offers special thanks for The Divinity School Ronald R. Barlow Norman F. Gustaveson and Maria del Rosario gifts that honored the offers special thanks Don S. Browning* and Nancy Gustaveson Conde-Johanek memory of individuals for gifts that honored Carol Browning George P. Guthrie Lee A. Crawford Patricia Busk and Henry O. Hardy Rachel K. Cundy during the 2009–2010 individuals during the Michael C. Busk Barbara B. Kaiser Paul Davis year. 2009–2010 year. John I. Cadwallader and Carolyn C. Kinsley William D. Dean Patricia S. Cadwallader Joel Kraemer Robert D. Denham In memory of In honor of Lisa G. Cahill and Leo D. Lefebure Frederick M. Denny Don S. Browning Peter and Susan Marty Lawrence R. Cahill James W. Lewis Cora K. Dice James Hubert Shackelford Joan W. Ward Tim Child Jeffrey S. Lindner and Michael C. Dodge Carl D. Evans Paula R. Lindner Jay P. Dolan Matching Gifts In honor of the Richard M. Franklin and William Madges Dimis T. Dowse* Reverend Lloyd William Marguerite Franklin Lois E. Malcolm John L. Dreibelbis and The following companies Putnam Donald A. Gillies and Anthony M. Mallerdino Patricia A. Dreibelbis and foundations generously Leon J. Putnam Peter J. Mehl Judith Gillies John T. Dungan and matched gifts made to the Chester Gillis William J. Meyer Jennifer G. Jesse In honor of Divinity School during the Joanna F. Goodin Frank D. Minton Otis C. Edwards, Jr. Dean Rosengarten Fritz Guy Janet Moore Jon Ekdahl 2009–2010 academic year. completing his term Bryan V. Hillis Donald W. Musser Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. and of office Richard J. Hoskins Gordon L. Nelson* Gracia F. Ellwood Abbott Laboratories Anthony M. Mallerdino C. Richard Johnson and Schubert M. Ogden Alan C. Embree Employee Giving Fund In honor of Kate L. Bensen Michael B. Raschko Ronald L. Eslinger and Accenture Foundation Susan B. Johnson and Susan A. Ross and Stephanie Eslinger Margaret Mitchell The Field Foundation beginning her term Dennis P. Johnson William P. George Ian S. Evison of office Kent D. Kirby Stephen C. Rowe Russell L. Fate of Illinois, Inc. Lincoln Financial Foundation William R. Schoedel and John P. Ferre and Freddie Mac Foundation Anthony M. Mallerdino Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Grace Schoedel Gweneth A. Dunleavy Lincoln Financial In honor of and W. Mark Miller- Winifred Eleanor Scott Donald A. Fox foundation Professor Clark Kucheman McLemore Roland R. Speaks, Jr. William C. French The NCR Foundation Aaron McMurtray Eleanor K. Nicholson Margie A. Sturm and Sally J. Frostic Sueo Oshima Douglas E. Sturm Robert C. Fuller Wells Fargo Foundation Rebecca Ruth Pallmeyer Robert A. Super Bartlett W. Gage Peter J. Paris Kathryn Tanner Eugene V. Gallagher Samuel C. Pearson, Jr. and Edgar A. Towne and Volney P. Gay and G. Richard Kern Victor M. Nazario Mary Alice Clay Pearson Marian K. Towne Barbara B. Gay Michael J. Kessler The NCR Foundation August H. Ramhorst Judith Van Herik and Heidi M. Gehman and Takeshi Kimura and Randolph A. Nelson John W. Reed James Culang, Jr. Kelton Cobb Marianne Kimura Jennifer N. Nixon Frank E. Reynolds and Peter H. Van Ness Mary J. Gerhart Hans-Josef Klauck Douglas R. Norell June C. Nash Donald R. Weisbaker Elmore Giles, Jr. Michael C. Kotzin and Elizabeth A. Norton Victoria Ries and Carolyn Cole Williams and Gerald W. Gillette Judith D. Kotzin Stephen P. Ott Samuel F. Saracino Robert E. Williams, Jr. Roger Gilmore William R. LaFleur* David B. Parke John M. Schloerb and Ralph C. Wood, Jr. and G. Wayne Glick James N. Lapsley, Jr. Robert J. Parker, Jr. and Aileen P. Schloerb Suzanne Wood Jonathan C. Gold Laura S. Lieber Sarah E. Taylor Waldemar Schmeichel and Donald E. Gowan Armin H. Limper John H. Patton