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Jaqueline
E. Lapsley Associate
Professor of Old Testament |
Associate
Professor of Old Testament. M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;
M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Emory University. Lapsley’s primary
research and teaching interests include literary and theological approaches
to the Old Testament, with a particular interest in theological anthropology;
interdisciplinary connections between the Old Testament, ethics, and theology;
and the history of interpretation. Her courses cover sin and salvation in the
Old Testament, women in the Old Testament narratives, and Old Testament ethics.
Her dissertation was published as Can
These Bones Live? The Problem of
the Moral Self in the Book of Ezekiel (BZAW, 2000), and she continues to
work on the ways in which moral formation and identity are articulated in the
scriptures. She cochairs the Character
Ethics and Biblical Interpretation Group of the Society of Biblical Literature.
She is Presbyterian and teaches and preaches in her local congregation.