Shelley Birdsong
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Contact +1 630 637 5314
slbirdsong@noctrl.edu
Office Location
H225
Shelley L. Birdsong is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at North Central College. Dr. Birdsong's major works include The Last King(s) of Judah (2017), Partners with God: Theological and Critical Readings of the Bible in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney (2017), and Reading Gender in Judges: An Intertextual Approach (2023). Currently, Dr. Birdsong is writing a commentary on the book of Judges for Smyth & Helwys.
Dr. Birdsong serves on the LGBTIQ+ Scholars and Scholarship Committee for the Society of Biblical Literature as well as the Board of Higher Education and Camppus Ministries for the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Selected Scholarship
“1 Samuel.” Pages 379–421 in The Westminster Study Bible. NRSVue. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2024.
Reading Gender in Judges: An Intertextual Approach. Co-edited with J. Cornelis de Vos and Hyun Chul Paul Kim. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2023.
"Jeremiah." Oxford Bibliographies Online. Revised Edition. Co-edited with Marvin A. Sweeney. 2021.
The Last King(s) of Judah: Zedekiah and Sedekias in the Hebrew and Old Greek Versions of Jeremiah 37(44):1-40(47):6. FAT II Series. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.
“The Narratives about Isaiah in Isa 36–39.” The Oxford Handbook of Isaiah. Edited by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Courses Taught
Introduction to the Bible
Violence, War, and Peace in the Bible
Women and the Bible
Christian Spirituality
Nature & Wellbeing
People and Nature
Sustainability