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Nov. 18, 2005

Seminary news

by Toya Richards Hill

AUSTIN, TX - The Rev. Marian McClure, director of the Worldwide Ministries
Division (WMD) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), will give the Settles
Lectures in Mission and Evangelism at Austin Presbyterian Theological
Seminary Nov. 29-30 in the seminary's Robert M. Shelton Chapel. The wife of
W. R. Settles of Big Spring, TX, established the lecture series in 1947. Over
the years, lectures have focused on home mission, foreign mission and
evangelism.

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DECATUR, GA - Columbia Theological Seminary's 2006 January Seminars, titled
"The Strange New World of the Bible," will feature theologians Walter
Brueggemann, David Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor. The seminars, offered
by Columbia's Lifelong Learning program, are scheduled for Jan. 30-Feb. 1 on
campus. The cost is $240. For information, call (404) 687-4562.

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PITTSBURGH, PA - Pittsburgh Theological Seminary's Ron E. Tappy, the G.
Albert Shoemaker professor of Bible and archaeology and director and
principal investigator of the Zeitah Excavations in Israel, recently
unearthed a stone bearing the oldest reliably dated alphabet written out in
sequence. The team that analyzed the inscription and published the results
includes P. Kyle McCarter, the W.F. Albright Professor of Near Eastern
Studies at John Hopkins University; Bruce Zuckermana professor of religion at
the University of Southern California and director of the West Semitic
Research Project; and Marilyn J. Lundberg, associate director of the West
Semitic Research Project.

	The stone, found on July 15 embedded in a wall, is the best evidence
of written education in Israel in the 10th century B.C., and relates to the
ongoing controversy over the extent to which the Bible represents historical
truth. The excavation team will describe the find and analyze the writing on
Nov. 20 during the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Tappy and McCartney also will lecture on Dec. 8 in Hicks Memorial Chapel
Auditorium on campus; that event is free and open to the public. For
information, visit www.zeitah.net. 
	
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PRINCETON, NJ - Princeton Theological Seminary is hosting Fulbright Visiting
Scholar Dae Young Ryu, of South Korea, for the 2005-2006 academic year. Ryu
is one of about 850 teachers and other professionals the program is bringing
to the United States. Ryu, an associate professor in the Department of
Christian Culture and Mass Communication at Handong Global University in
Pohang, will do research on American female missionaries in Joseon, Korea.
The U.S. Department of State sponsors the Fulbright program through its
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

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