Colby College
4000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
P: 207-859-4000
 
Carleen R. Mandolfo
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies


Office: Lovejoy 346
Phone: 207-859-4645
Fax: 859-4425
Email:

Mailing Address:
4640 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8846

Semester Schedule
Education

Ph.D. Emory University, 2000, Hebrew Bible
M.A. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1993, Theology, concentration in Bible
B.A. Calif. State University, S.F., 1986, Radio and Television

Areas of Expertise:
  • The Bible, especially the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
  • Literary approaches to the Bible
  • Ancient Judaism
  • Ancient Israelite ritual and prayer, especially lament
  • The Bible and culture (including violence studies; and film and literature)
  • Post-Holocaust theological approaches

View Curriculum Vitae

Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations (Forthcoming, SBL/Brill)

"Psalm 88 and the Holocaust: Lament in Search of a Divine Response" (Forthcoming, Biblical Interpretation)

"'You Meant Evil Against Me': Dialogic Truth and the Character of Jacob in The Joseph Story" (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, June 2004)

Relating to the Text: Form-critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Bible (editor; New York: T & T Clark, 2003)

From Earth's Creation to John's Revelation: The Interfaces Biblical Storyline Companion; with Barbara Green and Catherine Murphy (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2003)

God in the Dock: Dialogic Tension in Psalms of Lament (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002)

"Finding Their Voices: Sanctioned Subversion in Psalms of Lament" Horizons in Biblical Theology (2001)