Carolyn J Sharp
Biographic Data
| ID | 9506337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn J Sharp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharp |
| SIGNATURE | SHARP C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Eco-Preaching and Spiritual Formation for the Living Community of Earth
Preachers attuned to the climate crisis have a vital role to play in fostering ecospiritual practices that can sustain communities in times of threat and catalyze action for change. This essay explores three vectors of spiritual formation beneficial for the healing of the planet: the practice of ecologically focused preaching, the development of an ethics of interspecies kinship, and the tending of networks for spiritual transformation. The essay…
Genesis 25
The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets
This volume explores historical, literary, and ideological dimensions of the books of the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible—Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Book of the Twelve—along with Daniel. The prophetic books comprise oracles, narratives, and vision reports from ancient Israel and Judah spanning several centuries. Analysis of these texts sheds light on the cultural norms, theological convictions, and political disputes of Israelite and …
The Prophets and Ethics
Christian ethicists and social justice activists regularly draw upon blistering critiques of religious and political hypocrisy and corruption found in the Hebrew Bible prophets. This chapter concentrates on distinctive methods of ethicists and activists for appropriating and engaging them. Three differing approaches are explored. Walter Rauschenbusch considered the prophets to be essential to Christian moral history. Emilie Townes constructs Afri…
Genre Criticism and the Prophets
This chapter offers a current explanation of the term “genre,” to distinguish it from form, and then proposes twenty-five genres that are found typically and frequently in the Latter Prophets. For each genre, a definition is offered, and a biblical text is instanced, with the shape, function, and effect of the genre suggested. The genres include the following: allegory; argument a minori ad maius ; call/commission; day of the Lord saying; dialogu…
Womanist Approaches to the Prophets
Womanist approaches to interpreting the prophets stand among other liberationist interpretive traditions, in which the intersections of the ways in which gender, race, class, and sexuality, among other identity markers, are taken into consideration when reading and making sense of the text. The role of how power is shared or wielded also matters in Womanist interpretations. This chapter provides examples of Womanist interpretative strategies by e…
Textual Criticism of the Prophetic Corpus
This chapter provides an introduction to the essential issues, questions, and methods of textual criticism of the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Twelve Minor Prophets). Particular focus is put on their major textual witnesses, i.e. the Masoretic Text (MT), the Septuagint as the oldest pre-Christian translation of the biblical text (LXX), the Qumran fragments of the prophetic corpus, and the Vulgate. The chapte…
The Prophet as Persona
Taking the discussion of persona in literary theory as its point of departure, the chapter examines first the presentation of prophets in twentieth-century historical-critical scholarship. Here, the interest was moving from the early focus on the prophet as an historical person (e.g. Duhm, Skinner, Rudolph) to the historical background and development of the prophetic book (e.g. Zimmerli, Holladay, Carroll). Second, the genre of prophetic books i…
The Prophets and Pastoral Care
This article examines intersections between pastoral care and the prophets, and how each shapes personal and communal well-being. Traditionally, pastoral care has been understood as a field concerned with individual healing, while the prophets have been identified with social transformation. This bifurcated view is challenged and reframed in light of textual analysis and contemporary theory. The complex connections and disconnections raised by th…
Medieval Reception of the Prophets
The chapter explores reception of the prophets in the context of broader questions about the Bible in medieval culture. The introduction complicates the legacy of the term “medieval.” It then examines a significant aspect of the medieval mentalité , the perception of biblical time as simultaneously punctiliar and linear, as key to understanding the interplay between Old Testament prophets and medieval society. The chapter argues that the prophets…
Divine Daughters of Divine Mothers
Patriarchal culture, Luce Irigaray reminds us, is an exclusivist culture among men. Its intolerance of difference isolates women and strips them of their subjectivity. Women are thus reduced to their biological capacity to satisfy men's erotic, social and procreative needs. 1 The consequence of this culture for the female child is also important. Unwelcome daughters are excluded from paternal society as fathers seek the sameness of the sons who c…
