Jillian Nelson is an independent scholar, a full-time museum employee, and an adjunct professor. She is the author of Matthew, Disability, and Stress: Exploring Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire and co-editor of The Gospels and the Roman Empire (forthcoming).
Relevant Experience
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR:
Texas Christian University
*Understanding Religions-Texts and Ideas: The Bible
*Understanding Religions-Society and Culture: Christian Ethics
Saint Paul School of Theology
*Matthew, Disability, and Empire
*The Gospels (Course of Study Curriculum)
EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR:
The Gospels and the Roman Empire. Lanham: Lexington Academic/Fortress Press, Forthcoming.
AUTHOR:
Disability in the Context of Empire: Exploring Impaired Characters in the Gospel of Matthew. Lanham: Lexington Academic/Fortress Press, 2021.
“Performing Power in the Public Court of Reputation: Capital Punishment, John the Baptist, and Julius Jones.” Review & Expositor, 119(3-4), 303-314. (2022)
“Disability in a Disabling Empire: Investigating a Person with Paralysis in Luke 5:17–26.” Review & Expositor, forthcoming.
CONTRIBUTOR:
Carter, Warren; Bowden, Anna; Moeser, Annelies ; Mohn, Kendi ; Nelson, Jill. “Pontius Pilate.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies. Ed. Christopher Matthews. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
SECTION REVIEWER:
New Revised Standard Version: Updated Edition, Friendship Press and SBL,
STYLISTIC EDITOR AND PROOFREADER:
On Prophets, Warriors, and Kings: Former and Latter Prophets Through the Eyes of Their Interpreters. Eds. George J. Brooke and Ariel Feldman. Berlin:Walter de Gruyter, 2015.
INDEXER:
Wisdom Commentary: Mark by Warren Carter. Ed. Barbara E. Reid. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2019.
T&T Clark Handbook of Children in the Bible and Biblical World. Sharon Betsworth and Julie Faith Parker, ed. London: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2019.
WRITER, PRODUCER, EDITOR:
Not Your Grandma’s Bible Study Podcast. 2019-present.
Jillian D. Nelson, PhD 