
Colleen Conway, Ph.D.
Professor of Religious Studies
Department of Religion
(973) 275-5848
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Fahy Hall
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Colleen Conway, Ph.D.
Professor of Religious Studies
Department of Religion
Dr. Conway’s primary research focus is on the function of gender categories in biblical texts from literary, cultural and historical perspectives. Her book, Men and Women in the Fourth Gospel: Gender and Johannine Characterization (Scholars Press, 1999) explores the role of the female characters in the narrative of the Gospel of John. Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity (Oxford Press, 2008), examines the way the New Testament authors responded to cultural ideals about manliness in their presentations of Jesus. Dr. Conway has also co-authored An Introduction to the Bible: Sacred Texts and Imperial Contexts (Wiley Blackwell, 2010), a textbook designed for a one semester course introducing the Bible to undergraduates. Her current book project examines how artistic and literary depictions of the characters of Jael and Sisera (Judges 4-5) reflect wide-ranging cultural debates about sex and gender roles.
Education
- Ph.D., Emory University, 1997
Scholarship
- "The New Historicism and the Historical Jesus in John: Friends or Foe?" (Book Chapter) In Felix Just and Tom Thatcher (Eds.), John, Jesus and History Vol. 1 Critical Appraisals of Critical Views, Leiden/Boston: Bril, November 2007.
- Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity., Oxford University Press, 2008.
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"Philo of Alexandria and Divine Relativity." Journal for the Study of Judaism, 34(4), 471- 491, December 2003.
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"The Production of the Johannine Community: A New Historicist Approach." Journal of Biblical Literature, 121(3), 479- 495, September 2002.
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"Speaking Through Ambiguity: Minor Characters in the Fourth Gospel." Biblical Interpretation, 10, 324- 341, May 2002.
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Men and Women in the Fourth Gospel: Gender and Johannine Characterization. Society of Biblical Literature, 1999.
Accomplishments
- Recipient of $4,500 Faculty Innovation Grant from the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center, Seton Hall University. Project title: "Technology, the Bible, and Empire" (Summer 2004).
- Recipient of $7,000 Wabash Summer Research Grant (July-August 2000)