Carolyn Sharp, associate professor of Hebrew scriptures at Yale Divinity School
(YDS), has received Fortress Press publishing house’s 2007 Teaching Award
for her work as “a faculty leader in guiding reflection about the teaching
process.”
T H I S
The award was presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion
in San Diego.
Sharp has developed several pedagogical tools for teaching the big introductory
course “Old Testament Interpretation” at YDS.
According to the Fortress Press citation, Sharp “has developed study guides
that introduce her students in a systematic way to an array of interpretive strategies
and techniques. She encourages peer learning by expecting students to engage
the class as a whole with their own questions and explorations … ”
It continues: “A superb teacher of teachers, she prepares her teaching
assistants, mostly doctoral students in religious studies, for the joys and challenges
of seminary teaching. She has prepared for them guides to teaching and to resources
available to help them develop their teaching skills. Her work with these teaching
assistants has formed the basis of what many of her colleagues now do to inaugurate
new teaching assistants into their own work.”
Sharp’s research explores aspects of the composition, redaction and rhetoric
of Hebrew scripture texts. In recent articles, she has examined the representation
of Hebrew Bible traditions in the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls, urged
the creation of a multivocal Old Testament theology shaped by the notion of diaspora
identity, and explored the potential of Old Testament hermeneutics to address
contemporary ecclesial debates.
Her books include “Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah” and “Irony
and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible” (currently in press).
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