Saturday Keynote Speaker
Matthew's Community: Borders and Belonging
Dulcinea Boesenberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biblical Studies; Creighton University
Associate Director of the Christian Spirituality Program
Dulcinea Boesenberg is an Associate Professor of Theology at Creighton University, where she has been teaching since 2014. Her research focuses on the New Testament and Second Temple Judaism; she is particularly interested in the interpretation of Scripture in early Judaism and early Christianity as well as in the ways in which Jewish and Christian communities in antiquity defined themselves. At Creighton, she regularly teaches a core course in Biblical Studies entitled “Early Christian Community and Identity” and occasionally teaches an upper-level course on the history of biblical interpretation. An Indiana native, Dulcinea holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Hanover College as well as an M.T.S. in Biblical Studies and a Ph.D. in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity from the University of Notre Dame. In her free time, she enjoys knitting, gardening, and cooking.
