CAROLYN J. SHARP

Yale Divinity School office: 203-432-2011409 Prospect Street carolyn.sharp@yale.eduNew Haven, Connecticut 06511

EDUCATION

2000 Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Yale University Dissertation, under the direction of Robert R. Wilson: “My Servants the Prophets”:

Prophecy and Ideology in the Deutero-Jeremianic Prose

1994 M.A.R. summa cum laude in Old Testament, Yale Divinity School

1985 B.A. in Religious Studies, Wesleyan University

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2017– Professor of Homiletics, Yale Divinity School

2012–17 Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, Yale Divinity School

Spring 2017 Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 2012–13 Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

2006–12 Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, Yale Divinity School

2001–06 Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Yale Divinity School

Fall 2000 Lecturer Convertible in Old Testament, Yale Divinity School

1996–99 Teaching Fellow, Yale Divinity School and Yale College

BOOKS

Joshua. Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary series. Forthcoming with Smyth & Helwys in 2019.

The Prophetic Literature. Core Biblical Studies. Nashville: Abingdon, 2019.

Wrestling the Word: The Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Believer. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010.

Old Testament Prophets for Today. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2009.

Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible. Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.

Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah: Struggles for Authority in the Deutero-Jeremianic Prose. Old Testament Studies. London: T & T Clark, 2003.

BOOKS EDITED

Feminist Frameworks and the Bible: Power, Ambiguity, and Intersectionality. Volume edited with L. Juliana Claassens. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 630. London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017.

The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Jeremiah Invented: Constructions and Deconstructions of Jeremiah. Volume edited with Else K. Holt. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 595. London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015.

Prophecy and Power: Jeremiah in Feminist and Postcolonial Perspective. Volume edited with Christl M. Maier. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 577. London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2013.

Living Countertestimony: Conversations with Walter Brueggemann. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2012.

Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church, by Walter Brueggemann. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011. British edition, London: SCM, 2011.

WORK IN PROGRESS

“Jeremiah and Homiletics,” essay for The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah, ed. Louis Stulman; under contract with Oxford University Press. Projected date of completion: April 2019.

Jeremiah 26–52. International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament; series editors Walter Dietrich and David M. Carr. Collaborative book project (with Christl M. Maier writing Jeremiah 1–25) under contract with Kohlhammer Verlag. Projected date of completion: 2019.

Micah. Commentary in the Illuminations series, under contract with Eerdmans. Projected date of completion: 2022.

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ARTICLES

“Wade in the Water: Reading Joshua 5–6 Theologically at the Confluence of Traditions.” Essay in a volume of theological readings edited by Jan Dietrich and Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme; forthcoming with Aarhus University Press in 2019.

“Words That Devour: Discursive Praxes and Structural Strategies in Psalm 50.” Pages 15-31 in Close Readings: Biblical Poetry and the Task of Interpretation, edited by J. Blake Couey and Elaine James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

“Character, Conflict, and Covenant in Israel’s Origin Traditions.” Pages 41-74 in The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives, edited by Gale A. Yee. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2018.

“Gender and Subjectivity in Jeremiah 44.” Pages 67-78 in Women and Exilic Identity in the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Katherine E. Southwood and Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 631. London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017.

“Is This Naomi? A Feminist Reading of the Ambiguity of Naomi in the Book of Ruth.” Pages 149-61 in Feminist Frameworks: Power, Ambiguity and Intersectionality. Edited by L. Juliana Claassens and Carolyn J. Sharp. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 630. London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017.

“The Poetics of Abjection in Psalm 44.” Pages 1187-1216 in Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy, Volume 2. Edited by Joel Baden, Hindy Najman, and Eibert Tigchelaar. Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplements. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

“Of Fields and Forced Labor: Roland Boer’s Materialist Criticism and the Plundering of the Israelite Body.” Horizons in Biblical Theology 38 (2016): 142-52.

“Hebrew Biblical Narrative.” Pages 406-17 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts, Volume 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

“Imagination, Ideology, and Inspiration: Soundings for a New Generation.” Pages 274-91 in Imagination, Ideology, and Inspiration: Echoes of Brueggemann in a New Generation. Edited by Jonathan Kaplan and Robert Williamson, Jr. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2015.

