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Dr Janine Luttick

Lecturer
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy

Areas of expertise: Gospel of Mark; children; childhood; New Testament; Catholic biblical studies; childist hermeneutics; children in the Bible; family in the Bible; theology

Phone: 613 9230 8419

Email: Janine.Luttick@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Strathfield Campus

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5439-3829

Janine Luttick is a lecturer in biblical studies in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. She began teaching after completing her PhD at ACU in 2018. Janine has published in the areas of the gospel of Mark and contemporary biblical hermeneutics. Her current research focuses on the depictions of female children in the Bible, connecting her study with scholarship on the history of emotions and on family studies in the New Testament. Janine is currently preparing a contribution to a volume on global perspectives of reimagining family and household in the New Testament.

Select publications

Monograph

• Jairus's Daughter and the Female Body in Mark, Atlanta, Georgia: SBL Press, forthcoming

Chapters

• 'Little Girl Get Up and Stand on Your Own Two feet!' in Reading the Gospel of Mark in the 21st Century (BETL 301) ed. G. van Oyen, Leuven: Peeters, 2019.
• '"And a little child shall lead them": Future-oriented Hermeneutics in Religious Education in Australian Catholic schools', Emmanuel Nathan and Reimund Bieringer (eds.), The Future in Context: Critical Theory, Culture and the Bible in Dialogue, Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia (Leuven: Peeters) forthcoming.
• 'Rethinking the world in front of the text: When children and young people read the Bible in Australian RE classrooms', Brendan Reed and Paul Sharkey (eds.), Embracing the Vatican II Mission for Education: Essays in Honour of Tom Doyle AO, Mulgrave, Victoria: Garratt Publishing, 2023.

Reviews

• Zwiep, Arie W. Jairus's Daughter and the Haemorrhaging Woman : Tradition and Interpretation of an Early Christian Miracle Story (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019), Australian Biblical Review, 69, 2021.
• Sharon Betsworth and Julie Faith Parker (eds) HandBook of Children in the Bible and Biblical World (Edinburgh London New York: T & T Clark, 2019) in ABR,67, 2019.

Conference papers

• 2022 The Raising of Jairus' Daughter: A Reading in light of Depictions of Children's Bodies in the First Century CE. Society for the Study of Children in the Past,
• Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
• 2021 'Dancing daughters, dying daughters: an exploration of the representation of Herodias's daughter and Jairus' daughter in the narrative of Mark's gospel,' Australian Catholic Biblical Association (ACBA), Melbourne, Australia
• 2018 'The Raising of Jairus' Daughter: A Reading in light of Depictions of Children's Bodies in the First Century CE', Unit: Family and Children in the Ancient World, International Society of Biblical Literature, Berlin, Germany.
• 2018 "Little girl, get up!" (and stand on your own two feet!) - Re-Thinking Mark 5,21- 24, 35-43, Colloquiums Biblicum Lovaniense LXVI, Belgium

Projects

• "Reimagining Family Dynamics in Global Perspectives: Household Relationships in the New Testament"
• Global Perspectives series, SBL Press
• Editors: Sung Uk Lim Associate Professor of New Testament Yonsei University,
• Amy Lindeman Allen Assistant Professor of New Testament Christian Theological Seminary Indianapolis,

Appointments and affiliations

Member of:

• Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
• Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP)
• Australian Catholic Biblical Association (ACBA)
• Fellowship of Biblical Scholars (FBS)
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Golden Key Society

Public engagement

International

2023 The Gospel of Mark, The Notre Dame de Sion Centre for Biblical Formation, Ecce Homo, Jerusalem, June-July, 2023
During the program, I engaged participants in the research I am undertaking on the depictions of female children and of families in the narrative of Mark's gospel.

Magazine article

2023 "Suffer the little children," Australian Catholics Magazine, Autumn edition
In this article, I shared to a mainstream audience my research in children and families in the ancient world and in the gospel of Mark.

Invited presentations

2023 Creating futures in an Uncertain World: The Gospel of Mark, Catholic Education, Diocese of Sale, Victoria, Australia
In this full-day workshop, I engaged the world of Catholic educators with the presentation of families and children in the gospel of Mark.

2023 Parables, Emerging Futures Collaboration Ltd.

2022 'Children in the Biblical Tradition', National Symposium in Religious Education, Sydney, Australia

2022 'Children leading adults into the future', International Meeting of Our Lady of Sion Schools nds, online webinar

2019 A Theological Perspective on Catholic Women Leaders, Roundtable: Women in Catholic Education Leadership, National Excellence in School Education Institute, Australia