2025 Reverend Alexander Thompson, D.D. Memorial Lecture

2025 Thompson Lecture with Dr. Laura Nasrallah 

Speaking of Tongues: 1 Corinthians, an Amulet, and the Poetry of M. NourbeSe Philip
Thursday, February 20 at 5 p.m.
Theron Room, Wright Library and streaming online.

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Laura Salah Nasrallah is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation with a joint appointment in the Divinity School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Religious Studies) at Yale University. Her research and teaching bring together New Testament and early Christian literature with the archaeological remains of the Mediterranean world, and often engage issues of colonialism, gender, race, status, and power.

Her most recent books are titled Archaeology and the Letters of Paul (Oxford, 2018) and Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice (Cambridge, 2024) 

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