Jean Schmeichel Century Club Martha C. Green Erika A. Linden Garrett E. Paul Michael A. Sells Gerald J. Gregg Diana L. Lingafelter Mark A. Pearson David J. Smith and $100–$249 John E. Groh Lois G. Livezey Stephen R. Pearson Jane R. Nozell Charles J. Adams Robert D. Haak Charles H. Long and Peiying Peng Everett J. Tarbox, Jr. Ross E. Aden Laurel E. Hallman Alice F. Long Paul D. Perreten Mark G. Toulouse and Phyllis D. Airhart Charles H. Hambrick J. Bruce Long Edwin D. Peterman Jeffica L. Toulouse Catherine L. Albanese Gary L. Harbaugh Jeanne W. Loomer Theodore F. Peters, Jr. Clark M. Williamson and Edward W. Amend Nancy A. Hardesty Elizabeth M. Lynn Edward A. Phillips, Jr. Barbara E. Williamson Maria A. Antonaccio Roger Dean Hatch and William K. Mahony Joseph W. Pickle, Jr. Pierre F. Auger and Joyce A. Baugh Teresa A. Maltby Edward H. Piper Scholars Club Jill F. Auger John A. Helgeland David R. Mason Barbara Pitkin and $250 – $499 Philip R. Bane John L. Hendricks Armand H. Matheny Brent W. Sockness David L. Bartlett Mary C. Henry Antommaria G. Philip Points and Anonymous (2) Mark A. Bayert* Stewart W. Herman III Donald D. Maxfield Loris Points Abbott Laboratories Russell J. Becker T. Patrick Hill Gerald P. McKenny James R. Price III Employee Giving Campaign Francisco J. Benzoni and Craig Q. Hinkson and John A. Meardon Elena G. Procario-Foley Alan B. Anderson Kimberly Wade-Benzoni Ellen Hinkson Woodrow S. Mertens Leon J. Putnam Margaret J. Armstrong and Thomas C. Berg Stephen A. Hirby William E. Middleton and Thomas H. Quigley, Jr. and Barry D. Guiduli William A. Bingham Ann P. Hoffman and Barbra Hardy Jane H. Quigley Richard P. Baepler Clyde A. Black and Irwin Z. Hoffman David H. Miley and Jill Raitt Hans D. Betz and Carol L. Black Karina M. Hogan Karla K. Miley Arlo R. Reichter Christel Betz Paul S. Bosley and John C. Holt Alan L. Miller John S. Reist, Jr. Kenneth S. Bigger and Mary M. Bosley John B. Houck L. Bruce Miller Richard Rice Sara F. Bigger Larry D. Bouchard Dorothea Hoy and Mark C. Modak-Truran Kenneth F. Ripple James M. Brandt Mary M. Boyvey Geoffrey F. Hoy John C. Modschiedler and Clark N. Ross William O. Breedlove II Walter L. Brenneman, Jr. and Wilbur K. Huck Christa M. Modschiedler Elliott Ross-Bryant and and Elizabeth A. Breedlove Mary Brenneman Henry Idema III James R. Monroe, Jr. Lynn Ross-Bryant Bernard O. Brown and Mark S. Brocker Fujio Ikado and Dominic V. Monti James Rurak Carol J. Brown William F. Brosend II Toshiko Ikado Robert G. Moore III and Victoria Samuels and Frank Burch Brown Jesse M. Brown Charles S. Jacobs Heather L. Krajewski Thomas R. Samuels Edwin T. Callahan III and C. Conrad Browne William C. James William M. Moremen and Marilee K. Scaff Dulcy E. Wolverton John M. Buchanan and Charles L. Johnson Grace E. Moremen David A. Schattschneider Kathleen M. Clairmont and Sue K. Buchanan Diane Jonte-Pace and Daniel T. Moser Gregory Schneider Norman W. Clairmont Hugh W. Burtner David J. Pace Ronney B. Mourad and Craig A. Schroeder Elbert C. Cole* Charles T. Buzek Barbara Jurgensen Emily J. Kuo Michael A. Scott Eric H. Crump and Thomas A. Byrnes Masahiro Kano Herbert J. Murray, Jr. James H. Shackelford Katherine R. Narveson Kathleen A. Cahalan Michael E. Karunas Kenneth R. Muse Talbert O. Shaw Kristine A. Culp Arthur A. Callaham Werner H. Kelber and Jennifer L. Nagel and Franklin Sherman Jonathan D. Day Joseph F. Callahan Mary A. Kelber Jane E. McBride Adam R. Shields Paul B. Duff and John D. Carlson Robert G. Kemper and Thomas A. Nairn Robert L. Simpson Ann L. Osborn David W. Carpenter Margery K. Kemper Richard F. Nance William A. Simpson Stephen C. Duvall and Eileen K. Carpenter Hugh J. Kennedy, Jr. Susan Nash Nicholas P. Smiar, Jr.

