SISTER IRENE NOWELL, OSB

SISTER IRENE NOWELL, OSB, is a Benedictine of Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas with a background in Scripture. Sister Irene holds a bachelor’s degree in music from Mount St. Scholastica College, a master’s degree in theology from Saint John’s University, a master’s degree in German from Catholic University, and a doctorate in biblical studies from Catholic University. She is a former adjunct professor of Saint John’s University School of Theology, teaching Scripture both in the classroom and on the web and is a past president of the Catholic Biblical Association. Sister Irene taught at Mount St. Scholastica College/Benedictine College for twenty years, teaching German, English, and mostly Scripture.

She has written several books including, Sing a New Song:  The Responsorial Psalm in the Sunday Liturgy, Women in the Old Testament, and Numbers (The Liturgical Press), and 101 Questions and Answers on Angels and Devils (Paulist Press), Pleading, Cursing, Praising:  Conversing with God through the Psalms, a commentary on Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther (Liturgical Press), and Jonah, Tobit, Judith (Liturgical Press).  She was an editor for Give Us This Day (August 2011 – 2020), was formerly on the editorial board of The Bible Today (1986-1999, 2004 – 2015) and has written regularly for other biblical and liturgical periodicals.  Her most recent from Liturgical Press features biblical wisdom literature and her commentary on Esther for The New Jerome Biblical Commentary.