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), which was a part of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, then the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, and now the Department of Religion and Culture—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, and she is nationally and internationally known for her literary studies of the Gospel of Mark. Dr. Malbon has authored five books and edited or co-edited four books, as well as writing thirty-one journal articles and book chapters. Professor Malbon has been an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature, serving as regional president, member of the national program committee, and chair or co-chair of two national program units and steering committee member of two others. She is a frequent presenter of papers to regional, national, and international meetings and an elected member of the international Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
Books:
Mark's Jesus: Characterization as Narrative Christology. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2009.
Hearing Mark: A Listener's Guide. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2002.
In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark’s 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.
Edited Volumes:
Between Author and Audience in Mark: Narration, Characterization, Interpretation. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009.
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.