“Embodying Moab: The Figuring of Moab in Jeremiah 48 as Reinscription of the Judean Body.” Pages 95-108 in Concerning the Nations: Essays on the Oracles against the Nations in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Edited by Else K. Holt, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, and Andrew Mein. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 612. London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015.

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“Feminist Queries for Ruth and Joshua: Complex Characterization, Gapping, and the Possibility of Dissent.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 28 (2014): 229-52.

“Buying Land in the Text of Jeremiah: Feminist Commentary, the Kristevan Abject, and Jeremiah 32.” Pages 150-72 in Prophecy and Power: Jeremiah in Feminist and Postcolonial Perspective. Edited by Christl M. Maier and Carolyn J. Sharp. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 577. London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2013.

“Mapping Jeremiah as/in a Feminist Landscape: Negotiating Ancient and Contemporary Terrains.” Pages 38-56 in Prophecy and Power: Jeremiah in Feminist and Postcolonial Perspective. Edited by Christl M. Maier and Carolyn J. Sharp. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 577. London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2013.

“‘Are You For Us, or For Our Adversaries?’ A Feminist and Postcolonial Interrogation of Joshua 2–12 for the Contemporary Church.” Interpretation 66 (2012): 141-52.

“Sites of Conflict: Textual Engagements of Dislocation and Diaspora in the Hebrew Bible.” Pages 365-76 in Interpreting Exile: Interdisciplinary Studies of Displacement and Deportation in Biblical and Modern Contexts, edited by Brad E. Kelle, Frank Ritchel Ames, and Jacob L. Wright. Ancient Israel and Its Literature series. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.

“Jeremiah in the Land of Aporia: Reconfiguring Redaction Criticism as Witness to Foreignness.” Pages 35-46 in Jeremiah (Dis)Placed: New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah. Edited by A. R. Pete Diamond and Louis Stulman. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 529. New York: T & T Clark, 2011.

“Hewn By the Prophet: An Analysis of Violence and Sexual Transgression in Hosea with Reference to the Homiletical Aesthetic of Jeremiah Wright.” Pages 50-71 in Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets. Edited by Chris Franke and Julia M. O’Brien. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 517. New York: T & T Clark, 2010.

“(Re)Inscribing Power through Torah Teaching: Rhetorical Pedagogy in the Servant Songs of Deutero-Isaiah.” Pages 167-78 in Thus Says the Lord: Essays on the Former and Latter Prophets in Honor of Robert R. Wilson. Edited by John J. Ahn and Stephen L. Cook. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 502. New York: Continuum, 2009.

“Jeremiah.” Pages 223-35 in Theological Bible Commentary, edited by Gail R. O’Day and David L. Petersen. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009.

“Interrogating the Violent God of Hosea: A Conversation with Walter Brueggemann, Alice Keefe, and Ehud Ben Zvi.” Horizons in Biblical Theology 30 (2008): 59-70.

“Beyond Prooftexting.” Pages 30-48 in Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report, edited by Andrew Linzey and Richard Kirker. New York: John Hunt Publishing, 2005.

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“The Formation of Godly Community: Old Testament Hermeneutics in the Presence of the Other.” Anglican Theological Review 86 (2004): 623-36.

“The Trope of ‘Exile’ and the Displacement of Old Testament Theology.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 31 (2004): 153-69.

“Ironic Representation, Authorial Voice, and Meaning in Qohelet.” Biblical Interpretation 12 (2004): 37-68.

“The Call of Jeremiah and Diaspora Politics.” Journal of Biblical Literature 119 (2000): 421-38.

“Phinehan Zeal and Rhetorical Strategy in 4QMMT.” Revue de Qumran 70 (1997): 207-22.

“‘Take Another Scroll and Write’: A Study of the LXX and the MT of Jeremiah’s Oracles Against Egypt and Babylon.” Vetus Testamentum 47 (1997): 487-516.

“Dancing Across the Seams: The Interplay of Public and Private Theophany in Exodus 33:12-23.” Pages 12-21 in Church Divinity 1991-92. Edited by Francis S. Tebbe. Donaldson, IN.: Graduate Theological Foundation, 1992.

