BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//141.193.213.20//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Union Theological Seminary X-WR-CALDESC: X-FROM-URL:https://utsnyc.edu X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-22128@utsnyc.edu DTSTAMP:20240329T063520Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Center of Community Engagement and Social Justice \,EDS at Union\,Life Long Learning CONTACT:Ian Rees\; irees@uts.columbia.edu DESCRIPTION:
This course explo res the Gospel of Luke\, focusing on the themes it sets forth programmatic ally in Jesus’ inaugural sermon: “good news for the poor”\; “release for t he captives”\; “freedom for the oppressed”\; and “the Favorable Year of th e Lord.” Students examine how these topics recur throughout Luke’s narrati ve\, looking closely at the complexities of Jesus’ teachings on economic a nd societal injustices. The goal is to gain a fuller understanding of what categories like “poor\,” “oppressed\,” and “captive” meant in Jesus’ time \, and how he and his followers envisioned the reversal\, renewal\, and re volution that might usher in the kingdom of God. This historical and liter ary analysis can enrich the ways we draw on Luke to inform and inspire our contemporary application and activism.
\n\nProfessor Jeremy Hultin comes to Union from Perth\, Austra lia\, where he was Lecturer in New Testament at Murdoch University\, and w here he worked with Anglican ordinands at Wollaston Theological College\, from 2012-2016. Before that\, he taught New Testament at Yale Divinity Sch ool from 2003-2012.
\nDr. Hultin is interest ed broadly in the history\, language\, and literature of ancient Judaism a nd Christianity\, as well as in the broader study of philosophy and religi on in the Mediterranean.
\nDr. Hultin’s firs t book\, The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity and Its Env ironment (Brill 2008)\, examined early Christian rhetoric about foul l anguage in the broader context of ancient discussions about the nature and propriety of speech. Work on that book prompted an ongoing interest in the ways that gender\, status\, and ethnicity figure in ancient discussions of speech\, and the way that s ocial realities are revealed—and shaped—by discourse about how to talk. In 2010\, Dr. Hultin co-founded a new Society of Biblical Literature Unit called “Sp eech and Talk in the Ancient Mediterranean World\,” which has brought toge ther scholars from various disciplines.
\nDr
. Hultin has also <
span class='s1'>completed a translation (with notes<
/span>) for a bi-lingual edition
of Hippolytus’s Commentary on Daniel\, which will be published in S
BL’s Writings from the Greco-Roman World series. Hippolytus’s Co
mmentary is of special interest\, as it is the earliest surviving Christian commentary on a book
of the Hebrew Bible\; furthermore\, it is valuabl
e source of information about Christian practice a
nd belief at the turn of the third century.
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\nDr. Hultin is currently working on severa
l projects\, the largest of which is a commentary for the Hermeneia series
on Jude and 2 Peter.
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