News Release
March 1999
The Rev. Deborah A. Appler has accepted an appointment
to teach Old Testament at Moravian Theological Seminary beginning in
August 1999. She is currently assistant to the director of the Carpenter
Program on Religion, Gender, and Sexuality at Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennesesse, where she is also completing doctoral studies
in Hebrew Bible. Until recently she was also development editor, Bible
and Reference, at the United Methodist Publishing House in Nashville,
where her projects included work on the New Interpreter’s Bible
and the Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation.
Appler is a graduate of Western Maryland College with
a B.A. in Chemistry and earned the M.Div. degree at Perkins School of
Theology of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Following
graduation from Perkins, she served in parish ministry for six years
in the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church
and was active in various Conference ministries. She has also served
as Chaplain of the Monroe-Harding Children’s Home in Nashville.
While at Vanderbilt, Appler has participated in four archaeological
expeditions in Israel, most recently serving as a staff member for the
Megiddo Expedition in 1998. She has taught in the undergraduate program
at Vanderbilt and also in the Graduate Department of Religion and
the Divinity School. She has also been a master teaching
fellow in the Graduate Department of Religion, supervising and training
teaching assistants, and an instructor in the Graduate Colloquium on
Teaching in the Graduate Department of Religion.
Appler has been the recipient of a number of named scholarships
and fellowships during her study at Vanderbilt and she has presented
papers before regional and national meetings of the Society of Biblical
Literature, of which she is a member.
