Профессор Дюкского университета (США). Специалист в области изучения Ветхого Завета, а также практического применения моральных норм Священного Писания.

В 1969-70 гг. обучалась в Еврейском университете Иерусалима.

В 1971 г. получила бакалаврскую степень в Университете Калифорнии.

В 1983 г. - магистерскую степень в Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

В 1987 г. защитила докторскую диссертацию в Йельском университете.

Преподавала в Union Theological Seminary, Virginia Theological Seminary и Йельском университете.

С 2001 г. преподает в Дюкском университете. С 2004 г. - профессор.

Наиболее значимые публикации:

• Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• Wondrous Depth: Old Testament Preaching (Westminster John Knox, 2005);
• Who Are You, My Daughter? Reading Ruth through Image and Text (Westminster John Knox, 2003)
• Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament (Cowley, 2002)
• The Art of Reading Scripture (Eerdmans, 2003)

Книги

In progress: Prophecy and Contemporary Ministry, Interpretation Resources Series, Westminster John Knox, scheduled for publication in 2014.
Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible, Cambridge University Press, 2008. The essays are based on the 2005/06 Hulsean Lectures, delivered to the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University. A session was devoted to this book at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. It was reviewed in Review of Biblical Literature, by Philip Esler (2009.09.19) and Robin Branch (2010.02.26); in Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 3:3 (2009), 428-30, by Anna Peterson; in America 202/7 (March 8, 2010), 26, by Daniel J. Harrington.
Wondrous Depth: Preaching the Old Testament, Westminster John Knox, 2005. The essays are based on the 2003 Beecher Lectures, Yale Divinity School.
The Art of Reading Scripture, a volume of essays co-edited with Richard Hays, Eerdmans, 2003. The essays (which include four of my own) were written by members of the Scripture Project, a project of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton. Named in fourth place on the Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten Books of the Year for 2004. Translated into Japanese, 2006.
“Who Are You, My Daughter?”: Reading Ruth through Image and Text, my translation and commentary, with woodcuts by Margaret Adams Parker, Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.
Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament, Cowley Publications, 2001.
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and The Song of Songs: A Theological Commentary, in the Westminster Bible Companion Series, Westminster John Knox Press, April 2000.
Imagination Shaped: Old Testament Preaching in the Anglican Tradition, Trinity Press International, 1995.
Swallowing the Scroll: Textuality and the Dynamics of Discourse in Ezekiel’s Prophecy, Almond Press, 1989; reissued by the Open Library, 2009.

