Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Dr Anne Gardner

Senior Lecturer & Coordinator, Religion & Spirituality Studies Room: David Myers Building E136 Tel: (61 3) 9479 2368 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942 Email: a.gardner@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: MA Edin., BD Edin., PhD Edin.

Anne Gardner took up a lectureship at La Trobe University in 1986.  She was in the Religious Studies Program prior to joining the History Program in 1995.  In 1996 she was an honorary fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Advisor to the National Gallery of Victoria for the Dead Sea Scroll Exhibition in 2001.Research interests include: Ancient Near Eastern History, Hebrew Bible, Inter-Testamental Literature including the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, Gender in the Ancient World, Ecology and the Ancient World.  Anne is the Old Testament Editor of the Australian Biblical Review.

Research Projects
Jerusalem and David: A History of Jerusalem to its occupation by David
Daniel Decoded: The sources behind the book of Daniel and their implications for meaning.

Research Publications

Anne has published many articles in top journals and contributed chapters to several books.  Some recent publications are as follows:

• “The Narratives of Solomon’s Reign in the Light of the Historiography of other Ancient Civilisations”, Australian Biblical Review 56, 2008, 1-18
  
• "Daniel: God, Humans and Earth”, Pacifica 20,3, 2007, 249-61
  
• "1 Chron 8:28 - 32; 9:35-38: Complementary or Contrasting Genealogies?" Australian Biblical Review 55, 2007, 13-28
  
• "Decoding Daniel: The Case of Dan 7,5”, Biblica 88,2, 2007, 222-233
  
• "Isaiah 66:3: Condemnation of Temple and Sacrifice or Contrast of the Arrogant with the Humble?" Revue Biblique 113-4, 2006, 506-28
  
• "Isaiah 65:20: Centenarians or Millenarians?" Biblica 85,1, 2005, 88-96
  
• "The Identity of Bathsheba", Revue Biblique 112-4, 2005, 521-535
  
• "The Nature of the New Heavens and New Earth in Isaiah 66:22", Australian Biblical Review 50, 2002, 10-27
  
• "Eco or Anthropological Justice: a Study of the New Heavens and the New Earth in Isaiah 65:17", in The Earth Bible IV, Sheffield, Sheffield University Press, 2001, pp.204-218
  
• "Dan 7:2-14: Another Look at its Mythic Pattern" Biblica 82, 2, 2001, pp.244-252
  
• "Ecojustice: A Study of Gen 6:9-11" in The Earth Bible, II, Sheffield, Sheffield University Press, 2000, pp.117-29

Graduate Supervision Areas and Topics

Marian Dalton (Ph.D.) Ancient Myth: Adoption and Adaption of Neo-Pagan Religions
Bronwyn Naismith (Ph.D.) “The Jews fear the Jews” in John
Jeremy Stonehouse (Ph.D.) Mystical Physiology and Enlightenment
Ross Tucker (Ph.D.) An Examination of the Patristic Concept of Episcopos and its Subsequest Development in the Early Christian Church (50-300AD)
Tony Wong (Ph.D.) The Great Parent and Filial Child Relationship:  Wang Zheng and His Attempt to Inculturate Christianity in late Ming China