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Executive Director, Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History Foundation

The Rev'd Dr Greg Jenks

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The Rev’d Dr Greg Jenks is the Executive Director of the Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History Foundation and is a member of the St John’s Cathedral community. He has a BA (Hons), a MA and a PhD from the University of Queensland.

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Articles by The Rev'd Dr Greg

Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast: A sociorhetorical Interpretation

“It is the intertextual dynamic with the findings of the Royal Commission that sets this huge piece of critical biblical scholarship apart. This is not just an arcane treatise for members of the guild of biblical scholars…This is a serious piece of critical biblical interpretation that also deals with the prophetic message of the text for our Church in wider Australian society today,” says The Rev’d Dr Greg Jenks

Q&A with St John’s Cathedral Director of the Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History, Honorary Canon of Grafton Cathedral and Holy Land study tour guide, The Rev’d Canon Dr Greg Jenks

Meet Greg Jenks and find out about his faith journey, his experience living in Palestine, how his faith shapes his character and outlook, his earliest memory and his plans to lead a study tour to Palestine, Israel and Jordan later in the year

"There are so many places that resonate with history, identity and faith, but it is the people — rather than the places — who especially capture my heart. The lives they create and sustain in this most edgy of places engage me profoundly," (The Rev'd Dr Greg Jenks, pictured with a girl from a Bedouin village in 2013)

"It is the people — rather than the places — who especially capture my heart"

“There are so many places that resonate with history, identity and faith, but it is the people — rather than the places — who especially capture my heart…Let me share the stories of meeting a handful of remarkable people over several decades of visiting, working and living in Palestine and its adjacent lands,” says The Rev’d Dr Greg Jenks

A coin is worth a thousand words

“In the ancient coins, lamps, manuscripts, marble statues, and mosaics that remain, the imagery and imagination of a distant time and place can be found again, allowing us to find new ways to tell the stories of the past for the present,” says Dr Sheilagh Ilona O’Brien, with The Rev’d Dr Gregory Jenks

The Idol

“The Idol tells the story of how Mohammad Assaf travelled from the Khan Yunis refugee camp in Palestine’s Gaza strip to the Arab Idol competition in Beirut. Since the film is based on real life and the outcome is famously known, the artistic challenge for the filmmaker was to present the story in a fresh way that keeps the viewer engaged,” says The Rev’d Dr Greg Jenks, who is the former Dean of St George’s College, Jerusalem

The collaboration of Peter and Paul

“They were very different characters, and that may actually be the major piece of wisdom we take away from this reflection. As we collaborate, we each have to be our own selves, rather than seeking to fit in with how other people expect us to think, act or worship…Their life experiences were about as different as two Jewish men could be during the time of the Roman Empire,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Greg Jenks

Who does the Bible say Jesus is?

Hear The Rev’d Canon Sarah Plowman, Bishop Jeremy Greaves and The Very Rev’d Dr Greg Jenks discuss this question in the ‘Exploring the Bible’ online short course, produced by St Francis College. The course features 38 short videos under six themes, with reflection/discussion questions for groups or individuals