Scripture, interpretation and culture
This area highlights faculty research in biblical studies, interpretation, gender, disability, suffering, reception history and the interaction of Scripture with culture.
Jaime Clark-Soles
Research specialties include Johannine literature, suffering and afterlife, disability and the New Testament, biblical authority, women in the Bible and gender.
Roy Heller
Research specialties include biblical Hebrew grammar and syntax, narrative criticism, rhetorical criticism, prophecy and ambiguity in biblical texts.
John R. (Jack) Levison
Research specialties include pneumatology, Adam and Eve traditions, Second Temple Judaism, gender, Judaism and Christianity.
Susanne Scholz
Research specialties include Hebrew Bible studies, feminist and queer biblical interpretation, cultural and literary studies, gender and sexual violence in sacred texts.
Abraham Smith
Research specialties include translation studies, critical carceral studies, violence studies, the politics of knowledge, cultural studies and African American literature and art.