Rebind Scholar

Jaime Clark-Soles

PhD (Yale University), Professor of New Testament and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

Jaime Clark-Soles is Professor of New Testament and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. An ordained American Baptist minister with a PhD from Yale University, she specializes in the Johannine literature and writes on women in the Bible, suffering, and the life of faith.

“When Mary Magdalene weeps, she’s in good company. Who else weeps in John? Yes, Jesus. And the fact that Mary Magdalene is a “Mary” who “weeps” outside a “tomb” with a “stone” cannot be lost on the reader of John 11, who watched Mary of Bethany weep for Lazarus…”

Reading John for Dear Life · Read in context →

““The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” “He’s a chip off the old block.” If you’ve ever wondered how Jesus could believe what he believed, teach what he taught, live how he lived, and die how he died, you need only look to the mother who raised him, who es…”

Women in the Bible · Read in context →