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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity, has done pioneering work in biblical interpretation and feminist theology. Her teaching and research focus on questions of biblical and theological epistemology, hermeneutics, rhetoric, and the politics of interpretation, as well as on issues of theological education, radical equality, and democracy. She is a co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and has been a founding co-editor of the feminist issues of Concilium.
She was elected the first woman president of the Society of Biblical Literature and has served on the editorial boards of major biblical journals and societies. In 2001, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her published work includes In Memory of Her (translated into 14 languages); Bread Not Stone; But She Said; Discipleship of Equals; Revelation: Vision of a Just World; The Power of Naming; Jesus: Miriam's Child; Sharing Her Word; Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation; Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation; Grenzen überschreiten: Der theoretische Anspruch feministischer Theologie; and The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire. Her most recent book, Democratizing Biblical Studies Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space, will be published by Westminster John Knox Press, Harvard Divinity School go to website.
Dr. Fiorenza will receive the 2011 Jerome Award on April 26, 2011 at the Opening Awards Dinner during CLA's annual convention in New Orleans.
Jerome Award Recipients
2011 Dr. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
2010 Virgilio Elizondo (read more)
2009 Rev. Peter C. Phan (read more)
2008 David Tracy
2007 Origins, Documentary Service-CNS (website) (read more)
2006 Jay P. Dolan (read more)
2005 Joseph A. Fitzmyer, SJ (read more)
2004 Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ (Website)
2003 Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ (Website)
2002 Monika K. Hellwig
2001 Orbis Books (website)
2000 Richard A. McCormick, SJ
1999 Walter J. Burghardt, SJ
1998 Liturgical Press, Michael Naughton, OSB (website)
1997 Raymond E. Brown, SS
1996 Roland E. Murphy, O.Carm.
1995 Cistercian Publications (website)
1994 Donald Senior, CP
1993 Claudia Carlen, IHM
1992 Michael Glazier
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