Join a Christian Old Testament scholar and a Jewish New
Testament scholar in conversation with local leaders of both
faiths as we look at contemporary relationships between Jews and
Christians -- our many surprising similarities, the obstacles
that impair our worship of one God, and the hope for greater
reconciliation.
Broadcast journalist Mike Maus hosts a
lively panel conversation with Marvin Wilson, Amy-Jill
Levine, Kenneth A. Kanter, Betty
Gamble and Paul D. Lee.
BETTY GAMBLE
Betty
Gamble is an Elder in the Kentucky Annual Conference of the
United Methodist Church. She served a local United Methodist
congregation in the Covington District for five years and
chaired the Faith and Order Section of the Northern Kentucky
Interfaith Commission. She currently serves as Associate General
Secretary of the General Commission on Christian Unity and
Interreligious Concerns. She has lived in the Middle East where
she worked for Biblical Resources Study Center in Jerusalem.
KENNETH A. KANTER
Rabbi
of Congregation Micah of Nashville, Tennessee, was born in
Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. degree in Jewish and
American History from Harvard University in 1974. Rabbi Kanter
was founding chairman of the Metropolitan Nashville Human
Relations Commission, and is now Jewish Chautauqua Society
Adjunct Professor at the Vanderbilt Divinity School, president
of the Covenant Association, chairman of the NCCJ, chair of the
Mayor’s Religion Task force, and President-elect of the
Nashville Board of Rabbis. He is a popular lecturer and author
on the Jewish contribution to American popular music from the
1840’s to the 1940’s.
FATHER PAUL D. LEE
Fr.
Paul Dukhyo Lee is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Washington and director of the diocese's Office for Ecumenical
and Interreligious Affairs and the Office for Continuing
Education of the Priests. Fr. Lee was born in 1955 in Seoul,
Korea and completed his basic education there. He holds a
Licentiate (STL) and a doctorate in sacred theology (STD) from
the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (commonly
known as Angelicum). Father Lee also serves as President of the
North American Korean-Catholic Conference.
AMY-JILL LEVINE
Dr.
Levine is Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies and
Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and
Sexuality at Vanderbilt University. She has written on such
topics as Christian origins, formative Judaism, and the
"Historical Jesus," and recently edited a
twelve-volume series, the Feminist Companions to the New
Testament and Early Christian Literature. With characteristic
humor she has described herself as a "Yankee Jewish
feminist who teaches in a predominantly Protestant seminary in
the buckle of the Bible Belt."
MIKE MAUS (Host)
Mike
Maus is host of a monthly program, The Bible and You, in
Cablevision's MagRack series, and has hosted and narrated
numerous video productions for the American Bible Society. Mr.
Maus is a former chief political correspondent and news anchor
for the NBC Radio Network. He has directed the strategic
communications work of the National Council of Churches and the
American Bible Society. As President of Mike Maus Associates he
helps not-for-profit organizations communicate more effectively.
MARVIN R. WILSON
The
two hour video documentary, Jews
and Christians: A Journey of Faith, is based on the Dr.
Wilson's book, Our Father Abraham: The Jewish Roots of the
Christian Faith. Dr. Marvin R. Wilson is the Harold J. Ockenga
Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Gordon College,
Wenham, Mass. His Ph.D. is from Brandeis University in the field
of Semitic and ancient Near Eastern Studies. In 1971 he joined
the Gordon faculty where he currently teaches Old Testament,
Hebrew, Jewish history and culture, and modern Judaism.
