Jennifer W. Knust is a professor of religious studies at Duke University, who holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Classical Studies. Since 2020, she has been director of undergraduate studies in the department of religious studies, director of the Elizabeth A. Clark Center for Late Ancient Studies, and Co-Director of the Manuscript Migration Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, all at Duke University. Knust has written about the importance of

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ed discourses to the production of an early Christian identity.

Biography

Knust earned a bachelor's degree in

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from the

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in 1988. She then obtained a Master of Divinity degree from

Union Theological Seminary Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (shortened to UTS or Union) is a Private college, private ecumenical liberal Christian seminary in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, affiliated with Columbia University since 1928. Presently, Co ...

, as well as a master's degree of philosophy and Ph.D. in religious studies from

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in 1997 and 2001, respectively.CV
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at the College of Arts and Sciences, and an associate professor at the school of theology,

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. She also had affiliate appointments in women's, gender, and sexuality studies, the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, and the department of classical studies. Knust received an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship and was in residence at the

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. She has received numerous awards and fellowships. Knust was a Fellow at the

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. Notable recent grants include those awarded by the Franklin Humanities Institute for the Manusucript Migration Lab and two from the Boston University Humanities Project Grant. Knust has recently acted as the president of the New England and Eastern Canada Region of the

Society of Biblical Literature The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), founded in 1880 as the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, is an American-based learned society dedicated to the academic study of the Bible and related ancient literature. Its current stated mis ...

, and is a member of the

Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas The Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS) is an international society of New Testament scholars. The current president is John Kloppenborg (Canada). The SNTS publishes the academic journal ''New Testament Studies Biblical studies is ...

. She has published multiple monographs, a number of papers, and frequently gives talks at invited lectures, conference presentations, for popular media, and workshops. Knust and Michael W. Holmes were the

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general editors of New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVue), a major revision of the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV). The NRSVue project was announced in 2017, and the NRSVue was published in 2021 (digital)/2022 (print).

Selected publications

* * * Jennifer Knust, book review of

Jennifer Glancy Jennifer A. Glancy is a scholar of New Testament and Early Christianity and The Rev. Kevin G. O’Connell, S.J., Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. Her expertise lies in the cultural history of e ...

's ''Slavery in Early Christianity'' and J. Albert Hill's ''Slaves in the New Testament'', Journal of Religion, 2009, 406-409. *

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