Member of the Perkins faculty since 2001
jaimecs@smu.edu
214.768.2027

Education
PhD., Yale University, 2000; M.Div., summa cum laude, Yale University, 1993; B.A., Stetson University, 1989

Teaching Specialties
Gospel of John; social history of the New Testament; Evil, Suffering, and Death in the New Testament; New Testament Ethics

Research Interests
The use and authority of Scripture; Gospel of John; depictions of death and afterlife in the New Testament canon; Literature and the Bible

Selected Publications
Death and Afterlife in the New Testament. London; New York: T & T Clark, November 2006.

Scripture Cannot Be Broken: The Social Function of the Use of Scripture in the Fourth Gospel (Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, 2003)

“‘I Will Raise [Whom?] Up on the Last Day:’ Anthropology as a Feature of Johannine Eschatology.”  In eds., Francisco Lozada and Tom Thatcher, New Currents Through John.  SBL Publications and Brill Academic Publishing, November 2006.

Contributor, Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction (Ed. Patrick Gray and Mark Roncace; Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005).

Professional Distinctions
Ordained, American Baptist Churches, USA, 1996; "Johannine Literature" Steering Committee, SBL; "Jesus, John and History" Steering Committee, SBL; Johannine Literature Area Editor, Religious Studies Review; Louisville Institute Christian Faith and Life Sabbatical Grant, 2004-2005; Catholic Biblical Association Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2004; Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion grant recipient and participant, 2003-2007