Dr. Alicia Batten, Associate Professor,Department of Religion Pacific Lutheran UniversityPlease note that I will be on leave from PLU for the 2008-09 academic year. Alicia Batten teaches courses primarily in the area of the New Testament and Christian Origins, as well as a Writing 101 class. In her teaching and scholarship she stresses the importance of reading ancient Jewish, Christian and Greco-Roman literatures in their appropriate historical and cultural contexts, and employs social scientific, rhetorical, ideological and standard historical critical methodologies. Currently, her research focuses upon the letter of James and the moral world of antiquity. Other areas of teaching and scholarship include notions of gender and family in antiquity, Pauline Literature, Parables, and the history of biblical interpretation. "Gonzaga Cameo," (above) Alexandian, 3rd c. BCE. Picture courtesy of CGFA
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Convent of Mary and Martha, Moscow, July 2005
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