{"id":151,"date":"2019-06-28T03:04:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T03:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2020-03-05T22:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T22:00:32","slug":"djacobso","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/djacobso\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane L. Jacobson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<div id=\"fac_home\">\n<div class=\"fac_home_text\">\n<ul class=\"degree_list\">\n<li>Ph.D. (Union Theological Seminary)<\/li>\n<li>M. Phil. (Union Theological Seminary)<\/li>\n<li>M.A. (Columbia University\/Union Theological Seminary)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearer\"><\/div>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Dr. Diane Jacobson is professor emerita of Old Testament at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, MN where she taught from1982-2010. She also served as director of the Book of Faith Initiative for the ELCA from 2008-2016. She is a rostered deacon of the ELCA. Jacobson has been a frequent speaker throughout the Church, including the 2011 and 2013 Churchwide Assemblies, the LWF 50th Anniversary Assembly in Hong Kong, and numerous synodical assemblies, rostered leaders gatherings, and churchwide consultations.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson\u2019s main academic areas of teaching and publishing have been in Wisdom and Psalms. She wrote her dissertation on creation imagery in the psalms, was a principle translator of the psalms for the ELW, and recently contributed a chapter entitled \u201cWisdom Language in the Psalms\u201d in the\u00a0<em>Oxford Handbook of the Psalms<\/em>, edited by William Brown, 2014. Jacobson\u2019s other recent publications include: \u201cIgniting Biblical Imagination in Our Congregations: Insights from the Book of Faith Initiative,\u201d \u201cFamily in the Book of Ruth,\u201d and \u201cJob as a Theologian of the Cross,\u201d \u201cThe Inseparability of Beauty and Truth in Biblical Poetry,\u201d (<em>Word and World<\/em>\u00a02011, 2013, 2014, 2019) as well as \u201cFaith and the Intellectual Life: A Case Study in the Psalms\u201d (<em>Worship the Lord with Gladness, <\/em>Word and World Supplement Series 7, 2017), \u201cLuther and Post-Modern Culture Meet the Never-ending Challenge of Ecclesiastes\u201d (<em>Lutheran Theological Journal <\/em>2016), \u201cBook of Faith: Retrospective and Prospective\u201d (<em>Currents in Theology and Mission<\/em>\u00a02014), the Book of Faith Lenten Devotional,\u00a0<em>Water Marks,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0<\/em>the Book of Faith Adult study on\u00a0<em>Ruth<\/em>\u00a0(co-authored with David Vasquez).<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson currently serves on the boards of Augsburg University and Minnesota Opera as well as on the St. Paul Area Synod Caring for Creation Workgroup and the EcoFaith Leadership Team, NE Minn Synod. 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