Susan A . Calef, BA, PhD

Assistant Professor

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College of Arts and Sciences
Theology
DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center - 125

Susan A . Calef, BA, PhD

Assistant Professor

Research Focus

Narrative Criticism of the Gospels; Feminist Hermeneutics; Bible in Public Discourse; Biblical Spirituality; Early Christian Social History: the Body in Christian Self-Definition;  The Legacy of Paul in the First – Third Centuries (Acts of Paul & Thecla)

Department

Theology

Position

Assistant Professor

Books

  • Holiness and the Feminine Spirit: The Art of Janet McKenzie
    Calef Susan A., The One Sent: Mary Magdalene and Jesus, the Christ [Book Chapter] 2009
  • Prayer and the Catholic Tradition
    Calef Susan A., Prayer in the New Testament. [Book Chapter] 2007
  • A feminist companion to the New Testament
    Calef Susan A., Thecla 'tried and true' and the inversion of romance [Book Chapter] 2006
  • Calef Susan A., Mary and Martha: women in the world of Jesus [Book Review] 2003
  • Calef Susan A., Rhetoric and ethic: the politics of biblical studies [Book Review] 2001
  • Calef Susan A., Healing in the New Testament: insights from medical and Mediterranean anthropology; [REVIEW] 2000
  • Calef Susan A., Saint Paul returns to the movies: triumph over shame [Book Review] 2000
  • Calef Susan A, Rhetorical strategies in tertullian's De cultu feminarum 1996

Publications

  • Theological Studies
    Calef Susan A., Mark and Empire: Feminist Reflections
    76:3, p. 634 - (1 page) 2015
  • Horizons
    Calef Susan A., Review of Embracing the Human Jesus: A Wisdom Path for Contemporary Christianity. By David Galston. Salem, OR: Polebridge, 2012.
    41:2, p. 397 - 399 2014
  • Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
    Calef Susan A., 7. 'Prophet Margins' in the Economy of Salvation: Having, Being, and Doing in the Gospel of Luke
    Supplement 10, p. 106 - 131 2014
  • Calef Susan, Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space 2010
  • Calef Susan A., Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space 2010
  • Journal of religion & society
    Calef Susan, Kephale, Coverings, and Cosmology: The Impenetrable 'Logic' of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, p. 21 - 44 2009
  • Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
    Calef Susan A., Kephalē, coverings, and cosmology: the impenetrable 'logic' of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
    S5, p. 21 - 44 2009
  • Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
    Calef Susan A., Charting New Territory: Religion and 'the Gender-Critical Turn”
    S5, p. 1 - 5 2009
  • Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
    Wright Wendy M., The ambiguously gendered ideal of a seventeenth century community of women religious: the Visitation of Holy Mary
    5, p. 103 - 113 2009
  • Catholic Biblical Quarterly
    Calef Susan A., Those Outside: Noncanonical Readings of Canonical Gospels
    69:4, p. 847 - 849 2007
  • Ligourian
    Calef Susan A., Coming To A Parish Near You: Luke’s Good News
    December, p. 8 - 12 2006
  • Theological Studies
    Calef Susan A., etal Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The appearance of new women and the Pauline communities
    66:4, p. 930 - 931 2005
  • Journal of Religion & Society
    Calef Susan A., Identity and experience in the New Testament
    7 2005
  • Theological Studies
    Calef Susan A., The apostle of God: Paul and the promise of Abraham; [REVIEW]
    62:3, p. 610 - 611 2001
  • Theological Studies
    Calef Susan A., Reinventing Paul
    62:1, p. 201 - 202 2001
  • Calef Susan A., The historical Jesus quest: landmarks in the search for the Jesus of history [Book Review] 2001
  • Calef Susan A., Constructing early Christian families: family as social reality and metaphor; [REVIEW] 2000
  • The Journal of religion
    Calef Susan A., Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman . Margaret Y. MacDonald
    78:4, p. 621 - 622 1998
  • Calef Susan, Margaret Y. MacDonald, 'Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman' (Book Review) 1998