This year’s Carmichael-Walling Lectures at Abilene Christian University will feature Dr. Laura Nasrallah of Yale Divinity School.

Her presentations will be at 4 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in Room 114 in ACU’s Onstead-Packer Biblical Studies Building. The lectures are free and open to the public. Register here to live stream. The lectureship is presented by ACU’s Center for the Study of Ancient Religious Texts (CSART).

Theme will be “Getting Justice, Making Reparations: Paul, Race, Gender and Enslavement.”

Dr. Laura Nasrallah

Her talk at 4 p.m. is titled, “How do you get Justice? Righteousness, Curses and the Letters of Paul. The 7 p.m. lecture is titled, “Paul on the Areopagus: The Furies and God’s Judgment.” The following is from CSART:

“These lectures explore ideas of justice in the ancient world, focusing first on the letters of Paul and then on the depiction of Paul on the Areopagus in Acts 17. The lectures explore the Hellenic idea of ancestral fault – of the intergenerational workings out of justice. They argue that this idea is an important context for understanding Paul’s letters and, more importantly, an important ethical challenge for us today, as we consider intergenerational responsibilities for racial injustice and our place within history.”

Nasrallah is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University. Her research and teaching bring together New Testament and early Christian literature with the archaeological remains of the Mediterranean world, and often engage issues of colonialism, gender, race, status and power. She has authored many acclaimed books on these topics.