Carole R. Fontaine

Fontaine was born on April 11, 1950. She was raised by her mother, Olive Jean Rader, and her father, Howard Foster. She studied at Florida State University. == Academic pursuits ==

Fontaine graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972 While at Yale Divinity, Carole R. Fontaine was recognized as a scholar. Through 1976 to 1979, Fontaine was named a Gurney Harris Kearns fellow at Duke University. While at Duke she received a Zion Foundation grant. Her first job as an educator was at University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1979. Shortly after, she became a lecturer at Duke Divinity School. In 1982, Fontaine was offered an adjunct professor position at Boston College in Massachusetts. Fontaine accepted a graduate professor position from Andover Newton Theological School in 1979. ==Select bibliography==

• Traditional Sayings in the Old Testament, Almond Press, 1982, • Wisdom and Psalms: A Feminist Companion to the Bible, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999, • A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: Approaches, Methods, and Strategies, Sheffield Academic Press, 1997, • Smooth Words: Women, Proverbs And Performance In Biblical Wisdom, Sheffield Academic Press, 2004, • With Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights (Bible in the Modern World)', Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008, • "Golden Do’s and Don’ts: Leviticus 19:1-17 from a Human-Rights-Based Approach (HRBA)," in Leviticus and Numbers: Text@Contexts Series, edited by Athalya Brenner and Archie Chi-Chung Lee, Fortress Press, 2013. • Fontaine, Carole R. “A Modern Look at Ancient Wisdom: The Instruction of Ptahhotep Revisited.” The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 44, no. 3, 1981, pp. 155–60. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3209606. Accessed 27 Sept. 2024. • Fontaine, Carole R., and Timothy J. Sandoval. “Proverbs.” Wisdom, Worship, and Poetry: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition, edited by Gale A. Yee et al., 1517 Media, 2016, pp. 601–26. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1b3t793.12. Accessed 27 Sept. 2024. ==References==