Carolyn J. Sharp

Professor Sharp’s research explores the poetics, narrative art, and theology of biblical texts as resources for homiletical theory and practice. She is interested in ways in which preaching can catalyze the formation of Christian community via insights from biblical studies, feminist perspectives on power, ecotheology, and emancipatory pedagogy. Her books include a commentary on Micah (2024); a commentary on Jeremiah 26–52 (2022); a commentary on Joshua (2019); The Prophetic Literature (2019); Wrestling the Word: The Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Believer (2010); and Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible (2009). Professor Sharp has edited or co-edited eight volumes, including Irony in the Bible: Between Subversion and Innovation (with Tobias Häner and Virginia Miller, 2023), The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets (2016), and Feminist Frameworks and the Bible: Power, Ambiguity, and Intersectionality (with Juliana Claassens, 2017). The founding series editor of the T&T Clark Library of Homiletics, Professor Sharp is a member of the Academy of Homiletics, the Societas Homiletica, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Society of Biblical Theologians, the International Academy of Practical Theology, and other guilds. An Episcopal priest, she serves as Preacher in Residence at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church in New Haven.