Caryn Reeder

Caryn Reeder joined the Religious Studies department in 2007. She is a proud graduate of Atwood-Hammond High School, and also holds a BA in Religion and Psychology from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois; an MA in Biblical Exegesis from Wheaton College, also in Illinois; and an MPhil in Old Testament and PhD in New Testament  from the University of Cambridge (the one in England). Her doctoral dissertation, The enemy within: Biblical and intertestamental traditions of family violence, traces the place of legislated violence in the family in the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Jewish texts, and the New Testament. She is currently engaged in preparing this research for popular dissemination. Dr. Reeder is also researching some more cheerful topics, including Aemilia Lanyer's reinterpretation of Genesis 1-3 in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, the creative potential of texts identifying the early church as a family, and the oddities of Californian culture.

Dr. Reeder teaches Life and Literature of the New Testament and New Testament Greek.