Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. Hebrew Bible and Its Greco-Roman Context. Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (2021).

M.Phil. Judaica, Hebraica, and Cognate Studies. Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (2017).

M.A. Bible: Old Testament. Amridge University (2010).

B.A. Bible and Liberal Studies. Florida College (2009).

Areas of Research

Areas of Teaching

Hebrew Bible.

  • History & Geography of the Old Testament (2016–2021)
  • Introduction to the Prophets (2016–2021)
  • Old Testament Poetry (2017, 19, 21)
  • Critical Introduction to the Old Testament (2017, 19, 21)
  • Law of Moses (2018, 2020)
  • Judges–Ruth (2018, 2020)

New Testament

  • History & Geography of the New Testament (2016–2021)

Languages.

  • Elementary Biblical Hebrew I / II (2016, 18, 20)
  • Elementary Biblical Greek I / II (2016, 19, 20)
  • Introduction to Hebrew Exegesis (2017, 2019)
  • Hebrew Readings in Genesis (2017, 19, 20)
  • Hebrew Readings in Judges (2017, 20)
  • The Hebrew Bible and the LXX (2017)

Intertestamental History

  • Canonical Texts of the Second Temple Period (2017)
  • Great Books: Classical to Renaissance (Plato & Plutarch) (2018, 20)
  • Great Books: Classical to Renaissance (Hesiod & Homer) (2021)

Jewish Studies.

  • Introduction to Judaism (2015)
  • Jewish Intellectual History (2015)

Presentation and Publication

Society of Biblical Literature (National and International)

  • “An Absolutely True Story”: Plato, Hecataeus of Abdera, and the Jews. (2021)
  • Two Kinds of Seed: Deuteronomy and Jesus’ Parable of the Weeds. (2020. Did not present because of pandemic.)
  • Debt, War, and the Absence of Slavery in Hellenistic Utopias. (2019)
  • “It Said the Men Became Gods”: Euhemerus of Messene and the Question of Divine Kingship. (2019)
  • “He Compelled Those Dwelling in the Land to Rear Their Children”: Hecataeus Abdera and the Context of Ekthesis. (2018)
  • “Moses Made Arrangements for the Sacrifices That Were Utterly Different from Those of Other Races…” Hecataeus of Abdera’s Portrayal of the Jewish Priesthood in Ptolemaic Egypt. (2018)
  • “’It was not permitted for the private citizens to sell their Land’: Hecataeus of Abdera’s Answer to Greco-Roman Land Crises. (2017)

Society of Biblical Literature (Regional)

  • “Is Hecataeus also among the Utopianographers?: Real and Ideal in the Hellenistic Age.” (SECSOR 2017)
  • “Good, Evil, and the Eastern Reception of Philo’s ‘Root.’” (Central States 2016)
  • “Is Hecataeus also among the Utopianographers?: Real and Ideal in the Hellenistic Age.” (SECSOR 2017)
  • “Good, Evil, and the Eastern Reception of Philo’s ‘Root.’” (Central States 2016)
  • “’There has never been a King of the Jews’: Hecataeus and Utopian Political Resistance.” (EGLBS, 2016)
  • “Flashing All Around” : περιαστράπτω and Intertextuality in Acts 9. (Central States, 2015)
  • The Origins of Virtue and Vice: Philo’s Root and Its Stoic Context (EGLBS 2015)

Other

  • Sola Scriptura and Prima Scriptura (Panel Respondent. CSC 2018)
  • Hellenism and Individual Evil in the Treatise on the Two Spirits (AJS 2015)

Public Scholarship

  • The Wheat and the Tares (FC Lectures 2021)
  • Echoes of Elijah in the Gospel of Luke (FC Lectures 2019)
  • What Should We Do with the Hebrew Bible (FC Lectures 2018)
  • The LXX, the MT, and the Confused: What, Why, and How to Preach a Foreign Text (2020, 2019)
  • God Dwelling with Man: Seeing the Temple through the Bible (2018)

Service

Florida College

  • Professional Development Committee (2017–2021)
  • Bible Lab Co-Sponsor (2016–2018)
  • Library Sponsor (2016–2018)
  • Student Advisor (2016–2021)
  • Student Society Sponsor (2021)

Hebrew Union College

  • Graduate Conference Coordinator (2014–2015)