Kittredge new AABS president
Feb 16, 2009
Southwest professor elected president of Anglican biblical scholars group
The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, professor of New Testament, has been elected president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars (AABS).
One of Professor Kittredge's books - Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of John - is a volume in the AABS series of books for congregations.
Long active in the AABS, Dr. Kittredge will serve a three-year term as president. She succeeds the Rev. Dr. Ellen Bradshaw Aitken.
Professor Kittredge, who joined Southwest's faculty in 1999 and was promoted to full professor by the seminary's board of trustees in February, specializes in hermeneutics and the letters of Paul.
A contributor to the new Oxford Annotated Bible, she is the author of several books - the latest being The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times which she co-edited with Dr. Aitken and Jonathan Draper.
The association (www.aabs.org) supports biblical scholarship at all levels throughout the Anglican Communion. Its scholar members are affiliated with the churches of the Anglican Communion, including the Episcopal Church in the U.S., the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Church of England. AABS is dedicated to fostering greater involvement of biblical scholars in the life of Anglican churches, and to promoting the development of resources for biblical studies in Anglican theological education.
The group was founded following the meeting of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature in Kansas City in 1991, in response to an informal call from the Rev. Dr. Michael Floyd, former professor of Old Testament at Seminary of the Southwest, to all Episcopalians who wished to meet to discuss the problems and issues facing teachers and students of the Bible in Episcopal seminaries, colleges, churches and other institutions. Former professor Floyd was the first AABS president. Since that time, the AABS has blossomed into a thriving organization of biblical scholars, with members around the world.
