{"id":99,"date":"2012-03-30T14:02:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2022-09-09T22:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T03:34:42","slug":"curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/curriculum-vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kelli Bryant Gibson, DPhil&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">email: <a href=\"mailto:kelli.gibson@acu.edu\">kelli.gibson@acu.edu<\/a> | phone: 325-674-3709<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">DPhil, Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 2011 \u2013 2015<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;Thesis title: <em>Festal Apologetics: Syriac Treatises on the Feast of the Discovery of the Cross<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">MPhil, Eastern Christian Studies, University of Oxford, 2009 \u2013 2011<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;Dissertation: The Christology of Dionysius bar Salibi&#8217;s treatise <em>Against the Muslims<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Master of Divinity, Abilene Christian University, 2004 \u2013 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">B.A., Missions, Abilene Christian University, 2000 \u2013 2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Employment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><tbody><tr><td>\n<p>Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University<\/p>\n<\/td><td>\n<p>2015 \u2013 Present<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n<p>Tutor in Syriac studies for visiting students, Mansfield College, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<\/td><td>\n<p>2012 \u2013 2013<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n<p>Adjunct instructor of New Testament Greek, Abilene Christian University, Study Abroad (Oxford, UK)<\/p>\n<\/td><td>\n<p>2010 \u2013 2013<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n<p>Visiting instructor of Religion, McMurry University<\/p>\n<\/td><td>\n<p>2008 \u2013 2009<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n<p>Adjunct instructor of Religion, McMurry University<\/p>\n<\/td><td>\n<p>2007 \u2013 2008<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n<p>Adjunct instructor of New Testament Greek, Abilene Christian University<\/p>\n<\/td><td>\n<p>2006 \u2013 2007<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n<p>Research assistant for Dr. Carroll Osburn; International Project on the Text of Acts; Abilene Christian University<\/p>\n<\/td><td>\n<p>2004 \u2013 2006<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Courses Taught<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Graduate courses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-list\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><li>BHEB 622 Elementary Syriac (residential)<\/li><li>BIBH 651 History of Christianity I: Ancient and Medieval (residential and online)<\/li><li>BIBD 661 Theological Explorations: Contested Monotheisms (residential)<\/li><li>BGRK 611 Elementary New Testament Greek I (online)<\/li><li>BGRK 612 Elementary New Testament Greek II (online)<\/li><li>BIBD 640 Historical Theology (residential)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Undergraduate courses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-list\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><li>BIBH 432 The Story of Christian Spirituality (online)<\/li><li>BIBT 342 Christianity and Culture (residential and online)<\/li><li>BIBL 310 BCore: The Search for Meaning<\/li><li>BGRK 211 &amp; 212 Elementary Greek I &amp; II<\/li><li>BGRK 311 &amp; 312 Intermediate New Testament Greek Readings I &amp; II<\/li><li>Syriac studies tutorials for visiting students (Mansfield College, University of Oxford)<\/li><li>Introduction to Christianity (McMurry University)<\/li><li>History of Christianity I (McMurry University)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Conference Presentations &amp; Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-list\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><li>&#8220;A Fragment of an Anonymous Muslim-Christian Dialogue.&#8221; <br>XIII Symposium Syriacum | Paris, France | 7 July 2022<\/li><li>&#8220;&#8216;Why Was It Necessary?&#8217;: John of Dara&#8217;s Defense of the Death of Jesus&#8221;<br>Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting | 22 November 2021<\/li><li>&#8220;&#8216;The Friend of Jesus&#8217;: Jacob of Serugh&#8217;s Version of the Abgar Legend&#8221;&nbsp;<br>The Year of Jacob of Serugh (\u2020 521) | Online conference | 18 August 2021&nbsp;<br>Recorded lecture available <a href=\"https:\/\/thehiddenpearl.org\/jacobofserugh\/lecturers\/kelli-bryant-gibson\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li><li>&#8220;Echoes of Inter-religious Debate in the Writings of John of Dara&#8221; <br>Eighth North American Syriac Symposium | Brown University, Providence, RI | 18 June 2019<\/li><li>Book panel response to Keith Stanglin&#8217;s <em>The Letter and Spirit of Biblical Interpretation<\/em>&nbsp;<br>Christian Scholars Conference | Lubbock Christian University, Lubbock, TX | 7 June 2019&nbsp;<\/li><li>&#8220;Contact, Conversation, and Conversion: Early Islam and Christianity&#8221; <br>Invited lecture sponsored by CSART | 6 February 2018<\/li><li>&#8220;An Early Syriac <em>Apologia Crucis<\/em>: <em>M\u0113mr\u0101<\/em> 