Marcie Lenk
145 Bay State Road, Suite 401
Boston, MA 02215
T: 617.353.3088; F: 617.358.3807
E: mlenk@bu.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mon 10:00AM-12:00PM, Thurs 4:00PM-5:00PM

Marcie Lenk is a Visiting Instructor in Boston University’s Department of Religion.A doctoral candidate in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism at Harvard University, she has many years of experience teaching Early Christian texts as well as Jewish Studies. Her dissertation, The Relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the Apostolic Constitutions, due to be completed by June 2010, examines the ways that author of the 4th century Apostolic Constitutions uses Jewish texts and practices to define what he believed to be proper Christian behavior and attitudes.More broadly, the dissertation examines the relationship between Jews and Christians in 4th century Syria.Marcie has taught courses in Bible, Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity at Hebrew College in Boston and City College in New York.Living in Israel for 12 years, she taught at Jewish seminaries (Midreshet Lindenbaum and Pardes Institute) and Christian seminaries (Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Ecce Homo and the Swedish Theological Institute) in Jerusalem. Marcie has an MTS from Harvard Divinity School , as well as an MS in Bible and a BA in Judaic Studies and Mathematics from Yeshiva University.

Complete CV

Courses:

CAS RN101 The Bible
CAS RN212 Christianity
CAS RN301601 Varieties of Early Christianity
CAS RN302/602 Early Christian Women
CAS RN319/619 Midrash: Classical Rabbinic Biblical Interpretation
CAS RN390 New Testament Literature