TANTUR FACULTY
 Greg Sterling, Notre Dame Faculty Director for this program, is Dean of the University’s Graduate School and Professor, Department of Theology. A professor of New Testament and Christian origins, Greg joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1989. He earned his doctorate in New Testament studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., 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.
Greg is the author of “Historiography and Self-Definition,” which addresses how Josephus and Luke-Acts responded to the larger world, “Armenian Paradigms,” “Coptic Paradigms,” and he is completing “Prayers from the Ancient World.” He is the editor or co-editor of “Hellenism in the Land of Israel,” “The Ancestral Philosophy: Hellenistic Philosophy in Greek-Speaking Judaism,” and “Sapiential Perspectives: Wisdom Literature in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls.” He is the author of more than 40 scholarly articles and essays and serves as the co-editor of an annual, the editor of two major series of books, and is a member of the editorial board of a major series on the New Testament in Germany.
Sterling is a minister in the Church of Christ and has served since 1993 on a part-time basis at the Warsaw Church of Christ in Warsaw, Indiana.
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 Rev. Michael McGarry, C.S.P. is the Rector of Tantur. As a Paulist priest, his ministries have included campus ministry and university New Testament teaching (University of Texas, Austin), downtown ministry (Boston), rector of St. Paul’s College (the Paulist Fathers’ seminary, Washington, DC), and, most recently, pastor of Newman Hall, the Catholic parish for the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on Christian-Jewish relations (including Christology after Auschwitz and, with Yehezkel Landau, Pope John Paul II in the Holy Land) and serves on the Latin Patriarch’s Commission on Relations with the Jewish People.
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Allan Rabinowitz has been a licensed tour and educational guide in Israel for twenty years. Allan has guided for the Hebrew University, the Jerusalem Municipality, the Tantur Institute, the British Council of Christians and Jews and many other organizations. He lectures widely on Israel in the US. He earned a B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, and studied at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He has published fiction and non-fiction in various magazines and, for a number of years, he wrote a regular travel column for the Jerusalem Post.
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 Sister Bridget Tighe, F.M.D.M., Vice-Rector of Tantur since May 2006, is a member of an international Franciscan Missionary congregation. Her previous ministries include medical/social work with Palestinian refugees in Jordan, nursing posts in Ireland and the UK, and consultant to an HIV/AIDS centre in Lusaka, Zambia. More recently, she was Founding Principal of the Margaret Beaufort Institute, the Catholic House of the Cambridge Theological Federation that comprises Methodist, Orthodox, United Reformed, and Anglican colleges, associated with the University of Cambridge. She was a member of the British Methodist/Roman Catholic Committee and has lectured on Saint Francis of Assisi and Islam.
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 Tom Dowd (ND ’71), Program Director, designs, develops, and delivers high-content open-enrollment, noncredit international programs for the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business.
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Last updated on
August 21, 2008
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