54 &#8216;On the Finding of the Holy Cross'&#8221; <br>The Narsai Workshop | Brigham Young University, Provo, UT | June 2017<\/li><li>Mapping Ancient Lives &amp; Social Networks: A Workshop and Collaborative Digital Publication <br>Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI | 23-24 May 2017<\/li><li>\u201cEchoes of inter-religious controversy in John of Dara\u2019s homily <em>On the Cross<\/em>\u201d<br>The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies | Oxford, UK | 6 May 2014<\/li><li>\u201cTelling others\u2019 stories: historical narrative in Dionysius bar Salibi\u2019s treatise <em>Against the Muslims<\/em>\u201d<br>XI Symposium Syriacum | Valleta, Malta | 17 July 2012<\/li><li>\u201c\u2019We believe the same\u2019: apologetic pretext in Dionysius bar Salibi\u2019s <em>Against the Muslims<\/em>\u201d<br>Islamic World Graduate Seminar | University of Oxford | 31 October 2011<\/li><li>\u201cPatristic influence on Syriac contra-Islamic apologies: the case of Dionysius bar Salibi\u201d<br>16<sup>th<\/sup> International Patristics Conference | University of Oxford | 10 August 2011<\/li><li>\u201cYou are what you eat: dietary metaphors in the Syriac <em>Liber Graduum<\/em>\u201d<br>Workshop on the Syriac Liber Graduum | 15<sup>th<\/sup> International Patristics Conference | University of Oxford | 7 August&nbsp; 2007<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><em>Jacob of Sarug&#8217;s Homilies on Abgar and Addai<\/em>. English translation and introduction by Kelli Bryant Gibson. Syriac edition by Roger Akhrass and Imad Syryany. Gorgias Press, forthcoming (proofs received Sept. 6, 2022; publication expected in last quarter of 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">book contributions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-list\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><li>&#8220;&#8216;The Friend of Jesus&#8217;: Jacob of Serugh&#8217;s Version of the Abgar Legend.&#8221; To be published in a collection of lectures given during the Year of Jacob of Serugh (\u2020 521) Conference. Edited by Armando Elkoury and Robert Kitchen. The Hidden Pearl Press, forthcoming. <br>(Paper submitted February 2022; publication expected in 2023)<br><em>See a letter from the editor <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/files\/2022\/08\/Acceptance-of-Dr.-Gibons-paper-1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/li><li>&#8220;Dionysius bar Salibi, <em>Commentary on the Cross.<\/em>&#8221; (English translation with introduction.) Pages 201-204 in <em>The Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations.<\/em> Edited by David Thomas.&nbsp;Bloomsbury, 2022.<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/files\/2022\/07\/Gibson_Narsai_117-132-2.pdf\">&#8220;An Early Syriac <em>Apologia Crucis<\/em>: <em>M\u0113mr\u0101<\/em> 54 &#8216;On the Finding of the Holy Cross.'&#8221;<\/a> Pages 117-132 in <em>Narsai: Rethinking His Work and World<\/em>. Edited by Aaron Butts, Kristian Heal, and Robert Kitchen. T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.&nbsp;<\/li><li>English translation of Narsai&#8217;s Syriac <em>M\u0113mr\u0101<\/em> 54: On the Finding of the Holy Cross for publication with a collection of Narsai&#8217;s homilies in the Fathers of the Church series, CUA Press (submitted September 2019; publication forthcoming). <br><em>See a letter from the editor <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/files\/2022\/07\/2022.7.11_Gibson_confirmation.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/li><li>\u201cYou are what you eat: dietary metaphors in the Syriac <em>Liber Graduum<\/em>\u201d<br>Pages 173-189 in <em>Breaking the Mind: Studies on the Syriac<\/em> Liber Graduum. Edited by Kristian Heal and Robert Kitchen. Provo, UT: BYU Press, 2014.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Book reviews<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Aho Shemunkasho, ed. and tr. <em>John of Dara, On the Resurrection of Human Bodies.<\/em> (Gorgias Press, 2020). Pp. ix + 597; $165. <em>Hugoye<\/em> 25.2 (2022). (See the review <a href=\"https:\/\/hugoye.bethmardutho.org\/article\/hv25n2prgibson\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Awards&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-list\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><li>Cullen Grant, 2020<\/li><li>College of Biblical Studies Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, 2016<\/li><li>Recipient of the Christian Scholarship Foundation Award, 2012-2014<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Memberships<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-list\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><li>Society of Biblical Literature<\/li><li>North American Patristic Society<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelli Bryant Gibson, DPhil&nbsp; Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University email: kelli.gibson@acu.edu | phone: 325-674-3709 Education DPhil, Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 2011 \u2013 2015&nbsp; &nbsp;Thesis title: Festal Apologetics: Syriac Treatises on the Feast of the Discovery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/curriculum-vitae\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1505,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/kelligibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}