Jennifer W. Knust is a Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, who holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Classical Studies. Since 2020, she has been Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, Director of the Elizabeth A. Clark Center for Late Ancient Studies, and Co-Director of the Manuscript Migration Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, all at Duke University. Knust has written about the importance of

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ed discourses to the production of an early Christian identity.

Biography

Knust earned a bachelor's degree in

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from the

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in 1988. She then obtained a Master of Divinity Degree from Union Theological Seminary, as well as a Master's Degree of Philosophy and

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in Religious Studies from

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in 1997 and 2001, respectively.CV
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of religious studies at the

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, and an Associate Professor at the School of Theology,

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. She also had affiliate appointments in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, and the Department of Classical Studies. Knust received an ACLS

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Residential Fellowship and was in residence at the

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. She has received numerous awards and fellowships. Knust was a Fellow at the

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. Notable recent grants include those awarded by the Franklin Humanities Institute for the Manusucript Migration Lab and two from the Boston University Humanities Project Grant. Knust has recently acted as the President of the New England and Eastern Canada Region of the

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, and is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. She has published multiple monographs, a number of papers, and frequently gives talks at invited lectures, conference presentations, for popular media, and workshops.

Selected publications

* * * Jennifer Knust, book review of Jennifer Glancy's ''Slavery in Early Christianity'' and J. Albert Hill's ''Slaves in the New Testament'', Journal of Religion, 2009, 406-409. *

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Knust, Jennifer Boston University staff Living people New Testament scholars Female biblical scholars Year of birth missing (living people) University of Illinois alumni Union Theological Seminary (New York City) alumni Columbia University alumni