Pacific School of Religion
George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies
Executive Director, PSR Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1994

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1977
M.A., University of Chicago, 1974
M.A.(English Literature), University of Virginia, 1971
B.A., Wake Forest University, 1969

Phone: 510/849-8217
E-mail: mtolbert@psr.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics
• Feminist and Queer Theory; Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Bible
• Ancient Mediterranean Social, Religious, and Literary History as the Context for Christian Origins
• Introduction to the New Testament

Selected Publications

• "Gender," in Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation, ed. A.K.M. Adams (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000).
• "Is it Lawful on the Sabbath To Do Good or To Do Harm: Mark's Ethics of Religious Practice," Festschrift for Dan O. Via, Jr., Perspectives in Religious Studies 23 (Summer, 1996),199-214.
• "The Gospel of Mark in the Twenty-first Century," in The Bible in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Mark A. Powell (Louisville: Westminster Press, 1998).
• Editor with Fernando Segovia, Teaching the Bible: The Politics and Discourses of Biblical Pedagogy (New York: Orbis, 1998).