Статьи/эссе

“Our Proper Place: The Poetry of Care and Loss,” The Christian Century 127/12 (June 15, 2010), 28-31.
A new translation of The Song of Solomon for The Common English Bible, Abingdon Press, available at http://www.commonenglishbible.com/. CEB will be available in print in October 2011.
“Being a creature means you eat: Reading Genesis One in the 21st century,” Global Food Crisis website of the Presbyterian Church USA, Summer 2009; www.pcusa.org/foodcrisis/archive/september/index.htm
“Surprised by Wisdom: Preaching Proverbs,” Interpretation 63/3 (July 2009), 264-77.
“Learning Our Place: The Agrarian Perspective of the Bible,” Word and World 29/2 (Spring 2009), 109-120.
“Just Food: A Biblical Perspective on Culture and Agriculture,” in Living Beyond Our Means: Christian Perspectives on Environmental Unsustainability, edited by Robert White, Hilary Marlow, and Jonathan Moo, SPCK, 2009, 122-36.
“Reading the Bible after Darwin: Creation and a Culture of Restraint,” in Theology after Darwin edited by Michael Northcott and R. J. Berry, Paternoster Press, 2009, 57-72.
“Reading the Bible as Agrarian Literature,” forthcoming in a Festschrift for Carol Meyers, ed. Karla G. Bohmbach and Charles E. Carter, Eisenbrauns, 2009.
“The Agrarian Perspective of the Bible: A Response to James A. Nash, ‘The Bible vs. Biodiversity’,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 3/2 (June 2009; online).
“Fountain of Life,” a meditation on Genesis One for The Gift of Creation, Images of Scripture and Earth, photographs by Thomas Barnes, edited by Norman Wirzba, Acclaim Press, Fall 2009, 40-50.
“The Poetics of Generosity,” in The Word Leaps the Gap: Essays on Scripture and Theology in Honor of Richard B. Hays, ed. A. K. Grieb, K. Rowe, R. Wagner, Eerdmans, 2008, 626-45.
“Biblical Perspectives on Divine Justice and Political Authority,” and “Two Psalms,” in Justice and Rights: Christian and Muslim Perspectives (the proceedings of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2006-2007 Building Bridges conferences), ed. Michael Ipgrave (Georgetown University Press, forthcoming 2009).
“Speaking to the Heart” (an ecological reading of the Prophets), in Building a Better Bridge: Muslims, Christians, and the Common Good (the proceedings of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2005-2006 Building Bridges conferences), ed. Michael Ipgrave (Georgetown University Press, 2008), 153-60.
“And the Land I Will Remember” (Lev.26:42):Reading the Bible through Agrarian Eyes in Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven’s Earthly Home, ed. Joel Shuman, University Press of Kentucky, 2009, 115-30.
“Hebrew without Whining: Teaching Biblical Languages in Sudan,” Christian Century 126/1 (January 13, 2009), 30-35.
“Becoming Human: Biblical Interpretation and Ecological Responsibility,” Virginia Theological Seminary Bulletin, Fall 2008, 38-43.
“Knowing Our Place on Earth: Learning Environmental Responsibility from the Old Testament,” introductory essay in the The Green Bible (HarperOne, 2008), 58-64.
“Reasoning with Scripture,” Anglican Theological Review 90/3 (Summer 2008), 513-519. My article is a response to Richard Norris’s work on the church’s controversy regarding committed same-sex relationships.
“Propriety and Trespass: The Drama of Eating,” Ex Auditu 23 (2007), 74-86. Another version of the essay will appear also in Reading Genesis after Darwin, ed. Stephen C. Barton and David A. Wilkinson, Oxford University Press, 2009 203-16. An earlier version of this essay is published on the website of The Thoughtful Christian, an electronic imprint of the Presbyterian Publication Corporation
(www.witherspoonsociety.org/2006/thoughtful_christians.htm). A translation appeared in the Journal of the Indonesian Bible Society (Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia), September 2007.
“Entering the Story: Teaching the Bible in the Church,” in Sharper than a Two-Edged Sword: Preaching, Teaching, and Living the Bible, ed. Michael Root and James J. Buckley, Eerdmans, 2008, 44-62.
“The Language of Creation,” Faith and Form, the Interfaith Journal of Religious Art and Architecture, Fall 2007 (40th Anniversary Issue).
