[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: April closes out with two great "Women Erased" events on Tuesday and Thursday: Women Religious and Resistance on Tuesday! The Magdalene Mystery on Thursday!

Fri Apr 22 05:50:14 PDT 2022

FYI. Catherine

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Subject: April closes out with two great "Women Erased" events on Tuesday
and Thursday: Women Religious and Resistance on Tuesday! The Magdalene
Mystery on Thursday!
To: <catherine.walther at gmail.com>

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Next session -- Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 8:00pm EST Women Erased: Women
Religious and Resistance in the United States
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Most Catholics know the importance of religious sisters in their
communities and in their lives. Older Catholics were often taught by
religious women while younger Catholics may know religious women because of
their ministry and leadership in their parishes and their work in the
community. Still, many Catholics are limited in their understanding of the
scope and magnitude of the pioneering efforts of Catholic women religious
in the United States. The stereotype of the obedient Catholic nun who
unquestioningly submits to clerical male authority still lurks in the
Catholic imagination.

Professor Margaret Susan Thompson is an expert in the history of Catholic
women religious in the United States. Her decades long research spans the
origins of women's religious life, the often-treacherous foundings of the
first North American communities, the lives of pioneer nuns, ethnic and
assimilation issues, tensions with clergy, Vatican II and its impacts,
current circumstances, and much more. In this two-part presentation she
will show us how the history of the Catholic Church in the United States
was indelibly shaped by the contributions of sisters - by their work in the
parochial school system, their founding and administration of hundreds of
hospitals, and untold numbers of charitable organizations. These ministries
have transformed the lives of millions of Catholics and the social and
humanitarian character of the nation itself. Sisters also have long been
advocates for social justice, and unlike most priests, have always provided
services not only for Catholics but for the entire population.

As laypeople, like most Catholics, sisters have experienced the impact of
"engendered power" applied to them by generations of priests and prelates.
This presentation will reveal the perhaps surprising history of their
resistance and suggest ways we can all learn from their experience as we
work collaboratively to build a future church that is more egalitarian and
supportive for all believers.

Biography:

Margaret S. Thompson is Associate Professor of History and Political
Science at Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs. She is also the Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public
Affairs Institute.

Prof. Thompson was trained as a political historian, with a focus on the
nineteenth-century United States and, particularly, the Congress. Her first
book, *The “Spider Web”: Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant*
(Cornell University Press), reflects both her scholarly and hands-on
experience, the latter as American Political Science Association
Congressional Fellow. Recently, Professor Thompson’s work has focused on
the history of American Catholic nuns. She has written and lectured
extensively on the subject, and has an 18-lecture audio series available
through NowYouKnowMedia.com. Her research is from an explicitly feminist
perspective, emphasizing the agency and social significance of sisters to
American religious and secular history. As a result of this research, she
has had the privilege of speaking internationally as well as across the
U.S., and has served as a consultant to numerous documentarians and
religious communities. Her forthcoming book, *The Yoke of Grace: American
Nuns and Social Change, 1809-1917*, is under contract with Oxford
University Press.
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Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 8:00pm EST Women Erased: Is it Mary of Magdala
or Mary Magdalene?
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Doctoral candidate Elizabeth Schrader and Prof. Joan Taylor will share
important findings from their research on Mary Magdalene.

*While it is common today to refer to Jesus’s disciple Μαρία[μ] ἡ Μαγδαληνή
as Mary “of Magdala,” with Magdala identified as a Galilean city named
Tarichaea, what do our earliest Christian sources actually indicate about
the meaning of this woman’s name? Examination of the Gospel of Luke,
Origen, Eusebius, Macarius Magnes, and Jerome, as well as evidence in
hagiography, pilgrimage, and diverse literature, reveals multiple ways that
the epithet ἡ Μαγδαληνή can be understood. While Mary sometimes was
believed to come from a place called “Magdala” or “Magdalene,” the
assumption was that it was a small and obscure village, its location
unspecified or unknown. Given the widespread understanding that Mary
Magdalene was the sister of Martha, it could even be equated with Bethany.
However, Jerome thought that the epithet was a reward for Mary’s faith and
actions, not something indicative of provenance: Mary “of the Tower.” No
early Christian author identifies a city (Tarichaea) called “Magdala” by
the Sea of Galilee, even when they knew the area well. A pilgrim site on
ancient ruins, established as “Magdala” by the mid-sixth century, was
visited by Christians at least into the fourteenth century, and thus the
name is remembered today. In view of the earlier evidence of Origen and
Jerome, however, the term ἡ Μαγδαληνή may be based on an underlying Aramaic
word meaning “the magnified one” or “tower-ess,” and is therefore best left
untranslated*.

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Biographical information

*Elizabeth Schrader*

Oregon-raised and now based in Durham, NC, Elizabeth "Libbie" Schrader is a
doctoral candidate in Early Christianity at Duke University. Her studies
focus on Mary Magdalene, the Gospel of John, textual criticism, and
feminist theology.  Schrader has recently transitioned to religious
scholarship after a long career as a singer/songwriter.  Her research is
already receiving critical acclaim as she advances new theories about the
origins of Mary Magdalene.

*Prof. Joan Taylor*

After a BA degree at Auckland University, New Zealand, Joan completed
post-graduate studies at the University of Otago and then went to the
British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (Kenyon Institute) as Annual
Scholar in 1986. She undertook a PhD at New College, Edinburgh University,
and was appointed in 1992 to a position of lecturer (subsequently senior
lecturer) at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in the departments of
both Religious Studies and History. In 1995 she won an Irene Levi-Sala
Award in Israel’s archaeology, for the book version of her PhD thesis,
*Christians
and the Holy Places* (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993, rev. 2003). In 1996-7 she
was Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate in Women’s Studies in Religion
at Harvard Divinity School, a position she held in association with a
Fulbright Award. She has also been Honorary Research Fellow in the
Departments of History and Jewish Studies at University College London. She
has taught at King’s College London since 2009.

Joan’s approach is multi-disciplinary; she works in literature, language,
history and archaeology. She has written numerous books and articles in her
fields of interest.

   - The New Testament and other early Christian texts within their wider
   social, historical and cultural contexts, with a special interest in
   archaeological evidence.
   - The historical figures of Jesus of Nazareth, John the Baptist, Judas
   Iscariot, Paul, Pontius Pilate, Mary Magdalene, and other New Testament
   persons, both in terms of the ancient evidence and how they have been
   constructed over time, including in modern literature and film.
   - Second Temple Judaism, particularly the Jewish legal schools
   (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, ‘Zealots’) and popular religious movements.
   - The Dead Sea Scrolls and the archaeology of Qumran.
   - Alexandrian Judaism, Philo of Alexandria, and the ‘Therapeutae’
   - Women and gender within early Judaism and Christianity, especially
   regarding women in leadership roles.
   - Jewish-Christianity and early Christian constructions of history and
   orthodoxy.
   - Comparative Graeco-Roman religion and philosophy: literary,
   epigraphical and archaeological evidence.
   - The archaeology and history of Christian holy places and travel to
   Palestine over the centuries, with special interest in the sites of
   Golgotha, Gethsemane, Eleona, Nazareth, Capernaum and Bethlehem, as well as
   historical geography.
   - Reception exegesis: using creative artefacts to reflect on texts and
   history

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May 5, 12, 19 2022 at 8:00pm EST Women Erased: All About Eve: Beyond the
Myths about Ancient Israelite Women
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*Session one: May 5 at 8:00pm EST*
*All about Eve: The Latest Word on the First Lady (without Powerpoint)*

Professor Carol Meyers knows that Eve has gotten a bad rap in Jewish and
Christian tradition: seductress, first sinner, cause of male
domination––the list goes on. But does she deserve it? This presentation
will take advantage of the fact that we have just marked the 100th
anniversary of the historic 19th Amendment to review some of the ways the
suffragettes tried to deal with the problem of Eve in the Eden narrative.
Then it will show how biblical scholarship of the 21st century rescues Eve
from notoriety and even elevates her above Adam!

*Session two: May 12 at 8:00pm EST*
*Work and Worth: Women’s Household Activities in Ancient Israel (with
PowerPoint)*

Women in the biblical period were just “wives and mothers.” Right? Not at
all. Rather, they had important economic and social roles. Using
archaeological materials as well as biblical texts, this presentation
examines AND evaluates women’s contributions to everyday life. This
approach shows that women had a greater role in Israelite culture than
might otherwise have been imagined.

