Sr. Barbara Green, O.P.
Professor of Biblical Studies
Office phone: (510) 883-2076
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B.A., Dominican College, San Rafael, CA; M.A., Graduate Theological Union; Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union and the University of California at Berkeley
recommended reading
Every course I teach has as its main goal that all of us increase our capacity to read biblical material better (than before) and to understand more deeply what we are doing.
Sr. Barbara coordinates questions of meaning as well as standard critical methods through different modes of interpreting, such as visual art or creative writing to explore the interface between biblical studies and biblical spirituality. She addresses how scholarship aids the appropriating of meaning in scripture. Her primary goal is to promote the growth and the development of the student as a learner. By fostering a student's learning, Sr. Barbara helps make a student a better teacher. Sr. Barbara acknowledges the dynamic relationships between teacher and student and student to student which she uses to provide better learning and teaching opportunities, such as group projects, study groups, mentoring and research assistants. It is not unusual for Sr. Barbara to apply for fellowships and then employ her best students to work with her on research, teaching and various other projects.
The courses Sr. Barbara Green teaches are:
- Biblical Hebrew
- Old Testament Surveys: General, Pentateuch, Prophets, Wisdom
- specialty courses at the doctoral level
Her special interests include Biblical Studies, Biblical Spirituality; Hermeneutics; Early Biblical narratives, Genesis, 1 Samuel, Jonah, and the Wisdom of Solomon.
Sr. Barbara Green is currently working on the Book of Deuteronomy and its rich complexity, on issues of the Bible and violence, and on some fiction project that will allow us greater access to God's ways of speaking with us.
Sr. Barbara is a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Congregation of the Most Holy Name, from 1964 to present. Sr. Barbara has been teaching at the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology for fifteen years. Before that she taught at Dominican College in San Rafael and was responsible for their Humanities Program.
Select Publications
Jonah’s Journeys. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2005.
How are the Mighty Fallen? A Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 Samuel. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.
King Saul's Asking. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2003.
From Earth's Creation to John's Revelation: The Interfaces Biblical Storyline Companion, with Carleen Mandolfo and Catherine Murphy. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2003.
Mikhail Bakhtin and Biblical Scholarship: An Introduction. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2000.
"'But Why Do We Have to Know That?' Preaching and Critical Biblical Study" in At the Service of the Holy Preaching, ed. Michael Monshau, O.P. Dublin: Dominican Publications, 2006.
"The Wisdom of Solomon and the Solomon of Wisdom: Tradition's Transpositions and Human Transformation." Horizons 30.1 (2003): 41-66. (pdf version 118K)
"The Engaging Nuances of Genre: Reading Saul and Michal Afresh." in Relating to the Text: Form-critical and Interdisciplinary Insights into the Bible, a festschrift for Martin Buss, eds. Carleen Mandolfo and Timothy Sandoval. London: T&T Clark International 2003:141-59.
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