Professor Hal Taussig, a famous New Testament scholar, will speak at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh April 16.

The presentation titled “Broken People, Uneven healing and Partial Resurrection in the Bible” will take place from 4 until 5:30 p.m. in Swart 327.

Taussig is in his sixteenth year as visiting professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he teaches doctoral and master’s level New Testament and Early Christianity. He also has been teaching for 22 years as professor of early Christianity at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. He received the A.B. in religion from Antioch College, the M.Div. from Methodist Theological School in Ohio, and the Ph.D. from Union Institute. For 40 years, Taussig has been bi-vocational as both professor and United Methodist clergy, serving on local church pastoral staffs and now appointed as the bishop’s consultant to churches in crisis in the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference.

Taussig has fourteen published books, including the more recent Re-Reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Loss and Trauma (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, with Maia Kotrosits); A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Recently Discovered Texts (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013); In the Beginning Was the Meal: Social Experimentation and Early Christian Identity (Fortress Press, 2009); and A New Spiritual Home: Progressive Christianity at the Grass Roots (Polebridge Press, 2009). He is a founding member of the Jesus Seminar and on the Steering Committee of the Westar Institute’s Christianity Seminar, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Meals in the Greco-Roman World Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. His mediography includes the New York Times online edition and op-ed page, the Daily Show, and opinion pages of Time Magazine and Newsweek.

This event takes place during Social Justice Week at UW Oshkosh.

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