Holy Moses: An appreciation of Genesis and Exodus as literature and theology

This year's Distinguished Humanities Lecturer will be Marilynne Robinson. 

She will offer three linked lectures on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, November 13, 14, and 15, at 4:30 p.m. in the Umrath Lounge.

November 13, 4:30 p.m.: Moses and the Ethos of Scriptural Narrative

November 14, 4:30 p.m.: Jacob

November 15, 4:30 p.m.: Joseph and His Brothers

Marilynne Robinson was the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for “her grace and intelligence in writing.” In 2016 she was awarded the Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award in American Fiction, as well as the Dayton Peace Prize’s Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2013, she was awarded South Korea’s Pak Kyong-ni Prize for her contribution to international literature. She is the author of Lila, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Robinson’s nonfiction books include the recently released What Are We Doing Here?, The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country, which was nominated for a National Book Award.  Robinson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa, taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for twenty-five years.