INVITED LECTURES AND PAPERS

“A Timely Word in Lament: Psalm 90 and the Homiletical Wisdom of Gardner Taylor,” for the Homiletics and Biblical Studies section of the Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, November 2018.

“Preaching as Catechesis: Forming Believers Who Love God and Neighbor,” three lectures for the Stetson University Winter Pastors’ School in DeLand, Florida, January 2018.

I: “‘Comfort, O Comfort My People!’ Building Communal Resilience with the Gospel of Matthew”

II: “‘O Taste and See that the LORD is Good!’ Cultivating Revolutionary Compassion with the Gospel of Luke”

III: “‘Seek Me and Live!’ Catalyzing Spiritual Desire with the Gospel of John”

“Prophetic Preaching: Hope for Broken Bodies and Crushed Spirits,” for the Homegrown Women’s Preaching Festival in Durham, North Carolina, October 2017.

“Translating Alterity: Conflict, Undecidability, and Complicity,” for the Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship at the American Bible Society, Atlanta, November 2015.

“Of Fields and Forced Labor: Roland Boer’s Materialist Criticism and the Plundering of the Israelite Body,” for the Ideological Criticism section of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November 2015.

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“Is This Naomi? A Feminist Reading of the Ambiguity of Naomi in the Book of Ruth,” for the Feminist Frameworks: Reading the Bible at the Intersections conference sponsored by Stellenbosch University in Stellenbosch, South Africa, March 2015.

“Gender and Subjectivity in Jeremiah 44,” for the Exile (Forced Migrations) in Biblical Literature seminar of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2014.

“Excess and Desire: A Glance at Jeremiah 36 with Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin,” for the Jeremiah’s Scriptures conference sponsored by the University of Zurich in Ascona, Switzerland, June 2014.

“Wrestling the Word: Submission and Resistance as Holy Hermeneutical Acts” and “‘Be Strong and Resolute!’: Reading Joshua in the Contemporary Church,” the Jackson Lectures for Ministers Week at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, February 2014. Published in Anglican Theological Review 97/1 (2015): 5-18, 19-32.

“‘God and No Mortal’?: Reflections on Terence E. Fretheim’s Scholarship on the Biblical Prophets,” for the Theological Interpretation of Scripture Seminar of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore, November 2013.

“Treasures Old and New: Reflections on the Thirty-fifth Anniversary of Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination,” for the Israelite Prophetic Literature section and three co-sponsoring sections of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore, November 2013.

“Literary Criticism of the Hebrew Scriptures: Feminist Queries and Theological Implications,” for Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, October 2013.

“The Rhetorical Function of Poetry in Jeremiah: A Response to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Barbara Green, Job Jindo, and Elizabeth Hayes,” for the Writing/Reading Jeremiah group and the Biblical Hebrew Poetry section of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, November 2012.

Response to Marvin Sweeney’s Tanak: A Theological and Critical Introduction to the Jewish Bible, for the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures section of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, November 2012.

“Notes from the Threshold: Teaching and Learning in Liminal Spaces,” Convocation address at Yale Divinity School, August 2012.

“Buying Land in the Text of Jeremiah: Feminist Commentary, the Kristevan Abject, and Jeremiah 32,” for the Writing/Reading Jeremiah group of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November 2011.

“Mapping Jeremiah as/in a Feminist Landscape: Negotiating Ancient and Contemporary Terrains,” for Philipps-Universität Marburg, May 2011.

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“Engaging the Prophets as Formation for Christian Ministry,” for Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, March 2011.

“Embodying Moab: Jeremiah’s Figuring of Moab (Jer 48) as Reinscription of the Judean Body,” for the Writing/Reading Jeremiah group of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November 2010.

“Helping Students Navigate Faith Challenges in the Biblical Studies Classroom: The Old Testament Introductory Course,” for a Society of Biblical Literature workshop co-sponsored by Westminster John Knox Press and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Atlanta, November 2010.

“Flourishing in the Vocation of Theological Educator,” for the Association of Theological Schools, Pittsburgh, October 2010.

“Abjection in Psalm 44: A Postcolonial Reflection on Power and Poetics,” for Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey October 2010.

“Sites of Conflict: Representations of Dislocation and Diaspora in the Hebrew Bible,” for the Warfare in Ancient Israel section of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, November 2009.