“The Soil that Is Scripture,” in Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture, ed. William P. Brown, Westminster John Knox, 2007, 36-44.
“Report This from Sudan,” an essay on interfaith cooperation in Sudan, distributed as part of the Common Ground News Service series on apostasy and proselytism; October 9, 2007. Reprinted by eleven news services in English (including the Daily News Egypt, the Arab American News Wire, and the Washington Post/Newsweek On Faith), Arabic (Tharwa Community), French (EMarrakech), Indonesian (Koran Tempo), and Urdu (Pakistan Tribune).
“Esther and the Hermeneutics of Preaching on Genocide,” Gatherings 5/1 (Summer 2007), Duke Office of Black Church Studies, 1-2, 7.
“And in Him All Things Hold Together” (sermon on Col.1:17), pp.142-147 in Preaching What We Practice: Proclamation, Formation, Moral Discernment, ed. Timothy F. Sedgwick and David J. Schlafer, Morehouse Publishing, 2007; and pp. 127-34 in The Earth and the Word: Sermons on Ecology, Creation, Nature, and Justice, ed. David Rhoads, Continuum Press, 2007.
Three essays: “Beginning with Ruth: An Essay on Translating,” “Reading the Song Iconographically,” “All That You Say, I Will Do” (a meditation on Ruth), pp.3-19, 172-84 in Scrolls of Love: Reading Ruth and the Song of Songs, ed. Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, Fordham University Press, 2006. “Reading the Song Iconographically” also appears in the Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, June 2003 (on-line).
“The Tabernacle Is Not a Storehouse: Building Sacred Space,” Sewanee Theological Review 49/3 (Pentecost 2006), 305-319.
“Taste and See,” a meditation on Psalm 34, pp.9-17 in I Have Called You Friends (FS Bishop Frank Griswold), ed. Barbara Braver (Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 2006).
“Poised: A Response to Bonaventure’s The Soul’s Journey into God” (“Crossing Boundaries” series), Theology Today 63 (2006): 59-63.
Three pieces (sermons on Psalm 40 and Isaiah 6, and an essay, “Christians Hearing Isaiah”), in Preaching from Psalms, Oracles, and Parables ( Sermons That Work, volume XIV), edited by Roger Alling and David J. Schlafer. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 2006, pp.1-5, 91-113. A shorter version of the essay is featured in the e-journal of the Academy of Homiletics, Spring 2006 (http://www.homiletics.org/homiletix_e-journal.shtml).
“I Thirst,” a sermon on Psalm 42, In Trust 17/1 (Autumn 2005).
“Feeling Your Way: Preaching the Psalms,” The Clergy Journal 82/2 (November/December 2005), 3-5.
“Wise and Holy Work: The Case for Building Green Churches,” Faith and Form 38/3 (September 2005), 6-8.
“‘My Devoted Friend,’ the Prophet as the Intimate of God,” in Bearing the Word: Prophecy in Biblical and Qur’anic Perspective, ed. Michael Ipgrave (London: Church House Publishing, 2005), 59-66.
“No Explanations in the Church” (on preaching from the Prophets), in Touching the Altar: Connecting the Old Testament and Worship, ed. Carol Bechtel and Jon Witvliet, Eerdmans, 2005.
“Under the Gargoyle”, an article on the Bible and agrarianism for Duke Magazine, January/February, 2005.
“Stargazers,” in Sermons from Duke Chapel, ed. William Willimon (Duke University Press, 2005), 337-341.
“Salvific Surprise: The Shared and Complementary Tasks of Exegetical and Critical or Constructive Theologians,” in Reconsidering the Boundaries Between Theological Disciplines, ed. Michael Welder and Friedrich Schweitzer (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2005), 35-44.
“Godly Friendship,” Interfaith Education Initiative: A Manual on Interfaith Dialogue, ed. Sonia Omulepu (Interfaith Education Initiative, Episcopal Church USA, 2004), 36-37.
“The Bible and Our Topsoil,” Tikkun (July/August 2004; 67, 76). A shorter version of this article appeared in The Land Report 75 (Spring 2003), 13, a publication of The Land Institute, Salina, KS.
“The Art of Reading Scripture: Theses and Questions,” co-authored with Richard Hays, Christian Century, April 20, 2004, 23-27.
