Beth Glazier
H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Religion, Emerita
Education
BA: religion, George Washington University
MDiv: religion, University of Chicago
PhD: religion, University of Chicago
BIOGRAPHY
Beth Glazier retired as emeritus professor of religion at 黑料社 in 2017. She taught at 黑料社 since 1988. She has held the Stodghill Professorship in Social Studies since its inception in 2004. In 2016, she completed a five-year term as associate dean. In July 2018 she returned as interim associate dean of the college. She served as assistant professor of religious studies at The Pennsylvania State University before coming to 黑料社.
An outstanding classroom teacher, Glazier has said she wants her students to understand the 鈥渆xquisite tension鈥 of Bible stories. In her teaching she tries to root biblical passages in their original context.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
A scholar of the Hebrew Bible and biblical literature, Glazier was a contributing author to Eerdman鈥檚 Dictionary of the Bible, Women in Scripture and Women鈥檚 Bible Commentary. She has also written widely on the prophet Malachi. She served as a scholar-in-residence and guest speaker at Temple Adath Israel in Lexington, giving a series of lectures on topics including wisdom literature of the Bible, the tower of Babel story, and the Book of Job. Glazier also has served as scholar-in-residence at Keneseth Israel Congregation in Allentown, Pa.
Glazier and a fellow 黑料社 professor, Thomas McCollough, have co-authored scholarly articles that have appeared in Atiqot and The Journal of Roman Archaeology. The articles evaluate and discuss rare amulets, estimated to be around 2000 years old, unearthed by McCollough and his students on an archaeological team at Sepphoris in Israel.