Education
University of Chicago
Ph. D., Northwest Semitic Philology
Arabic Language School
Amman, Jordan
Wheaton College
B. A., Ancient Languages
Areas of Expertise
- Greek Language
- Biblical Hebrew
- Ancient Greece
Professional Affiliations
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Institute for Biblical Literature
- Chicago Society for Biblical Research
Presentations
Aesop's Fables as Paidagogue
Presentation to the Humanities Division Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Wheaton College
Entertaining Angels Unawares in the Text
Presentation to the Humanities Division Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Wheaton College
Evolution: Language as Fossil
Wheaton College Science Division Lunch Seminar Wheaton College
Courses Taught
- Akkadian
- Hebrew (Beginning and Intermediate)
- Old Testament Literature and Interpretation
- Greek (Beginning and Intermediate)
- Latin
- Linguistics
- Advanced Koine Greek
- Tobit and Apocalypse of Enoch
- Advanced Classical Greek
- Plato's Apology of Socrates
- Senior Seminar in Classics
- Independent Studies- Sophocles: Antigone; Judges (Hebrew text); Herodotus (Ionic text); Exercises in Comparative Semitic; Feminist Koine Readings (Judith, Joseph & Aseneth, Paul and Thecla, Callirhoe)
Selected Publications
4Q560 (4QExorcism ar), The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader: Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts
Donald W. Parry and Emanuel Tov, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2005) 226-227
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The Forgotten Nativity (lectures on CD), Books in Motion, Spokane, WA., 2009 mastered by Oliver Witte
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Finding the Devil in the Details: Onomastic Exegesis and the Naming of Evil in the World of the New Testament, New Testament Greek and Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Gerald F. Hawthorne
Amy M. Donaldson and Timothy B Sailors, eds. (Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).
By the Power of Beelzebub: An Aramaic Incantation Formula from Qumran (4Q560), Journal of Biblical Literature, 1994
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What hath Jerusalem to do with Athens - Again?, Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages
Douglas Penney, 2002