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The Rev.
Dr. Carol M. Bechtel is an ordained minister of the
Reformed Church in America. She grew up on a farm near Fulton, Illinois.
After graduating from Hope College and Western Theological Seminary in
Holland, Michigan, she went on to receive her Ph.D. from Yale University
in New Haven, Connecticut. Carol is currently Professor of Old Testament
at Western Theological Seminary where she teaches courses in Old
Testament, Biblical Hebrew and Worship. She is the author of Glimpses
of Glory: Daily Meditations on the Bible and the commentary on
Esther
for the
Interpretation Series
(Westminster John Knox Press).
Besides cooking and gardening, Carol confesses to
two hobbies which she says are better labeled as passions: English
literature and music. She indulges the first by spending her spare
moments in the company of George Eliot, Jane Austen, and William
Shakespeare. The second finds an outlet in the church choir and in the
Celtic harp.
Carol lives in Holland, Michigan with her husband,
Tom, and her two children, Andrew and Ellen. |