 July 29–August 8, 2009
One of the pivotal figures in early Christianity, Saul of Tarsus, later called St. Paul, authored one of the greatest sea sagas of the ancient world. Spreading the gospel through much of the Mediterranean by a combination of faith, fortune (both good and bad), soaring oratory, and guile, his stories and teachings form much of the canonical New Testament. On this voyage aboard the all-suite, 114-guest Corinthian II, we will follow in the footsteps of St. Paul and learn about the culture of the Mediterranean and the first flowering of Christianity. Highlights include the rock in Athens, where St. Paul preached his sermon on “the Unknown God,” and visits to Thessaloniki and Philippi, where we enter churches and basilicas that are among Christianity’s earliest existing monuments; Ephesus, where we explore the very amphitheatre where St. Paul spoke; and Rhodes, where St. Paul was famously shipwrecked.
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 Host: Gregory E. Sterling
Greg Sterling is the dean of Notre Dame's Graduate School. A professor of New Testament and Christian origins, Sterling joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1989. He earned his doctorate in New Testament studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, two master’s degrees in Classics and religion from the University of California, Davis, and Pepperdine University, respectively, and a bachelor’s degree in Christianity and history from Houston Baptist University. Sterling's areas of interest are the ways in which Second Temple Jews and early Christians interacted with one another and with the Greco-Roman world. He has concentrated on three major corpora: the writings of Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, and Luke-Acts. His work on Historiography and Self-Definition (1992) addressed how Josephus and Luke-Acts responded to the larger world. He has a forthcoming anthology of prayers from the Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian worlds that he co-authored. He is currently at work on a book entitled The Jewish Plato that explores the importance of Philo of Alexandria as a witness to Jewish traditions that helped to shape early Christian thought. Sterling has written more than forty articles in peer-reviewed journals or solicited books. He has edited or co-edited Hellenism in the Land of Israel and The Ancestral Philosophy. He is the co-editor of The Studia Philonica Annual, the general editor of The Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series, and the general editor of the Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series.
SPECIAL SAVINGS - 2 for 1 rate - An unprecedented offer!
$$$ Now from $3,995 per person, double occupancy
Category E - $3,995
Category D - $4,495
Category C - $4,995
Category B - $5,495
Category A - $5,995
Category AA - $6,495
Category VS - $6,995
Category PHS - $7,495
Single Supplement: A limited number of cabins have been designated for single travelers in Categories D-A at a supplement of $1,995 to the per person, double occupancy rates. Singles in Categories AA-PHS are available at the double per person, double occupancy rates.
Activity level: Leisure—but with some uneven terrain at sites of antiquities
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