Kelley Coblentz Bautch Ph.D.

EDUCATION
Ph.D.	University of Notre Dame           Hebrew Bible and Judaica with minors           in New Testament / Early Church and           Mysticism and Spirituality           Dissertation: "A Study of Geography in           1 Enoch 17-19" supervised by James           VanderKam	2002
M.A.	University of Notre Dame           Biblical Studies           Pass with High Honors on           doctoral candidacy exams.	1999
Visiting Graduate Student	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	1994-95
M.T.S.	Harvard University,           Biblical Studies	1994
B.A.	Indiana University, Bloomington,           Double Major: Religious Studies and           Germanic Studies; B.A. with honors	1991

POSITIONS HELD

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, St. Edward’s University, August 2007-present.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, St. Edward’s University, August 2002-May 2007

 

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

President, Southwest Region, Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, 2009-2010; President-Elect, 2008-2009

Co-chair, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Section, International Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 2008-present

Associate Editor, 2010; Associate Editor, American Editorial Board, Henoch, 2006-2008; member of American Editorial Board, 2009-2010.

Area Coordinator (Department Chair), Religious Studies Department, St. Edward’s University, 2007-2009

Chair, Hebrew Bible Program, Southwest Region, Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, 2007-2008

Co-chair, St. Edward’s SOURCE Committee (The Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression) 2005-2007; member of the committee, 2004-2005

Member, Steering Committee, Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Section, Society of Biblical Literature, 2010-present

Member, Board of Directors, Theta Alpha Kappa, 2011-2013

Advisor, Pi Chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa, National Religious Studies Honor Society (2005-present); St. Edward’s University Religious Studies Club, 2003-2007

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

Presidential Excellence Scholarly Activity Grant, St. Edward’s University for research on“Fall from Grace, Rise to Power: Studies on Angels and 1 Maccabees,” 2011

Finalist for the Distinguished Teaching Award, St. Edward’s University, 2010-2011

Presidential Excellence Scholarly Activity Grant, St. Edward’s University for research on “Angels and Demons: Studies of Otherworldy Beings in Early Judaism and Christianity,” 2009

Kathleen Connolly-Weinert Award, Theta Alpha Kappa, 2008

Presidential Excellence Scholarly Activity Grant, St. Edward’s University for research on “Reflections on Otherworlds, Angels and the Book of Jubilees,” 2007.

Regional Scholar of the Southwest Region, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Presidential Excellence Scholarly Activity Grant, St. Edward's University for research on "Feminine Personas of the Greco-Roman World," 2006.

Presidential Excellence Scholarly Activity Grant, St. Edward's University for research on "All about Eve: Depictions of the First Woman in Second Temple Period Literature," 2005.

Presidential Excellence Scholarly Activity Grant, St. Edward's University for research on "Reverberations of Apocalyptic Texts in Petrine Literature," 2004.

Presidential Excellence Summer Scholarly Activity Grant, St. Edward's University for research on "Women in the Pseudepigrapha," 2003.

Lilly Theological Research Grant for the study of the material culture at the site of St. Stephen's monastery, Israel, 1999.

Archaeological Research Stipend, Catholic Biblical Association for archaeological research of the St. Stephen's material culture, Israel, 1999.

Archaeological Research Stipend, Catholic Biblical Association for participation in the archaeological excavation at Bethsaida, Israel, 1998.

Harvard University Sheldon Fellowship for research project entitled: "Speculative Traditions in Apocalypses, " Harvard University, 1994.

Endowment for Biblical Research Travel Award, American School for Oriental Research, 1994.

 

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Books

1 and 2 Maccabees. Co-authored with Richard Bautch. Wisdom Commentary Series 18. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, in progress. 

Angels, Demons, Monsters and Hypostases: Otherworldly Feminine Figures in Early Judaism and Christianity; in progress.

Editor with A. K. Harkins and J. Endres, The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions. CBQMS; Washington, D. C.: Catholic Biblical Association of America, forthcoming 2012.  

Editor with E. F. Mason, S. Thomas et.al. A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam. 2 vols. JSJSup. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Lead Editor for Volume 2 (Early Judaism, Studies on Enoch and Jubilees, and New Testament and Early Christianity). 

A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-19: "No One Has Seen What I Have Seen." JSJSup 81. Leiden: Brill, 2003.

