Fall 2019 Courses and Lectures

  • The Human Situation: Antiquity
  • Artists and Their Regions: Ancient Egypt
  • The Hebrew Prophets (The Women's Institute of Houston; six Tuesdays at 1 p.m., beginning 10 September 2019)

Spring 2019 Courses and Lectures

  • The Human Situation: Modernity
  • Ancient Medicine
  • Lecture: "King Solomon in History and Tradition." Women's Institute of Houston, Sunday, February 10, 2019, 4:00–5:30 p.m.
  • Lecture: "Christians and Hebrew." Covenant Church, 4949 Caroline Street, Sunday, May 12, 10:00–11:00 a.m.
  • Lecture: "The Septuagint: Jewish Translation and Christian Old Testament." Covenant Church, 4949 Caroline Street, Sunday, May 19, 10:00–11:00 a.m.

Past courses

  • Artists and Their Regions: Ancient Egypt
  • The Bible's Primeval Story: Genesis 1–11 (The Women's Institute of Houston)
  • Houses of Worship in Ancient Israel (lecture series)
  • Ancient Kingdoms of Israel and Judah (The Women's Institute of Houston)
  • Law and Ethics in the Ancient Near East
  • Scribal Culture in the Ancient Near East
  • Scribal Culture: The History of Writing Across the Ages (Glasscock School of Continuing Studies)
  • Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs (The Women's Institute of Houston)
  • Politics and Archaeology of the Hebrew Bible
  • Readings in Medicine and Society: Ancient Medicine
  • Healing, Magic, and Divination in the Bible
  • Bible and Western Culture I: Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
  • The Land of the Bible
  • Intermediate Hebrew
  • Introduction to Syriac

Memories

Cultural events with students

Music and Art 2018–2019
  • Harold Lloyd film with Organ Accompaniment
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Music and Art 2017–2018
  • Rimsky-Korsakov/Tchaikovsky/Prokofiev (UH Symphony)
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Opera, Theater, and Ballet 2016-2017
  • ​The Crucible (UH)
  • Faust (HGO)
  • Nixon in China (HGO)
  • Verdi Requiem (HGO)
  • Animal Farm (UH)
  • Götterdämmerung (HGO)
  • Abduction from the Seraglio (HGO)
  • ​The Nutcracker (Mikhailovsky Theater, St. Petersburg)
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Operas and Art 2015-2016
  • ​Eugene Onegin (HGO)
  • Così fan tutte (UH)
  • Marriage of Figaro (HGO)
  • Siegfried (HGO)
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