From: Young Center <youngctr@etown.edu>
Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 10:04 AM
Subject: Please Announce on Mar 13 and 20
To: info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org <info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org>
Please include this announcement in your church bulletin or announcement list on March 13 and March 20:
Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies hosts Joe A. Springer on March 24 and 25, 2022.
Joe A. Springer's lecture, "That I may sing a song": Early Anabaptist Hymnals on Thurs, March 24, 7 p.m., will be held in-person in the Susquehanna Room of Myer Hall at Elizabethtown College and also via Zoom.
Springer will share recent scholarship on the earliest hymnals published by German-speaking Anabaptists in the 16th century. He will devote particular attention to the 1564 Etliche schöne Christliche Geseng, the first known edition of the Ausbund hymnal still in use among Old Order Amish today. Springer has served as curator of the Mennonite Historical Library, Goshen (IN) College since 1986. He holds a BA in history from Goshen College and an MA/MLS in history and library science from Catholic University of America. He enjoys studying the bibliographical evolution of specific works as well as interconnections among different works. In his work, Springer regularly fields questions related to printing history, hymnody, and genealogy.
This lecture is offered in-person and via Zoom. For details and the link to the Zoom presentation, visit www.etown.edu/youngctr/events.
Parking is available at the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren, 777 S. Mt. Joy St. Enter the parking lot from Cedar St. Signage will direct you to the church lot and across the street to Susquehanna Room, Myer Hall.
Also, Friday, March 25, from 10 am to noon in the Bucher Meetinghouse at the Young Center, Joe A. Springer will share on Early Anabaptist Hymnody: What Do We Want to Learn? Springer will provide input and invite discussion of aspects of Anabaptist hymnody that merit further exploration. Can we better determine who used which texts or melodies and how? How did hymns spread geographically and across language groups? What musicological resources provide new documentation or insight?
This lecture is offered in-person only. Parking is available in the lot by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College.
Thank you.
The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Elizabethtown College
One Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022
Phone: 717-361-1470
Fax: 717-361-1443
