Theology and Religious Studies
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Dr Johanna Stiebert
Biblical Studies Lecturer
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Johanna Stiebert studied Biblical Hebrew and Hebrew Bible at Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand), Cambridge and Glasgow. She has taught Hebrew language, Hebrew Bible and Judaism courses at St. Martin's College, Lancaster (1998-1999, now the University of Cumbria), the University of Botswana (1999-2002) and the University of Tennessee (2003-2009) before joining the Department in Leeds in September of 2009.
Her academic interests include Biblical Hebrew philology and semantics of self-conscious emotions, ideological-critical readings of Hebrew Bible Prophets and contemporary African-centred readings of Hebrew Bible texts. She is working on a book on depictions of father-daughter relationships in the Hebrew Bible.
Dr Stiebert is taught postgraduate tutor.
Research Interests
- Emotion terminology of the Hebrew Bible
- Ideological sub-texts of prophetic Hebrew Bible literature
- Reading Hebrew Bible texts in the light of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
- Social-scientific criticism of the Hebrew Bible
- Family relationships in the Hebrew Bible
- The Hebrew Bible and human rights
- Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew
Research Supervision
Dr Stiebert welcomes applications from students wishing to conduct research on Biblical Hebrew philology and/or literature of the Hebrew Bible and feminist, social-scientific and ideological criticism.
Publications
Books
The Exile and the Prophet's Wife: Historic Events and Marginal Perspectives. Interfaces
Series. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2005.
The Construction of Shame in the Hebrew Bible: The Prophetic Contribution. (JSOT
Supplement Series 346.) Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
Refereed articles
'The African Holocaust: What Is In a Name?' (Forthcoming in Missionalia 36/1 2008.)
'Shame and the Body in Psalms and Lamentations of the Hebrew Bible and in Thanksgiving Hymns from Qumran.' Old Testament Essays 20/3 (2007): 798-829.
'The Inculcation of Social Behaviour in Proverbs.' Old Testament Essays 17/2 (2004): 282-
293.
'Human Suffering and Divine Abuse of Power in Lamentations: Reflections on Forgiveness in
the Context of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Process.' Pacifica16 (2003): 195-215.
'Riches in Isaiah and Ezekiel: An Example of Prophetic Inversion.' Concilium 2002/1 (The
Many Voices of the Bible), 33-40 (English edition).
'The Woman Metaphor of Ezekiel 16 and 23: A Victim of Violence, or a Symbol of Subversion?' Old Testament Essays 15/1 (2002): 200-08.
'Does the Hebrew Bible Have Anything to Say About Homosexuality?' (co-authored with Jerome T. Walsh) Old Testament Essays 14/1 (2001): 119-52.
'Does the Hebrew Bible Have Anything to Tell Us About HIV/AIDS?'
Missionalia 29/2 (2001): 174-85. (Republished in revised form in HIV/AIDS and the
Curriculum: Methods of Integrating HIV/AIDS in Theological Programmes, ed. by Musa W.
Dube, Geneva: World Council of Churches Publications, 2003, 24-34.)
'Homosexuality in Botswana and in the Hebrew Bible.' All Africa Journal of Theology 1/1(Africa Challenge) (2001): 21-29. (Republished in revised form in Verbum et Ecclesia 23/1 (2002): 196-208.)
'Shame and Prophecy: Approaches Past and Present.' Biblical Interpretation 8/3 (2000): 255-
75.
Contribution to a book
'The Bible: The History of Interpretation and Methods,' in Amanze, James N. and F. Nkomazana and O. Kealotswe (eds.), An Introduction to the Study of Theology, Religion and Philosophy. University of Malawi (Kachere Series) (forthcoming).
'Diagnosing Ezekiel' (178-79), 'Ezekiel's Inaugural Vision' (179-80), 'Lamentations: Reading
Poetry of Distress in Distressing Times' (228-29), three separate contributions in Roncace,
Mark and Patrick Gray (eds.), Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom
Instruction. SBL Resources for Biblical Study. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2005.
'Women's Sexuality and Stigma in Genesis and the Prophets,' in Dube, M. W. and M.
Kanyoro (eds.), Grant Me Justice! HIV/AIDS and Gender Readings of the Bible
New York: Orbis and Natal: Cluster, 2004, 81-97.
'The Maligned Patriarch: Prophetic Ideology and the "Bad Press" of Esau,' in Hunter, A G and P R Davies (eds.), Sense and Sensitivity: Essays on Reading the Bible in Memory of Robert Carroll (JSOT Supplement Series 348), 33-48.Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2004.
'Material "Supplementary" to Biblical Literature' & 'What is the Relationship
of The Qumran Community to the Essenes?,' in Barclay, J M G (ed), Frequently Asked
Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls, 15-20 and 34-39. Glasgow: Trinity St Mungo Press,
1998.
Non-refereed article:
Stiebert, J and Walsh, J T 2001. Chaos Cries For A King (Judges 19-21). The Bible Today
39/4, 210-15.