MU to host 41st Annual Institute on Sacred Scripture

MU will host the 41st annual Institute on Sacred Scripture on July 26-31. The institute offers clergy and lay people from around the world the opportunity to study Scripture under the leadership of the top Biblical scholars in the country.

The institute’s executive director, Dr. Marie Noël Keller, RSM, Th.D., has served as the institute director for the past 29 years. Over that time, she has worked to “make the text live” by inviting the most respected names in Scripture study including Biblical scholars from prestigious institutions like Harvard, Yale and Georgetown universities. The institute is ecumenical in orientation, and covers the text and context of the Bible and surrounding literature. It attracts participants and presenters from Canada, Europe, Australia and the Middle East.

The scheduled presenters are: Dr. Mary Coloe, P.B.V.M., a Presentation Sister lecturing in Scripture at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia. She has taught the Gospel of John as a summer school course at Boston College and has served as a visiting scholar at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif. Dr. Coloe is the author of two books on the Gospel of John: “God Dwells with Us: Temple Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel” (2001) and “Dwelling in the Household of God: Johannine Ecclesiology and Spirituality” (2007.)

Dr. Barbara Green, O.P., a professor of Biblical Studies at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. Her area of study includes ancient biblical narrative. She has published stories on Jonah, Ruth, King Saul and Joseph. Her most recent book, “Mindful,” is a fictional novel that reflects on how Scripture works and tells the story of how eight families return from exile in Babylon to the land of their ancestors.

Dr. Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D., is a member of the California Province of the Society of Jesus and is the director of Biblical education at the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, Calif. He holds his doctorate in New Testament studies from Yale University and has taught at Loyola Marymount University, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Santa Clara. He continues to teach courses at Loyola Marymount University extension and through the Ecclesia program at Mount St. Mary’s College.

To register, please contact Thea Kahn, Center for Adult and Continuing Education, at (570) 674-6161 or e-mail at

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