160. Kylie Crabbe - 31 March 2024

Australian Women Preach

Easter Sunday - Mark 16: 1-8 - And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

Rev Assoc Prof Kylie Crabbe is a Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church and Associate Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. She was in congregational ministry prior to pursuing further academic work. Kylie joined ACU in late 2017 from the University of Oxford, where she undertook her doctorate and was Lecturer in Theology at Trinity College (2015-2017), Instructor in New Testament Greek for the Faculty of Theology and Religion (2016), and Assistant Welfare Dean at Trinity College (2017). She is also a member of ACU’s Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, and Chair of the Board of the Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy.

Kylie has published and taught widely in New Testament studies and Second Temple Judaism, including her 2019 monograph Luke/Acts and the End of History, and 2021, edited with John M.G. Barclay, The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians and 2024, edited with David Lincicum, Divine and Human Love in Jewish and Christian Antiquity, forthcoming.

Kylie’s current research focuses on disability in early Christian literature and the contemporary legacy of how biblical passages about disability have been interpreted. She holds a current Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council (2022-2025) for her project ‘Inside Others: Early Christian Protagonists and Their Impairments’ (DE220101054). In this work she is supported by a Project Reference Group of people with lived experience of disability, carers, and advocates.