Carolyn J. Sharp

Carolyn J. Sharp is professor of homiletics at Yale Divinity School. Her research explores the poetics, narrative art, and theology of biblical texts as resources for homiletical theory and practice. Her books include a commentary on Jeremiah 26–52, commentaries on Joshua and Micah, The Prophetic Literature, Wrestling the Word: The Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Believer, and Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible. An Episcopal priest, she serves as Preacher in Residence at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut.