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Dr. Mark Schuler

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Fellowship Announcement

I am pleased to announce that I have been appointed as an associate fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem for 2022-2023.

My project is titled the Archaeology and History of Christianity at Hippos. Specifically, I will be testing and refining a method proposed by Bernard Mulholland for assessing the architectural design of and changes to Late Antique church structures and then applying that model to the excavated structures at Hippos. This work expands on the article I wrote for Michmanim (27:18-28).

In addition, I will use time in Israel to meet with colleagues from the Hippos Excavation to plan a book-length project on archaeological, liturgical and regional information from the Late Antique period at Hippos and its implications for the history of Christianity at the site.  

Specific details are still being arranged.

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Matthew and Martin

Celebrating St. Matthew and the 500th anniversary of the “September Testament” with friends at the Lutheran Diaconal Association, Valparaiso, IN.

Materia Medica at ARAM

Materia Medica

 

At the end of July, I participated in the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies fifty First International Conference on The Decapolis: History & Archaeology at the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford. My paper, co-authored with Patrick Scott Geyer (University of San Diego), was “The materia medica of monastic health care at Hippos Palaistinēs.” Publication is anticipated by next summer.

A corollary benefit was to see so many colleagues from Hippos who also presented.

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A day of change

Today it ends… After 28 years at Concordia, I am retiring. I leave for my exit interview shortly.

Today it begins… People call it a new chapter (a final chapter?). I approach it with a degree of uncertainty and ambivalence. I have projects lined up, travel anticipated. But it is a change, and I am Lutheran.

As Jubilate sang at my retirement event (and at my request), “No time to tarry here. I am on my journey home.”

With confidence in Christ and loving support from Rhoda, here we go.

 

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