Jennifer Quigley

Dr. Jennifer Quigley joined the Candler faculty in 2024 as assistant professor of New Testament.  She was previously assistant professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Prior to this, she was visiting assistant professor of New Testament language and literature at Huron University College at Western University from 2021-2022, and assistant professor of New Testament and early Christian Studies at Drew University Theological School from 2018-2020.

Quigley earned a doctor of theology in New Testament and early Christianity from Harvard Divinity School. She holds a master of sacred theology in biblical and historical studies and a master of divinity from Boston University School of Theology. Her ThD dissertation, directed by Laura Nasrallah, was published by Yale University Press in 2021 as Divine Accounting: Theo-Economics in Early Christianity. She is an ordained elder in full connection in the West Ohio Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church.

BOOKS

Co-editor, Assembling Futures: Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion, Fordham University Press, 2024

Divine Accounting: Theo-Economics in Early Christianity, Yale University Press, 2021

CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

“Philippians.” Lutheran Study Bible: NRSVue. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2025

“Intimate Labour: Gender, Labour, and the Letters of Paul.” Religion and the Roman Empire 10.1 (2024): 69-86

“The Costs of Citizenship: Politeuma in the Letter to the Philippians.” In Assembling Futures: Economy, Ecology, Democracy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2024.

“God, Money, and the 99%: Contextualizing the New Testament.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money, Vol. 1: Ancient and Medieval Thought. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

“Teaching and Touches Across Time: Queer Historiography, Pedagogy, and Appalling Bodies.” In The Bible and Critical Theory 18.1, 2022

“Welfare and 2 Thessalonians 3:6-14.” In Bible Odyssey, 2022

Co-author, “Cost and Abundance in Roman Philippi: The Letter to the Philippians in its Context.” In Philippi, From colonia augusta to communitas christiana: Religion and Society in Transition. E. J. Brill, 2022

Co-author, “Archaeology, Greco-Roman.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies. Oxford University Press, 2021

“Class-ifying the Gods: The Christ Commodity in Philippians 3.” In The Struggle Over Class: Socioeconomic Analysis of Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts. Writings from the Graeco-Roman World Supplement Series. SBL Press, 2021

Student Government Association Community Service Award, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 2024

Karen McCarthy Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching, Drew University, 2019