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Coming, Wednesday, May 27, “Psalm 91: A Biblical Response to Pandemics” with Dr. Matthias Henze.

Our psalms express confidence that God will protect the righteous from plagues, demons, and wild animals, while allowing the wicked to perish. How are we to understand such language, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Dr. Matthias Henze is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at Rice University. In 2009 he founded Rice’s Program in Jewish Studies, of which he continues to serve as director. Dr. Henze has written and edited ten books.

While at Rice he has won five teaching/mentoring awards, and was named a founding fellow of Rice’s Center for Teaching Excellence.

His areas of interest include the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Jewish literature and thought at the time of the Second Temple, apocalyptic literature, and the Qumran fragments.