Two Events
with Dr. R. Steven Notley!
Saturday, February 21 @ 4:00 p.m.
Location: All Saints Episcopal Church, Palo Alto
Sunday, February 22 @ 4:45 p.m.
Spark Church, Palo Alto
Based upon decades of study on the cultural and rabbinic context of the Gospels, Dr. Steven Notley will reveal fresh insights into Luke 4 and Jesus’ public pronouncement of his ministry at his hometown synagogue in Nazareth. Jesus' message of mercy marks the entire Gospel of Luke though it did not find a home in every hearing heart. Join us as we seek to hear Jesus’ call and embrace mercy, especially during these difficult days.
Dr. R. Steven Notley
Dr. R. Steven Notley is Professor and Dean of Religious Studies at Pillar College, Newark, New Jersey. He is also a Senior Leon Charney Fellow, Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, and a member of the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology, Kinneret College, Israel. Formerly, he was Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins on the New York City campus of Nyack College (2001-2023) and director of the graduate programs in Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins.
Dr. Notley received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University, where he studied with David Flusser. Dr. Notley lived sixteen years in Jerusalem with his wife and four children, during which time he was the founding chair of the New Testament Studies program at the Jerusalem University College. He has been directing groups of students and laypeople to Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean region for 30 years.
He is the author of many books and articles. He continues collaborative research and publication
with Israeli scholars in the fields of historical geography, ancient Judaism and Christian origins. Among his list of publications, he collaborated with Flusser on the historical biography, The Sage from Galilee: Rediscovering Jesus’ Genius (Eerdmans 2007); with Anson Rainey (Tel Aviv University) the monumental biblical atlas, The Sacred Bridge: Carta’s Atlas of the Biblical World (Carta Publishing 2005); with Ze’ev Safrai (Bar Ilan University) an annotated translation of Eusebius’ important description of Roman Palestine, Eusebius, Onomasticon: A Triglott Edition with Notes and Commentary (Brill 2005). He rejoined Safrai for their second work, a pioneering collection and translation of the earliest rabbinic parables that provide the literary and religious context for the parables of Jesus, The Parables of the Sages (Carta 2011). Since 2016 he has served as the Academic Director of the El Araj Excavation Project in its search for first-century Bethsaida-Julias, the lost city of the Apostles.
