Professors | Massachusetts Bible Society

Margaret Aymer

Title:

D. Thomason Professor of New Testament

Institution:

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Religious Affiliation:

Presbyterian

Margaret Aymer joined the faculty in 2015. She teaches core courses on the Introduction to the New Testament, Exegesis, and Greek and elective courses in numerous disciplines including African Americans and the Bible, and feminist and womanist biblical interpretation. Active in the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion, she has spoken as a guest lecturer at numerous academic and church conferences across the United States, including the 2013 MidWinter Lectures at Austin Seminary.

Wilma Bailey

Title:

Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic Scripture

Institution:

Christian Theological Seminary

Religious Affiliation:

Mennonite

Hebrew Bible, Lament Tradition

Eric D. Barreto

Title:

Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament

Institution:

Princeton Theological Seminary

Religious Affiliation:

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

Eric D. Barreto is the Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary and an ordained Baptist minister.

Giovanni Battista Bazzana

Title:

Professor of New Testament

Institution:

Harvard Divinity School

Giovanni Bazzana is interested in the earliest history of the Christ movement within the broad context of Second Temple Judaism and the ancient Mediterranean. His work is focused on textual narratives about Jesus and his apostles and on apocalyptic literature.

Bazzana is putting the final touches to a book (forthcoming with Yale University Press) on the cultural role of spirit possession within the early Christ groups studied through the lenses of contemporary ethnographies and anthropological writing.

Dr. Helen K. Bond

Title:

Senior Lecturer in New Testament Language, Literature and Theology

Institution:

University of Edinburgh

Religious Affiliation:

Church of Scotland

Social and Historical World of the First Century, Biblical Archaeology, Gospels, Josephus

Mark Brummitt

Title:

Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies

Institution:

Colgate Rochester Divinity School

Religious Affiliation:

Various--originally The Salvation Army

The book of Jeremiah (and prophecy in general); reading theory and the Bible; and Bible and culture

Harvey G. Cox, Jr.

Title:

Hollis Research Professor of Divinity

Institution:

Harvard Divinity School

Religious Affiliation:

American Baptist

Harvey Cox is Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard, where he began teaching in 1965, both at HDS and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. An American Baptist minister, he was the Protestant chaplain at Temple University and the director of religious activities at Oberlin College; an ecumenical fraternal worker in Berlin; and a professor at Andover Newton Theological School. His research and teaching interests focus on the interaction of religion, culture, and politics.