Steed Davidson, new Associate Professor of Old Testament, to present Zenos Lecture

03-17-2015

McCormick welcomes Steed Davidson, new Associate Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, as the Zenos Lecturer for 2015. He will speak on "Empires of Violence, Cities of Peace" Monday, March 23, at 10:30 a.m. in the Common Room at McCormick Theological Seminary.

Davidson's lecture will be paired with the 2015 Robert Brawley Lecture in Gospel Studies, delivered by Willard Swartley, Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Dr. Swarley will speak on "Do We Know the Things that Make for Peace in the City?" at 1 p.m.

Both lectures focus on the biblical dimensions of McCormick’s first annual theme, Peacemaking in the City: A Faithful Response to Urban Violence. 

Steed Davidson will join McCormick’s faculty this fall. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. He is the author of Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of Selected Texts of the Book of Jeremiah and a co-editor of Islands, Islanders and the Bible: RumiNations. 

Steed received a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York, an S.T.M. from Boston University, an M.A. from the University of the West Indies, a Diploma of Ministerial Studies from the United Theological College of the West Indies, and a B.A. from the University of the West Indies. Steed is on the Editorial Board of Black Theology: An International Journal, is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, and is a Clergy Member of the NY Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.