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Cynthia (Cindy) Chapman

  • Adelia A.F. Johnston and Harry Thomas Frank Professor of Religion

Education

  • BA, Kalamazoo College, 1987
  • MDiv, Vanderbilt Divinity School, 1991
  • ThD, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, 2002

Spring 2026

The Garden of Eden in Literature, Art, and Film 鈥 JWST 203

The Garden of Eden in Literature, Art, and Film 鈥 RELG 203

Senior Project 鈥 ACHS 300

Fall 2026

Biblical Migrations in American Novels 鈥 FYSP 016

Biblical Prophets and Prophecy 鈥 JWST 207

Biblical Prophets and Prophecy 鈥 RELG 207

  • 鈥淭he Breath of Life: Speech, Gender and Authority in the Garden of Eden,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Biblical Literature 138 vol. 2 (2019): 241-262.
  • The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry. Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2016.
  • The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter. Harvard Semitic Monographs 62. Winona Lake, Ind: Eisenbrauns, 2004.
  • 鈥: Creating Kinship through Land, Labor, Food, and Feeding,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Biblical Literature 142/3 (2023): 431-450.
  • 鈥: A Critical Analysis of the Garden of Eden Narrative and Alex Garland鈥檚 Ex Machina,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 2022.
  • 鈥: Why an Ancient Interpreter Chose to Voice Eve with a Testament.鈥 Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2021.

Notes

Cindy Chapman Awarded NEH Summer Stipend

Professor of Religion Cindy Chapman to support her research on a book titled Mother-born Nations: Maternal Markings of Ethnic Insiders and Outsiders in the Bible and Pseudepigrapha. The book will establish the biblical roots for the matrilineal principle in Judaism.

Cindy Chapman Article Published in the "Journal of Biblical Literature"

Professor of Religion Cindy Chapman published 鈥溾 in the Journal of Biblical Literature 142/3 (2023): 431-450.

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