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Interview: Kristine Garroway

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kristine-henriksen-garroway-phdDr. Kristine Garroway is Visiting Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Hebrew Union College-Los Angeles. She earned her B.A. from Wheaton College, M.A. from Wheaton College, M.Phil. from Hebrew Union College, and Ph.D. from Hebrew Union College.

How did you decide to become a biblical scholar? Share your autobiographical journey.

My answer to this question is always little embarrassing: Indiana Jones. As an incoming college freshman my interests included biology, history, Bible, forensics, and detective novels, so I decided to major in biblical archaeology and become the next Indiana Jones. Silly, right? But in all seriousness, my love for biblical archaeology and ancient Near Eastern history was sparked in the first class I took on biblical archaeology 20 years ago. During my undergrad I participated in a summer Holy Lands tour where I got to see the places I was studying first hand and participate in the Ashkelon excavations. After graduating I continued on for my MA in biblical archaeology, which required me to spend a summer digging at Tel Dor and a semester studying in Israel. I wrote my thesis on the use of architecture in the biblical text. I did my doctoral work at the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in Cincinnati. More→

Web Round Up #4

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

1. Congratulations to Annette Yoshiko Reed who joined the editorial staff of Journal of Biblical Literature under the leadership of Adele Reinhartz!

2. Kristine Garroway writes on The Origins of the Biblical Pesach.

3. New book reviews from Review of Biblical Literature:

Pauline Allen
John Chrysostom, Homilies on Paul’s Letter to the Philippians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9386

Musa W. Dube, Andrew M. Mbuvi, and Dora R. Mbuwayesango, eds.
Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8848

Anne Marie Kitz
Cursed Are You! The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9742

4. Presentation (vide0) by Debra Martin on interpreting remains at Tell Abraq (2200-2000 B.C.E.)

5. Alison Joseph published a new article on “Who Is Like David? Was David Like David? Good Kings in the Book of Kings”

6. Karen R. Keen writes on the reception history of the Bible in the film Noah.

7. Laurel Appleton excavates at Petra on an ASOR Fellowship

8. Adele Yarbro Collins’s lecture on women prophets in early Christianity is now available in audio.

9. The Other Journal is looking for an Assistant Theology Editor

10. Three post-docs open in France (Roman history, Rabbinic literature, and History of Christianity in antiquity):

Appel à candidatures – recrutement de trois chercheurs en contrat CDD à partir du 1er septembre 2015

Le programme ERC Re-thinking Judaism’s Encounter with the Roman Empire: Rome’s Political and Religious Challenge to Israel and its Impact on Judaism (2nd Century BCE – 7th Century CE) (acronyme : “Judaism and Rome”) propose pour le 1er septembre 2015 trois postes de chargés de recherche en CDD dans les domaines suivants :
a) Histoire romaine (avec si possible une compétence dans les sources juridiques romaines) (pour une durée de 2 ans) ;
b) Littérature rabbinique (pour une durée de 3 ans) ;
c) Histoire du christianisme antique (pour une durée de 3 ans).

Les candidats retenus seront recrutés par le CNRS et travailleront en collaboration avec Katell Berthelot, PI du projet “Judaism and Rome”, au sein du laboratoire Centre Paul-Albert Février – Textes et documents de la Méditerranée antique et médiévale (UMR 7297), une composante de la Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (voir www.cpaf.cnrs.fr et www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr).

Les candidatures doivent être envoyées avant le 15 mars 2015. Elles doivent inclure une lettre de candidature, une copie du diplôme de doctorat (ou un certificat établi par l’Université de rattachement si la soutenance est récente), le rapport de soutenance, un CV incluant la liste des publications, un échantillon des publications (thèse ou article), ainsi que les coordonnées (noms et e-mails) de deux personnes à qui pourront être demandées des lettres de recommandation. Ces pièces doivent être envoyées par mail à katell.b@free.fr ou berthelot@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
La date de prise de poste est le 1er septembre 2015.

Une description détaillée de chaque poste et des qualifications attendues peut être obtenue en écrivant à Katell Berthelot (katell.b@free.fr ou berthelot@mmsh.univ-aix.fr). Dans tous les cas, il sera exigé des candidats un excellent niveau d’anglais écrit, de manière à pouvoir traduire et commenter des sources anciennes en anglais.

 

 

Web Round Up #2

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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.”