Performing Scripture Workshop

SUNDAY February 19, 2023, 2 pm – 4 pm at St Francis College (Lecture Theatre 1).

Cost $20 including afternoon tea
Please advise about any dietary requirements to lburridge@ministryeducation.org.au

Performing Scripture is part of our worship. This is particularly true during Holy Week with the lengthy bible readings on Palm Sunday and Good Friday. At this pre-Lent workshop the Rev’d Dr Jeanette Mathews will provide an introduction on approaching Scripture via Biblical Performance Criticism.  Participants will have an opportunity to engage with the process of “performing” Scripture and explore the insights gained by participating in this.

Please register at Eventbrite Link https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/performing-scripture-workshop-tickets-489228494597

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Rev'd Dr Jeanette Mathews

Jeanette Mathews is Head of School and Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies in the School of Theology at Charles Sturt University, based at St Mark’s NTC in Canberra. Prior to joining St Mark’s she was ordained as a Baptist minister and worked in Baptist churches in Victoria and the ACT. Her research focus is Biblical Performance Criticism (BPC). This approach to Biblical Studies is committed to upholding, transmitting, and improvising the biblical traditions in all their wondrous diversity for new settings in our own times and places. Jeanette’s publications reflect this research interest in application to the biblical prophets (Prophets as Performers, 2020; Performing Habakkuk: Faithful Re-enactment in the Midst of Crisis, 2012) and most recently Reading the Megillot, 2022, which applies BPC to the books of Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs (the ‘Megillot’ or festival scrolls of the Old Testament). Jeanette is passionate about educating others in Biblical Studies and her edited God, by Degrees: A Practical Guide for New Theological Students has been published in two editions (Barton Books, 2014, 2019).