Media-ting the Torah: The Hebrew Bible and/in the Popular Press
Speaker:
Leonard Greenspoon
27 Mar 2006
7:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Leonard Greenspoon holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University and is Professor of Classical & Near Eastern Studies and of Theology. He is especially interested in the way Bible translators reflect the historical, social, cultural, political, as well as religious environments in which they work, how specific Bible translations influence the communities for which they were intended, and how later translators and commentators make use of earlier versions.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.