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Elna K. Solvang Educational Background: Ph.D. (Biblical Studies), Princeton Theological Seminary Dissertation Title: A Woman’s Place is in the House: Royal Women of Judah and Their Involvement in the House of David Master of Arts, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Bachelor of Science, Special and Elementary Education (summa cum laude), University of Hartford Archaeology: Team Member of the 1996 Megiddo Expedition; dig directors Professors David Ussishkin and Israel Finkelstein; course work arranged through Tel Aviv University
Professional Experience: Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN: Spring 2000 - present Instructor, Department of Religion, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN: Fall 1998 – Spring 2000
Courses taught: Biblical Hebrew; Texts and Community in the Old Testament; Christianity and Religious Diversity; Women, Religion and Literature; Interpretation of the Bible; Advanced Religion Seminar: “Scripture and Difference” (Spring 2003; an anthology of essays from this class is published on-line at http://www4.cord.edu/religion/journals/identity/Default.htm); Senior Religion Seminar: “Love and Desire” (Fall 2003)
Princeton Theological Seminary Teaching Fellowships: Introduction to Old Testament: Fall 1994, 1995, 1997; also tutor Fall 1994, 1995 Old Testament Theology of Community: Spring 1997 Biblical Hebrew: Summer 1996 Introduction to New Testament (tutor): Spring 1996 Teaching the Bible as Liberating Word: Spring 1995 Department Assistant, Biblical Studies: Fall 1996 Research Assistant to Professor Katharine Doob Sakenfeld: Spring 1996
Other Professional PositionsCommission for Women, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Chicago, IL) Assistant Executive Director and Director of Education and Training Division for Mission in North America, Lutheran Church in America (New York, NY) Assistant to the Executive Director Director for Women in Church and Society (1985-87) Memberships:
Scholarly Projects and Publications: Publications: “Another Look ‘Inside’: Harems and the Interpretation of Women” in Orientalism, Assyriology, and the Bible, ed. Steven W. Holloway (forthcoming Sheffield Phoenix Press) Entries on “Exodus 19-20,” “Lament Psalms,” “Text criticism/2 Sam 13:21,” and “The Book of Ruth” in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction, eds. Patrick Gray and Mark Roncace (forthcoming The Society of Biblical Literature, Resources for Biblical Study series) “Thinking Critically: The Bible, the First Year Student and Diversity,” Teaching Theology and Religion, 7:4 (2004), 222-229. “Teaching Difference: College Students and the Bible,” invited article published on-line in the February 2004 SBL-Forum, http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=224 A Woman’s Place is in the House: Royal Women of Judah and their Involvement in the House of David, JSOTSup 349, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003. “Images of God,” The Lutheran, November 2001 http://www.thelutheran.org/0111/page32.html “Fear, Reality, Freedom and Hope: A Meditation on Mary and on Luke 1:26-28,” in Lutheran Woman Today, December 1993; reprinted in the John Milton Society Magazine, December 1994 “A Time To: Encourage the full participation of women; Hear and encourage the voices of women in theology and teaching; Promote justice for women in church and society” (a 3-part resource packet published by the ELCA Commission for Women, 1992)
Presentations“Remember the Ninevites: Seeing Evil, Doing Mercy,” Loyola College, Baltimore, September 2004 “‘Let them have dominion: Genesis 1 as a starting point for an ethics of power,” Upper Midwest SBL/AAR Regional Meeting, April 2004 “The Church and Homosexuality,” Northwest Minnesota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, January 2004 “Images of God that Promote Peace, Justice and Unity,” The Universalist-Unitarian Church, Fargo, ND, January 2004 “Thinking Critically: The Bible, the First Year Student and Diversity,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 2003 “Biblical Images of Peace,” Church Women United of Fargo-Moorhead, November 2003 “Coming to College: Changing Perspectives on Race in the First Year,” The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning, November 2002 “The Book of Ruth” (3 week series), Jan-Feb 2002 “Transforming Leadership,” Theological Conference of the Nebraska Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (3 presentations), November 4-6, 2001 “Teaching the Book of Job,” Concordia College Principia Faculty, May 2001 and August 2002 “Faithful and Daring: Women in the Old Testament,” Fargo-Moorhead “Communiversity” program (4 sessions) February 2001 “Judges, Priests, and Kings” Princeton Theological Seminary, Old Testament Theology of Community, March 1997 “Post-Exilic Prophecy and Apocalyptic,” Princeton Theological Seminary, Introduction to Old Testament, December 1995 “The Royal Women of Israel and Judah: Perspectives on Royal Theology,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 1994 Awards and Grants Concordia College Summer Study Grant, July 2004 Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Summer Study Grant: travel and research in Tanzania and South Africa, June – July 2003 Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion 2002 Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Pre-Tenure Religion Faculty at Church-Related Colleges and Universities, July 2002 – July 2003 Concordia College Summer Study Grant, July 2001 Princeton Theological Seminary Presidential Scholarship, 1993-1997 Travel Israel, Greece, South East Asia, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Scandinavia, Tanzania and South Africa
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