Professor Jacqueline Lapsley recently published an essay on emotions and moral formation in a volume she co-edited with M. Daniel Carroll R., Character Ethics and the Old Testament: Moral Dimensions of Scripture (Westminster John Knox, 2007), and is serving as an editor on two other projects: A Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics to be published by Baker Academic and A Handbook of Feminist Biblical Theology for Westminster John Knox. Her essay on biblical authority will appear in 2007 in Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture (ed. William P. Brown, Westminster John Knox).

Professor Eunny Lee just returned from Heidelberg, where she was honored with eleven other recipients of the competitive John Temple Award for Theological Promise. The award was given to Lee in recognition of the promise displayed in her first book, The Vitality of Joy in Qohelet's Theological Rhetoric (BZAW 353; Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2005). Professor Lee was a recent recipient of a Lilly Grant for her sabbatical project, "Otherness, Kinship, and Hermeneutics: The Case of Ruth." She delivered a lecture at the Yale University Divinity School this year. Professor Lee is currently writing a commentary on the Book of Ruth to be published in the Eerdman Critical Commentary series.

Professor George Parsenios is the author of the recently published Departure and Consolation, the Johannine Farewell Discourses in Light of Greco-Roman Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2005), a revision of his Yale doctoral dissertation.  He has also published two recent articles, "'No Longer in the World' (John 17:11): The Transformation of the Tragic in the Fourth Gospel," Harvard Theological Review 98 (2005) 98,1-21 and “Paramythetikos Christos: John Chrysostom Interprets the Johannine Farewell Discourses,” Greek Orthodox Theological Review 47 (2002) 47, 215-236.

Professor Katharine Sakenfeld is the current President of the Society of Biblical Literature, and is preparing a paper to be read at the SBL's annual meeting in November. She is the General Editor of the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, a five-volume work intended for students, pastors, and scholars. The first volume was published recently (Abingdon Press, 2007). Professor Sakenfeld, a beloved teacher and respected mentor to many scholars, was honored in a Festschrift entitled Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2006), edited by PTS alumnae Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler, with essays by her former students and colleagues from around the world. The YWCA honored Prof. Sakenfeld in 2006 with its annual Tribute to Women for her work toward the goals of the YWCA, empowering women, and eliminating racism (left).

 

 

 

Professor Leong Seow recently gave lectures on various topics in the book of Job at universities in Göttingen, Tuebingen, Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, and Zurich. Seow will deliver a plenary lecture this summer at the XIX Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on "Hope in Two Keys: Musical Consequences of Job 14." He has received an NEH Fellowship this year for his sabbatical project, "Job at the Crossroads: The Impact of the Joban Tale among Jews, Christians, and Muslims from Antiquity to the Sixteenth Century." Seow, who is currently finishing the first volume of his commentary on Job, serves as Co-General Editor of the newly-launched Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, a 30-volume reference being published by Walter de Gruyter Press.

Professor Ross Wagner recently returned from the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, where he had been awarded a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his project writing a book on the Old Greek version of Isaiah and its history of interpretation.