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Friday, April 26, 2024, 9:45 to 10:45 am: Keynote Speaker Presentation

Dr. LeAnn Snow-Flesher, Berkeley School of Theology – Berkeley, CA
The Anti-Christ Unmasked: Exploring Prophecy and Reality

For centuries shifting world events have been interpreted through the lens of biblical apocalyptic literature by particular branches of the global Christian community. In the US protestant preachers, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. So much so that apocalyptic thinking influences the American mainstream today. This session will strive to unpack the chaotic complexities of ‘The End,’ ‘Messiah’ and ‘Anti-Christ,’ then and now for both Christian and Jewish believers.

LeAnn Snow Flesher, Ph.D., is Vice President of Academic Affairs/Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Biblical Interpretation at Berkeley School of Theology, one of the founding member schools of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) where she also serves as a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty, in Berkeley, California. She is an ordained minister with the American Baptist Churches, USA, and spent 20 years working on a local church staff while teaching in the seminary. Dr. Flesher has taught internationally as visiting professor at theological institutes and seminaries in Costa Rica, Panama, Central Africa, NE India, and Korea. She is the author of Left Behind? Facts Behind the Fiction (Judson Press, 2006); Co-editor of Daughter Zion: Her Portrait, Her Response (Atlanta/London: Society of Biblical Literature/Brill, 2012); Co-editor of Why?. . .How Long? (London: Bloomsbury, 2012); and Editor of Review and Expositor, vol. 109, no. 3 (Summer, 2012) on “Prophetic Preaching,”; vol. 111, no. 2 (May 2014) on “Poverty in the US;” vol. 114, no. 3 (August 2017) on Public Theology; and vol. 115, no. 3 (August 2018) on “Reimagining the Body of Christ;” along with numerous articles, including: “Premillennial Dispensationalism: Its Origins,” Review and Expositor, vol. 106, no. 1 (Winter 2009), 21-34. “The Historical Development of Premillennial Dispensationalism,” Review and Expositor, vol. 106, no. 1 (Winter 2009), 35-45.