Jennifer Knust

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Jennifer Knust
Jennifer Wright Knust
Born20th century
Alma materUniversity of Illinois
AwardsHonorary Member of Alpha Sigma Nu
Scientific career
FieldsNew Testament and early Christian history
InstitutionsCollege of the Holy Cross, Duke University,[1] Boston University College of Arts and Sciences

Jennifer W. Knust is an American associate professor of religious studies at the College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University. She is primarily occupied with the importance of gendered discourses to the production of an early Christian identity. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois in 1988. During the period of 1991-1993 she served as pastor of Baptist Church in Schuylkill, Philadelphia.[2] She entered Columbia University in the fall of 1993,[3] where she went on to obtain a master's degree in religion and then a Ph.D. in 1997 and 2001, respectively.[2] Jennifer Knust is a member of the American Academy in Rome and has received numerous awards and fellowships including an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship.[4][1] She has published two monographs and a number of papers.

In December 2017, she took part in a lawsuit against William V. Harris and testified that he sexually harassed her in the 1990s.[3]

Selected publications[]

  • Jennifer Wright Knust (9 November 2005). Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-51004-2.[5]
  • Jennifer Wright Knust (February 7, 2012). Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire. . ISBN 978-0061725395.
  • Jennifer Knust, book review of Jennifer Glancy's Slavery in Early Christianity and J. Albert Hill's Slaves in the New Testament, Journal of Roman Religion, 2009, 406-409.
  • Knust, Jennifer; Wasserman, Tommy (2019). To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691203126.[6][7]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Jennifer Wright Knust F'12, F'03". American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b CV
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Wang, Vivian. "At Columbia, Three Women, 30 Years and a Pattern of Harassment". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Jennifer Knust Deepens Her Understanding of Late Antique and Early Medieval Christians". American Academy in Rome. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  5. ^ Benjamin H. Dunning (Fordham University), book review of Knust's Abandoned to Lust (The Journal of Religion. Volume 89, Number 1)
  6. ^ Castelli, Elizabeth A. (2020). "To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story. By Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman". Church History. 89 (2): 414–415. doi:10.1017/S0009640720000670.
  7. ^ Roth, Dieter T. (2019). "To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story by Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman (review)". Journal of Early Christian Studies. 27 (4): 679–681. doi:10.1353/earl.2019.0062.

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