On Sunday, 30 March 2014, I will be giving a lecture at a St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church in Chicago. My topic will be:

“For He Shall Save His People from Their Sins”:
The Gospel According to Matthew as Jewish Literature

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I will be a guest instructor online at LibertasU.com during its March-April 2014 and May-June 2014 semesters. LibertasU is a new “independent and nonsectarian private institution, devoted to making high quality, liberal arts courses available to as many people as possible” through a unique, virtual-reality educational environment that supports highly-interactive, real-time Socratic Method seminars — for participants situated anywhere in the world.

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On Friday, 1 November 2013 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:

“A Rich Man Who Dies Rich Dies in Disgrace”:  Andrew Carnegie and “The Gospel of Wealth”

The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Sunday, 27 October 2013, I will be giving a lecture at a St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church in Chicago. My topic will be:

You Say “Yahweh”, I Say “The LORD”;
Or, Why God by Any Other Name Ain’t

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On Saturday, 26 October 2013, I will be giving a lecture as part of the Basic Program’s daylong Autumn Symposium on Beowulf to be held at the Gordon Center on the University of Chicago Hyde Park campus. My topic will be:

On the Transvaluation of Viking Values:
Nietzsche Reads Beowulf

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Bewteen 13 July – 24 August 2013 I will be teaching a seven-week summer course on Homer’s Iliad at the new National Hellenic Museum (NHM), located in Chicago’s “Greektown”. The course is part of a new series of collaborations between the museum and the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults at the University of Chicago’s Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies.

The course is open to students ages 18+ and costs $330 per student.

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From 9-14 June 2013, I will be participating in the inaugural Artesian Bough Symposium at the Fountain Point Inn & Club (formerly: Fountain Point Resort) in Leelanau, Michigan. Courses will consist of four half-day sessions, Monday-Thursday, and will be supplemented by additional educational, recreational and social activities.

During the symposium I will be teaching intensive versions of two courses:

• The Holy Trible:
  Coordinated Readings from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur’an
• The Arts of Affluence: Wealth and the American Dream

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On Friday, 7 June 2013 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:

Aeneas Gets an Epic:
Virgil’s Aeneid and the Invention of the “Greco-Roman” World

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On Sunday, 11 November 2012, I will be giving a lecture at a St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church in Chicago. My topic will be:

Of Hanukkah and Holy War:
The Clash of Hellenism and Judaism
in 1 & 2 Maccabees
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