University of California, Berkeley

The Thomistic Institute at the University of California, Berkeley presents a lecture by Prof. Nina Heereman of St. Patrick’s Seminary titled “Finding Consolation in the Book of Revelation.”

Friday, March 11

Wheeler Hall Room 102

7:00 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Heereman was born and raised in a devout Catholic family in Germany.  Originally trained as a lawyer, Dr. Heereman experienced a deep conversion experience at the 1997 World Youth Day.  This conversion led her to discern a vocation as a lay woman “celibate for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” and also led her to theological studies so as to “consecrate [her] life to the study and teaching of the Word of God”.  

She received an STB from the Pontifical Gregorian University, an SSL from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and the very rare SSD from the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem and the Université de Fribourg.  Her doctoral thesis “Behold King Solomon on the Day of His Wedding”: A Symbolic-Diachronic Reading of Song 3:6-11 and 4:12-5:1 has been heralded by scholars as a profound contribution to scholarship on the Song of Songs.  

Dr. Heereman is presently an Assistant Professor of Sacred Scripture at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, CA.