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Reading Scripture Together: Who’s Calling?

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Reading Scripture Together: Who’s Calling?

The Hebrew Bible contains certain archetypal “type-scenes” – narratives which offer a predictable format (eg birth stories, women at the well betrothals, deathbed blessings, etc).

When one encounters such a type scene, much can be learned from seeing how it conforms – and doesn’t conform – to other similar narratives. In this day, we will read and explore together several “Call Story” type-scenes from the Hebrew Bible (Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Samuel, prophetic callings) to compare and contrast them with each other.

With that analysis in hand, we will then turn to the New Testament stories of Jesus’s and Paul’s callings to see how they draw upon – and differ – from their predecessors.

Reading Scripture Together
This series of conversational one-day courses (some onsite, some online) explores selected sacred texts in detail to consider the ways they have been interpreted, both in the written word and in art, and on their relevance and meaning to us today.

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Dates & Times

23 Oct 2025
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10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tutor(s)

Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Dr Jayme Reaves

Course code

2640

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This is an onsite course to be held at Sarum College. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments.

Free places are set aside for those eligible for Salisbury CMD

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Tutor(s)

Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand

Visiting Scholar, Bible and Sacred Texts

Jayme-Reaves

Dr Jayme Reaves

Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Theology

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