“Covenant, Liminality, and Inscripturation in Jeremiah 31,” for the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures section of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 2008.

“Theological Publishing and the Urgency of Witness for Racial Equity,” for the Association of Theological Booksellers, Boston, November 2008.

“Hewn By the Prophet: Violence and Sexual Transgression in the Tradition History of Hosea,” for the Columbia Seminar on the Hebrew Bible, Columbia University, New York, April 2008.

“Interrogating the Violent God of Hosea: A Conversation with Walter Brueggemann, Alice Keefe, and Ehud Ben Zvi,” for the Israelite Prophetic Literature section of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2007.

“Jeremiah Among Ancient and Contemporary Readers: Reconfiguring Redaction Criticism as Witness to Foreignness,” for the Writing/Reading Jeremiah group of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2007.

“Contested Hermeneutics: Theological Reflections on the Undecidability of Micah 2:12–13,” for the Israelite Prophetic Literature section of the Society of Biblical Literature, Washington, D.C., November 2006.

“The Ending of Esther and Narratological Excess,” for the Lenox Colloquium, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, June 2006.

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“Impotent Divine Word? Balaam and the Irony of Blessing,” for the Columbia Seminar on the Hebrew Bible, Columbia University, New York, April 2005.

“Foreign Rulers and the Ironizing of Power in the Hebrew Bible,” for the Biblical Criticism and Literary Criticism section of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, November 2004.

“Rhetorical Smoke and Mirrors: Archaizing Tradition and Structural Poetics in Psalm 68,” for the Biblical Hebrew Poetry section of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, November 2004.

“The Formation of Godly Community: Old Testament Hermeneutics in the Presence of the Other,” for the Episcopal Church Foundation Fellows Forum, Birmingham, Alabama, February 2004.

“Hewn By the Prophet: Ambiguity and Unstable Metaphorization in the Diction of Hosea,” for the Israelite Prophetic Literature section of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November 2003.

“Wakening the Ear: Rhetorical Pedagogy in the Servant Songs of Isaiah,” at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina, November 2002.

“Scandalous Love: Divine Compassion Unbound in Hosea and Jonah,” for the University of Connecticut Center for Judaic & Middle Eastern Studies and the Connecticut Council of Churches and Synagogues, Stamford, Connecticut, April 2001.

“The Psalms in Current Biblical Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities,” for the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, Connecticut, September 2000.

“The Subversion of Exodus Traditions in Amos,” at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, March 2000.

“Divine Judgment and Mercy in the Book of Jeremiah,” at Holy Apostles College & Seminary, Cromwell, Connecticut, January 2000.

SHORT ESSAYS and BOOK REVIEWS

Homiletical pieces in Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2018– ):

Exodus 12:1–4, (5–10), 11–14 and Isaiah 50:4–9a for Year B, Volume 2 (2019) Isaiah 52:13–53:12 for Year A, Volume 2 (2019) Genesis 15:1–12, 17–18; Deuteronomy 26:1–11; and Isaiah 58:1–12 for Year C, Volume

2 (2018)

“Preaching as Contextual Truth,” reflection on homiletics for Fortress Press, March 2015.

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“Jeremiah 31:7–14” and “Jeremiah 31:15–17,” exegetical pieces for WorkingPreacher.org, a homiletics resource of the Center for Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary, February 2015.

“Pope Francis: Holy Humility in Community (Luke 18:9–14),” posted in The Huffington Post’s ON Scripture feature on 21 October 2013.

“Theological Education after Trayvon Martin,” for Yale Divinity School’s Notes from the Quad, July 2013.

“Luke 3:7–18: On the Fiscal Cliff with John the Baptist,” posted in The Huffington Post’s ON Scripture feature on 12 December 2012.

“Preaching the Prophets for Lent.” Journal for Preachers 35/2 (Lent 2012): 22-29.

“Luke 1:39–56: Magnificat for a Broken World,” posted in The Huffington Post’s ON Scripture feature on 14 December 2011.

“Joshua 3:7–17“ and “Joshua 24:1–3a, 14–25,” exegetical pieces for WorkingPreacher.org, a homiletics resource of the Center for Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary.

“Psalm 100,” exegetical piece for a Web-based site of Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor.

