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Jennifer
Knust
Ph. D.
Columbia University
M.Div. Union Theological Seminary
B.S. University of Illinois, Urbana
Professor Knust teaches and conducts research in the
areas of the history of interpretation, New Testament textual
criticism, ancient rhetoric and early Christian discourse,
and the intersection of sex, gender, and status in ancient
Christian argumentation. Her publications include Abandoned
to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity (NY: Columbia
University Press, 2005) as well as essays on a variety of
topics, including the letters of Paul, deutero-Pauline literature,
Justin Martyr, and the impact of anti-Judaism on the transmission
of the Gospels. She has received fellowships and awards from
the American Association of University Women, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned Societies,
and the American Academy in Rome. Professor Knust is an ordained
American Baptist (USA) pastor.
Her recent publications include Abandoned to Lust: Sexual
Slander and Ancient Christianity (Columbia University
Press, 2005) and “Jesus, an Adulteress, and the Development
of Christian Scripture,” In A Tall Order. Festschrift
in honor William V. Harris, edited by Jean-Jacques Aubert
and Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, 59-84. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde.
Munich: K. G. Saur Verlag, 2005.
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