THE
YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL NEWSOURCE
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Academic Information
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Final Exam
Schedule
First
Semester, 2007-2008
Monday,
December 17
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9-12 noon |
Rel. 600 |
O.T. Interpretation (Sharp) |
Niebuhr Hall |
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Rel. 600 |
O.T. Interpretation (Sharp) |
Latourette S223 |
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Rel. 600 |
O.T. Interpretation (Sharp) |
Bushnell S200 |
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9-12 noon |
Rel. 728 |
Beginning Medieval Latin (Johnson) |
Wood Sem. Rm. S117 |
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Rel. 601 |
N.T. Interpretation (Hultin) |
Niebuhr Hall |
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Rel. 601 |
N.T. Interpretation (Hultin) |
Latourette S223 |
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Rel. 601 |
N.T. Interpretation (Hultin) |
Great Hall |
Tuesday, December 18
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9-12 noon |
Rel. 726 |
Systematic Theology (Volf) |
Niebuhr Hall |
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Rel. 726 |
Systematic Theology (Volf) |
Latourette S223 |
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Rel. 726 |
Systematic Theology (Volf) |
Bushnell S200 |
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Rel. 791 |
UCC Polity (Townsley) |
Bushnell S101 |
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Rel. 798 |
Anglican Theol/Hist II ECUSA/Anglican C |
Niebuhr Hall |
Wednesday, December 19
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Rel. 618 |
Intermediate Greek (Gundry-Volf) |
Broholm |
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Rel. 605 |
Elementary N.T. Greek (Brand) |
Broholm |
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Rel. 604 |
Elementary Hebrew (Hoffer) |
Wood Sem. Rm. S117 |
Thursday, December 20
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Rel. 720 |
History of Xn. Theol. To 451 (Martens) |
Niebuhr Hall |
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Rel. 674 |
Intermediate Hebrew (Hoffer) |
S212 |
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Rel. 676 |
Adv. Biblical Hebrew: Prose ( |
Library 104 |
Friday, December 21
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Rel. 782 |
Foundations of Xn. Worship (Spinks, Berger) |
Great Hall |
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Rel. 824 |
Theological Aesthetics (Hare) |
Niebuhr Hall |
Want to Compute in
Biblical Hebrew and Greek?
Come to a
BIBLICAL COMPUTING FAIR!
YDS Common Room
Thursday, December 6
4:00-5:00 pm
Mediterranean refreshments
- Get your computer (PC or MAC) set up for typing and printing reliably in Hebrew and/or Greek
- Test a new Biblical Computing Web Site hosted by the YDS Library
- Learn how to prepare your homework in Hebrew or Greek on your own computer
- Avoid a meltdown when it comes time to print out Hebrew or Greek quotations in a term paper.
- Learn more about other tools for the study and research of texts in Hebrew and Greek available through the Yale University Library.
- Meet other students, faculty and staff with experience and interests in biblical language computing
Come to a special event this Thursday to learn how to install unicode Greek
and/or Hebrew fonts, keyboards, and browser settings on your computer.
Bring your laptop and our experts* will install the fonts for you or walk you
through the process for home installation.
*Biblical Language Team: Matt Croasmun, Religious Studies Grad student
& CLS; Chris Stroup, MAR; Tim Garrison, ITS; Suzanne Estelle-Holmer,
Divinity Library
Sponsored by the YDS Library, the Yale Center for Language Study and YDS ITS.
For more information contact: Suzanne.Estelle-Holmer@yale.edu
From the Ministry Resource
Center: The
Ministry Resource Center can provide Advent/Christmas resources for worship and
dramas, activities for the congregation, AIDS and other social justice resources,
Middle East peace resources, church history and biblical review DVDs and
videos, and resources on everything congregations care about. Save time!
Come and see how we can be helpful!
Lectures and Events
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Christmas Present for YDS
Staff: Dear
Students, Each Christmas, we present a gift of money to the members of the
Divinity School custodial, dining hall, grounds, and security staff, as one way
of expressing our appreciation for the important service they offer to our
community each day. This gift of money
is based on your individual contributions and is presented to our colleagues on
the last day of work before the Christmas holiday. If you would like to contribute to the gift,
please make your donation in cash to me.