Articles in Refereed Journals

“Recent Approaches to 1 Enoch,” Currents in Biblical Research, in progress.

“A Retrospective on North American Contributions to the Scholarship of early Judaism and Christianity,” Henoch 31 (2009): 5-8.

“Decoration, Destruction and Debauchery: Reflections on 1 Enoch 8 in Light of 4QEnb,” Dead Sea Discoveries 15 (2008): 79-95.

"What Becomes of the Angels' "Wives"? A Text Critical Study of 1 En. 19:2," Journal of Biblical Literature 125 (2006): 766-80.

"'The Vessel of the Potter Shall Be Broken': The Material Culture from a Burial Cave at St. Étienne's Monastery, Jerusalem," Révue Biblique 107 (2000): 561-590.

Invited Essays

With Daniel Assefa. “Patriarch, Prophet, Author, Angelic Rival: Exploring the Relationship of 1 Enoch to 2 Enoch in Light of the Figure of Enoch.” In 2 Enoch in Modern Scholarship.  Edited by G. Boccaccini and G. Ibba. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming 2012.  

“Hosts, Holy Ones, and the Words of Gabriel: The Angelology of Hazon Gabriel in the Context of Second Temple and Late Antique Literature.” Pages 131-52 in Hazon Gabriel: New Readings of the Gabriel Revelation Edited by Matthias Henze. EJL. Atlanta: SBL, 2011.

“Peter and the Patriarch: A Confluence of Traditions?” Pages 13-27 in With Letters of Light: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Jewish Apocalypticism, Magic, and Mysticism in Honor of Rachel Elior. Edited by Daphna Arbel and Andrei Orlov. Ekstatis 2; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010.

“The Heavenly Temple, the Prison in the Void and the Uninhabited Paradise: Otherworldly Sites in The Book of the Watchers.” Pages 37-53 in Other Worlds and Their Relation to this World. Edited by T. Nicklas, J. Verheyden, E. Eynikel, F. García Martínez. JSJSup 143. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2010.

“Amplified Roles, Idealized Depictions: Women in the Book of Jubilees.” Pages 338-52 in Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees. Edited by G. Boccaccini and G. Ibba. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.  

“Putting Angels in Their Place: Developments in Second Temple Angelology.” Pages 174-88 in “With Wisdom as a Robe”: Studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich. Edited by Miklós Kõszeghy, Gábor Buzási, Károly Dobos. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009.

“Heavenly Beings Brought Low: A Study of Angels and the Netherworld.” Pages 59-75 in The Concept of Celestial Beings. Origins, Development and Reception Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook. Edited by F. Reiterer, T. Nicklas, K. Schöpflin. Deuterocanonical Yearbook 2007. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2007.

“Adamic Traditions in the Parables? A Query on 1 En. 69:6.” Pages 352-60 in Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables. Edited by Gabriele Boccaccini (with Jason von Ehrenkrook). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

“Situating the Afterlife.” Pages 249-64 in Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism. Edited by April DeConick. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature /Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Dictionary Articles

“1 Maccabees.” In Women’s Bible Commentary: Twentieth Anniversary Edition.
 Edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon Ringe, and Jacq Lapsley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, forthcoming 2012.  

“חנוך (Enoch).” Pages 1016-21 in Theological Dictionary of the Qumran Texts (Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten; ThWQ). Edited by Heinz-Josef Fabry and Ulrich Dahmen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2011.

“Geography, Mythic.” Pages 673-74 in The Dictionary of Early Judaism. Edited by John J. Collins and Daniel Harlow. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.

“Enoch, First Book of.” Pages 262-65 in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible 2. Edited by Pheme Perkins. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.

 

Book Reviews

Review of (Eds.) Daniel C. Harlow, Karina Martin Hogan, Matthew Goff , Joel S. Kaminsky,
The "Other" in Second Temple Judaism: Essays in Honor of John J. Collins. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011 for Dead Sea Discoveries. In progress.

Review of Veronika Bachmann, Die Welt im Ausnahmezustand: Eine Untersuchung zu Aussagegehalt und Theologie des Wächterbuches (1 Heb 1-36). BZAW 409. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009 for The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures. In progress.

Review of Peter Schäfer, The Origins of Jewish Mysticism. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2009 for The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, 2011. Pages 178-81.