Introduction to the Prophets, by Paul L. Redditt (Eerdmans, 2008). Review in Interpretation 65 (2011): 307-308.

“Isaiah 5:1–7,” “Isaiah 25:1–9,” and “Isaiah 45:1–7,” exegetical pieces for Year A, Volume 3 of Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2011.

“Jeremiah and Lamentations.” Pages 784-86 In The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, edited by John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.

“Jeremiah, Book of.” Pages 638-39 in The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, edited by Daniel Patte; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

“Deuteronomy 30:15–20” and “Isaiah 65:17–25,” exegetical pieces for WorkingPreacher.org, a homiletics resource of the Center for Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary.

“Psalm 84:1–7” and “Job 19:23–27a,” exegetical pieces for a web-based site of Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor.

“Jeremiah.” Pages 414-32 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible, Volume 1. Michael D. Coogan, editor-in-chief. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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“Micah.” Pages 78-85 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible, Volume 2. Michael D. Coogan, editor-in-chief. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

The Polemics of Exile in Jeremiah 26–45, by Mark Leuchter (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Review in The Expository Times 121 (2010): 320.

“Micah,” “Jonah,” and “Nahum,” annotated translations in the Common English Bible. Edited by David L. Petersen, Brent Strawn, et al. Nashville: Church Resources Development Corporation, 2011.

“Psalm 30,” “Micah 3:5–12,” “Amos 5:18–24,” “Zephaniah 1:7, 12–18,” and “Ezekiel 34:11–16, 20–24,” exegetical pieces for WorkingPreacher.org, a homiletics resource of the Center for Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary.

A Commentary on Micah, by Bruce K. Waltke (Eerdmans, 2007). Review in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 8 (2008).

“I Kings 17:8–24,” “I Kings 18:20–39,” and “I Kings 21:1–21,” theological pieces for Year C, Volume 3 of Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2011.

Jeremiah: Preacher of Grace, Poet of Truth, by Carol Dempsey (Liturgical, 2007). Review in Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.

The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah, by Walter Brueggemann (Cambridge, 2006). Review in Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.

“Psalm 1,” “Psalm 47,” and “Psalm 98,” exegetical pieces for Year B, Volume 2 of Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008.

“Our Unity is in Christ,” a piece published on the web site of Thinking Anglicans, June 2007.

Engaging the Bible: Critical Readings from Contemporary Women, edited by Choi Hee An and Katheryn Pfisterer Darr (Fortress, 2006). Review in The Bible & Critical Theory 3 (2007).

“Voiced in Paradox: Prophecy and the Contemporary Church.” Reflections 93/1 (Winter 2006): 10-13.

“The Lamb That Was Slain: Rereading ‘Dominion’ in Scriptural Traditions.” Essay published on the web site of Catholic Concern for Animals in Fall 2006 and used as a resource for the “Christian Concern for All God’s Creatures” conference sponsored by God’s Creatures Ministry, Caldwell, New Jersey, June 2006.

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Reading the Book of Jeremiah: A Search for Coherence, edited by Martin Kessler (Eisenbrauns, 2004). Review in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 6 (2006).

Jeremiah, by Louis Stulman (Abingdon, 2005). Review in Review of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Jeremiah 21–36, by Jack R. Lundbom (Anchor Bible; Doubleday, 2004). Review in Journal of Biblical Literature 124 (2005): 361-65.

“Teaching Hermeneutics through Creative Communal Praxis.” Pages 11-13 in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction, edited by Mark Roncace. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Love and Violence: Marriage as Metaphor for the Relationship between YHWH and Israel in the Prophetic Books, by Gerlinde Baumann (Liturgical Press, 2003). Review in Interpretation 59 (2005): 214-16.

Battle of the Gods: The God of Israel Versus Marduk of Babylon: A Literary/Theological Interpretation of Jeremiah 50–51, by Martin Kessler (Van Gorcum, 2003). Review in Hebrew Studies 46 (2005): 101-104.

The Jewish Study Bible, edited by Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, with consulting editor Michael Fishbane (Jewish Publication Society; Oxford, 2004). Review in Anglican Theological Review 87 (2005): 347-50.

The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations, by Carol A. Newsom (Oxford, 2003). Review in Review of Biblical Literature, 2004.

