Welcome to Bible Divas, hosted by Baptist News Global (https://baptistnews.com/). We’re four women who teach the Bible for a living, and we believe that careful, honest scholarship belongs in public conversation. We read Scripture with curiosity, expertise, and a strong helping of sass. We invite other women Bible scholars to join us for informed…and often spicy…conversations about the Bible.
This is biblical scholarship out loud, and women are holding the mic. So pull up a chair and join a community that will embrace you, challenge you, make you think, and make you laugh...because the Bible still shapes real lives. It really matters. And we have something to say.
Hosted by Angela N. Parker, Anna Sieges Beal, Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, and Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
In this episode, all the Divas are in the house to talk about their trip to Theology Beer Camp.
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19 Oct 2026
Ep14: Fundamentalism, the Book of Revelation, & Labor Advocacy, with Tina Pippin
In this episode, the Divas talk with Tina Pippin, the Wallace M. Alston Professor of Bible and Religion at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
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12 Oct 2026
Ep13: Undoing Conquest: Re-Reading and Re-Branding the Book of Joshua, with Kate Common
In this episode, the Divas talk with Kate Common, Assistant Professor of Public and Practical Theology at Methodist Theological School in Ohio.
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28 Sept 2026
Ep12: Postcolonial Feminist Biblical Interpretation, Working in Africa, & The HIV and AIDS Bible, with Musa Dube
In this episode, the Divas talk with Musa Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Emory's Candler School of Theology.
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14 Sept 2026
Ep11: Model Minorities, Perpetual Foreigners, & Almost Becoming a Nun, with Gale Yee
In this episode, the Divas talk with Gale Yee, the Nancy W. King Professor of Biblical Studies emerita at the Episcopal Divinity School.
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8 Sept 2026
Ep10: Immigration, Apocalypse, & Cuteness, with Jan Jan Lin
In this episode, the Divas talk with Jan Jan Lin, associate professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School.
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31 Aug 2026
Ep9: Crucifixion and Lynching & the "Thurmaneutics" of Howard Thurman, with Shively Smith
In this episode, the Divas talk with Shively Smith, associate professor of New Testament at Boston University School of Theology.
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24 Aug 2026
Ep8: Our Experiences as Women Biblical Scholars in the Academy
In this episode, the Divas reflect on their conversations with scholars in previous episodes and their own personal experiences in academia.
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10 Aug 2026
Ep7: Women of the Hebrew Bible & Ancient Israelite Religions, with Susan Ackerman
In this episode, the Divas chat with Susan Ackerman, the Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion, Emerita, at Dartmouth College.
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3 Aug 2026
Ep6: Ancient Views of Women & the Theology of John's Gospel, with Alicia Myers
In this episode, the Divas chat with Alicia Myers, associate professor of New Testament Studies at Baylor University.
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27 Jul 2026
Ep5: Conservative Christianity's Misunderstanding of Persecution, with Candida Moss
In this episode, the Divas chat with Candida Moss, a professor, author, and journalist specializing in ancient history and early Christianity.
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20 Jul 2026
Ep4: Trauma as a Lens to Understand the Bible Better, with Alexiana Fry
In this episode, the Divas chat with Alexiana Fry, an expert on feminism, migration/disaspora, and trauma hermeneutics at the University of Copenhagen.
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13 Jul 2026
Ep3: Writing the Women's Bible Commentary & What the Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed, with Carol Newsom
In this episode, the Divas chat with Carol Newsom, the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emerita of Old Testament at Emory's Candler School of Theology.
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6 Jul 2026
Ep2: Womanist Church, Respectability Politics, & Biblical Interpretation, with Kamilah Hall Sharp
In this episode, the Divas speak with Kamilah Hall Sharp, a womanist preacher, scholar, professor, and community organizer.
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25 Jun 2026
Ep1: Meet the Divas
In this inaugural episode of Bible Divas, say hello to your hosts: Angela N. Parker, Anna Sieges Beal, Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, and Cynthia Shafer-Elliott.
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