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Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 7:00pm | 13th Annual Herbener Lecture

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Associate Professor of Sacred Music
Perkins School of Theology and Meadows School of the Arts, SMU

The 13th Annual Herbener Lecture:

Johann Sebastian Bach Reads the Bible: Insights from the Calov Bible Facsimile at Bridwell Library

Guest Lecturer: Dr. Christopher S. Anderson

Discover the Faith Behind the Music

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) shaped the soul of Western music—and the heart of Lutheran worship. But what did Bach believe? What can we learn from the pages of the Bible he personally marked and studied? Join us as Dr. Christopher S. Anderson unveils insights from Bach’s own annotated copy of Abraham Calovius’ three-volume Bible commentary, revealing how Scripture informed the composer’s mind and music. A 2017 facsimile of Bach’s Bible, housed in Bridwell Library/SMU, will be on display to bring this remarkable story to life.

October 30, 2025 – 7:00 pm

Lecture followed by question and answers

First United Lutheran Church
6202 E Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, TX 75214

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Rev. Khader N. El-Yateem

Guest Lecturer:  Dr. Christopher S. Anderson

Dr. Christian S. Anderson is a scholar and organist with particular interests in early musical modernism, German history and philosophy, the organ’s position in Western culture, and the composer Max Reger. He is Associate Professor of Sacred Music at Southern Methodist University, Dallas (TX), where he teaches courses in history and analysis in the Perkins School of Theology and the Meadows School of the Arts. He has taught adjunctively at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester (NY), and chairs the Publications Advisory Committee for the Organ Historical Society’s publishing program. Christopher Anderson holds the PhD in Performance Practices from Duke University.

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“The Jews of Luthertown Wittenberg”

Available for loan – A multi-paneled historical exhibition with graphics and text documenting the lives of the approximately 70 Jews living in Wittenberg during the Third Reich’s occupation.
Available for loan – A multi-paneled historical exhibition with graphics and text documenting the lives of the approximately 70 Jews living in Wittenberg during the Third Reich’s occupation.

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