Dever Lecturing at ECU
March 10, 2008
East Carolina University’s Religious Studies Department will be hosting a lecture by William Dever on Monday, March 31 entitled “Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel.” It is based on his recent book of the same name. You may read about it here.
This is during our Reading Week at Asbury, and I’ll be in North Carolina that weekend anyway, so I’ll be there.
Anyone care to join me?
Sounds lovely. I wonder if any Mormons will attend.
Yes, I haven’t read the book, so I’m anxious to hear the lecture. Should be interesting, to say the least. I have read some of his work, though. Anyone who is involved in biblical studies or archaeology must. And, though the title of this lecture might lead one to think otherwise, he is known for his scathing criticism of biblical minimalists, though I have heard that he tends to act like a minimalist around minimalists and like a maximalist around maximalists. Maybe I’ll post a reaction after I hear the lecture.