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Department welcomes new faculty
member
Joseph Winters, assistant professor of religious studies, teaches
courses in religion and modern culture, Africana studies, and
critical theory. He recently received his Ph.D. from
Princeton University, and his current research
project is on the theme
mourning in Theodore Adorno and Toni Morrison.
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Course schedules for 2009-10
Fall 2009
Undergraduate Courses
Fall 2009 Graduate Course
Spring 2010 Undergraduate Courses
Spring 2010 Graduate Courses
Digging Ancient
Jerusalem: Mt. Zion Archaeological Excavation
The UNC Charlotte sponsored archaeological excavation at Mt.
Zion in Jerusalem had remarkable success this summer. Under the
direction of Dr. James Tabor and Dr. Shimon Gibson, a group of
students and alumni discovered a 2,000-year-old ritual cup with a
unique ten-line Hebrew inscription. The inscription from the first
century CE is presently being deciphered by a team of epigraphic
experts in an effort to determine the meaning of the text, which is
clear but cryptic. The dig also produced a sequence of building
remains dating from the history of Jerusalem, from the First and
Second Temple periods through to Byzantine and Early Islamic
periods.
For more information on this exciting discovery see the following
news reports:
The Los Angles Times
The Jerusalem Post
The Bible and Interpretation
Recent
books
Jeremy M. Schott, Christianity, Empire, and the Making of
Religion in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008) [more]
Sean McCloud, Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and
Religious Studies (University of North
Carolina Press, 2007) [more]
James Tabor,
The Jesus Dynasty (Simon & Schuster, 2007
Rev Paperback)
[more]
John C. Reeves,
Trajectories in Near Eastern Apocalyptic
(Brill/SBL, 2005) [more]
M.A. in
religious studies
Applications are now being accepted
for Spring 2010.
Description of the M.A. program
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