Please join us for a presentation by

Shawna Dolanksy

To celebrate the launch of her new book

The Bible Now

co-authored with Richard Elliott Friedman

Sunday, September 18, 2011, 1:00-3:00 pm

Soloway Jewish Community Centre, 21 Nadolny Sachs Private

Professor Dolansky earned a B.A. in History from Queen’s University, and went on to graduate school at the University of California San Diego where she received a M.A. in Jewish Studies and a Ph.D. in the history of biblical Israel. After a post-doctoral fellowship with the University of California, Dolansky was Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in Boston before returning to her native Ottawa. She is currently an Adjunct Lecturer and Research Fellow at the College of the Humanities at Carleton University, and is currently serving a second term as Regional Coordinator for the New England and Eastern Canada Region of the Society for Biblical Literature.

Prof. Dolansky will be speaking about her book and copies will be available for sale and signing. Dr. Aviva Freedman will be introducing her. Refreshments will follow.

All are welcome. For more information, please contact Roslyn Wollock (613) 798-9818.

This event is sponsored by the Soloway Jewish Community Centre, the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, and Oxford University Press.