 

Other Publications

“Introduction.” Pages xi-xv in A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam. Edited by Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Eric Mason and Samuel Thomas. 2 vols. JSJSup. Leiden: Brill, 2011.  

“News from the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting and European Association of Biblical Studies” (July 25-29, 2010; University of Tartu, Estonia),” News / Notiziario, Henoch 33 (2011): 161-62.  With Angela Kim Harkins, “1. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha” (from the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting), Henoch 33 (2011): 162-64.

“How Videoconferencing with International Scholars Can Enliven Your Classroom,” featured on the Society of Biblical Literature website, January-February: http://www.sbl-site.org/ .

 

PRESENTATIONS AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

“Of Sheep and Sheaves: The Rhetoric of Agriculture,” in SW ASOR and SW SBL joint session on “Going against the Grain: Another Look at Agriculture in Ancient Israel.” Southwest Commission on Religion, Southwest Regional Meeting SBL, March 2011

“Revealed by the Prophets, Obscured by the Scriptures: God in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies,” Hidden God, Hidden Histories Symposium, Rice University; April 2010

“Eve-ning the Score: Exegetical Trajectories of Genesis 2-3 and Related Traditions on the First Woman,” Presidential Address, Southwest Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, March 2010

“Goddesses and Monsters: Otherworldly Feminine Figures of Ancient Rome” in Art and Religions of Antiquity Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2009

 “Finding the Feminine in the Material Culture of Ancient Rome” in the Archaeology of Religion in the Roman World Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2009

“The ‘Fall’ and the Fate of the Renegade Angels in the Book of Revelation and the Watchers Tradition,” Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Literature Continuing Seminar, Catholic Biblical Association, Annual Meeting, August 2009

“The Enthroned Entourage: Exploring the Origins of a Motif,” in the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November, 2008

“Reception History and the Book of Revelation,” in Hebrew Bible and New Testament joint session on “What’s the Use of Reception History? A Question for Scholar-Teachers,” Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Southwest Regional Meeting SBL, March 2008

“Ezekiel as Precursor to the Divine Vision in Merkavah and Hekhalot Literature,” in the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2007

“The Depiction of Women in the Book of Jubilees,” The Enoch Seminar, July 2007

“Envisioning the Otherworld in the Book of the Watchers,” at the symposium “The Otherworld and its Relationship to This World,” Radboud University and the Catholic University of Leuven, March 2007

"Decoration, Destruction and Debauchery: Reflections on 1 Enoch 8 in Light of 4QEnb," at the symposium "Reading between the Lines: Scripture and Community in the Dead Sea Scrolls," University of Notre Dame, March 2006

"Absolutely Fabulous: Greco Roman Feminine Personas in Late Antique Jewish Art," Southwest Commission on Religion; Southwest Regional Meeting ASOR; March 2006

"All About Eve: How the First Woman Fares in Enochic Literature," in the Psuedepigrapha Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2005

"To Rest in the West, to Feast in the East: How Geography and Traditions Relating to Afterlife Interrelate in Early Jewish Mystical Literature," in the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2005

"Progenitor of Wisdom and Mother of the Living: Portraits of Eve in Enochic Literature," Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Literature Continuing Seminar. Catholic Biblical Association, Annual Meeting, August 2005

"Adamic Traditions in the Parables? A Query on 1 En. 69:6," The Enoch Seminar, June 2005

"What Becomes of the Angels' ‘Wives'? A Text Critical Study of 1 En . 19:2," Southwest Commission on Religion; Southwest Regional Meeting SBL, Hebrew Bible: Gender Studies; March 2005

"'Using the Scriptures as Jesus Taught': The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies' Approach to Interpreting Biblical Texts," Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Literature Continuing Seminar. Catholic Biblical Association, Annual Meeting, August 2004

"The Pseudo-Clementines' Use of Jewish Pseudepigrapha," Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Section, International Meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, July 2004

"Pedagogy and Feminism" in Reflections on the Teaching of Religion Section, Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, March 2004

"Enochic Literature and Petrine Traditions," Pseudepigrapha Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2003

"Sirens or Blameless Victims? The Book of the Watchers on Women," Research Report, Catholic Biblical Association, Annual Meeting, August 2003

"1 Enoch on Law: Concern or Ambivalence?" Southwest Commission on Religion, Southwest Regional Meeting SBL, March 2003

