LeAnn Snow Flesher

Vice President of Academics & Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Biblical Interpretation

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Biography

Dr. LeAnn Flesher serves Berkeley School of Theology (BST) as Vice President of Academics, Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Biblical Interpretation. BST, a founding member school of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California, is the center of her scholarly and institutional leadership. In addition to her role at BST, Dr. Flesher serves as Professor of Biblical Studies in the Sacred Text Department of the GTU’s Core Doctoral Faculty. She is an ordained minister with the American Baptist Churches USA.

EducationDrew University PhD Drew University MPh Bethel Theological Seminary MDiv University of Minnesota BA

Professional AffiliationsSociety of Biblical Literature, International Society of Biblical Literature, Catholic Biblical Association, International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Review & Expositor,

Teaching & Research Interests

The seminary classroom at BST is a laboratory (physical & cyber) where a diverse group of learners may come together to critically address the increasingly more complex socio-cultural concerns of our day through biblical, ethical & theological reflection, toward the goal of creating a theo-praxis relevant to our time and location.

Select PublicationsWhy?. . .How Long? (co-edited anthology of SBL papers 2005-2007), eds. LeAnn Snow Flesher, Carol Dempsey, Mark Boda (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). Daughter Zion (co-edited anthology of SBL papers 2008), eds. Mark Boda, Carol Dempsey, and LeAnn Snow Flesher (Atlanta: SBL, 2012). “The New Poor,” Review & Expositor: An International Baptist Journal, issue editor, vol. 111, no. 2 (May, 2014). “Prophetic Preaching,” Review & Expositor: A Consortium Baptist Theological Journal, issue editor, vol. 109, no. 3 (Summer, 2012). Left Behind? The Facts Behind the Fiction, Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2006. “First Words . . . Editorial Introduction: The War on Poverty 50 Years Later,” Review & Expositor: An International Baptist Journal, vol. 111, no. 2 (May, 2014), 91-94. “Poverty in the US: Its Portrait, Our Response,” Review & Expositor: An International Baptist Journal, vol. 111, no. 2 (May, 2014), 121-133. “Mercy Triumphs over Judgment: James as Social Gospel,” Review & Expositor: An International Baptist Journal, vol. 111, no. 2 (May, 2014), 180-186. “Tricksters & Martyrs, Reading Daniel 9 as Lament within the Context of the Entire Book,” in Why? . . . How Long? Studies on Voice(s) of Lamentation Rooted in Biblical Hebrew Poetry, eds., LeAnn Snow Flesher, Carol J. Dempsey, and Mark J. Boda. T & T Clark Library of Biblical Studies (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), 132-156. “Job as Dispossessed,” Hoseo Global Mission Theological Review, vol. 20 (December, 2013), 223-243. “Daughter Zion: Codependent No More,” in Daughter Zion: Her Portrait, Her Response, eds. Mark J. Boda, Carol J. Dempsey, and LeAnn Snow Flesher. Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and Its Literature, (Atlanta: SBL, 2012), 293-320. “Daniel 9:24-27 and the Tribulation,” Review & Expositor, vol. 109, no. 4 (Fall, 2012), 583-591. “Premillennial Dispensationalism: Its Origins,” Review and Expositor, vol. 106, no. 1 (Winter 2009), 21-34. “The Historical Development of Premillennial Dispensationalism,” Review and Expositor, vol. 106, no. 1 (Winter 2009), 35-45. “Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks” by Walter Brueggemann, RBL, (March, 2015). “A Word About . . . The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone,” Review & Expositor, vol. 109, no. 2 (Spring, 2012).

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