Jaqueline E. Lapsley 

Associate Professor of Old Testament
Department of Biblical Studies
321 Lenox House
Phone: 609.497.7855
Fax: 609.279.9485
Email: jacqueline.lapsley@ptsem.edu

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.  

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