The Reverend Cynthia Briggs Kittredge
Professor of the Ernest J. Villavaso, Jr. Chair in New Testament
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Educating preachers and teachers to be conscious and responsible interpreters of Scripture, Professor Kittredge is committed to giving students the exegetical and interpretive tools both to appreciate and to critically engage with the Biblical texts for theological refection. Her research specialty is hermeneutics and the letters of Paul. Professor Kittredge, a contributor to the new Oxford Annotated Bible, is the author of Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of John and Community and Authority: The Rhetoric of Obedience in the Pauline Tradition. She co-edited The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Prior to joining the seminary faculty in the fall of 1999, Professor Kittredge taught at Harvard University and the College of the Holy Cross. She serves as Assisting Priest at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Austin.
B.A., Williams College. MDIV, Th.M. and Th.D., Harvard Divinity School.
