Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
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205 Major Williams |
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Ph.D. in Humanities at Florida State University, 1980.
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon came to Virginia Tech in 1980 as a member of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She was promoted to Associate and Full Professor in the Department of Religion, and was the first director of the Religious Studies Program (1994-2001), since 1995 in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and since 2003 in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies--all this without moving from Blacksburg! Most of her classes are in the area of early Christian literature (New Testament, Jesus and the Gospels, Paul and his Interpreters); she also teaches a Humanities course on The Roman World and Early Christianity and an Interdisciplinary Studies course entitled "Looking for Jesus." Malbon is nationally and internationally known for her literary studies of the Gospel of Mark. She has authored four books and co-edited three, as well as published thirty journal articles and book chapters. Professor Malbon has been an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature, serving (at different times) as regional president, member of the national program committee, and chair or co-chair of two SBL sections and steering committee member of two others. She is also an elected member of the international Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
Books:
Hearing Mark: A Listener's Guide. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2002.
In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Markís Gospel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000.
The Iconography of the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus: NEOFITVS IIT AD DEVM. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Narrative Space and Mythic Meaning in Mark. New York and San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. Paperback edition, Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.
Co-edited with Linda Bennett-Elder and David Barr, Biblical and Humane: A Festschrift for John F. Priest. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
Co-edited with Edgar V. McKnight, The New Literary Criticism and the New Testament. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994. Paperback edition, Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1994.
Co-edited with Adele Berlin, Characterization in Biblical Literature. Semeia 63. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.