Professor Emerita Katheryn Pfisterer Darr, a 1989 winner of Boston University\u2019s prestigious Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, has authored three books, essays and articles for essay collections and major scholarly journals, respectively, and educational materials for the United Methodist Publishing House. To date, her writings have focused especially on the books of Isaiah and Ezekiel. Her current research\/writing project is a study of proverbs appearing in ancient Israel\u2019s prophetic corpus.<\/p>\n
Professor Darr served on the Editorial Board for the New Interpreter\u2019s Bible commentary series (Abingdon Press) and authored the commentary on Ezekiel for that series. She enjoys bringing biblical scholarship not only to her students, but also to pastors and their congregations.<\/p>\n
Professor Darr\u2019s husband, Dr. John A. Darr, is Associate Professor of New Testament at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. They have a son, Joshua Pfisterer Darr.<\/p>\n
Darr, Katheryn Pfisterer. \u201cThe Book of Ezekiel: Commentary and Reflections.\u201d Pp. 1,073-1,607 in The New Interpreter\u2019s Bible<\/em>. Vol. 6. Leander Keck, General Editor. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. First Printing, 2001; Second (corrected) printing, 2002.<\/p>\n Isaiah\u2019s Vision and the Family of God<\/em>. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. 1994.<\/p>\n \u201cFar More Precious than Jewels\u201d: Perspectives on Biblical Women<\/em>. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. 1991.<\/p>\n Choi, Hee An and Katheryn Pfisterer Darr. Engaging the Bible<\/em>. Minneapolis: MN: Fortress Press. 2006.<\/p>\n Anderson, Bernhard W., assisted by Katheryn Pfisterer Darr. Understanding The Old Testament<\/em>. Fourth Abridged Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1997.<\/p>\n \u201cProverb Performance and Trans-generational Retribution in Ezekial 18.\u201d Pp 197-221 in Ezekial\u2019s Hierarchial World: Wrestling with a Tiered Reality<\/em>. Corrine Patton and Stephen Cooke, eds. SBLSS. Antlanta: SBL Press, 2004<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019Alas! She has become a Harlot\u2019: But Who\u2019s to Blame?\u201d Pp. 55-76 in Passion Vitality, and Foment in Post-Exilic Judaism<\/em>. Monte Luker, ed. Nashville, TN: Abingdon: 2001.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019No Strength to Deliver\u2019: A Contextual Analysis of Hezekiah\u2019s Proverb in Isaiah 37:3b.\u201d Pp. 219-256 in New Visions of Isaiah<\/em>. M. Sweeney and R. Melugin, eds. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplemental Series, 214. Sheffield, England: JSOT Press. 1996.<\/p>\n \u201cLiterary Perspectives on Prophetic Literature.\u201d Pp. 127-143 in Old Testament Interpretation: Past, Present, and Future, Essays in Honor of Gene M. Tucker<\/em>. J.L. Mays, D.L. Petersen, and K.H. Richards, eds. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. 1995.<\/p>\n \u201cTwo Unifying Female Images in the Book of Isaiah.\u201d Pp. 17-30 in Uncovering Ancient Stones: Essays in Memory of H. Neil Richardson<\/em>. Lewis M. Hopfe, ed. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 1994.<\/p>\n \u201cEzekiel.\u201d Pp. 183-190 in The Women\u2019s Bible Commentary<\/em>. Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe, eds. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. 1992.<\/p>\n \u201cWrite or True?: A Response to Ellen Francis Davis.\u201d Pp. 239-247 in Signs and Wonders: Biblical Texts in Literary Focus<\/em>. J. Cheryl Exum, ed. The Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Series. Scholars Press. 1989.<\/p>\n \u201cRuth.\u201d Pp. 123-126 in The Old Testament\/Hebrew Bible<\/em>. Vol. I. Bernhard W. Anderson, ed. New York, NY: Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons. 1989.<\/p>\n \u201cEsther, with Additions.\u201d Pp. 173-179 in The Old Testament\/Hebrew Bible<\/em>. Vol. I. Bernhard W. Anderson, ed. New York, NY: Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons. 1989.<\/p>\n \u201cJonah.\u201d Pp. 381-384 in The Old Testament\/Hebrew Bible<\/em>. Vol. I. Bernhard W. Anderson, ed. New York, NY: Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons. 1989.<\/p>\n \u201cTeaching Troubling Texts.