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Divine Daughters of Divine Mothers
Patriarchal culture, Luce Irigaray reminds us, is an exclusivist culture among men. Its intolerance of difference isolates women and strips them of their subjectivity. Women are thus reduced to their biological capacity to satisfy men's erotic, social and procreative needs. 1 The consequence of this culture for the female child is also important. Unwelcome daughters are excluded from paternal society as fathers seek the sameness of the sons who c…
The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets
This volume explores historical, literary, and ideological dimensions of the books of the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible—Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Book of the Twelve—along with Daniel. The prophetic books comprise oracles, narratives, and vision reports from ancient Israel and Judah spanning several centuries. Analysis of these texts sheds light on the cultural norms, theological convictions, and political disputes of Israelite and …
The Prophets and Ethics
Christian ethicists and social justice activists regularly draw upon blistering critiques of religious and political hypocrisy and corruption found in the Hebrew Bible prophets. This chapter concentrates on distinctive methods of ethicists and activists for appropriating and engaging them. Three differing approaches are explored. Walter Rauschenbusch considered the prophets to be essential to Christian moral history. Emilie Townes constructs Afri…
Genre Criticism and the Prophets
This chapter offers a current explanation of the term “genre,” to distinguish it from form, and then proposes twenty-five genres that are found typically and frequently in the Latter Prophets. For each genre, a definition is offered, and a biblical text is instanced, with the shape, function, and effect of the genre suggested. The genres include the following: allegory; argument a minori ad maius ; call/commission; day of the Lord saying; dialogu…
Womanist Approaches to the Prophets
Womanist approaches to interpreting the prophets stand among other liberationist interpretive traditions, in which the intersections of the ways in which gender, race, class, and sexuality, among other identity markers, are taken into consideration when reading and making sense of the text. The role of how power is shared or wielded also matters in Womanist interpretations. This chapter provides examples of Womanist interpretative strategies by e…
Textual Criticism of the Prophetic Corpus
This chapter provides an introduction to the essential issues, questions, and methods of textual criticism of the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Twelve Minor Prophets). Particular focus is put on their major textual witnesses, i.e. the Masoretic Text (MT), the Septuagint as the oldest pre-Christian translation of the biblical text (LXX), the Qumran fragments of the prophetic corpus, and the Vulgate. The chapte…
The Prophet as Persona
Taking the discussion of persona in literary theory as its point of departure, the chapter examines first the presentation of prophets in twentieth-century historical-critical scholarship. Here, the interest was moving from the early focus on the prophet as an historical person (e.g. Duhm, Skinner, Rudolph) to the historical background and development of the prophetic book (e.g. Zimmerli, Holladay, Carroll). Second, the genre of prophetic books i…
The Prophets and Pastoral Care
This article examines intersections between pastoral care and the prophets, and how each shapes personal and communal well-being. Traditionally, pastoral care has been understood as a field concerned with individual healing, while the prophets have been identified with social transformation. This bifurcated view is challenged and reframed in light of textual analysis and contemporary theory. The complex connections and disconnections raised by th…
Medieval Reception of the Prophets
The chapter explores reception of the prophets in the context of broader questions about the Bible in medieval culture. The introduction complicates the legacy of the term “medieval.” It then examines a significant aspect of the medieval mentalité , the perception of biblical time as simultaneously punctiliar and linear, as key to understanding the interplay between Old Testament prophets and medieval society. The chapter argues that the prophets…
Genesis 25
Eco-Preaching and Spiritual Formation for the Living Community of Earth
Preachers attuned to the climate crisis have a vital role to play in fostering ecospiritual practices that can sustain communities in times of threat and catalyze action for change. This essay explores three vectors of spiritual formation beneficial for the healing of the planet: the practice of ecologically focused preaching, the development of an ethics of interspecies kinship, and the tending of networks for spiritual transformation. The essay…
Philosophy (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)