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Avalos, Hector
Religious Studies Program, Iowa State University
SBL member
HectorAvalos@aol.com
Expertise: health care in the Ancient Near East and in Christianity
Interests: depictions of illness and healing in the Ancient Near East
and Western art; depiction of Hebrew writing in Western art (Renaissance
Branham, Joan
Department of Art and Art History, Providence College
SBL member
jbranham@providence.edu
Expertise: Jewish and Christian art and architecture in Late Antiquity
and the Middle Ages; theories of sacred space; early churches and synagogues
Interests: gendered space; sacrifice; blood; the Jerusalem Temple as a
motif in art; Apocalypse in art; Byzantine art
Brenner, Athalya
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
SBL member
brenner@hum.uva.nl
Expertise: Hebrew Bible; feminist criticism; literary criticism
Interests: intersection of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim art images of
biblical scenes/stories/persons
Caroselli, Susanna
Messiah College
SBL member
scarosel@messiah.edu
Expertise: art history
Interests: visual representations of women from the Hebrew Bible
Clanton, Dan
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
SBL member
danclantonjr@yahoo.com
Expertise: Second Temple period literature, especially Susanna and Judith
Interests: Bible and popular culture; biblical women in art, music, and
film
Cornelius, Izak
Department of Ancient Studies, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Not an SBL member
sakkie@sun.ac.za
Expertise: Ancient Near Eastern religious iconography
Interest: Bible in South African art; information technology and digital
sources
Dodds, Juliet
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
SBL member
Juliet-Dodds@garrett.edu
Expertise: New Testament
Interests: illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages; how shifts in
technology and medium influence interpretation
Fine, Steven
University of Cincinnati
SBL member
steven.fine@uc.edu
Expertise: Jewish art and archaeology; rabbinic literature; Jewish history
during late antiquity
Interests: Jewish art and archaeology
Fuchs, Linda
Not an SBL member
laf4laf@yahoo.com
Expertise: Early Christian art of the 3rd century (sarcophagi)
Interests: Old Testament in the New Testament; Early Christian iconography
Gaerlan, Martin
De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
Not an SBL member
(Submitted e-mail address not current.)
Expertise: Trinitarian iconography
Interests: visual/text interaction in biblical art; teaching Scripture
using visual art
Hornik, Heidi J
Baylor University
SBL member
Heidi_Hornik@baylor.edu
Expertise: Italian Renaissance and Baroque art history
Interests: theology and the visual arts; sixteenth-century Italian art
and history; application of New Testament themes by Italian Renaissance
and Baroque painters
Horsfield-Porter, Gail
The University of Sheffield
SBL member
gail@todshak.demon.co.uk
Expertise: the characterization of Mary, mother of Jesus, in contemporary
film
Interests: characterization of biblical women in film, media, and the
arts from a feminist perspective, psychoanalytic theory
Jensen, Robin
Andover Newton Theological School
SBL member
rjensen@ants.edu
Expertise: Early Christian iconography and architecture
Interests: theology and the arts generally
Leyda, Chris
Princeton Theological Seminary
SBL member
christopher.leyda@ptsem.edu
Expertise:
Interests: Hebrew Bible and the use of Ancient Near Eastern art for the
interpretation of biblical texts; narrative art (literary and visual)
Lindsay, Karen
Northwest Christian College
Not an SBL member
lindkare@nwcc.edu
Expertise: Early Christian Art, Literature, Liturgy
Interests: Christian visual art
Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers
Religious Studies Program, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University
SBL member
malbon@vt.edu
Expertise: New Testament: narrative criticism of the Gospel of Mark; iconography
of Early Christian sarcophagi
Interests: Early Christian iconography; pedagogical aspects of the visual
arts for biblical studies
Parsons, Mikeal
Baylor University
SBL member
Mike_Parsons@baylor.edu
Expertise: New Testament; Luke/Acts
Interests: Italian renaissance and baroque art as examples of “visual
exegesis” of NT texts
Rubin, Shirah
(No affiliation listed)
Not an SBL member
shirahtova@aol.com
Expertise: Jewish art
Interest: Hebrew illuminated manuscripts
Torvend, Samuel
Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, Washington)
Not an SBL member
torvensa@plu.edu
Expertise: Early Christian architecture and ritual; 16th-century Western
religious art and architecture
Interests: method in visual and ritual interpretations of the Bible; teaching
religion and the visual arts; meaning in Western religious architecture
Vander Stichele, Caroline
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
SBL member
stichele@hum.uva.nl
Expertise: New Testament studies
Interest: reception of "evil" biblical women in art; Bible and
modern media (especially film and internet)
Vrudny, Kimberly
University of St. Thomas
Not an SBL member
kjvrudny@stthomas.edu
Expertise: theological aesthetics, historical theology
Interests: medieval iconography, documentary photography
Yee, Gale A.
Episcopal Divinity School
SBL member
gyee@episdivschool.edu
Expertise: Hebrew Bible
Interests: the visual representation of women in painting and sculpture;
the reinterpretation of the biblical text by artists