Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Keywords: early Christianity, New Testament, Christian apocrypha, feminist hermeneutics, Augustine of Hippo

About Me: Sheila E. M^cGinn, PhD (Northwestern University, 1989), Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, currently serves as Chair in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at John Carroll University, the Jesuit university in Cleveland.

A frequent lecturer and author of numerous articles and books, her main areas of interest concern the development of the earliest churches (including “dissenting” movements) and of early Christian writings in their social and cultural environments. Her range of works include commentaries on the Gospel According to Matthew, the Montanist Oracles, and the Acts of Thecla; a comprehensive bibliography on the Book of Revelation; and studies on several letters in the Pauline corpus. She also contributes to the scholarship on “engaged” methods of adult pedagogy.

Her most recent works include The Jesus Movement and the World of the Early Church (Winona, MN: Anselm Academic Press, 2014), and By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014; co-edited with Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan and Ahida Calderón Pilarski). She currently is writing a socio-rhetorical commentary on the apocryphal Acts of Thecla.

Recent Publications: Her most recent works include The Jesus Movement and the World of the Early Church (Winona, MN: Anselm Academic Press, 2014), and By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014; co-edited with Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan and Ahida Calderón Pilarski).