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John H. Fish Sandra S. Frankiel Robert E. Frederick Mark A. Freedman John E. Gaus John L. Giannini George E. Gilbert Edmund T. Gilday Andrew C. Gill Barbara Nelson Gingerich and James Nelson Gingerich Norman J. Girardot Beth Glazier-McDonald Judith M. Godfrey Dale C. Goldsmith Allyson C. Gonzalez Stephen R. Graham James Green Thomas G. Green L. Eugene Groves Janet V. Gunn Perry T. Hamalis James S. Hamre Mary E. Harrington Patricia A. Harrington-Wydell Heidi R. Haverkamp John W. Hawk, Jr. Matthew J. Hayes, Jr. and Judith M. Hayes Philip J. Hefner Century Club Swift Hall Club William E. Bornschein Brian H. Covell Joshua D. Heikkila continued $1 – $99 Lori F. Brandt Hale William R. Crockett David M. Held Celia E. Brickman William E. Crowl and Kyle W. Henderson Brent A. Smith Anonymous Brian M. Britt and Patricia Crowl Theresa J. Herman Huston C. Smith and Cherie W. Acierno Jessica Meltsner Steve J. Crump David L. Herndon Eleanor K. Smith Samuel L. Adams William C. Brown and Robert P. Davidow and Gary H. Hickok Ted J. Solomon Ilsup Ahn Patricia L. Brown Susan Grubb Susan E. Hill John R. Spencer Maria E. Albina Preston M. Browning, Jr. Keith A. Davis Katherine E. Hines-Shah and Michael Starenko Robert E. Alvis Stanley E. Brush Alan S. De Courcy Jayesh S. Hines-Shah Alan J. Stone Joel M. Anderle Marcia J. Bunge Elissa A. De Falco Paul S. Hiyama John D. Sturman Dianne E. Arakawa and Donald V. Burk Gawain F. De Leeuw Gael A. Hodgkins Rex J. Styzens Stephen C. Washburn Margaret K. Burkey Marion G. Deckert Abigail C. Hoffman Charles H. Swift, Jr. Yaakov S. Ariel Susan D. Burnam Willoughby H. Deming John C. Hollowell, Jr. John D. Sykes, Jr. Rufus F. Baehr and James R. Campbell Richard E. Denison, Jr. Ronald E. Hopkins Dennis E. Tamburello Elsa Baehr Juan E. Campo Darlene A. Despeignes William G. Horton Shigeyuki Tanamura Homer A. Bain, Jr. Donald E. Capps Natalie B. Dohrmann Lee P. Hull Moses David C. Taylor Dorlan C. Bales Dennis A. Castillo and George A. Drake M. Edward Hunter Johan C. Thom Brittany Barber Kathleen M. Castillo Dennis C. Duling Paul E. Irion George S. Treynor John D. Barbour Stuart Z. Charme Joseph A. Edelheit Hans-Joachim R. Irmer Jeffrey A. Trumbower Lance R. Barker Jacqueline J. Cho John M. Edgerton and Shane L. Isner Robert H. Tucker John R. Bean Mihwa Choi Heather M. Upshaw Andrea B. Jackson John R. Van Eenwyk Peter T. Beckman, Jr. and Kenneth E. Christiansen Joan R. Elbert Robert W. Jais David G. Vellenga Lydia V. Beckman Gerald Christianson Leland E. Elhard* Stephen M. Jakab Robert J. Villwock* Theodore F. Berg David A. Clairmont W. Douglas Ensminger Betsy E. Jansen-Kamphuis Roderick J. Wagner Marvin L. Bergman Patricia A. Clark and S. Bernhard Erling David L. Jarvis James D. Ward Steven I. Berlin and Robert J. Clark Martin J. Essig and Timothy A. Jensen George A. Weckman Sara A. Massarik Joseph A. Comber yvonne T. Gilmore Channing R. Jeschke Jay D. Wexler Joseph A. Bessler and James T. Connelly Helen J. Evans Robert E. Johnson, Jr. Donald H. Wheat Kay L. Bessler-Northcutt Barbara G. Cook James W. Ewing Thomas E. Johnsrud David G. White Tatiana A. Bissell Martin L. Cook Rick A. Fairbanks William H. Jones Charles A. Wilson Philip L. Blackwell Warren R. Copeland and John E. Felible Richard K. Kaeske Robert K. Wilson-Black Thomas A. Borchert and Clara C. Copeland Daniel R. Finn and Jane L. Kanarek Rhonda Williams Pamela D. Couture Nita J. Rush Teruo Kawata