\u201d The Bible Today<\/em> 37, 1 (January\/February 1999): 29-35 (This article is an abbreviated version of an earlier publication for Sheffield Press titled, \u201cEzekiel\u2019s Justifications of God: Teaching Troubling Texts\u201d (see below).<\/p>\n \u201cIsaiah\u2019s Vision and the Rhetoric of Rebellion.\u201d Pp. 847-882 in the 1994 Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers. Vol. 33. Atlanta: Scholars Press. 1994.<\/p>\n \u201cEzekiel Among the Critics.\u201d Currents in Research: Biblical Studies<\/em> 2 (1994): 9-24.<\/p>\n \u201cEzekiel\u2019s Justifications of God: Teaching Troubling Texts.\u201d Journal for the Study of the Old Testament<\/em> 55 (1992):97-117.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Wall Around Paradise: Ezekielian Ideas about the Future.\u201d Vetus Testamentum<\/em>XXXVII (1987): 271-279.<\/p>\n \u201cLike Warrior, Like Woman: Destruction and Deliverance in Isaiah 42:10-17.\u201d The Catholic Biblical Quarterly<\/em> 49 (1987): 560-571.<\/p>\n I authored the following entries for Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the pocryphal\/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament<\/em>, Carol Meyers, general ed. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000: Ezekiel 8:14 \u201cWomen Weeping for Tammuz\u201d; Ezekiel 9:6 \u201cWomen and Young Women (and Young Men)\u201d; Ezekiel 13:17-23 \u201cDaughters Who Prophesy\u201d; Ezekiel 14:16-23; 23:4, 10, 25, 47; 24:21, 25 \u201cDaughters and Sons\u201d; Ezekiel 16:41; 23:48 \u201cWomen\u201d; Ezekiel 19 \u201cMother of Princes\u201d; Ezekiel 22:7 \u201cMother\u201d; Ezekiel 24:18 \u201cWife of Ezekiel\u201d; Ezekiel 27:10-11 \u201cDaughter-in-Law and Sister (and Mother) Taken in Incest.\u201d<\/p>\n Seitz, Christopher R. Zion\u2019s Final Destiny: The Development of the Book of Isaiah, A Reassessment of Isaiah 36\u201339<\/em> inReligious Studies Review<\/em> 19, 1 (1993):69.<\/p>\n Clines, David J. A. What Does Eve Do to Help? and Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament<\/em> in Hebrew Studies<\/em>XXXIII (1992):107-110.<\/p>\n Sweeney, Marvin A. Isaiah 1\u20134 and the Post-Exilic Understanding of the Islamic Tradition<\/em> in Religious Studies Review<\/em>16 (1990): 254-55.<\/p>\n Niditch, Susan. Chaos to Cosmos: Studies in Biblical Patterns of Creation<\/em> in Journal of the American Academy of Religion<\/em> LVI, 2 (1988): 347-349.<\/p>\n Brenner, Athalya. The Israelite Women: Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative<\/em> in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly<\/em> 51, 1 (1989):112-113.<\/p>\n Klein, Ralph W. Ezekiel: The Prophet and His Message<\/em> in Lutheran Quarterly<\/em>; in press.<\/p>\n Old Testament Editor, The New Interpreter\u2019s Bible Commentary Series<\/em>. Leander Keck, General Editor. Nashville: Abingdon Press. 1991-2000. I served as the principal Old Testament Editor for three general articles and ten commentaries on biblical books.<\/p>\n \u201cIntimate Portraits: Esther.\u201d Videotaped segments for \u201cMysteries of the Bible.\u201d The Arts and Entertainment Cable Network. Various air dates during the 1997 television season.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Book of Esther.\u201d Videotaped segments for \u201cMysteries of the Bible.\u201d The Arts and Entertainment Cable Network. Various air dates during the 1995-2000 television seasons.<\/p>\n \u201cAncient Israel\u2019s Prophets.\u201d Videotaped segments for \u201cMysteries of the Bible.\u201d The Arts and Entertainment Cable Network. Various air dates during the 1995-2000 television seasons.<\/p>\n Perspectives: Faith in Our Times. Vision Television Network. May 20, 1992 and April 13, 1993.<\/p>\n Steering Committee Member, the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, Somerville College, Oxford, England, 1992-1997. Co-convener of the Working Group on Biblical Studies, the Ninth and Tenth Oxford Institutes of Methodist Theological Studies, Somerville College, Oxford, England, July 28-August 7, 1992 and August 12-22, 1997.<\/p>\n Preacher, \u201cWill You Bring the Bull?\u201d Marsh Chapel, September 7, 2005.<\/p>\n Presenter, \u201cProverb Performance and Transgenerational Retribution in Ezekiel 18.\u201d The 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Theological Perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel Section. San Antonio, TX. November 23, 2004.