Scholars@Duke

• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • Doctoral Scholarship for Theological Studies. Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina. 2019
  • “2018 Best of the Church Press Award” Honorable Mention in Biblical Interpretation for “Blessed Jael” in Christian Century . The Associated Church Press. 2018
• Research
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  Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

  • P.E.O. Scholars Award awarded by P.E.O. 2021 - 2022
  • Graduate Fellowship awarded by Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University 2020 - 2021
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Jobe, Sarah. Creating with God The Holy Confusing Blessedness of Being Pregnant. Paraclete Press, 2011.

  • Academic Articles

    • Jobe, Sarah C. “The Monstrosity of God Made Flesh.” Journal of Reformed Theology 13, no. 3–4 (December 6, 2019): 238–56. https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01303001.
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    • Jobe, Sarah C. “How programs in prisons are challenging the who, where, how, and what of theological education.” Teaching Theology & Religion 22, no. 1 (January 2019): 16–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/teth.12466.
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    • Jobe, Sarah. “Carceral Hermeneutics: Discovering the Bible in Prison and Prison in the Bible.” Religions 10, no. 2 (n.d.): 101–101. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020101.
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  • Book Sections

    • Jobe, Sarah. “Jeremiah's Non-Burial Refrain.” In The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah, edited by Louis Stuhlman and Edward Silver. Oxford University Press, 2021.
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    • Jobe, Sarah. “Jeremiah's Non-Burial Refrain.” In The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah, edited by Louis Stuhlman and Edward Silver. Oxford University Press, 2021.
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    • Jobe, S. “"The Silence Behind the Din: Domestic Violence and Homosexuality".” In Talking Taboo American Christian Women Get Frank about Faith, edited by E. Lane and E. Okoro, 2013.

  • Other Articles

    • Jobe, Sarah. “Reading Jael's Story in a Women's Prison.” Christian Century (Chicago, Ill. : 1902). Christian Century Foundation, n.d.
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    • Jobe, Sarah. “Jesus' First Week Home from Prison.” Sojourners Magazine, n.d.
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  Artistic Works & Non-Print Media

  • Audio Recordings

    • Conviction: Songs of Faith From Women in Prison. Performing artist. 2021
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • CHURMIN 709: Sustaining Practices: Ministry at the Margins 2021
  • HISTTHEO 790: Topics in Historical Theology 2021
  • OLDTEST 769: Prophecy in the Body 2020
  • PARISH 790: Topics in Care of the Parish 2019
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  Teaching Activities

  • In 2009, Jobe served as the Founding Director of Project TURN, a partnership program between Duke Divinity School and the North Carolina Department of Public Safety that offers graduate level, seminary-style courses on site at local NC prisons. She has continued to facilitate Duke courses at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women since that time. She also serves as a Program Assistant for Duke Divinity School's Prison Studies Certificate Program. 
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Advisory Group Member. Chaplaincy Innovation Lab. 2018 - 2021  2018 - 2021
  • Professional Advisory Group Member. Clincal Pastoral Education Program. VA Hospital, Durham, NC. 2017 - 2021  2017 - 2021
  • Representative. Committee on Post-Secondary Education in Prisons. North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Prisons. 2015 - 2019  2015 - 2019
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  Service to the Profession

  • Prisoner Representative. Duke University Medical Center IRB. 2020  2020
  • Editorial Assistant. "Carceral Intersections: Christianity and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration". Religions. 2018 - 2019  2018 - 2019
  • Steering Committee Member. "Innovations in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care" Sub-Unit. American Academy of Religion. 2018 - 2021  2018 - 2021
  • Report Author. Educational Models and Practices Project, Programs in Prisons. Assocation of Theological Schools (ATS). 2015 - 2017  2015 - 2017
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  Clinical Activities

  • Jobe serves part-time as a Clinical Chaplain at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women through Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women. To learn more visit: www.ipmforwomen.org. Within this context, Jobe has developed a curriculum to treat Moral Injury in incarcerated women, adapting insights form Veterans Affairs for a prison setting. She is in the early stages of evaluating this curriculum toward the end of validating what appear to be positive impacts in those who participate in the course.

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