Sister Carolyn Osiek chosen as president-elect of biblical society

Published: 2003-12-29

ATLANTA (CNS) -- Sister Carolyn Osiek, a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart and professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas, is the new vice president and president-elect of the Society of Biblical Literature. She is only the fourth woman and the eighth Catholic to be elected to that post in the 123-year history of the international scholarly organization. The society, which promotes critical investigation of the Bible, has 6,000 members. She was elected to her new post at the society's annual meeting in Atlanta. Sister Osiek, who served as president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 1995, is editor of the 15-volume "Message of Biblical Spirituality" series published by Michael Glazier/Liturgical Press, a former associate editor of The Bible Today and New Testament book review editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly.

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