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Sarah Jobe

Associate In Research
Divinity School
Box 90968, Durham, NC 27708-0968
101 New Divinity, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


The Incarcerated Christ: Crime and Prison in Karl Barth’s Life and Theology

Journal Article The Journal of Theological Studies · August 26, 2025 AbstractThis article argues that Karl Barth is a justice-involved theologian, someone whose own criminal record and experience in prisons have shaped his core theological commitments. The article serves as a ... Full text Cite

Rethinking Responsibility: Moral Injury from War to Prison

Journal Article Political Theology · May 19, 2022 Full text Cite

Jeremiah's Non-Burial Refrain

Chapter · 2021 This chapter introduces the non-burial refrain in the Book of Jeremiah. The non-burial refrain is composed of thirteen variations on the idea that God will slay the people of Judah, leaving their bodies out to be eaten by the birds of the air and the beast ... Link to item Cite

The Monstrosity of God Made Flesh

Journal Article Journal of Reformed Theology · December 6, 2019 AbstractThree times over the course of thirty-eight years, Karl Barth images God as the monster Leviathan (once each in the Epistle to the Romans, Church Dogmatics II.1 and& IV ... Full text Cite

Carceral Hermeneutics: Discovering the Bible in Prison and Prison in the Bible

Journal Article Religions · February 10, 2019 This essay introduces the concept of “carceral hermeneutics,” the art of interpreting Scripture from within prisons as, or alongside, incarcerated persons. Reading the Bible in prison reframes the Bible as a whole, highlighting how the original sit ... Full text Cite

How programs in prisons are challenging the who, where, how, and what of theological education

Journal Article Teaching Theology & Religion · January 2019 AbstractThis paper claims that programs in prisons are challenging the very who, where, how, and what of theological education. The author draws on research from the fields of pedagogy and prison studies, nearly a decade of ... Full text Cite

"The Silence Behind the Din: Domestic Violence and Homosexuality"

Chapter · 2013 For women and their partners, faith leaders and their members, historians and their students, this book documents the voices of young Christian women and their refusal to be silent any longer. ... Cite

Creating with God The Holy Confusing Blessedness of Being Pregnant

Book · October 1, 2011 Weaving together biblical reflection, her own story, and the stories of the moms around her, Jobe reveals the ways in which pregnancy is at the heart of God’s work in the world. ... Cite

Reading Jael's Story in a Women's Prison

Other Christian century (Chicago, Ill. : 1902) Link to item Cite