NEW TESTAMENT PROFESSOR TO JOIN SEMINARY FACULTY

The Rev. Dr. Judy Yates Siker, a scholar in Matthean studies, will join the seminary faculty in the fall as assistant professor of New Testament.

For the past four years, Siker has been a visiting professor and lecturer in New Testament studies at Loyola Marymount University in Southern California.

Previously, she was a summer lecturer in Christian Origins at Loyola University of Chicago’s Rome Center in Italy. Prior to that, Siker spent six years on the faculty at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C. and as a teaching fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she received the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Siker’s area of expertise is the Gospel of Matthew. She has presented several papers on Matthew at Society of Biblical Literature meetings.

She earned her master’s degree and Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and an M.Div. from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C.

Siker will teach introductory New Testament studies as part of ABSW’s interdisciplinary contextualized curriculum. She will also teach Greek and advanced courses in New Testament theology and early Christianity.

“Dr. Siker brings a great deal of passion to her study and teaching of the New Testament,” says Dr. George C.L. Cummings, ABSW’s academic dean. “We look forward to the gifts she will share in our community of learning.”