George Nickelsburg

In the 2008-2009 school year world renowned scholar George Nickelsburg visited the campus of TWU.

On March 18 Dr. Nickelsburg gave a public lecture "Were the Jews Expecting a Messiah?". On the following day Dr. Nickelsbure gave two lectures for the students of the MBIB program, and interacted with, and answered questions from the students.

George W.E. Nickelsburg is an internationally known specialist in the field of early Judaism and the origins of Christianity. He is a graduate of Valparaiso University and earned his Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School in 1968. Nickelsburg is Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, where he taught New Testament studies and early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies for thirty-one years. Prior, he was pastor of a Lutheran Church in Akron, Ohio for three years.

Dr. Nickelsburg has written seven books among them Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah, Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins, and 1 Enoch: A Commentary on the Book of First Enoch, over 90 articles for scholarly books and journals, 200 entries for dictionaries and encyclopedias, and edited seven other books. He has been on the editorial board of the journal Dead Sea Discoveries since its inception in 1994. Also, he has served on the editorial board of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly for eight years and was an editor of The Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period and the Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity.