Wisdom Commentary: Philippians, Colossians, Philemon

The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge is dean and president and professor of New Testament at Seminary of the Southwest. She is a co-editor of <em>The Fortress Commentary on the New Testament</em> (Fortress, 2014) and the author of <em>A Lot of the Way Trees Were Walking: Poems from the Gospel of Mark</em> (Wipf & Stock, 2015). In the wider church, Dean Kittredge is a respected scholar and preacher who teaches and leads retreats on the vital intersection of scripture, spirituality, and preaching for Christian leaders. In her role as dean and president, she continues to form students at Southwest in creative and faithful approaches to biblical studies, early Christian history, Greek reading, and the embodied practice of liturgical leadership. Dean Kittredge is the eighth dean and president of Seminary of the Southwest. She was appointed in 2013 after serving on the faculty as the Ernest J. Villavaso, Jr. Professor of New Testament and as academic dean. Committed to theological education for the church, Dean Kittredge has served as a member of the Steering Committee for Theological Education in the Anglican Communion, as Chair of the Board of the Episcopal Evangelism Society, and President of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars. A biblical scholar valued by her colleagues for her insight and generous collegiality, Dean Kittredge is a contributor to <em>The New Oxford Annotated Bible</em> and the <em>Women's Bible Commentary,</em> and the author of <em>Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of John and Community </em> and <em>Authority: The Rhetoric of Obedience in the Pauline Tradition. </em>She co-edited <em>The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times </em>and <em>Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. </em>She is the co-editor of the <em>Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament </em> (2014). Fascinated by the interplay of intellect and imagination in the interpretation of scripture, she wrote <em>A Lot of the Way Trees Were Walking: Poems from the Gospel of Mark </em>(Wipf & Stock, 2015). Prior to joining the seminary faculty in 1999, Dean Kittredge taught at Harvard University and the College of the Holy Cross. She serves as assisting priest at The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Austin. She is married to Frank D. Kittredge, Jr. and they have three grown children.