Web Round Up #3

by WBS

Web Round Up provides links to relevant news from around the Web, including job openings, new books, articles on women biblical scholars, etc.

1. Rebecca Raphael writes about pedagogy and use of textbooks for teaching religious studies courses.

2. New study shows Gender Differences in the Road to the Doctoral Degree. Women take longer on average, receive less institutional funding, and complete their degrees with a greater amount of debt.

3. Karen Stern on graffiti in the ancient Near East: “Graffiti–the ‘Selfies’ of the Ancient Near East?”

5. Through April 12, 2015, the National Museum of Women in the Arts has an exhibit on Mary: “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea.”

8. Keep up on women in academia at the WIA Report

Web Round Up #2

by WBS

Web Round Up provides links to relevant news from around the Web, including job openings, new books, articles on women biblical scholars, etc.

1. Job opening at Grove City College in Biblical and Religious Studies.

2. Kristine Garroway on Children in the Ancient Near East

3. Ellen Muehlberger provides cumulative stats for Review of Biblical Literature for the last eighteen months. These show what percentage of the reviews feature women scholars:

4. New Book Reviews from Review of Biblical Literature:

Rosemary Canavan
Clothing the Body of Christ at Colossae: A Visual Construction of Identity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8759

Willa M. Johnson
The Holy Seed Has Been Defiled: The Interethnic Marriage Dilemma in Ezra 9–10
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8955

5. In April 2015, Dr. Catherine McDowell will speak at Wheaton theology conference “The Image of God in an Image Driven Age.”

by WBS

Web Round Up provides links to relevant news from around the Web, including job openings, new books, articles on women biblical scholars, etc.

1. Job openings:

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary is looking for a Director of Field Education who will also teach in whatever specialty s/he holds a doctorate in.

Howard University School of Divinity invites applications for a position in Hebrew Bible at the rank of assistant professor beginning in July 2015.

2. Nijay Gupta has compiled a helpful “wiki” bibliography of women biblical scholars writing on the Gospels and Acts.

3. Lynn Cohick talks about The Double Edged Sword of Being a Female Bible Scholar.

4. Nyasha Junior on Top 5 Old Testament Texts Beloved by African-American Christians.