A professor of Old Testament at Emory’s Candler School of Theology and also the Graduate Division of Religion will give a talk in Newnan on March 22.
“The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness” is the theme of Dr. Brent Strawn’s talk at 4 p.m. at the Carnegie, located at 1 LaGrange Street.
Strawn is also affiliated with the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and is a Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of
Law and Religion. He directs the Doctor of Ministry program for Candler and is chair of the Ph.D. program in Hebrew Bible.
He has a special interest in ancient Near Eastern iconography, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Israelite religion, comparative Semitic philology, legal traditions of the Old Testament, and Old Testament theology.
Strawn is on the editorial board of the “Catholic Biblical Quarterly” and the “Journal of Biblical Literature.” He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church North Georgia Conference.
Strawn has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including “The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life” (2012), and “The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law” (2014) and has appeared on CNN’s Faces of Faith numerous times.
Read more about him and view his CNN appearances here: www.candler.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-bios/strawn.cfm
For more information about his Newnan appearance, call 770-683-1347 or visit www.newnanclf.com.
