Perkins symposium honors scholar

Attridge of Yale Divinity School on the occasion of his receiving the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa from Southern Methodist University during the May 2009 Commencement ceremonies.

The symposium, on the theme “The Bible in American Public Life,” will be May 15 from 10:00 a.m.to 12:00 p.m., in Perkins Chapel. It will feature brief presentations by four SMU faculty members who will address different aspects of that theme—Professor Mark
Chancey, chair of the Department of Religious Studies in Dedman College, and Professors Jaime Clark-Soles, Roy L. Heller, and Susanne Scholz of the Perkins faculty—followed by a response by Dr. Attridge.

Dr. Attridge taught New Testament at Perkins School of Theology from 1977 to 1985. He came to Perkins from Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975 and served as a Junior Fellow from 1974 to 1977. In 1997 he joined the faculty at Yale, where he serves as the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament as well as Dean of the Divinity School.

The SMU community and the public are cordially invited to these events.