Judy Yates Siker

Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Graduate Theological Union

B.A., Meredith College, 1973
M.Div., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1989
M.A., University of North Carolina, 1993
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 2000

Vice President of SFTS Southern California Campus
Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 2002

B.A., Meredith College, 1973
M.Div., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1989
M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000

Phone: 510/841-1905 ext. 239
E-mail: jsiker@sfts.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• History of Interpretation of Mt. 27:25
• Politics of Identity in Early Christianity
• Anti-Semitism in the New Testament
• Constructions of Identity in the Gospel of Matthew

Selected Publications

• “Anti-Judaism in the Gospels According to Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Mel,” Pastoral Psychology, March, 2005.
• “Unmasking the Enemy: Deconstructing the `Other’ in the Gospel of Matthew,” Perspectives in Religious Studies, Summer, 2005.
• “Between Text and Sermon: Mt 26: 47-56,” Interpretation, Oct, 2004.
• “That Unsettling Holy Spirit,” The Living Pulpit, Apr-June, 2004.
• “Unless You Become Like Children...” The Living Pulpit, Oct-Dec, 2003.