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Carleen R. Mandolfo
Sabbatical: 09/01/2011 -
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

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

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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)