A Hebrew Reader for Ruth, by Donald R. Vance (Hendrickson, 2003). Review in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5 (2004-05).

The Image, the Depths, and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study, by Susan Gillingham (Hendrickson, 2002). Review in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 4 (2002-03).

Borders, Boundaries and the Bible, edited by Martin O’Kane (Sheffield, 2002). Review in Anglican Theological Review 85 (2003): 552-53.

Deutero-Isaiah by Klaus Baltzer (Hermeneia; Fortress, 2001). Review in Scottish Journal of Theology 56 (2003): 103-106.

A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture, by Yvonne Sherwood (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Review in Anglican Theological Review 84 (2002): 422-24.

Job: And Death No Dominion, by Daniel Berrigan (Sheed & Ward, 2000). Review in Anglican Theological Review 84 (2002): 147-48.

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Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding, by Mary C. Boys (Paulist Press, 2000). Review in Anglican Theological Review 83 (2001): 891-92.

Gender in the Book of Jeremiah: A Feminist-Literary Reading, by Angela Bauer (Peter Lang, 1999). Review in Journal of Biblical Literature 119 (2000): 554-55.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, CONSULTATIONS, AND PRIZES

“The Bible in the Life of the Church,” a project of the Anglican Communion Office:Phase 2, participant in a dialogue about hermeneutics, December 2014–July 2015Phase 1, North American Regional Group member, September 2010–January 2012

Association of Theological Schools educational leadership programs:2011 Advancing Leadership Development Institute2010 Roundtable Seminar for Newly Appointed Faculty (as speaker/facilitator)2010 Roundtable Seminar for Mid-Career Faculty2005 Educating Clergy conference2001 Women in Leadership in Theological Education conference

Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for “The Book of Jeremiah in Critical Feminist and Postcolonial Interpretation,” an international consultation and publication project with Christl M. Maier (2009–2012)

Consultant for Sex and the Seminary Faculty Sexuality Training sponsored by the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, & Healing, May 2009

Consultant for Luther Seminary project, “The Christian’s Callings in the World: Reorienting Theological Education,” under the auspices of Lilly’s Programs for the Theological Exploration of Vocation, February 2008

2007 Fortress Press Teacher of the Year Award for Innovative Teaching at the Graduate Level

Wabash Center consultation, “Teaching Biblical Exegesis in Theological Schools,” 2006–2007

Wabash Center outcomes assessment consultation, September 2006

Griswold Fund research grants, Yale University, 2006–2007 and 2002–2003

Wabash Center grant for “Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Modeling Connectivity in the Theological Classroom,” a collaborative project involving 8 theological schools, 2004–2008 (co-coordinator)

Conant Fund Incentive Grant for “Enhancing Learning and Integration Skills in Old Testament Interpretation,” 2004

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Wabash Center Teaching & Learning Workshop for Theological School Faculty, 2002–2003

Episcopal Church Foundation Fellow, 1998–1999, 1996–1997, 1994–1995

Oliver Ellsworth Daggett Scholarship Prize, Yale Divinity School, 1993–1994

Alexander M. Rodger Scholar, Yale Divinity School, 1991–1992

North American Scholar, The Fund for Theological Education, 1991–1992

Bainton Book Prize, Yale Divinity School, 1991

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial boardsConnections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship (2018– ) Horizons in Biblical Theology (2016– )Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies monograph series (2013–2017)Biblical Interpretation monograph series (2012–2016)Journal of Biblical Literature (2010–2015)

Steering committees of the Society of Biblical LiteratureHomiletics and Biblical Studies (2017– )Feminist Hermeneutics and the Bible (co-chair, 2017– )Ethics and Biblical Interpretation (2014–2016)Writing/Reading Jeremiah (2006–2013; co-chair, 2009–2013)Israelite Prophetic Literature (2006–2012)

Book proposal evaluations for Bloomsbury T & T Clark, Routledge, and Yale University Press

Manuscript evaluations for The Bible & Critical Theory, Vetus Testamentum, and the Journal of Bible and Human Transformation

Service to Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale:Chair, Task Force on Sexual Misconduct & Interpersonal Accountability (2016–2017)Chair, Curriculum Task Force of the Long-Range Planning Committee (2010–2011)Chair, Worship Committee (2008-2009)Chair, Committee for Spiritual Formation & the Practice of Faith (2004–2005, 2005–

