Adjunct Faculty (Old Testament Theology)

About

Dr. Kirsten Gardner earned her PhD in Old Testament Theology from Fuller Seminary (2017).  Her dissertation, “Reading Judges 19:  A Study of Narrated Apostasy and Literary Representations of Violence,” utilized narrative interpretive approaches in its reading of the text.  In truth, she just had a lot of questions about this specific text and a PhD seemed the easiest path to find answers. 

Dr. Gardner is an ordained priest in the Anglican Church of North America, Diocese of Pittsburgh, and enjoys preaching from the Old Testament, pretty much as often as possible.

She has been married to Mark since 1988. 

Education
PhD, Fuller Seminary
MA, Fuller Seminary
MS, Chatham University
BA, UC Berkley

Work
“Hidden in Plain Sight: Intertextuality and Judges 19,” in Second Wave Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible.  Resources for Biblical Studies #93. Edited by Marianne Grohmann and Huyn Chul Paul Kim. Atlanta:  SBL Press, 2019.

“Ashima,” “Elat,” and “Athirat” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions.  Edited by Eric Orlin.  London:  Routledge, 2016.

“Action and Counter-Action:  Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba,” in Gender Agenda Matters:  Papers of the ‘Feminist Section’ of the International Meetings of The Society of Biblical Literature.  Edited by Irmtraud Fischer.  Cambridge:  Cambridge Scholars, 2015.