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= Julie Faith Parker =

Julie Faith Parker is an Old Testament Scholar and Pioneer of Childist Biblical Studies.

Early Life and Education
Parker was born in Montclair, NJ and raised in the New York metro area, graduating from Lawrence High School on Long Island. She has a bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College (Phi Beta Kappa), and spent a year in Paris where she sang in the choir of Notre Dame Cathedral. She earned the Master of Divinity (M.Div) degree at Union Theological Seminary (New York), studying with James Cone and Phyllis Trible. She also studied liberation theology at the Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana in Costa Rica. Parker holds a Sacred Theology Masters (S.T.M.) from Yale Divinity School, and an Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), and a Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible from Yale University (Religious Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences).

Ordination
Parker is an ordained minister (Elder of Word, Order, and Service) in the United Methodist Church. She is a member of the New York Annual Conference and worked as a congregational pastor, on the campus ministry staff at American University, and as the Protestant Chaplain at Hofstra University.

Academic Career
Parker is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City. She has also taught at Yale Divinity School, Colby College, Fordham University, Andover Newton Theological School, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University.

Parker is a pioneering scholar in the field of childist biblical interpretation, a term she introduced to biblical studies in 2013. Childist interpretation is defined as “interpretation that focuses on the agency and action of children and youth in the text, instead of seeing them primarily as passive, victimized, or marginalized. . . childist biblical interpretation examines the construct and function of certain kinds of biblical characters while challenging traditional hegemonic assumptions.” She and Danna Nolan Fewell founded the Children in the Biblical World section of the Society of Biblical Literature. Parker’s 2013 book, Valuable and Vulnerable: Children in the Hebrew Bible, Especially the Elisha Cycle (Brown University) proved seminal for studies on children in the Hebrew Bible. Her 2019 volume, the T&T Clark Handbook to Children in the Bible and the Biblical World co-edited with Sharon Betsworth (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark), builds and expands upon earlier childist scholarship.

Prison Teaching
In 2013-14, Parker taught inmates working toward a Master’s degree inside Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison, through a program of New York Theological Seminary. Three students in the program (Aundray Jermaine Archer, Lawrence Bartley, and Kenyatta Hughes) contributed essays published in Parker’s book, My So-Called Biblical Life: Imagined Stories from the World’s Best-Selling Book (Wipf and Stock, 2017); sales benefit the Exodus Transitional Community in East Harlem, NY.

While teaching at Trinity Lutheran Seminary (2015-18), Parker founded the Trinity Prison Project, bringing seminarians weekly into Pickaway Correctional Facility (Orient, OH) to study the Bible with men who are incarcerated.

At General Theological Seminary, she founded the General Prison Project which functions in coalition with Abolition Apostles, a nationwide prison correspondence program.

Personal
Parker is married to Rev. Dr. Bill Crawford, a Presbyterian (PCUSA) minister. They have a son, Graham Parker Crawford, and a daughter, Mari Parker Crawford.

Biblical:

 * The T & T Clark Handbook of Children in the Bible and the Biblical World. London: Bloomsbury/T & T Clark, 2019. Co-edited with Sharon Betsworth.
 * My So-Called Biblical Life: Imagined Stories from the World’s Best-Selling Book. Foreword by Mark Allan Powell. Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock, 2017. Editor and Contributing Writer.
 * Valuable and Vulnerable: Children in the Hebrew Bible, especially the Elisha Cycle. Brown Judaic Studies Series 355. Providence, RI: Brown University, 2013. Paperback, 2017.

Educational:

 * Everything You Need to Know about Decision-Making. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1996. Rev. ed. 1998.
 * Everything You Need to Know about Leadership. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1996.
 * Everything You Need to Know about Living in a Shelter. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1995.
 * Careers for Women as Clergy. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1993.

Articles

 * “The Force of YHWH Awakens: Social Scientific Methodologies and Children Who Rise from the Dead.” Pages 142-63 in Children and Methods: Listening To and Learning From Children in the Biblical World. Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies. Edited by Kristine Garroway and John Martens. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
 * “‘I Bless You by YHWH of Samaria and His Barbie’: A Case for Understanding Judean Pillar Figurines as Children’s Toys.” Pages 137-49 in Children in the Bible and the Ancient World: Comparative and Historical Methods in Reading Ancient Children. Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East. Edited by Shawn W. Flynn. London: Routledge: 2019.  
 * “Children in the Hebrew Bible and Childist Interpretation.” Currents in Biblical Research 17.2 (2019): 130-57.
 * “Soul Magnification: A Heartfelt Tribute and a New Christmas Pageant” in Currents in Theology and Mission 46.2 (2019): 34-39.
 * “Ishmael as a Refugee.” The Biblical Studies Collection, Point of View Publishing: 2019.
 * “Isaiah 52:7-10” and “Isaiah 62:6-12” in Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship: Advent through Epiphany. Year C, Volume 1. Edited by Thomas G. Long, Cynthia L. Rigby, Luke A. Powery, and Joel B. Green. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2018.
 * “Children in Biblical Narrative and Childist Biblical Interpretation.” Co-written with Kathleen Gallagher Elkins. Pages 422-433 in The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative. Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
 * “Children in the Hebrew Bible.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies. Edited by Christopher Matthews. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
 * “Embrace the Bible’s Children: A Call to Seminarians, Pastors, and Scholars.” Trinity Seminary Review 35 (2016): 11-22.
 * “Remembering the Dismembered: Piecing Together Meaning from Stories of Women and Body Parts in Ancient Near Eastern Literature.” Biblical Interpretation 23 (2015): 174-190.
 * “Preaching with the Enemy.” Pages 143-49 in Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil. Edited by James Ellis. Macon, Ga.: Smyth & Helwys, 2015.
 * “Children in the Hebrew Bible” in Bible Odyssey series of the Society of Biblical Literature (first published 2014)
 * “Blaming Eve Alone: Translation, Omission, and Implications of עמה in Genesis 3:6b.” Journal of Biblical Literature 132.4 (2013): 729-47.
 * “QUEENS and Other Female Characters: Feminist Interpretations of Kings.”  Pages 135-149 in A Retrospective of Feminist Hebrew Bible Exegesis: Histories of Interpretation (vol. 1). Edited by Susanne Scholz. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2012.
 * “Children in the Hebrew Bible.” In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. 30 vols. Edited by Hans-Josef Klauck et al.  Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011.
 * “Women Warriors and Devoted Daughters: The Powerful Young Woman in Ugaritic Narrative Poetry.” Ugarit-Forschungen 38 (2008): 557-75.
 * “You Are a Bible Child: Exploring the Lives of Children and Mothers through the Elisha Cycle.” Pages 59-69 in Women in the Biblical World: A Survey of Old and New Testament Perspectives.  Edited by Elizabeth A. McCabe. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2009.