Reverend Doctor Vicky Balabanski

Academic Level D

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

place Adelaide College of Divinity
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

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.

Qualifications
PhD University of Melbourne 1993 Department of Classics and Near Eastern Studies.
Bachelor of Divinity, Melbourne College of Divinity, 1986
Bachelor of Arts, Honours, University of Melbourne, 1982
Honours, awards and grants

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.

Key responsibilities

Director of Biblical Studies, Director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology, Australia Pacific Region, Higher Education supervisor.

Teaching interests
Interpretation of New Testament texts, particularly Gospels.
Biblical (Koine) Greek
Hermeneutics
Topic coordinator
THEO2704 Biblical Greek 1
THEO3706 Biblical Greek 3
THEO3218 John's Gospel and the Johannine Epistles
THEO8103 Ecology and the Bible
THEO3705 Biblical Greek 2
THEO3002 Biblical Hermeneutics: Making Sense of the Bible
THEO1204 Synoptic Studies. Engaging the Gospel of Matthew, Mark or Luke
THEO1201 Interpreting the New Testament
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Religion
Eco-Theology
Feminist Interpretation of The New Testament
Jewish Queen Alexandra
New Testament Greek
New Testament Studies
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  • Eco-Theology
  • Feminist Interpretation of The New Testament
  • Jewish Queen Alexandra
  • New Testament Greek
  • New Testament Studies