Mellon Grant to support Islamic Studies on campus

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has made a $600,000 grant to the Divinity School to support the expansion of the study of Islam at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the grant is to bring to the University distinguished visiting professors, representing a wide range of topics in Islamic Studies, as well as to sponsor interdisciplinary symposia and conferences over a four-year period. While the grant will be administered by the Divinity School, the program is self-consciously cross-divisional, and the Steering Committee includes faculty representatives from the Humanities and Social Sciences Divisions, in addition to Professor Michael Sells of the Divinity School, who is the Principal Investigator.

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Chavel Interview Continued from page 6 direct inter-connectedness championed by its students an opportunity to forge a full the Prophets. Turning and overturning the synthesis and emerge truly well-rounded leaves of the Bible allows and encourages “The Divinity School has scholars. At the University of Chicago one ever and anew to revisit old questions a wonderfully supportive Hebrew Bible has been on “simmer” for with fresh perspectives. environment for attaining the past few years, in a way that offers Prof. Stackert and myself the opportunity, Circa: How do you find the Divinity research excellence and a commit- in deep collaboration, to re-imagine the School as a place to do your research? In ment to the education of program against a broad view of develop- what ways do your colleagues and students ments in the field, and give it a certain here have similar and/or different objectives future scholars, that such shape that will help the students emerging in their studies than those you worked collaborative envisioning as scholars to lead those developments. with in Israel? can truly flourish.” The Divinity School has a wonderfully supportive environment for attaining SC: Faculties at both universities aim to research excellence and a commitment conceptualize the use of data, maximize the to the education of future scholars, that kinds of data used, and bring theoretical Bible, one that comprehends the whole and such collaborative envisioning can truly clarity to analysis. The Hebrew University locates it both in its ancient context and in flourish. ❑ has a rich, continuous tradition in Hebrew the history of interpretation, which affords

A utumn 2 0 1 0 | 15 The Hooding Ceremony 2010

Following graduation ceremonies, the Divinity School hoods doctoral graduates, a new tradition here as of June 2010. The hoods are provided for Ph.D. students as a gift from the Divinity School in recognition of this outstanding accomplishment.

Dean’s Letter Continued from page 1 public passion to talk about religion in all its be awarded tenure in the Divinity School— February, 2008. As I finish this column, a manifestations in an astute and meaningful in 1977—a date still within arm’s reach. luminous black and white photograph of way. The Center in the Divinity School that Anne was a scholar of religion who took her Anne Carr striding through the front doors bears his name, now under the directorship Roman Catholic tradition as a center of of Swift Hall is being mounted on the wall of William Schweiker, is one of the venues in gravity, but understood so well that the Uni- of my office, where I am now fully under- which we continue to press—for ourselves versity context demanded—and rewarded way on those deanly tasks, on the other and others—the issue of the publics and —a critical conversation between past and side of the threshold. ❑ purposes of our scholarship, the value and present. Her groundbreaking work in feminist significance of new knowledge into religion theology and activism on behalf of women Margaret M. Mitchell past and present. in the Roman Catholic Church remains a Dean and Professor of New Testament Anne E. Carr, like Marty an alumna of precious and living legacy, even as she con- and Early Christian Literature the Divinity School, was the first woman to tinues to be missed after her death in

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