National Guest Speaker: Dr. Catherine Clark Kroeger

Catherine Clark Kroeger holds a doctorate in classical area studies with a specialty of women in ancient religion. She is ranked adjunct associate professor of classical and ministry studies at Gordon Conwell Seminary. Her particular emphasis is upon the biblical basis for women's equality in church, home, and society. Her publications include the following "I Suffer Not a Woman" (another look at the context of I Timothy 2:9-19), "The IVP Women's Bible Commentary", "A Study Bible for Women", "No Place for Abuse" (now in its seventh printing) and "Refuge from Abuse" She has served as founding president of Christians for Biblical Equality and Peace and Safety in the Christian Home

Education:

Ph.D., Classical Area Studies, University of Minnesota, 1987.

M.A., Greek, University of Minnesota.1982

A.B., Bryn Mawr College. Major in English, minor in Greek.

Area of Specialization: Women in Ancient Religion, especially women and the Apostle Paul. Great Africans of the Bible and Early Church. Human Sexuality and the Biblical Mandate. Domestic abuse and the Bible.

Other concentrations:
Greek New Testament, the social context of the New Testament and early Church, Luke-Acts, History of Western Asia Minor, Greco-Roman religions, the ancient family, Christian ethics and ancient pagan attitudes toward sexuality, women and the Bible, female leadership in the early Church, women and spirituality.
Dissertation topic: The Nachleben of Euripides' Antiope: The Heroine's Transformation into a Mystagogue and an Element in the Justification of Zeus.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Adjunct associate professor of classical and ministry studies at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary Protestant

Chaplain and lecturer in department of religion, Hamilton College.(licensed lay preacher under Utica Presbytery)

Teaching Associate in Biblical and Classical Greek, University of Minnesota

PUBLICATIONS:

Currently engaged on biblical project for Oxford University Press.

Co-author of Refuge from Abuse. Healing and Hope for the Abused Christian Woman. InterVarsity Press, 2004.

Co-editor of Inter Varsity Press's IVP Bible Commentary for Women, (912 pages), 2002.

Co-editor of Reflections Biblical and Otherwise on Sexuality. Reformation Press, 2001

Co-author of No Place for Abuse, InterVarsityPress, 2001

Co-editor of Women, Abuse and the Bible: How the Scriptures Can Be Used to Hurt or to Heal, Baker Book House: Grand Rapids, MI, 1996.

Co-editor of Healing the Hurting: Help and Hope for the Abused Woman. Baker Book House, 1998

Member of editorial board of Journal of Abuse and Religion.

Contributor to Putting Women in Their Place: Moving Beyond

Gender Stereotypes in Church and Home Joe E. Trull and Audra E. Trull (Editors), Smyth and Helwys. 2002

Contributor to Violence against Women and Children: a Christian Theological Sourcebook. ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York:Continuum Publishing Co., 1995

Contributor to Caught in the Crossfire, Sally Geis and Donald Messer, eds. Abingdon/Cokesbury, 1994.

Co-editor (along with Elaine Storkey and Mary Evans) of Women's Study New Testament, London: HarperCollinsReligious, 1995 and Study Bible for Women: The New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1996.
Author, (In collaboration with my husband) I Suffer Not a Woman: Rethinking I Timothy 2:12 in the Light of Ancient Evidence. Baker Book House:1992. Now being released in German, by Brockhaus Verlag