About me
The. Rev. Dr. Amanda C. Miller (she/her) is a biblical scholar, an ordained minister, and a lifelong musician. She has an undergraduate degree in music therapy, a Master of Divinity, and a PhD in biblical studies. Dr. Miller is Professor of Biblical Studies at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. When she’s not busy with her family’s afterschool activities, she enjoys singing with a local community choir, embroidery, reading, theater, traveling, and kayaking.
Dr. Miller’s professional vocation includes teaching courses on everything from ancient Koine Greek to world religions and gender and the Bible; and publishing accessible scholarship that focuses on justice and ethics in interpreting the biblical text for communities of faith today. She is an ordained Baptist minister, has roots in the Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ), and currently attends a United Methodist Reconciling congregation. Her research interests include texts of status reversal, the social context of the early Jesus movement, gender and sexuality norms both ancient and modern, and ethical interpretation of the biblical text. Her newest book, entitled Songs of Resistance: The Bible’s Voices of Victory, Peace, and Protest, will explore musical and poetic passages in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, in both scholarship and contemporary experience. It will include a study guide to help groups explore how this legacy of community, music, and activism carries on today, and is forthcoming from Abingdon Press (2026).
