Simboli Hall 325
Telephone: 617-552-6517
Email: watersjh@bc.edu
Prophetic literature, especially Jeremiah; feminist and womanist approaches to Scripture; ecological hermeneutics; animal studies; social-scientific criticism
A native Philadelphian and alumna of 艾可直播 College (BA, Theology and Philosophy), Jaime L. Waters is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Program Director of Courage to Preach. She holds graduate degrees from Yale Divinity School (MA, Religion) and Johns Hopkins University (MA, PhD, Near Eastern Studies). Dr. Waters is working on a commentary on the book of Jeremiah for the Wisdom Commentary Series (Liturgical Press) and a book on methods of biblical interpretation (Baker Academic). She is also a contributor at America Magazine. Before joining the CSTM faculty, Dr. Waters taught for nine years in the department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University.
鈥淎 Biblical Model of Love.鈥 Pages 73-80 in听Fratelli Tutti: A Global Commentary. Studies in World Catholicism 13. Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Carlos Mendoza-脕lvarez, OP, Ikenna Ugochukwu Okafor, and Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, CM. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2024.
鈥淧rophetic Tenacity.鈥 Pages 62-74 in听Do Black Lives Matter?: How the Christian Scriptures Speak to Black Empowerment. Edited by Lisa M. Bowens and Dennis R. Edwards. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2023.
鈥淧ain and Provocation: A Social-Scientific Reading of Jeremiah 15.鈥 Pages 127-135 in听A Sage in New Haven: Essays on the听Prophets, the Writings, and the Ancient World in Honor of Robert R. Wilson. Edited by Alison Acker Gruseke and Carolyn J. Sharp. 脛gypten und Altes Testament, Band 117. M眉nster: Zaphon, 2023.
听column in听America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture,听2019-2022.
What Does the Bible Say About Animals?听Hyde Park: New City Press, 2022.
鈥淭he Belly: Phinehas鈥 Target in Numbers 25:8.鈥澨Conversations with the Biblical World听XXXVII (2017): 38-55.
鈥Can I Have a Word?: Methods of Communication in Judges 6.鈥澨Antiguo Oriente听13 (2015): 169-82.
Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance. Emerging Scholars Series. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.
Journal of Biblical Literature, Editorial Board Member
The Bible Today, Associate Editor