Start of the Winter Semester in Tübingen

NEWS FROM TÜBINGEN

by Dennis Lindsay

The Winter Semester, and with it the new academic year, has now officially begun here Tübingen with a flurry of activities at the University and in the Institute for the Study of Christian Origins. Along with a number of festive and official gatherings of the Theological Faculty (e.g., a "Faculty Cafe" with theology professors and students and a special convocation on Reformation Day, October 31) we are beginning our regular offerings from the Institute. Especially noteworthy is the increasing interest in our German-English Colloquium for New Testament that we offer in partnership with the Protestant Faculty of the University. With almost all of the session time slots and presentations assigned before the start of the semester, Prof. Michael Tilly (our partner from the Protestant Faculty) offered the introductory lecture on the topic: "Faith in Rabbinic Judaism."

We are also making steady progress on the renovation and technology upgrade for our seminar room in the Institute, as reported earlier. We expect everything to be completed during the month of November. We'll keep you posted on this! If you would like to make a special "end-of-the-year" contribution to help defray the expenses of this mission-critical upgrade, we would be most grateful for this additional help!