Staff Directory - Vicky Balabanski

Areas of Teaching
New Testament (Synoptic Gospels, Johannine Literature, New Testament Backgrounds, New Testament Greek, Ecology and the Bible) 

Research Activities and Interests
Earth Bible readings, Queen Alexandra Salome and the effect of her reign on the power balance between the Sadducees and Pharisees in the first century BCE, a feminist reading of the parable of the wise and foolish maidens (Mt 25:1-13).

Recent Publications
1997    Eschatology in the Making: Mark, Matthew and the Didache (SNTS Monograph Series, Cambridge University Press)

—        That We May Not Lose the Way: Bible Studies of the 8th Assembly of the Uniting

Church in Australia, July 1997, (UTC Bible Studies, Supplement to Uniting Church

Studies).

1998    ‘An Earth Bible Reading of the Lord’s Prayer’, presented as part of the launch of

the Earth Bible Project at ‘Beyond 2000: Theological Education in an Ecumenical,

Global and Plural Context’, ANZATS Conference, Melbourne, July 1998, and at

‘Just Future’ Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, August/September, 1998. This

article prompted an interview with Margaret Coffey for the Australian Broadcasting

Corporation, which was broadcast nationally in August as part of the Religion

Report. 

2000    Hope for the new millennium: a Lenten study for the year 2000, co-authored by

Dr. V.S. Balabanski, Bishop Michael Putney, Rev. Dr. James McEvoy, Rev. Dr.

Duncan Reid (South Australian Heads of Churches), for publication in English,

Vietnamese and Italian. (Promoted for use by the National Council of Churches,

Australia, in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and New South

Wales).

—        ‘An Earth Bible Reading of the Lord’s Prayer’, in The Earth Bible, Vol. 1,

Sheffield University Press.

2001    'Life-giving relationships: the Hebrew midwives confront a new time: Exodus 1:8-

21', in Diakonia Occasional Papers, ed. A. McRae, no. 7.

—        'Treasure in clay jars: 2 Corinthians 4:1-11', in Diakonia Occasional Papers, ed.

A. McRae, no. 7.

2002    'Opening the Closed Door: a feminist rereading of the "wise and foolish virgins",

Matthew 25:1-13', The Lost Coin: Parables of Women, Work and Wisdom,

Sheffield University Press, 2002.

—        The Earth Bible Volume 5:The Earth Story in the New Testament, eds. Norman Habel and Vicky Balabanski, (Sheffield University Press, 2002).

—        'John One – the Earth Bible Challenge. An intra-textual approach to reading of

John One', in The Earth Bible Volume 5:The Earth Story in the New Testament, eds. Norman Habel and Vicky Balabanski, (Sheffield University Press, 2002).

2003    'Food and Hospitality in the Gospel of Luke', in KUCA News SA December 2003.

2004    Review of Word, Theology, and Community in John, edited by John Painter, R.

Alan Culpepper and Fernando F. Segovia (Chalice Press: St. Louis, MI, 2002) in

Australian Theological Book Reviewer, June.

2005

'Water in the Gospel of John: Archaeology, Ecology and Christology', in Lutheran Theological Journal.

'Mission in Matthew against the Horizon of Matthew 24', SBL paper to be presented in November 2005 at the Annual SBL meeting, Philadelphia, accessible at http://www.sbl-site.org/congresses/Congresses_AnnualMeeting_SeminarPapers.aspx

Forthcoming:

'Mark as storyteller and artist', in Seasons of the Spirit, (Christian Board of Publications; Logos Productions Inc.; MediaCom Education Inc.; Presbyterian Church in Canada; Presbyterian Publishing Corporation; Resource Publications Inc.; Local Church Ministries, A Covenanted Ministry of the United Church of Christ, United Church Press; United Church of Canada; United Methodist Publishing House; Uniting Church in Australia and Wood Lake Books).