IBR Students

Join us next Thursday for a practical workshop on using Zotero in your academic research and writing! This will be relevant for both those who are currently Zotero users looking to go deeper and those with no experience who are interested in learning what they're missing out on

Congrats to Devin Arinder on his recent publication in HTS Theological Studies! 🎉 The article was cowritten with his supervisor and is available open access. Check it out here: doi.org/10.4102/hts.v8…

Join us THIS Thursday, Feb. 19th, for our conversation with Dr. Cynthia Westfall!

The call for paper proposals for our 2026 Annual Meeting in Denver is now open! For more information, see the Research Groups page on the IBR website.

Check out our latest Scholar's Corner entry with Dr. Danny Carrol sharing about what motivates his research: youtu.be/IZdwY-QmV7o

Congratulations to our own IBR Students Committee Chair, Matt Quintana on his recent publication, "On Reconstructing the Shorter Edition of the Book of Jeremiah: A Review of Michael B. Shepherd’s A Commentary on Jeremiah," in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism!

Join us for our first forum of 2026! We're looking forward to a practical and informative conversation with Dr. Cynthia Westfall.

Meet Dr. Jill Firth (@jilfirth), who recently joined us for our IBR Students “Interview Series.” In this interview, Dr. Firth answers questions about her scholarship and ministry, sharing valuable insights and practical wisdom. You’ll want to tune in! youtu.be/BYngyauXcU4

We'd like to offer a big congratulations to Dr. @KelleyMMathews on her recent graduation from Houston Christian University with her D.Min. in New Testament! 🎓🎉 We wish you all the best in your future endeavors and are grateful for your contribution to our community.

A big congratulations to IBR Students member Aj Fletcher, who graduated last June with her PhD in Theology (Old Testament) from Fuller Theological Seminary! We are eager to celebrate all of our IBR Student accomplishments, so please let us know what you are up to in 2026!

Don't forget about our forum tomorrow at 12pm Eastern! We hope to see you there!

IBR Students heartily congratulates Dr. Rachel Wilkowski!

Join us on December 17th at 12pm Eastern for a forum with Dr. Collin Cornell (Fuller Theological Seminary), where he will share on the many potential uses of a PhD in biblical studies. This will be a timely and important discussion, so we hope you'll tune in!

For those still in Boston, join us tomorrow (Monday) evening for a dinner with other IBR students! We'll meet at 6:30pm outside the exhibit hall in the Hynes Convention Center and walk to a restaurant from there. No RSVP is required. Bring a friend!

PS: We apologize if we’ve missed anyone in our list and ask that you please let us know if this is the case. We will continue to update the document so that it reflects the latest information.

Check out this list of our IBR student members who are presenting at the annual meetings this week in Boston! We encourage you to support your colleagues by attending their sessions or finding an opportunity to talk to them about their research. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

We welcome Dr. Ellen Davis (Duke Divinity School) as this year’s lecturer, presenting: “A Path through the Wilderness: Tracing the Covenantal Economics of Psalms.” in Boston. Respondents are Dr. Mark Boda (McMaster Divinity College) and Dr. Brent Strawn (Duke Divinity School).

Check out the superb first video by Dr. Amber Dillon (@amber_m_dillon), sharing about her research on John the Baptist and intertextuality in the John's Gospel. And look out for the published version, forthcoming in Brill's Biblical Interpretation series! youtu.be/kY5LEGUJSdE?si…

We are excited to unveil a new series of dissertation summary videos on our YouTube channel! The goal is to give recent graduates the opportunity to share overviews of their dissertation research along with advice for current students gleaned from their own PhD experience.

Are you an IBR student member who will be presenting at one of the annual meetings in Boston? If so, please share the details so we can add it to a spreadsheet to be shared amongst the IBR Students group. We want to highlight the research of our peers! form.jotform.com/253027918901054