If it is necessary for you to write a check, you may do so (make it
payable to "Dale Peterson"), but a cash contribution is
preferred. You may hand your
contribution to me directly, or leave it for me at my office. We will collect contributions from Friday, November
30th through Friday, December 14th. This
expression of appreciation to these friends and colleagues is an enduring and
heartfelt tradition of the
January Conference on
Violence and Religion: The Trinity Institute will be running a three day conference
called “Religion and Violence” featuring Katherine Jefferts Schori, James H.
Cone, Susannah Heschel, James Carroll, and Tariq Ramadan. The conference will run from January
21-23. For more information, visit www.trinitywallstreet.org/institute.
Mark Cutolo’s Ordination: You are all especially
welcome and invited to attend my ordination as a deacon which shall take place
on the Saturday before Christmas, also the first day of winter. Your prayers and presence are most welcome! Where: St. John's-Grace Episcopal Church,
Travel to
Showing of Call Me Malcolm: The entire YDS community is
invited to join the Coalition in celebrating Trans Awareness Week at Yale from
December 1-6. In particular, the Coalition will be hosting a showing of the
movie: Call Me Malcolm, Monday 12/3
at 7pm, Niebuhr Hall. Snacks provided! Call Me
Malcolm is a documentary feature about a transgender seminary student, and
his struggle with faith, love, and gender identity. For more information, see www.callmemalcolm.com.
A brief discussion will follow the film.
The
Yale World Fellows Program presents The
Plays of Huzir Sulaiman, December 2nd and 3rd at 8:00pm, Nick Chapel
Theater,
OMSC Christmas Reception: Come to the Overseas
Ministries Study Center for the Christmas party on Wednesday, December 12,
2007, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Held at OMSC, 490 Prospect Street, New Haven.
Christmas music will be provided by the residents' choir. Directions: www.omsc.org/directions.html
or (203) 624-6672.
ONE, the Movie: Come see it on Friday, December 7th in Niebuhr
Hall at 7:15 pm. Free and open to the
public, followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.
Reimbursement for AAR/SBL: Hi Fellow Students! I just want to clarify how the forms work to
get reimbursed from the GPSS for AAR/SBL.
There are two forms on the website. (http://www.yale.edu/gpss/Funding/PDTF.html). The first is the Professional Development
Travel Fund (PDTF) form for upcoming conferences. That deadline was, unfortunately, November
15th. The second form is the PDTF
reimbursement form. This form is to
reimburse you if you missed the deadline or did not receive enough money from
GPSS the first time, or if your school did not provide you with enough funding. Since I did not get this information to you
in time to have you fill out the PDTF form for upcoming conferences, please
fill out the form for to be reimbursed.
I apologize sincerely for this delay.
These forms are due 30 days after the conference, which I estimated to
be December 15th. –Christina Groves
The
Yale University School of Nursing is pleased to be hosting the 4th Annual East Coast Nursing Consortium
Career Days program from 11:00 am–2:00 pm on December 7, 2007. We hope your students can come to the Yale
University School of Nursing that day to network with local and national health
care organizations and educational institutions as they recruit talented
individuals in the
Celebrate Medievalist Publications! December 3rd at 5.30PM. Labyrinth Books. Please join us for a celebration of two new
publications from medievalists in Yale's English Department. We will be
celebrating the publication of Jessica Brantley's Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in
Late Medieval England and Alastair Minnis's Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath. Both are just out this month. For
more information about the books, please visit http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/events_detail.aspx?evtid=277. To
RSVP or ask questions call 203.787.2848.
The
Lutheran Student Organization, in cooperation with
Christmas Trees for
-Rachel
Signed Books for Christmas: Dear Friends, It's that time
of year again! Please keep in mind Monuments and Churches for all those beloved hard-to-buy-fors on your Christmas
list. I'm happy to inscribe copies of
the books, available in the YDS Bookstore but am at school on Mondays and
Wednesdays only, so plan ahead! Uncle
Fred and Auntie Twinkle will thank you! Many
thanks, Judith Dupré
Call for Submissions from Maroon, the African-American Studies
Journal at Yale: Founded
and edited by
Decorating YDS for
Christmas: Christmas
season is upon us, and the festivities are beginning... Come to the Common Room on December
7th for a tree trimming-themed Friday Fellowship. Our own Dale Peterson will be hanging the
ceremonial first ornament. Come for eggnog,
Christmas cookies, holiday music, and ornament making. Because you are never too old to make bells
out of egg cartons (but you may be too old to give them to your mom as a
Christmas present). Stay after the Advent service on December
11 for the Advent party. Students,
families, faculty, and staff are all welcome.