"Sinai as a Spiritual Locus in Second Temple Judaism," Egyptology and Ancient Israel Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November, 2002 (the paper was presented on my behalf by the chair of the section when I was unable to attend the meeting)

"The Localization of Angels in the Hebrew Bible and Literature of the Second Temple Period," Southwest Commission on Religion, Southwest Regional Meeting SBL, March 2002

"The Mesopotamian Influence upon the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-36," Pseudepigrapha Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2000

"From Dan to Jerusalem: The Map of Israel as a Guide to Millenarian Issues in 1 Enoch," The Millennium Conference on the Sea of Galilee and the City of Jerusalem , June 2000

 

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE AND RESEARCH ON MATERIAL CULTURE

Colloquium on Material Culture and Ancient Religion (Rome, Naples, Pompei, Herculaneum; 2009)

St. Stephen's Monastery, Jerusalem with archaeologist Gabriel Barkay, Susan Sheridan and Richard Bautch (1999)

St. Stephen's Monastery, Jerusalem with bio-anthropologist Susan Sheridan, École Biblique (1997, 1998)

Bethsaida Excavations (1997, 1998)

Honorary Research Fellow, Albright Institute in Jerusalem (1994-95)

Ashkelon Excavations (1994)

 

LANGUAGES

German

Modern/Biblical Hebrew

French

Classical/Koine Greek

Latin

Aramaic

Sahidic Coptic

Ge'ez

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Society of Biblical Literature

Catholic Biblical Association

American Academy of Religion

International Enoch Studies Seminar

Southwest Commission on Religious Studies

 

SERVICE AND SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES

Invited Panelist for the SBL Student Advisory Board Session on Technology in the Classroom (I spoke on “Videoconferencing in the Classroom: Broadening the Horizons of Students through Interactive Scholarly Exchange”); the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2011

Respondent for Gabriele Boccaccini, “Who’s Afraid of Enochic Judaism? A Reading of 4 Ezra in Light of 1 Enoch and Paul,” The Enoch Seminar (“2 Baruch and 4 Ezra: First Century Jewish Apocalypticism”), June 2011

Invited lecture, “Contemporary Studies on Enoch and their Relevance to New Testament Scholarship,” Columbia University, Seminar for New Testament and Early Christianity, May 2011

Lecture on “Judge, Maiden, Warrior, Victim: Women in the Book of Judges,” for the Ninth Annual Tapestry of Jewish Learning, the Jewish Community Center of Austin, January, 2011

 Member, Program Committee, Catholic Biblical Association, 2009-present

Respondent for Andrei Orlov, “Enoch’s Roles and Titles in Early Enochic Booklets and 2 Enoch," The Enoch Seminar (“Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch and Second Temple Judaism”), June 2009

Invited Panelist for “What Every American Needs to Know about Religion and Why,” Texas State University, November 2007

2007 Hoxie Thompson Lecturer Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (“Forced Migrations, the Fall of Jerusalem and Jeremiah”), October 2007

Lectures on the history and faith of Islam, St. David’s Episcopal Church, August 2007

Invited Panelist for “Tenth Anniversary Celebration and Panel Discussion: Accomplishments and New Directions in Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism,” Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism group, Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2006

Lecture on Dead Sea Scrolls, St. Theresa's Parish, September 2005

Lecture on Islam and the Middle East, Freshman Studies, St. Edward's University, September, 2004 and November 2005

Committee member on the Faculty and Staff Campaign, serving as the School of the Humanities representative for the St. Edward's Fund, Spring 2003-Spring 2005

Lecture on Women and the Bible, St. Theresa's Parish, August 2004

Committee member for St. Edward's Nostra Aetate Program, 2003-present

Lecture on "Enoch as a Messianic Figure in the Similitudes," Texas State University , September 2003

Consultant and interviewee for documentary entitled "Banned from the Bible," produced by Filmroos for the History Channel, 2003. I spoke about 1 Enoch, The Gospel of Mary, and the Infancy Narrative of Thomas.

Committee member on St. Edward's University Academic Retention Committee, 2002-2003

Lecture on "Jewish Women in the Second Temple Period," Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest, September 2002

 

Email: kelleyb@stedwards.edu    Office: ANDRE 218   Phone: (512) 428-1395   Campus Mailbox: 774