2006, 2007–2008, 2011–2012)Service on the Curriculum Committee, Professional Studies Committee, Disciplinary

Committee, Committee for Spiritual Formation & the Practice of Faith, Worship Committee, and Community Life Committee; eleven search committees and ten review committees

Faculty representative to the Berkeley board of trustees (2001–2003, 2016–2018)

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National Advisory Council, Yale Faith as a Way of Life project (2003–2006)

COURSES

In homiletics:

Principles & Practices of PreachingThe Gospel in Lament: Preaching for a Suffering WorldThe Hebrew Scriptures and Christian Preaching: The Writings

In biblical studies:

Biblical Theology: Walter Brueggemann and His CriticsCharacter and Community in the Biblical Short Story: Jonah, Ruth, EstherContemporary Christian Theologies of the Old TestamentExorcising Marcion’s Ghost: Claiming the Sacred in Difficult Old Testament TextsFeminist Interpretation of the Hebrew ScripturesGender, Sex, and Power in the Books of Ruth and EstherGodly Skepticism: Ecclesiastes and Its Reception in Early Christian TraditionHermeneutics and Authority: Reading Isaiah in CommunityHistory & Methods II: Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures in Late Modernity and BeyondIrony and Meaning in the Hebrew BibleLiterary Criticism of the Hebrew ScripturesOld Testament Interpretation: The Pentateuch and the Former ProphetsOld Testament Interpretation: The Latter Prophets and the WritingsQueer Readings of the Hebrew ScripturesReading Joshua: Contemporary Hermeneutical IssuesReading the Psalms: Theology and PraxisScripture and Social Ethics (co-taught with Willis Jenkins)Theology of the Book of EzekielTradition and Ideology in the Book of JeremiahEnglish exegesis of Exodus, Amos, Hosea, and JonahHebrew exegesis of Genesis, Joshua, Judges, Isaiah, the Minor Prophets, Psalms

MINISTERIAL SERVICE

Volunteer assisting priest, St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church, New Haven, Connecticut (June 2012–2018)

Curate, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, New Haven, Connecticut (July 2011–June 2012)

Clinical Pastoral Education, Level I (Griffin Hospital, Derby, Connecticut), Fall 2009

Invited preacher and/or speaker:

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Christ Church, New Brunswick, New JerseyChurch of the Holy Trinity, Middletown, ConnecticutChurch of the Servant, Wilmington, North CarolinaCovenant Village of Cromwell, ConnecticutFirst Congregational Church, Branford, ConnecticutFirst Presbyterian Church of New Canaan, New Canaan, ConnecticutGrace Episcopal Church, Lake Providence, LouisianaNew Haven Deanery, Episcopal Diocese of ConnecticutNorfield Congregational Church, Weston, ConnecticutResource Center for Women & Ministry in the South, Durham, North CarolinaSt. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, New Haven, ConnecticutSt. James’ Episcopal Church, Madison Avenue, New York CitySt. John’s Episcopal Church, Essex, ConnecticutSt. John’s Episcopal Church, Guilford, ConnecticutSt. Luke’s Parish, Darien, ConnecticutSt. Mark’s Episcopal Church, New Britain, ConnecticutSt. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Fairfield, Connecticut St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, ConnecticutSt. Peter’s by-the-Sea, Narragansett, Rhode IslandSt. Thomas’ Church Whitemarsh, Fort Washington, PennsylvaniaSt. Thomas’s Episcopal Church, New Haven, ConnecticutThe Congregational Church of New Canaan, New Canaan, ConnecticutThe Episcopal Church in Connecticut

Preaching Symposium, November 2016Discernment Day, May 2015

The Episcopal Church of St. Paul & St. James, New Haven, ConnecticutTrinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, MassachusettsTrinity Church, Southport, ConnecticutTrinity Church on the Green, New Haven, ConnecticutTrinity Episcopal Church, Branford, ConnecticutTrinity Episcopal Church, Portland, ConnecticutYale Divinity School Commencement worship: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Academy of HomileticsSocietas HomileticaSociety of Biblical LiteratureSociety of Biblical Theologians

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