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College of Arts and Sciences

Religion Faculty

The faculty members of the Department of Religion are world-renown scholars with a vast history of research and scholarship in areas such as the Gospels and early Christianity, modern Jewish thought and interfaith theology, among many others. In addition to publishing a voluminous number of books and papers, faculty members serve on the editorial boards of many of the most prestigious journals in the field, including the Biblical Theology Bulletin, the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Journal of Biblical Literature. The department’s professors are also highly esteemed speakers and, in just one recent year, delivered invited lectures at universities throughout the world, including Yale University, Emory University, the University of Pennsylvania and Wuhan University in China.

Issam Aburaya
Issam Aburaya
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
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Alan Brill
Rabbi Alan Brill
Cooperman/Ross Endowed Chair for Jewish-Christian Studies and Director of Graduate Studies
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Charles Carter
Charles Carter
Professor of Religious Studies
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Colleen Conway
Colleen Conway
Professor of Religious Studies and Chair
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Father Frizzell
Lawrence Frizzell
Associate Professor, Jewish-Christian Studies Graduate Program
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Ines Murzaku
Ines Murzaku
Professor of Religion and Director of Catholic Studies Program
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Anthony Sciglitano
Anthony Sciglitano
Associate Professor of Religion and Executive Director of the Sister Rose Thering Fund for Education in Jewish-Christian Studies
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Rachel Slutsky
Monsignor John Oesterreicher Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity
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Adjunct Faculty

Dawrell Rich
Dawrell Rich
Adjunct Professor
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Faculty Emeritus

Peter Ahr
Peter Ahr
Professor Emeritus of Religion
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Richard Liddy
Richard Liddy
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
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Webb
Gisela Goodrich Webb
Professor Emerita of Religious Studies
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Affiliated Faculty

David OpderbeckDavid Opderbeck
Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Privacy Protection, and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute for Law, Science and Technology
Seton Hall Law