Newsom, Carol A.
CHARLES HOWARD CANDLER PROFESSOR OF OLD TESTAMENT
Dr. Newsom's recent research focuses on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Wisdom tradition, and apocalyptic literature. Current projects include a translation of the Qumran Hodayot (in press; Discoveries in the Judean Desert Series), a commentary on the book of Daniel for the OTL series, and a monograph,
The Rhetorics of Good and Evil in Biblical Literature. She is also co-editor with Sharon Ringe and Jacqueline Lapsley of the forthcoming
Handbook of Feminist Biblical Theology (Westminster John Knox Press).
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School, 1975
A.B., Birmingham-Southern College, 1971
Selected Publications
Books
The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran (2004)
The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (2003)
New Oxford Annotated Bible (2001), coedit
or
Angelic Liturgy: Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (1999)
The Women's Bible Commentary: Expanded Edition (1998), coeditor and contributor
Qumran Cave 4: VI: Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 1 (1998), contributor
Job (New Interpreter's Bible, vol. 4, 1996)
Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice: A Critical Edition (1985)