There will be food, drinks, children's activities (Santa might even show
up), and holiday merriment. Semi-formal attire is requested (and
gives your friends the chance to show how well you clean up). Also,
we are still looking for volunteers for the Advent Party! Set-up, clean-up,
decorations, bartending, children's activities, and publicity committees are
forming. Please email caroline.levy@yale.edu or brandon.johnson@yale.edu if you are
interested.
Sphere Seeking Submissions:
Information on Winter
Intramurals: If
you are interested in playing winter intramural athletics for the divinity
school please read on! The winter season
begins in January (after the winter break).
The sports will include basketball and volleyball. There will be a co-ed recreational league for
those who are out to have fun. There
will also be a competitive league for those with previous playing experience
and are looking for some competition. Volleyball
games are played on Saturday or Sunday. Basketball games are played on Sunday. Starting this Friday there will be open gym
at Payne Whitney for those interested in playing some pick-up basketball. Games usually are played in the big gym on
the bottom floor (passed the crew tanks).
These games are played with and against other folks from all around the
Yale community and tend to be pretty fast paced. Meet on the courts around 3:30 if you are
interested. Please email bethany.davidson@yale.edu if you
want your name added to an email list for either volleyball or basketball. Please specify which sport (volleyball or
basketball) and which league (competitive or co-rec) you are interested in. Email me for more information. Thanks,
Classifieds
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Needed/Lost and Found:
Lost Keys: Our friend Jan Fournier has
had her keys take a walk. If you find a set, please return them to security!
A Threat from Micah! If you want to avoid Mug Madness, please
read! Hello. I hope you are doing well. I am.
My name is Micah. I'm the manager
at Holy Grounds. Our mugs are disappearing. If you have them somewhere (home, your car,
hidden outside on the quad), please return them immediately. We are currently running at approximately
43.63% of our original mug supply. We
MUST get these back this week for taking inventory. If you do not return them, I'll push the
"all mugs self-destruct" button.
That would be bad for your (home, car, secret area on the quad). Trust me.
Micah
Seeking Pick-up Truck: I'm seeking to rent a pick-up truck for a short period
of time. I just need to move a table a
short distance, and I could run this errand and have the truck back to you in
under an hour. Would gladly pay $25 for
the use of the truck. If interested, please e-mail jeremy.hultin@yale.edu.
For
Phones for
Television for
Housing:
Available Apartment: One bedroom. Lease available. Rent $950 month. Available January 1, 2008.
Shared Housing Needed: Hi, my name is Chris
Schweitzer. I'm looking for shared housing starting Jan 1, 2008 or thereabouts. I am interested in living with people
interested in exploring some form of community. Having some friends from the
Worship Opportunities
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Advent Lessons and Carols at
Advent Lessons and Carols at
the
Noonday Prayer in Nouwen
Chapel: As
you negotiate the demands and opportunities of the academic season, the
liturgical season, and all else in your busy life, you are invited to take
advantage of Quiet Prayer Time daily from 12:00 noon to 12:50 p.m. in the
Nouwen Chapel. Come away for a little while, once a week or every day. Rest in
the peace and silence of that beautiful chapel. Be still and know that you are
a beloved child of God. Find new energy and focus for the things to which God
is calling you. Quiet Prayer Time is a completely unstructured time of silence
and prayer sponsored by the Committee for Spiritual Formation and the Practice
of Faith. It will continue daily through the end of the spring semester. Come
and find rest for your soul!
Morning Prayer
Another Morning Prayer
This Week in Marquand
Monday: A Service in Honor of World
AIDS Day
Tuesday: Prayers for Peace in a Time
of War.
Wednesday: Sung Morning Prayer: Many
Are the Tongues We Speak
Thursday: Klezmer Worship, during
Hanukah
Friday: Community Eucharist, with
Carolyn Sharp, Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, preaching, and Dale
Peterson, Associate Dean of Students presiding,
10:30am.
All are Welcome!