Featuring photos and videos from D.C.’s new $500 million museum dedicated to the Bible, this talk provides analysis of the controversies the Museum of the Bible has spawned in the national press and in the field of biblical studies.

Jill Hicks-Keeton is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2018) and numerous academic articles. She co-edited The Ways that Often Parted (SBL Press, 2018) and has written for the online journals Religion & Politics and Ancient Jew Review. Hicks-Keeton is a 2018 recipient of the Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar Award and is currently serving as a Humanities Forum Fellow and a Risser Innovative Teaching Fellow at OU. She is now working on a book entitled Who Owns the Bible? (under contract with Cambridge University Press) that analyzes the recently-opened Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Follow her on Twitter @JillHicksKeeton.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies.