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The Board of Trustees
 of Bangor Theological Seminary
 is pleased to announce
 the appointment of
Pamela Shellberg
as Instructor of New Testament
 beginning July 1, 2009.

A layperson within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and former Director of Christian Education at Mt. Zion Lutheran Church in Wauwatoso, WI, Pam’s first career was in the public school classroom.

She earned a B.S. in Elementary/Special Education at Carthage College, followed by an M.S. in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Educational Psychology.

After twenty years in her first career -- and after discerning that the teaching ministry rather than the ordained ministry is her calling -- she decided to pursue a second career teaching New Testament at the graduate level. So she earned an M.A. in Theology from Marquette University, where she continues as a Ph.D. candidate in the area of Religious Studies.

During her studies she has taught the “Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament Overview” and the “New Testament Overview” courses at Marquette, as well as “The Gospel and Letters of John” and “The Synoptic Gospels” courses at Mount Mary College. She is about to defend her dissertation: “Cleansing the Leper and Accepting the Gentile” in Luke-Acts.

Pam has published an article in Jewish and Christian Scriptures as Artifact and Canon, served as Assistant to the Editor for several publications, and presented papers for the American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, and American Schools of Oriental Research.

She has assisted Professor Daniel Maguire with the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics – an international gathering of scholars from multiple faith communities.  Professor Maguire describes Pam as “outstanding – haven’t had a better student in my 38 years of teaching.”

Since 1997 she has served on the Board of Directors at Wartburg Theological Seminary (Dubuque), where she has served on the Committee for Student Life and on the Academic Affairs Committee.

Writes Pam: “I have always understood teaching to be a vocation to which I have been called to express the following commitments: first, that my primary task was to create experiences where students could flourish, participate in community, be supported in their process of vocational discernment, and to glimpse in themselves and in each other the image of God; and second, that any classroom for which I had responsibility should provide the context in which students could learn, practice, and experience justice, mercy, and hope.”

Pam’s office will be located on the Bangor campus.

Founded in 1814 Bangor Theological Seminary is an ecumenical seminary in the Congregational tradition of the United Church of Christ.  With campuses in Bangor and Portland, Maine, BTS is the only accredited graduate school of religion in northern New England.
 

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