• Assistant Professor of Religion

    Maples, 022
    (434) 223-6249
    ccifers@hsc.edu


  

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2023
M.A., University of Virginia, 2023;
M.Div., Union Presbyterian Seminary, 2016;
B.A., William & Mary, 2009

Publications

Dangerous Tales: Genesis 34 and Its Literary Descendants. The Bible and Its Reception. Atlanta: SBL Press, (forthcoming).

“Re-Imagining Identity Through National Narratives: The Representational Ethics of Israelites and Other(s) in Jubilees and Josephus’s Judean Antiquities.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha vol. 32, no. 3 (2023): 213–228. 

“She Decides: Reading Genesis 34 in Conversation with Narrative Ethics.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology vol. 77, no. 1 (2023): 52–60. 

Research Interests

The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation, The History of Biblical Interpretation/Reception History, the Art of Biblical Narrative, Socio-Narratology and Narrative Ethics, Genesis, Joseph and Aseneth.