Faculty

	Associate Professor of Religion Ph.D., Yale University, Religious Studies, 1983 M.Phil., Yale University, Religious Studies, 1980 M.A., Yale University, Religious Studies, 1976 M.A., Columbia University, Religion, 1975 B.A., Barnard College, Religion, 1973 Office: Gest 202 Phone: 610 896-1028 Email: amcguire@haverford.edu
Courses offered in 2007-2008 Religion 122a, Introduction to the New Testament Religion 221a, Women and Gender in Early Christianity Religion 222b, Gnosticism Religion 343b, Seminar: Re-Imagining Mary Magdalene: Disciple, Witness, Icon My research and teaching are concerned primarily with the analysis and interpretation of early Christian and Gnostic literature, especially the writings of the Nag Hammadi library, discovered in Egypt in 1945. Although the majority of Nag Hammadi texts were originally composed in Greek between the second and third centuries C.E., they survive only in the fourth-century Coptic versions discovered at Nag Hammadi. For an overview of my interest in this material, read the "Faculty Profile" published in the Haverford Alumni Magazine. My publications include studies of several Nag Hammadi texts, such as The Gospel of Truth, The Hypostasis of the Archons, and Thunder, Perfect Mind. Click here for my translation of and notes to Thunder, Perfect Mind. For a partial bibliography, click here. In 1997, I co-edited The Nag Hammadi Library After Fifty Years: Proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration, edited by John D. Turner and Anne McGuire, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 44, Leiden & New York: E. J. Brill, 1997. This volume includes papers presented in a conference I organized and hosted at Haverford College and at the Society of Biblical Literature's Annual Meeting in Philadelphia in 1995 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library. From 1997 to 2005, I served as Chair of the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. My current research focuses on the relation between religious conceptions of gnosis (knowledge) and gender imagery in selected Nag Hammadi texts, including The Gospel of Thomas, The Hypostasis of the Archons, The Gospel of Philip, and Thunder, Perfect Mind. My current research and course projects also include a study of religious and artistic representations of Mary Magdalene, as well as a course on Images of Jesus, supported by a Teaching with Technology grant. In 2007 I was selected by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council to serve as a Commonwealth Speaker for 2008-09 on the topic "Re-Imagining Mary Magdalene: Female Witness, Disciple, Icon." Please contact the Pennsylvania Humanities Council for more information about speaking engagements in 2008-09.
Courses Taught Religion 122, Introduction to the New Testament Religion 101, Introduction to Religion Religion 215b, The Letters of Paul Religion 216b, Images of Jesus Religion 221b, Women and Gender in Early Christianity Religion 222a, Gnosticism Religion 209b, Antisemitism and the Christian Tradition Religion 301a, Seminar: Images of Mary Magdalene Religion 343, Seminar: Interpeting the Gospels Religion 343, Seminar: Interpretations of Genesis 1-3 This page maintained by Anne McGuire; last updated November 25, 2007		Committee Memberships and Service to Haverford College Committee Memberships, 2007-2008: Co-Chair, Diversity Initiatives Group Administrative Advisory Committee College Planning Committee Presidential Inauguration Committee Committee Memberships, 2006-2007: Presidential Search Committee (Humanities Representative) Member, Ad Hoc Search in Religion Previous Service Chair, Ad Hoc Search in Classics, 2006 Humanities Representative, Academic Council Clerk of the Faculty Chair, Dept. of Religion Member, Educational Policy Committee Member, Humanities Center Steering Committee Coordinator, Concentration in Feminist and Gender Studies Chair, Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section, Society of Biblical Literature

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