*Session three: May 19 at 8:00pm EST*
*Archaeology and the Hidden Religious Culture of Israelite Women (with
PowerPoint)*

Who were the most important religious figures in ancient Israel? Most
people would say that the priests were. But they would be wrong. The major
arena of religious life for most people in the biblical period was the
household, and the major figures in household religious activities were
women. This lecture takes you into the Israelite household, largely
invisible in the Bible, and presents an array of archaeological materials
and fascinating ethnographic data to reveal women’s household religious
activities.

*Biography: * CAROL MEYERS is the Mary Grace Wilson Professor Emerita of
Religious Studies at Duke University. She received the A.B. with honors
from Wellesley College and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic
Studies from Brandeis University. Meyers has published more than 450
articles, reports, reference-book entries, and reviews; and she has
authored, co-authored, or edited twenty-two books. Her 2013 book,
Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, is a landmark study
of women in ancient Israelite society. Meyers has worked on numerous digs
since she was an undergraduate and has co-directed several archaeological
projects in Israel. She has been a frequent consultant for media
productions relating to archaeology and the Bible, including A&E’s
Mysteries of the Bible series, DreamWorks’s “Prince of Egypt,” NOVA’s “The
Bible’s Buried Secrets,” and several National Geographic documentaries. She
has served as President of the Society of Biblical Literature and is
currently a trustee of the American Society of Overseas Research, the Dead
Sea Scrolls Foundation, and the Albright Institute of Archaeological
Research in Jerusalem.

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May 10, 2022 at 8:00pm EST Women Erased: Archaeology's Surprising Testimony
to the Paradigm-Shifting Witness of Early Christian Women
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In her critically acclaimed book *Crispina and Her Sisters*, author
Christine Schenk, C.S.J. explores the archaeological and literary evidence
for women’s leadership in early Christianity. Schenk’s original research
into visual imagery found on burial artifacts demonstrates that women were
far more influential in the ancient world than has been commonly
recognized.  Yet their paradigm-shifting witness has been all but erased
from Christian memory. Join us for a fascinating visual journey and
consider what it may mean for women and men today.

*Biography*
Christine Schenk, CSJ has worked as a nurse midwife to low-income families,
a community organizer, an award-winning writer-researcher, and the founding
director of an international church reform organization, FutureChurch.  Her
first book Crispina and Her Sisters: Women and Authority in Early
Christianity (Fortress Press, 2017) received a first place in history from
the Catholic Press Association and her most recent work, To Speak the Truth
in Love: A Biography of Sr. Theresa Kane RSM (OrbisBooks 2019) received
first place awards from The Association of Catholic Publishers and the
Catholic Press Association. She writes a regular column for the National
Catholic Reporter and is one of three nuns featured in the award-winning
documentary Radical Grace.

Please join us for this informative event!
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May 24, 2022 at 8:00pm EST Women Erased: New Evidence for Female Clerics in
the Early Church
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Join Professor Patel as we explore her research showing that in the early
church, women served clerical roles as ordained ministers called deacons
and presbyters, both subordinate to the higher-ranking bishops.
Scholars agree that we should think of Christianities in the plural when we
think of the era of Christian origins. There was never one Christianity, in
other words. Women’s clerical leadership, likewise, spanned a range from
women being thought of as prophetic mouthpieces for Christ himself to being
relegated to silence during worship. In this talk, we’ll explore evidence
supporting women’s clerical leadership from lesser-known sources and some
of the ways we moderns have sought to erase this evidence in order to
advance the idea of a coherent Christianity stretching back to the
apostolic age. From manuscript variants, to prophetic utterings, to the
stories of women martyrs and “monks,” we’ll survey the various ways
women *could
*occupy leadership roles in ancient Christianities and consider the role of
history in shaping the present.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/recovering-the-female-clerics-of-the-early-church/
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*Biography*

Shaily Patel is assistant professor of early Christianity in the Department
of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on the
diversity of early Christianity and how discourses of magic helped solidify
Christian group identities. Currently, she is working on a book called *Smoke
and Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions*.

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