PhD, New Testament, Wheaton College Graduate School
MDiv, Michigan Theological Seminary
BS, Secondary Education, Comprehensive Science, Kent State University
Dr. Rieske’s teaching is shaped by over thirty years of ministry experience. Her vocational ministry includes five years as a campus minister with Cru and five years in church leadership, where she directed Worship Services, Creative Arts, and Adult Education. She has also spoken and written for a national ministry focused on bridging faith and culture, taught for nearly twenty years in classical Christian education, and participated in missions work in Romania. Before beginning fulltime at Moody, she served for six years as an adjunct professor at various institutions. In addition to her faculty role, Dr. Rieske regularly teaches and speaks at churches in the Chicago area and is currently working on several book projects.
Professionally, her research interests include Jesus and the Gospels, biblical ethics, suffering and persecution, Koine Greek, Second Temple Jewish literature, the use of the Old Testament in the New, biblical theology, and filial themes in Scripture. In her free time, she can be found curled up with a book, her cat, and a cup of tea, making smores over a campfire, kayaking a river, shooting pics with her Canon SLR, playing fetch with her spirited chocolate Lab, and making memories with her family.
"This Generation” and the Elect in the Book of Matthew: A Tale of Two Families. Library of New Testament Studies. London: T&T Clark, 2025.
“Sea Storms, Divine Rescues, and the Tribulation: The Jonah Motif in the Book of Matthew.” In Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement, edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts.
ECHC/TENTS 3. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
“What is the Meaning of ‘This Generation’ in Matthew 23:36?” Bibliotheca Sacra 165 (2008), 209–26.
Book Reviews:
Review of The Plot Structure of Genesis, by Todd L. Patterson. Bulletin for Biblical Research 35:1 (2025).
Review of Jesus, the Temple, and the Coming Son of Man, by Robert H. Stein. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58:4 (2015), 835–38.
Review of Irony in the Matthean Passion Narrative, by InHee C. Berg. Religious Studies Review 41:3 (2015), 113–14.
Review of Jesus is the Christ: The Messianic Testimony of the Gospels, by Michael F. Bird, ed. Trinity Journal 36:2 (2015), 287–89.
Review of The Messiah, His Brothers, and the Nations, by Jason B. Hood. Themelios 38:3 (2013), 465–66.