Bio:
Barbara is a biblical scholar and former Interserve missionary living in India who also worked for many years in international development with Tearfund Australia. More recently she has lived and worked in Central Australia managing Tearfund’s First Peoples program. She finds joy in being with family, especially grandchildren, and working with a small Anglican church in the western suburbs.
Her PhD was a study of gender in the Garden of Eden narrative including reviewing the reception history of the Eden narrative.
Research areas:
- The Eden narrative and its reception history;
- The construction of gender in the Hebrew Bible;
- The history of constructions of ‘Eve’ in Australian history and culture;
- The implications of understandings of biblical gender for current church culture and polity.
A sample of publications include:
“Partners in Crime? The Partnership of the Woman and Man in the Garden of Eden Narrative.” Pacifica 30, no. 3 (2017): 255–67 and “Abraham, Isaac and the Problem of Water” in Water: A Matter of Life and Death, Norman Habel and Peter Trudinger, eds (Hindmarsh: ATF Australia, 2011) 63–72.