<\/p>\n Lecturer, \u201cWatch What You Put in God\u2019s Mouth.\u201d Keynote address at two-day conference, \u201cWatch What You Put in God\u2019s Mouth,\u201d sponsored by Boston University School of Theology Office of Professional Education. November 4-5, 2004.<\/p>\n Preacher, \u201cFlashes of Recognition,\u201d Marsh Chapel, Boston University, April 24, 2003.<\/p>\n Reader, \u201cMan, Woman, Serpent: Genesis and Its Afterlife.\u201d Readings from Genesis 2 and 3. Sponsored by the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts. Boston, MA, February 3, 2003.<\/p>\n Reader, \u201cGenesis One.\u201d Sponsored by the Luce Program in Scripture and the Literary Arts, Boston, MA, February 1, 2001.<\/p>\n Participant, Workshop on \u201cHow to Teach the Bible in Post-Secondary Education.\u201d Cambridge, MA, March 27, 2001.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Book of Ezekiel: Tearing Down the Faith.\u201d Presented at the First Baptist Church of Melrose, Lenten Lecture Series, Melrose, MA, April 4, 2001.<\/p>\n A Response to \u201cThe Land is Yours: Ezekiel\u2019s Outrageous Land Claim\u201d by Kalinda R. Stevenson.\u201d The 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, The Theology of the Book of Ezekiel Seminar, Denver, CO, November 19, 2001.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019Open My Eyes that I May See\u2019: Children and Poverty.\u201d Two, two-hour lectures presented at the Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Grove City, PA, June 7-9, 2000, and at the Kentucky Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Bowling Green, KY, June 15-17, 2000.<\/p>\n \u201cBiblical Women and Their Gifts.\u201d A six-hour lecture series presented at The Foundation for Biblical Research, Charlestown, New Hampshire, August 21, 1999.<\/p>\n \u201cWomen and the World of Biblical Scholarship.\u201d A lecture presented to the Trustee Scholars, Boston University, March 31, 1998.<\/p>\n \u201cWomen In\/And the Bible.\u201d Four lectures presented at the 1998 Fellowship of Learning, the Annual Pastor\u2019s School of the Nebraska Conference; Grand Island, NE, January 6-8, 1998.<\/p>\n \u201cEzekiel 37 and the Functions of Future-Orientated Prophecy.\u201d Presented at the opening convocation of a year-long study on Apocalypticism sponsored by The Institute of Christian and Jewish, Baltimore, MD, November 3-4, 1997.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019Alas, She Has Become a Harlot\u2019: But Who\u2019s to Blame?\u201d Presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Biblical Criticism And Literary Criticism Section, New Orleans, LA, November 25, 1996.<\/p>\n \u201cHow are Women Made to Help in Ezekiel and Isaiah?\u201d Presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Israelite Prophetic Literature Section, Philadelphia, PA, November 20, 1995.<\/p>\n \u201cBiblical Images of God\u201d; \u201cLady Zion in Isaiah\u2019s Vision\u201d; Women and Biblical Scholarship.\u201d The 1995 R. Girard Lowe Lectures at Austin College, Sherman, TX, October 24-26, 1995.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Stories of Ruth,\u201d \u201cFrom Naomi\u2019s Perspective,\u201d \u201cRuth Goes Gleaning,\u201d Lectures presented at the Twentieth Annual Circuit Rider Seminar In Hillview United Methodist Church, Boise, ID, April 23-25, 1995.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Poem\u2019s World, The \u2018World of the Poem.\u2019\u201d Presented at the 1995 Meeting of the Longeran Institute at Boston College, Spring Weekend Workshop, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 1, 1995.<\/p>\n Convocation on Wesleyan Studies (three lectures), The United Methodist Church of Castro Valley, Castro Valley, CA, January 9-11, 1995.<\/p>\n \u201cIsaiah\u2019s Vision and the Rhetoric of Rebellion.\u201d Presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Formation of the Book of Isaiah Seminar, Chicago, IL, November, 22, 1994.<\/p>\n \u201cOral Tradition: A Response to John Miles Foley.\u201d Presented at the Annual Meeting of the New England Region Society of Biblical Literature, Worchester, MA, March 25, 1994.<\/p>\n \u201cMore than a Possession: Biblical, Rabbinical, and Feminist Perspectives on Hagar.\u201d Presented to students in Core Curriculum, The Tsai Performance Center, Boston University, September 27, 1994.