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American theologian and Old Testament scholar

Ellen F. Davis (born November 20, 1950) is an American theologian and Old Testament scholar. She is the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School.

Biography

Davis has degrees from University of California, Berkeley (A.B., Comparative Literature), the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (M.Div.) and Yale University (Ph.D., Old Testament). She previously taught at Union Theological Seminary (New York City), Yale Divinity School, and Virginia Theological Seminary.

Davis's work has focused on how biblical interpretation can be used to address urgent contemporary issues in the church and world. She has considered how the Old Testament can be used to address preaching, interfaith dialogue, and the ecological crisis. Davis is known in particular for this latter work; she has written a book on the Old Testament view of land and ecology entitled Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible. She appeared on NPR's program On Being with Wendell Berry in 2011 and also spoke with Berry and fellow Duke Divinity School professor Norman Wirzba at a Food and Faith conference in Nashville in 2014. Davis also works with the Great Lakes Initiative, an ecumenical gathering of East African leaders in reconciliation ministries, sponsored through Duke Divinity School's Center for Reconciliation. For several years, she has consulted with the Anglican Church in Sudan and South Sudan on theological education, community health, and sustainable agriculture.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Ellen Davis". Duke Divinity School. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  2. "Ellen Davis – Duke University Presidential Announcement". Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  3. "Ellen Davis and Wendell Berry — The Poetry of Creatures". On Being. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  4. "Media". Siloam Health. Archived from the original on 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  5. "African Leaders Gather for 2015 GLI". divinity.duke.edu. Duke Divinity School. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  6. Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament
  7. Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading Of The Bible
  8. Opening Israel's Scriptures
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