{{Short description|American theologian and Old Testament scholar}} '''Ellen F. Davis''' (born November 20, 1950) is an American theologian and Old Testament scholar. She is the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Ellen Davis|url=https://divinity.duke.edu/academics/faculty/ellen-davis|publisher=Duke Divinity School|accessdate=19 May 2015}}</ref>
==Biography== Davis has degrees from University of California, Berkeley (A.B., Comparative Literature), the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (M.Div.) and Yale University (Ph.D., Old Testament).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://presidentialsearch.duke.edu/ellen-davis/ |title=Ellen Davis – Duke University Presidential Announcement |access-date=2017-01-28 |archive-date=2017-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202074740/https://presidentialsearch.duke.edu/ellen-davis/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She previously taught at Union Theological Seminary (New York City), Yale Divinity School, and Virginia Theological Seminary.
Davis's work has focused on how biblical interpretation can be used to address urgent contemporary issues in the church and world. She has considered how the Old Testament can be used to address preaching, interfaith dialogue, and the ecological crisis.<ref name=":0" /> Davis is known in particular for this latter work; she has written a book on the Old Testament view of land and ecology entitled ''Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible.''<ref name=":0" /> She appeared on NPR's program ''On Being'' with Wendell Berry in 2011<ref>{{Cite web|title = Ellen Davis and Wendell Berry — The Poetry of Creatures|url = http://www.onbeing.org/program/ellen-davis-and-wendell-berry-the-poetry-of-creatures/117|website = On Being|access-date = 2016-02-13|archive-date = 2016-02-11|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160211011611/http://www.onbeing.org/program/ellen-davis-and-wendell-berry-the-poetry-of-creatures/117|url-status = dead}}</ref> and also spoke with Berry and fellow Duke Divinity School professor Norman Wirzba at a Food and Faith conference in Nashville in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Media|url = http://www.siloamhealth.org/media/|website = Siloam Health|access-date = 2016-02-13|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160216201339/http://www.siloamhealth.org/media/|archive-date = 2016-02-16|url-status = dead}}</ref> Davis also works with the Great Lakes Initiative, an ecumenical gathering of East African leaders in reconciliation ministries, sponsored through Duke Divinity School's Center for Reconciliation.<ref>{{Cite web|title = African Leaders Gather for 2015 GLI |publisher= Duke Divinity School|url = https://divinity.duke.edu/news/african-leaders-gather-2015-gli|website = divinity.duke.edu|access-date = 2016-02-13}}</ref> For several years, she has consulted with the Anglican Church in Sudan and South Sudan on theological education, community health, and sustainable agriculture.<ref name=":0" />
== Bibliography == *''Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament'' (Cowley Publications, 2001) – {{ISBN|1561011975}}<ref>[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1241066.Getting_Involved_with_God ''Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament'']</ref> *''Wondrous Depth: Preaching the Old Testament'' (Wesminster John Knox Press, 2005) - ISBN 9780664228590 *''Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading Of The Bible'' (Cambridge University Press, 2008) – {{ISBN|0521732239}}<ref>''[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5941497-scripture-culture-and-agriculture Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading Of The Bible]''</ref> *''Opening Israel's Scriptures'' (Oxford University Press, 2019) – {{ISBN|0190948949}}<ref>''[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43000786-opening-israel-s-scriptures Opening Israel's Scriptures]''</ref>
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