Faculty
Carole R. Fontaine
Taylor Professor of Biblical Theology and History
B.A., Florida State University
M.A.R., Yale Divinity School
Ph.D., Duke University
Phone: Ext. 2361
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Biography:
An internationally recognized feminist scholar in Hebrew Bible, Carole Fontaine brings her expertise into the classroom with lively use of digital and art resources to make the Bible come alive. She is the author of Smooth Words: Women, Proverbs and Performance in Biblical Wisdom, and is co-editor of the biblical ‘classic’ text, A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: Approaches, Methods, Strategies. She was a recipient of a Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology for the 2008-2009 academic year.
A long time Human Rights defender, she sits on the boards of international interfaith NGOs dealing with violence against women, especially in Muslim societies. Her most recent publications are a book on war captives and torture in biblical times, entitled With Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights (2008), and a collection of her own poetry, Only When Women Sing: Poems on Human Rights (2009). She has numerous media credits (BBC; C-Span; Discovery Channel; National Geographic, and Arts & Entertainment Networks) and serves on the Editorial Boards for Journal of Biblical Literature, Women in Judaism, and the Catholic Biblical Quarterly. She is Religion Editor of the World Book Encyclopedia. Fontaine joined the faculty in 1979.
Courses: OLDT/WOTA 629W: Biblical Theology: Creation in Crisis, OLDT/WOTA 649: Wisdom from the Ancients, OLDT 501F: Biblical Hebrew I, OLDT 504S: Biblical Hebrew II, OLDT 509F: Introduction to Scripture I, OLDT 622: Saving Love: the Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew and Greek Testaments, OLDT 627: Human Rights and the Peoples of the Book,
Publications:
Only When Women Sing: Poems on Human Rights
A Voice Calls: Neda!
With Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights
Dishonoring the Quran
Girls on the Edge
Worship, Theology and the Arts Shine
Roland E. Murphy, feminist mentor
Ancient Texts
The Cult of Asherah
Smooth Words
A Heifer from Thy Stable
Hannah’s Dragon
