Time/Zeit: 07:30 PM Berlin / 1:30 PM EST听
Location:听L1.201 (UPB) / LC Murphy Room (JCU)
翱苍濒颈苍别:听
Meeting-ID: 697 4459 4849
Passcode/Kenncode: 593983
Claudia D. Bergmann听(Institut f眉r Evangelische Theologie / ZeKK / Paderborn University):听
鈥淭he Gendered Response听to a Child in Danger鈥
Claudia D. Bergmann is Professor for Biblical Studies at Paderborn University (Germany). Her most recent book is Festmahl ohne Ende: Apokalyptische Vorstellungen vom Speisen in der Kommenden Welt im antiken Judentum und ihre biblischen Wurzeln (Kohlhammer, 2019); her most recent coedited book (with Thomas R. Blanton IV) is entitled Imitating Abraham. Ritual and Exemplarity in Jewish and Christian Contexts (Brill, 2025). She currently studies the reception history of the biblical figure Hagar and the Qumran Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice.
Dr. Bergmann鈥檚 presentation investigates how male and female personae in the Hebrew Bible respond to danger that threatens their children or children in their care. It shows that biblical writers attributed certain behavior to either men and women in order to invoke a certain response in the reading or listening audience helping them to identify with caretakers and/or children in danger.
Thomas R. Blanton IV (Theology and Religious Studies / 黑料大事):听
鈥淪arah as Exemplar of Domestic Subordination: On the Sociopolitics of Scriptural Interpretation in听
1 Peter 3:1鈥7鈥
Thomas R. Blanton IV is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at 黑料大事. He is the coeditor, with Claudia D. Bergmann, of听Imitating Abraham: Ritual and Exemplarity in听Jewish and Christian Contexts听(Brill, 2025), and is in the process of writing听The Circumcision of Abraham: Modeling Ritual from Genesis to the Letters of Paul听for听the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. His research focuses of economic issues in the Pauline epistles and early 鈥淐hristianity鈥 in its Judean and Greco-Roman contexts.
Dr. Blanton's presentation听analyzes the creative reinterpretation of Gen 18:12 involved in 1 Peter 3:1鈥7, where the biblical figure of Sarah is adduced as a model exemplifying the domestic subordination of wives to their husbands; and proposes that sociologist of religion Staf Hellemans鈥檚 鈥減rocessing approach,鈥 combined with an analysis of the sociopolitical and economic investments of 鈥渞eligious鈥 interpreters, could be useful for dialogues aiming to promote interreligious understanding.