<\/p>\n \u201cRuth Goes Gleaning.\u201d Presented as the 1993 Ralph E. and Vyrl W. Swan Lecture, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska, September 3, 1993.<\/p>\n \u201cEsther as Heroine.\u201d Presented as part of \u201cThe Esther Project,\u201d an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, March 7, 1993.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019Far More Precious than Jewels\u2019: Perspectives on Biblical Women.\u201d Lectures presented at Bangor Theological Seminary, Portland, MA campus, March 21 and March 28, 1993.<\/p>\n \u201cRuth Goes Gleaning.\u201d Presented as the Sixth Annual Morrow-McCombs Memorial Lecture, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, February 23, 1993.<\/p>\n \u201cCommentary and Exposition.\u201d Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Theology of Hebrew Scriptures Section, San Francisco, CA, November 22, 1992.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Women\u2019s Bible Commentary: This Time, We Said \u2018Yes.\u2019\u201d Presented at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees, Massachusetts Bible Society, Newton Centre, MA, May 12, 1992.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019Far More Precious Than Jewels\u2019: Perspectives on Biblical Women.\u201d 1992 Bangor Theological Seminary Lenten Lectures, Bangor Theological Seminary, Hanover, NH campus, March 15, 21, 28, April 4, 1992.<\/p>\n \u201cA Response to Kirsten Nielsen\u2019s \u2018Imagery and Prophetic Literature.\u2019\u201d Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Israelite Prophetic Literature Section, Kansas City, MO, November 25, 1991.<\/p>\n \u201cBringing to Birth in the Book of Isaiah.\u201d Presented as the 1991 Invited Guest Paper to members of the Colloquium for Biblical Research, Durham, NC, August 17, 1991.<\/p>\n \u201cRuth,\u201d \u201cHagar,\u201d and \u201cEsther.\u201d Three lectures presented to United Methodist Clergy from the Western Pennsylvania Conference at the Summer Pastors\u2019 Academy, Meadville, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1991.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing a Christian in a World of Competing Loyalties.\u201d Presented at Convocation 1991 at Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, ME, January 21, 1991.<\/p>\n \u201cStory as History: Ezekielian Justifications of God.\u201d Presented as the Presidential Address at the 1990 Annual Meeting of the New England Regional Society of Biblical Literature, Amherst, Massachusetts, March 30, 1990. This lecture also was delivered by invitation at the Victoria House of the Beacon Trust, Willimantic, Connecticut, on September 29, 1991.<\/p>\n \u201cPride and Punishment in Ezekielian Metaphors.\u201d Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Israelite Prophetic Literature Section, Chicago, Illinois, November 19, 1988.<\/p>\n \u201cMore than Seven Sons\/More than the Stars of the Heaven\/More than a Possession.\u201d Presented as the 1988 Edward L. Beavin Memorial Lectures at Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, Kentucky, October 5-6, 1988.<\/p>\n \u201cFemale Imagery and the Unity of Isaiah.\u201d Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Israelite Prophetic Literature Section, November 15, 1986.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Wall Around Paradise: Ezekielian Ideas about the Future.\u201d Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Israelite Prophetic Literature Section, New York, NY, November 25, 1985.<\/p>\n \u201cBetween a Rock and a High Place: The Uncontainable God.\u201d Presented as part of the 1985 Wilson-Gross Lectures at Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky, October 23, 1985.<\/p>\n \u201cLike Warrior, Like Woman: Destruction and Deliverance in Isaiah 42:10-17.\u201d Presented at the New England Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Newton, Massachusetts, March 22, 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3549,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[24],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60126,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/373\/revisions\/60126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Books (Edited)<\/h3>\n
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