Carolyn Osiek, Th.D.

Carolyn Osiek, Th.D. is Charles Fischer Catholic Professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University. She holds a Th.D. in New Testament and Christian origins from Harvard University, and is a past president of the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature. She is editor of the 15-volume Message of Biblical Spirituality series (published by Michael Glazier/Liturgical Press), and is a former associate editor of The Bible Today and New Testament book review editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly. She is the author of Beyond Anger: On Being a Feminist in the Church (1986) and What Are They Saying about the Social Setting of the New Testament? (revised edition, 1992), both published by Paulist Press. She co-edited Silent Voices, Sacred Lives: Women’s Readings for the Liturgical Year and co-authored with David Balch Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches. She also published The Shepherd of Hermas (Hermeneia Commentaries; Fortress Press, 1999), Philippians and Philemon (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries; Abingdon Press, 2000), and co-edited with David Balch, Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (Eerdmans, 2003). Her most recent publications are: Ordained Women in the Early Church, co-edited with Kevin Madigan (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) and A Woman’'s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity, co-authored with Margaret MacDonald (Fortress Press, 2005). She teaches in areas of social life, social-science interpretation, and women in early Christianity.