Lectures by Jarl Fossum at Marquette University

I post the following announcement for Dr Andrei Orlov of the Theology dept, Marquette University. It concerns a series of lectures by Professor Jarl Fossum that will take place this April on the campus of Marquette University.

The Seminar on the Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism

The Department of Theology of Marquette University

are pleased to invite you to a series of lectures by

JARL FOSSUM

Friday, April 23, 2004 3 pm, Olin Hall (EN 120)

MEDIATOR NOMEN DEI: Assumptionist and Pre-Existent Christology: The Exalted Servant of the Christ Hymn in Philippians 2 and the Eternal Son of the Logos Hymn in the Johannine Prologue


Saturday, April 24, 2004 10 am, Olin Hall (EN 120)

WOMAN IN THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS (LOGIA 22 AND 114)


Saturday, April 24, 2004 3 pm, Olin Hall (EN 120)

PAYING TAXES TO CAESAR (MARK 12:13-17) AND JEWISH MYSTICISM


Professor Fossum is a major representative of what is sometimes referred to as "the new History of Religions School." He is the author of a classic study on The Name of God and the Angel of the Lord: Samaritan and Jewish Mediation Concepts and the Origin of Gnosticism. Other contributions to the study of traditions that shaped Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity are collected in the volume The Image of the Invisible God: Essays on the Influence of Jewish Mysticism on Early Christology.

All sessions are open to the public and will take place on the campus of Marquette University. For the directions to the campus see: http://www.marquette.edu/pages/home/about/visit/directions.

For further information contact Dr. Andrei Orlov, Marquette University Theology Department, P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI USA 52201-1881, andrei.orlov@mu.edu.