Female scholars
Rose asked the other day in the comments to Female Bishops, "I am working on some studies, could you recommend your top two female N.T. scholars?"
New Testament isn't really my area, so I have limited knowledge in this. But I do eat my lunch at least once a week with Professor Morna Hooker, whose books & lectures are excellent, and she is a great conversation partner. A much younger, v. interesting British N.T. scholar is Paula Gooder.
Anyone else like to recommend their top two women in New Testament Studies?
Paula Frederiksen springs to mind.
Posted by: Dave Rattigan | 05/05/2008 at 08:05
Hi Maggi,
I also would have said Morna Hooker. I would say in the top two besides her are Marianne Meye Thompson (Fuller Theological Seminary) and Gail R. O'Day (Candler Theological Seminary and who the brilliant commentary on John in the New Interpreter's Bible commentary). They may be a good span across the theological spectrum, too, but neither is on the extremes.
Posted by: Will | 05/05/2008 at 08:22
Let me suggest two Aussies: Elaine Wainwright, currently Richard Maclaurin Goodfellow Professor in Theology at the University of Auckland; and Vicky Balabanski, senior lecturer in New Testament at the Adelaide College of Divinity, Flinders University of South Australia.
Posted by: PaulW | 05/05/2008 at 12:12
Have a look at Amy-Jill Levine at Vanderbilt Divinity and Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza at Harvard Divinity. Although, strictly speaking, Schussler Fiorenza is a bit broader than just NT studies, her work in the NT is very good.
Posted by: Terry-Michael Newell | 05/05/2008 at 15:17
I hope Paula's ongoing research on "Paul and Mysticism - the influence of mysticism on Paul's theology and on the development of Christian mysticism." produces fruit in the form of a paper or two, and hopefully a book.
http://www.gooder.me.uk/
I'd add: Edith M. Humphrey and Marianne Meye Thompson.
Posted by: Paul Fromont | 05/05/2008 at 19:58
I wouldn't call her a "top" scholar, but I'm proud to have Dorothy Lee as a friend.
Posted by: Pseudonym | 06/05/2008 at 06:15
If you don't mind me blowing my own Department's trumpet for a moment:
Louise Lawrence is one to watch. She combines historical-critical research (see her 2003 /An Ethnography of the Gospel of Matthew/, for instance) with an equally serious interest in how New Testament texts are and can be used today (in a contextual bible study sort of mode - see her Texts of Land, Sea and Hope project, http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/theology/research/tlsh.htm)
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Posted by: Matt Dabbs | 07/05/2008 at 23:25
I am a huge fan of the Rev. Dr. Katherine Grieb, from Virginia Theological Seminary ... a member of the Covenant Group, a lawyer, priest, and New Testament Scholar ... I had the privilege to take a course of Galatians from her in seminary and only wish I had taken more courses from her ... !
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Posted by: Peter Carey | 08/05/2008 at 04:14
I would put a shout in for Dr Francesca Murphy, Reader in Systematic Theology at Aberdeen. I'm sure she wouldn't claim to be a "top NT Scholar" but her book "The Comedy of Revelation" and her teaching on John's Gospel are insirational.
Posted by: Jonathan | 10/05/2008 at 09:06
Maggi et al,
Thank you, this is very helpful.
Posted by: Rose | 19/05/2008 at 00:54