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Pheme Perkins
(Born 1945) is a Roman Catholic Christian Theologian specializing in criticism and analysis of the New Testament. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her family moved to Boston in 1946 and she has been living there since. She has been teaching Theology courses at Boston College since 1972. She is also married and is one of five children. All of her siblings live within 100 miles of her and her husband.

Education
Pheme Perkins studied in the Weston Public School District in Weston, Massachusetts for elementary schooling. She studied at The Winsor School in grades 5 through 12. She received her A.B. degree at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland in 1966. Until she attended St. John's, where she first grew attracted to studies in theology, Pheme believed she would become a theoretical physicist. She then pursued further Graduate studies at Harvard University and received her Ph.D. in 1971.

Career
Pheme Perkins has volunteered in various parish jobs since 1967, a year after she finished her Undergraduate Education. Some of her current interests include adult education, RCIA, and lectors. She began teaching at Boston College in 1972 and has taught the following classes since: Perspectives on Western Culture, First-Year Honors Seminar, New Testament Ethics, Pauline Tradition, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of John, New Testament Christology, First-Year PhD Colloquium.

Pheme Perkins has past memberships in the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Bible Society, the editorial boards of: Journal of Biblical Literature, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Theological Studies. She was the past editor of the New Testament Dissertation Series, SBL. She was the past treasurer of ATS. She was the past president of CBA. She was a co-chairman of steering committee aiming to initiate a consultation on resurrection, eternal life and early Christian eschatology in the SBL beginning in 2003. She was a Kaneb Visiting Professor of Roman Catholic Studies at Cornell University from 1989 to 1990. In 1991, she was a Kantonen Lecturer and Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. She was also a Rho Lecture Series Lecturer in Eugene, Oregon in October, 2002.

Pheme Perkins is currently a member of SBL (steering a committee for Pauline Theology), CBA, SNTS, and ATS. She is currently serving on various boards, including: Abingdon New Testament Commentary Series, Catholic Biblical Association Monograph Series, College Teaching Abingdon New Testament Commentary Series, Horizons, Theological Advisory Board for Herder/Crossroad. She is the Associate Editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible (Third Edition). In 1997, Pheme Perkins received the Mother Elizabeth Seton Medal from College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio.