Carolyn Pressler
Harry C. Piper Jr. Professor of Biblical
Interpretation
Ordained
minister in the United Church of Christ
Appointed 1990
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Engaging
the Bible in a Gendered World
Co-edited with Linda Day. Louisville: Westminster
John Knox Press, 2006. |
“The ‘Biblical
View’ of Marriage?” In Engaging the Bible
in a Gendered World.
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Joshua,
Judges, and Ruth
Westminster Bible Companion. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press,
2002.
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“Wonderful/Difficult:
Ambiguity, Poetics, and the Knowledge of God in Psalm 139.” In A
God So Near, edited by Breht Strawn
and Nancy Bowen. Winona, Ind.: Eisenbrauns,
2002.
“To
Heal and Transform: Women’s Biblical Studies.” In The
International Bible Commentary,
edited by William Farmer. Collegeville, MN:
Liturgical Press, 1998.
“Wives
and Daughters, Bound and Free: Women in the Slave Laws
of Exodus 21:2-11.” In Gender and Law in the
Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, edited by
Victor H. Matthews, Bernard M. Levinson, Tikva Frymer-Kensky.
Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
“The
Shema: A Protestant Feminist Reading.” In Escaping
Eden: New Feminist Perspectives on the Bible, edited
by Harold C. Washington, Susan Lochrie Graham, Pamela Thimmes.
Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
The
View of Women Found in Deuteronomic Family Laws. BZAW,
216. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1993.
Numbers
Abingdon Old Testament Commentary
(Abingdon Press, in progress)
B.A.
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Kalamazoo
College |
M.Div.
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Wesley
Theological Seminary |
Ph.D.
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Princeton
Theological Seminary |
During
my leisure time I like talking walks, driving through the
countryside, going to concerts and plays, doting on my
nieces and nephews, reading novels, and spending time with
friends.
Contact
Carolyn at cpressler@unitedseminary.edu or
651.255.6132.
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“I
love watching students begin to recognize the Older
Testament as their story—the story
of God working
in and through their spiritual ancestors: Abraham,
Sarah, and Hagar. The Older Testament is the
book of a particular people, Israel, to be sure,
and we stand at a great distance from that people,
but there is a dimension of human experience,
especially
of the human experience of God, that is
deeper than historical or cultural circumstances
and
that
allows the Older Testament to speak to us in the
midst of our own doubts, pain, and questions. The
word that speaks is one of hope, one
of “God
with us,” one of justice and mercy and walking
humbly. Together with the Newer Testament, the
Older Testament has proved itself for millennia—and
in my own life—as the best clue to who
God is, who we are, and who we are called to be.
I
love
watching students who come in suspicious, indifferent,
or even hostile to these ancient stories discover
their surprising relevancy.”
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“Preparing
future ministers to use the Hebrew scriptures in
the life of the Church, especially in relationship
to the Church’s pastoral and social justice
ministries, is the central focus of my teaching.
As a feminist
teacher, I am concerned about teaching methods
that attend to a range of voices, male and female,
from
different cultures and theological perspectives,
and about building a classroom ethos that is anti-racist,
anti-sexist, and dialogical.” |
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