Preface and Introduction - Who is My Neighbour? Interfaith Dialogue and Theological Education in the Global Village Vol. 4 No. 2

Professor Kirkpatrick has spent the past 39 years teaching at McGill University and the Anglican Church in Montreal and abroad. She holds the 1949 Chair in Old Testament Studies / Hebrew Bible and, as such, has contributed to the educational formation of those pursuing academic careers in Biblical Studies and those entering the ordained ministry of the Christian Church. She has pursued her research and teaching interests with an eye to the academy and the religious communities. She has been asked to serve on several Anglican Communion national and international theological commissions. Academically her interests have often come as a consequence of her work in these commissions. Today, she is a member of the Board of the North American Academy of Ecumenists. Her interdisciplinary interests extend to feminist and gender studies. Formerly as chair of the Women’s Studies Program and Chair of the Board of the former M.C.R.T.W. at McGill, she was instrumental in creating and maintaining several administrative programs in the area. She has served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at McGill. She has also spent several years as a member of the Quebec Provincial Education Ministry Committee on Religious Education in the schools. As a founding member of the Ancient Historiography Seminar of the C.S.B.S., her current interests and research in historiography follow immediately as a consequence of her initial research on the influences of Folklore Studies on reconstructing the history of Ancient Israel.