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b'***Celene Lillie and Arthur Dewey will be at Southminster Presbyterian Church\\n for a\\xa0Jesus Seminar on the Road, November 10-11, 2017.***\\n\\nThe Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945 has provided a number of alternative Christian texts. \\xa0 They were not included in the Bible. They have been dismissed by many orthodox Christians as Gnostic or even heresy. \\xa0Yet new scholarship is discovering the complexity of these texts and the value they have for many today.\\n\\nDr. Celene Lillie discusses three of these texts in her book,\\xa0The Rape of Eve: \\xa0The Transformation of Roman ideology in Three Early Christian Retellings of Genesis. In each of these texts, \\u201cOn the Origin of the World,\\u201d \\u201cThe Reality of the Rulers,\\u201d and \\u201cThe Secret Revelation of John,\\u201d Eve is portrayed as having been humiliated by the cosmic powers but experiences restoration. \\xa0She sees these Nag Hammadi stories as affirmation of women\\u2019s value and wisdom and as myths of resistance to Roman imperial power and to Rome\\u2019s culture of rape and domination.\\n\\nCelene Lillie (Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary) is the Director of the recently established\\xa0Tanho Center\\xa0and on the pastoral and adult education staff at First United Methodist Church in Boulder, Colorado. She has collaborated on and coordinated many different research projects, most recently as Director of Translations for\\xa0A New New Testament\\xa0edited by Hal Taussig (2013). She is the author of\\xa0The Rape of Eve: The Transformation of Roman Ideology in Three Early Christian Retellings of Genesis\\xa0(2017) and the co-author of\\xa0The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation\\xa0(2010). Her research interests include gender, violence, and trauma in early Jesus/Christian literatures ranging from the New Testament to Nag Hammadi.\\n\\n**This is an encore presentation of an episode originally released in June 2017**'