Sermon on Psalm 103, in Biblical Texts in Community: Jewish and Christian Textual, Liturgical, and Artistic Traditions, eds. Harold Attridge and Margot Fassler (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature [Symposium Series], 2003), 403-406.
“Reading the Bible Confessionally in the Church,” Anglican Theological Review 84/1 (Winter 2002) 25-35.
“Preserving Virtues: Renewing the Tradition of the Sages,” in Character and Scripture: Moral Formation, Community, and Biblical Interpretation, ed. William P. Brown (Eerdmans, 2002) 183-201. A shorter version of this essay appears in Studies in Christian Ethics 14.2 (Autumn 2001) 14-22.
Sermon for Earth Day, Virginia Seminary Journal (July 2001) 10-13.
“Jacob and Job: The Integrity of Faith,” in The Whirlwind: Essays on Job, Hermeneutics, and Theology in Memory of Jane Morse (JSOT Supp. 336), ed. Stephen Cook, Corrine Patton, James Watts, Sheffield Academic Press, 2001, pp.100-120. An earlier version appears in Reading Between the Texts: Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible, edited by Danna Nolan Fewell, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1992, pp.203-224.
“Slaves or Sabbath-Keepers? A Biblical Perspective on Human Work,” Anglican Theological Review 83/1 (Winter 2001) 25-40.
“Critical Traditioning: Seeking an Inner Biblical Hermeneutic,”
Anglican Theological Review 82/4 (Fall 2000) 753-771.
“Wisdom and Desire,” The Living Pulpit 9/3 (July 2000) 8-9.
“Losing a Friend: The Loss of the Old Testament in the Church,” Pro Ecclesia IX/1 (Winter 2000) 73-84. This essay also appears in Jews, Christians and the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures, edited by Alice Ogden Bellis and Joel Kaminsky, Society of Biblical Literature (Symposium Series), 2000, 83-94.
“Romance of the Land in the Song of Songs,” The Anglican Theological Review 80/4 (1998) 533-546.
“Sabbath: The Culmination of Creation,” The Living Pulpit, Spring/Summer 1998.
“And Pharaoh Will Change His Mind” (Ezek.32:31): Dismantling Mythical Discourse,” Theological Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Brevard S. Childs, edited by C. Seitz, and K. Greene-McCreight, Eerdmans, 1999, 224-239.
“And in Him all things hold together” (sermon on Col.1:17), Virginia Seminary Journal, December 1997, 2-6.
“Reading Leviticus in the Church,” Virginia Seminary Journal, Winter 1996-97, 30-34.
“Romance of the Land in the Song of Songs,” The Anglican 25/2 (October 1996) 23-29.
“Exploding the Limits”: Form and Function in Psalm 22,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, vol. 53 (1992) 93-105. Republished in The Poetical Books: A Sheffield Reader, edited by D. J. S. Clines, Sheffield Academic Press, 1997, 135-146.
“Serving in the Shadows,” Reflections, New Haven: Yale Divinity School, 89 (Wtr./Spr. 1994) 12-14.
“Holy Preaching: Ethical Interpretation and the Practical Imagination,” in Reclaiming Faith, edited by E. Radner and G. Sumner (Eerdmans, 1993), 197-224.
“Jacob and Job: The Integrity of Faith,” in Reading Between the Texts: Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible, edited by Danna Nolan Fewell, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1992, pp.203-224. As noted above, revised and reprinted in The Whirlwind: Essays on Job, Hermeneutics, and Theology in Memory of Jane Morse, ed. Stephen Cook, Corrine Patton, James Watts, Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
“Psalm 98,” Interpretation 46 (April 1992) 171-75.
“Self-Consciousness and Conversation: Reading Genesis 22,” Bulletin of the Institute for Biblical Research 1/1 (Fall 1991) 27-40.
“A Strategy of Delayed Comprehension: Isaiah liv 15,” Vetus Testamentum XL/2, 1990.
“Job and Jacob” The Integrity of Faith,” Reflections (Yale Divinity School), Fall 1990.
“Swallowing Hard: Reflections on Ezekiel’s Dumbness,” Signs and Wonders (Semeia Series volume on literary readings of biblical texts), ed. J. Cheryl Exum, 1988.
“Arguing for Authority: A Rhetorical Study of Jeremiah 1:4-19 and 20:7-18,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32 (1985) 105-119.
“Jacob, A Paradigm of Choice,” Church Divinity, ed. John H. Morgan, Notre Dame, 1983.