Academic Level D
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Rev Dr Vicky Balabanski is senior lecturer in New Testament at Flinders University Department of Theology and Director of Biblical Studies at the Uniting College for Leadership and Theology. She has lived and worked in various parts of Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including a year in Jerusalem as the Golda Meir post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University. he is a team member and editor of the international Earth Bible Project, which has produced a series of books that seek to read the Bible in the shadow of the ecological crisis facing the Earth community. She has written for various feminist collections. Vicky was ordained in the Uniting Church in 2011. She is actively involved in supporting the development of indigenous writers in the field of spirituality.
2017 Member of the SNTS (Studiorum novi testamenti societas), the international society of New Testament studies
2012, March, Visiting scholar, Diocese of Madras, Church of South India
2011, January, Visiting scholar, McGilvary College of Divinity, Chiang Mai, Thailand
1996 Post-doctoral fellow, Orion Centre,Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1988-1989 Swiss Government scholarship, Berne, Switzerland
1987-1988 Robert Maddox scholarship, Jerusalem, Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise.
1981 DAAD German Government Scholarship, Berlin.
Director of Biblical Studies, Director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology, Australia Pacific Region, Higher Education supervisor.