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Karen H. Jobes (born 1952) is an American biblical scholar who is Gerald F. Hawthorne Professor Emerita of New Testament Greek and Exegesis at Wheaton College. She has written a number of books and biblical commentaries. In 2015, she received the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's Christian Book of the Year Award for "Bible Reference" books. Jobes served as the first female president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2024.
Jobes has taught New Testament and written commentaries on both Old and New Testament books. From 2005 until 2015, she was the Gerald F. Hawthorne Professor of New Testament Greek and Greek Exegesis at Wheaton College. She taught biblical Greek classes and classes on the Septuagint. She has written a number of books out of her classroom teaching including Discovering the Septuagint, a guided reader for students working with the Greek biblical text, and Letters to the Church, a commentary on Epistle to the Hebrews and the General Epistles that provides a model for students to work through critical issues and draw their own conclusions.
Jobes translated the Codex Sinaiticus Esther for the British Library. She was also part of the NIV and TNIV translation committee for over ten years.
Awards and honors
In 2015, Jobes' commentary on the Johannine epistles won the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's Christian Book of the Year Award for "Bible Reference" books. In 2018, the Society of Biblical Literature awarded Jobes its Status of Women in the Profession Outstanding Service in Mentoring award.
Personal life
Jobes married Forrest "Buzz" Jobes, a research physicist, in 1980 and has two stepsons. He died in 2023. She is a member of Oreland Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
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Chapters and articles
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