Episcopal Press and News

Dewey Joins EDS Faculty

Episcopal News Service. November 3, 1988 [88241E]

NEW YORK (DPS, Nov. 3) -- The Rt. Rev. Otis Charles, dean and president of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., has announced that Dr. Joanna Dewey joined the seminary faculty this fall as associate professor of New Testament studies. Dewey comes to EDS from Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozier Theological Seminary where she was visiting associate professor in New Testament studies.

Dewey, who is a specialist in the Gospel of Mark, has taught broadly in New Testament studies and in the humanities. Her current research is in the area of the Gospel of Mark as oral and aural narrative, and the shift in early Christianity from oral to written communication of the Christian story. She is currently working on two studies in her field. One deals with how the Gospel of Mark might have been heard by a listening rather than a reading audience; the other is a comparative analysis of the portrayal of men and women in the Gospel stories.

Dewey received her M.Div. degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, Calif., in 1968, and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, in 1977. She has previously served on the faculties of the Graduate Seminary of Phillips University, and the Oklahoma State University, and has been a consultant to the Institute for Research in Social Behavior in Oakland, Calif.