Education
B.A. (Trinity Western University)
M.A. (University of Durham)
Ph.D. (University of Durham)
Areas of Interest and Expertise
• The Pentateuch/Torah • Jewish-Christian Dialogue • Use of Scripture in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam • History of Biblical Interpretation • Religious Education in the Academy
Publications
Books
Chosen and Unchosen: Conceptions of Election in the Pentateuch and Jewish-Christian Interpretation (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 2; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2009). Awarded the R. B. Y. Scott Award (see “Awards” link above). Details. Amazon.
The Torah: A Beginner’s Guide (co-authored with Joel S. Kaminsky; Oxford: Oneworld, 2011). Details. Amazon.
Making Sense in Religious Studies: A Student’s Guide to Research and Writing (co-authored with Margot Northey and Bradford A. Anderson; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2012). Details. Amazon.
A Theological Introduction to the Pentateuch: Interpreting the Torah as Christian Scripture (co-edited with Richard S. Briggs; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012). Details. Amazon.
The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation (Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature; edited by Craig A. Evans, Joel N. Lohr, and David L. Petersen; Leiden: Brill, 2012). Details. Amazon.
Violence and the Bible (co-authored with Rob Barrett and Anthony Le Donne; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming). In preparation.
(Others books in preparation)
Articles and Chapters
“A Jewish Teaching: Jesus, Gentiles, and the Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25:31-46),” in Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship (edited by Bruce Chilton, Anthony Le Donne, and Jacob Neusner; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012). In press. Publication set for July 2012.
“The Book of Leviticus,” in A Theological Introduction to the Pentateuch: Interpreting the Torah as Christian Scripture (edited by Richard S. Briggs and Joel N. Lohr; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012), 83-111.
“Introduction: Reading the Pentateuch as Christian Scripture,” (with Richard S. Briggs) in A Theological Introduction to the Pentateuch: Interpreting the Torah as Christian Scripture (edited by Richard S. Briggs and Joel N. Lohr; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012), 1-18.
“Sexual Desire? Eve, Genesis 3:16, and תשוקה,” Journal of Biblical Literature 130 (2011): 227-46.
“Taming the Untamable: Christian Attempts to Make Israel’s Election Universal,” Horizons in Biblical Theology 33 (2011): 24-33.
“Righteous Abel, Wicked Cain: Genesis 4:1-16 in the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, and the New Testament,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 71 (2009): 485-96.
“‘So YHWH established a sign for Cain’: Rethinking Genesis 4,15,” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 121 (2009): 101-103.
“Exclusion,” New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007; co-authored with Joel S. Kaminsky), 2:362-64.
“He Identified with the Lowly and Became a Slave to All: Paul’s Tentmaking as a Strategy for Mission,” Currents in Theology and Mission 34 (2007): 179-87.
Reviews
Review of John E. Anderson, Jacob and the Divine Trickster: A Theology of Deception and YHWH’s Fidelity to the Ancestral Promise in the Jacob Cycle (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 5; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011), in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, forthcoming.
Review of Matthew Levering, Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Life of Wisdom: Engagements with the Theology of David Novak (London: Continuum, 2010), in Nova et Vetera 10.1 (2012): 287-90.
Review of Michael Tait and Peter Oakes, The Torah in the New Testament: Papers Delivered at the Manchester-Lausanne Seminar of June 2008 (Library of New Testament Studies 401; London: T&T Clark, 2009), in Reviews in Religion and Theology 18.4 (2011): 535-37.
Review of Edward Kessler, An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2010), in Theology 114 (2011): 143-44.
Review of Byran D. Bibb, Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 480; New York: T&T Clark, 2009), in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 34.5 (2010): 77.
Review of Jean-Louis Ska, The Exegesis of the Pentateuch: Exegetical Studies and Basic Questions (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 66; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009), in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 34.5 (2010): 87.
Review of Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conversation (edited by Norman Solomon, Richard Harries and Tim Winter; London: T&T Clark, 2006), in Review of Biblical Literature 8 (2008).
Review of Gershom M. H. Ratheiser, Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible: The End of Old Testament Theology (London: T&T Clark, 2007), in Reviews in Religion and Theology 15.2 (2008): 237-41.
Review of Joel S. Kaminsky, Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election (Nashville: Abingdon, 2007), in Review of Biblical Literature 3 (2008).
Memberships & Affiliations
American Academy of Religion
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
Society of Biblical Literature
• Founding member and co-chair:
Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts Section
• Steering committee member:
Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures Section
Society for Old Testament Study
Durham Seminar for the Study of Judaism in Late Antiquity
Durham Old Testament Seminar
Courses Taught at University of Toronto
Awards & Honours
2011 - R. B. Y. Scott Award for "outstanding book in the areas of Hebrew Bible and/or Ancient Near East."
2009-2011 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto
2009-2012 - Priscilla and Stanford Reid Trust, Ontario, Canada
2010 - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Smith College
2004-2006 - Overseas Research Scholarship, University of Durham
2003-2005 - Watkins Hebrew Scholarship, University of Durham
2003-2005 - Evans Theology Scholarship, University of Durham
1999 - Mayhew Scholarship, Trinity Western University