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Daybook -- Today is Tuesday, August 15, 2006. The Church Calendar remembers St. Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
* Today in Scripture: Daily Office meditation http://eds.libsyn.com * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1977, Presiding Bishop John M. Allin appointed Alfred Johnson Public Affairs Officer at the Episcopal Church Center. http://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_numbe r=7 7271
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Regina Schwarz to deliver Berkeley Divinity School's 2006 Cheney Lecture
[Source: Berkeley Divinity School at Yale] The 2006 Cheney Lecture will be delivered October 11, by Regina Schwartz, professor of English at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, in New Haven, Connecticut.
Schwartz teaches 17th-century literature with a focus on Milton, Hebrew Bible, philosophy and literature, law and literature, and religion and literature. She will speak at 1:30 p.m. in Marquand Chapel on the topic "Toward a Sacramental Poetics."
An author, Schwartz's publications include: "Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost" (1988), which won the James Holly Hanford prize for the best book on Milton; "The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory" (1990); "Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature" (1994); and "The Postmodern Bible" (1995). Her most recent book, "The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism, a study of monotheism, national identity, and violence in the Hebrew Bible," was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her current project is a book on the Eucharist in Renaissance literature.
Further information: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_77231_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages" from Viking Penguin (a member of the Penguin Group), by Jaroslav Pelikan, 274 pages, hardcover, $24.95
[Source: Viking Penguin] -- A grand history of the Bible written by the premier historian of theology of our time.
No book has been more pored over, has been the subject of more commentary and controversy, or had more influence not only on our religious beliefs but also on our culture and language than the Bible. And certainly no book has been as widely read. But how did the Bible become the book we know it to be?
In this superbly written history, Jaroslav Pelikan takes the reader through the good book's evolution from its earliest incarnation as oral tales to its modern existence in various iterations, translations, and languages. From the earliest Hebrew texts and the Bible's appearance in Greek, then Latin, Pelikan explores the canonization of different Bibles and why certain books were adopted by certain religions and sects, as well as the development of the printing press, the translation into modern languages, and varying schools of critical scholarship.
Both an enduring work of scholarship and a fascinating read, Whose Bible Is It? will be eagerly welcomed by the many fans of Elaine Pagels's books and Adam Nicolson's God's Secretaries.
To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org or call 800.903.5544.
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