Wells, Jo Bailey

Position:

Associate Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry and Bible;
Director of Anglican Studies

Degrees:

M.A., Cambridge University (Corpus Christi)
M.A., University of Minnesota
B.A., Ph.D., University of Durham (St John's)

Address:

Duke University Divinity School
Box 90967
Durham NC 27708-0967

Phone:

(919) 660-3576

E-mail:

jwells@div.duke.edu

Biography

Jo Bailey Wells teaches Old Testament and biblical theology, particularly in relation to its contemporary relevance for ministry. She also directs (and teaches in) Anglican Studies. The Anglican Episcopal House of Studies is designed to meet both academic and formational interests of the growing number of Anglicans and Episcopalians who come to study at Duke.

Professor Wells' scholarly writing has focused on Old Testament theology. Her books include God's Holy People: A Theme in Biblical Theology (Sheffield, 2000) and Isaiah in the People's Bible Commentary series (BRF, 2006). She also enjoys devotional writing (for example, with Scripture Union, the College of Preachers and The Church Times), seeking to bring the fruits of biblical scholarship to a wider audience within the Church.

She is a priest ordained in the first wave of women priests in the Church of England who has previously served as dean of Clare College as well as lecturer in Old Testament at Ridley Hall, both in Cambridge, UK.