Biblical Studies & Early Christianity

Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
(on sabbatical leave)

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,
Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity

M.A., Th.D., Harvard University
B.A., Eastern College

Seminary Hall 102
mjjohnso@drew.edu
Personal site
973-408-3823

“I am fascinated by the ways people create meaningful places, and I love to travel—especially with my students. As they like to say, ‘My professor knows a guy,” ‘ leading to some uncommon experiences during M.Div. cross-cultural trips and Ph.D. archaeological seminars in Turkey. My current book is about the social, material, and imaginative spaces of the first Christians as we see them in Paul’s letters.”

Deirdre Good

Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs | Visiting Professor of New Testament

Th.D. Harvard University
S.T.M. Union Theological Seminary
Cert. Ed. Cambridge University
M.Theol. St. Andrews University

Seminary Hall 102
dgood@drew.edu
973-408-3823

Carl Savage

Associate Professor of Biblical Archeology

M.Phil., Ph.D., Drew University
M.Div., Wesley Theological Seminary
A.B., Princeton University

Seminary Hall 19
csavage@drew.edu
Personal site
973-408-3586

“My research focus is split between ministry and archaeology. I am working on a second book about using narrative research as a ministry tool and continue to write about the material culture of the first century in the Galilee.”

Althea Spencer-Miller

Assistant Professor of New Testament

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Th.M., Emory University
B.A., University of the West Indies

Seminary Hall 29
aspencer@drew.edu
Personal site
973-408-3281

“Postcolonial hermeneutics, with particular interest in orality studies and Africana studies, frames my research interests. Feminist, queer, and womanist theories supplement these. I co-chair the Islands, Islanders, and Scriptures program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature, collaborate with the African Association for the Study of Religion, and am on the editorial board of the journal Sapienta Logos (Nigeria).”

Stephen Moore

Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies

Ph.D., University of Dublin
B.A., University College, Galway

Seminary Hall 106
smoore@drew.edu
Personal site
973-408-3313

“Themes that intertwine as I teach and research the literature of the New Testament include theology, ideology, and ethics; history, culture, and narrative; gender and sexuality; empire and ecology. My most recent book, for example, is titled Untold Tales from the Book of Revelation: Sex and Gender, Empire and Ecology.”

Kenneth Ngwa

Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible

Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary | B.A., M.A., Yaoundé Faculty of Protestant Theology, Cameroon

Seminary Hall 23
kngwa@drew.edu
Personal site
973-408-3780

“I am currently working on a book titled, Postwar Hermeneutics: Exodus and Colony-Related Necropolitics. It is a narrative analysis of portions of Exodus, using Africana critical theory, with particular emphases on the constructions, deconstructions, and reconstructions of cultural memory and identity formation at the intersections of politics, ethnicity, geography, and religion.”

Danna Nolan Fewell

John Fletcher Hurst Professor of Hebrew Bible | Chair, Graduate Division of Religion

M.T.S., Ph.D., Emory University
B.A., Louisiana College

Seminary Hall 105
dfewell@drew.edu
Personal site
973-408-3543

“The Bible tells some of the most provocative stories the world has ever known. How they are told, why they are told, and what they do to us when we read them, hear them, or retell them are the questions that compel me to keep opening this book.”