Biblical scholar and archeologist Dr. Carol Meyers will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26 in the ballroom of the Brown-Lupton University Union on the TCU campus. She is guest of honor for the 13th annual Gates of Chai Lectureship in Contemporary Judaism, sponsored by Brite Divinity School. Topic of her remarks will be “Holy Land Archaeology: Past Meets Present.”

 

Dr. Meyers has blended her expertise in both fields to become a researcher, author and sought-after expert on the land of ancient Israel. She has authored, co-authored or edited 17 books, including the landmark Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, published in 1988 by Oxford University Press.

 

Dr. Meyers is often a consultant on film and broadcast projects focused on the biblical world, including NOVA's The Bible's Buried Secrets, DreamWorks' Prince of Egypt, WNET-TV's Civilization and the Jews, NBC-TV's The Human Animal series, a National Geographic Discovery documentary on the history of Jews and Judaism, and many segments of the A&E Mysteries of the Bible and Biography series.

 

Tickets are $20 for general admission and reserved parking or $75 for reserved seats, a pre-event reception and priority parking. Students are admitted free. Order tickets online at www.brite.tcu.edu or phone 817-257-5976.

 

The Gates of Chai Lectureship is designed to promote informed, dynamic public dialogue and education on issues of relevance to contemporary Judaism. The lectureship is sponsored through the generosity of Gates of Chai, Inc., in memory of Larry Kornbleet and family members of Stanley and Marcia Kornbleet Kurtz who perished in the Holocaust.

 

Previous Gates of Chai speakers include Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel, legal/political activists Morris Dees and Susan Estrich, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Middle Eastern policy expert Dennis Ross and authors Thomas Cahill, Chaim Potok and Bruce Feiler.