Jesse Rainbow
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Summer 2020 Community Lectures

  • UPDATE: "How We Got the Alphabet." Live webinar hosted by the Women's Institute of Lecture, July 21, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. Register at www.wih.org.
  • UPDATE: "The Languages of the Bible." Live webinar hosted by the Women's Institute of Lecture, August 4, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. Register at www.wih.org.
  • "Bible Time Line." Sunday, April 5, 2020, 6:15–8:00 p.m., Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Avenue in Houston. My lecture will be part of a series of presentations on approaches to the Bible. (Cancelled or postponed due to coronavirus)

Past courses and lectures

  •  Lecture: "The Walled City of Jerusalem." February 12, 2020, 6 p.m., M.D. Anderson Library, Rockwell Pavilion
  • 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.
  • The Hebrew Prophets (The Women's Institute of Houston)
  • 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

Museums 2019–2020
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • Houston Museum of Natural History
  • The Tempest (UHCL)
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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