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Curriculum Vita
(Abridged)

Education

Bachelor of Science in Biblical Literature - Indiana Wesleyan University (2000 - 2004)

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Master of Arts in Biblical Studies - Asbury Theological Seminary (2004 - 2007)

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Doctorate of Philosophy in Biblical Studies - Asbury Theological Seminary (2007 - 2012)

Books | Book Chapters | Journal Articles

​Books | Book Chapters | Edited Volumes

  • With Ron Haydon. “Canonical Criticism.” Pages 37–64 in Literary Approaches to the Bible. Edited by Douglas Magnum and Douglas Estes. Lexham Method Series. 4 Vols. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016.

  • With Bill T. Arnold. “Graf and Wellhausen, and Their Legacy.” Pages 252–73 in A History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 3: The Enlightenment through the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Alan J. Hauser and Duane F. Watson. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2017.

  • Pondering the Spade: Discussing Important Convergences between Archaeology and Old Testament Studies. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2019.

  • With Lee Compson. Commentary on 1 & 2 Kings. Kerux: An Integrative Commentary for Proclamation—Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2022.

  • With Kyle R. Greenwood. Ahab’s House of Horrors: A Historiographic Study of the Military Campaigns of the Omride Dynasty. Studies in Biblical Archaeology, Geography, and History. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2023.

  • With Drew S. Holland. Silhouettes of Scripture: Considering the Contextual Approach with Form Criticism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023.

  • Frigate Birds, Seas Lions, and Darwin: Musings on Evolution, Creation, and Ecology (Eugene: Wipf and Stock), in process. 

  • “The People of Israel Have Not Been Separated from the People of the Lands”: Obedience and Separation as Holiness Initiatives in the Second Temple Period” in Holiness in the Old Testament. Edited by Matt Ayars and John N. Oswalt. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic, forthcoming.

  • 1 & 2 Kings. The Bible in God’s World. Edited by Danny Carroll and Lissa Wray Beal. Eugene: Cascade, TBD (under contract and in process).

Journal Articles

  • “What Are They Saying About Khirbet Qeiyafa?” Trinity Journal 33 (2012): 33–48.

  • “The Election and Divine Choice of Zion/Jerusalem,” Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament 1.2 (2012): 147–66.

  • “Why נִיר In Kings?” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 39.1 (2014): 15–30.

  • “Zerubbabel, Persia, and Inner-biblical Exegesis,” Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament 4.2 (2015): 191–204.

  • “So That We May Come and Worship Him”: Foreshadowing the Nature of Jesus’ Messiahship and the Use of προσφέρῶ and προσκυνέῶ in the Gospel of Matthew,” The Asbury Journal 71.2 (2016): 125–37.

  • “נֵר, Symbolism, and Understanding the General Materials of the Books of Samuel,” The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies 3.2 (2016): 96–105.

  • “We Really Should Stop Translating נִיר in Kings as ‘Light’ or ‘Lamp’ ”: A Response to Deuk-il Shin,” Tyndale Bulletin 68.1 (2017): 31–37.

  • “‘But He Could Not Warm Himself’: Sexual Innuendo and the Place of 1 Kgs 1:1–4,” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 32.1 (2018): 121–30.

  • “Double Entendre, Disguised Verbal Resistance, and the Composition of Psalm 132,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 28.1 (2018): 20–33.

  • “On the Moding and Diachrony of the Books of Samuel,” The Asbury Journal 73.2 (2018): 73–84.

  • “The Annihilation of the Egyptian and Neo-Assyrian Armies: A Proposal of Inner-biblical Typology and Some Literary Critical Implications,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 130.4 (2018): 529–44.

  • “ ‘Now Rehoboam, Son of Solomon, Reigned in Judah’: Considering the Structural Divisions of Kings and the Significance of 1 Kgs 14:21,” The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies 7.1 (2020): 7–33.

  • With Kyle R. Greenwood. “An Army Like Goats: A Semantic and Zoological Reconsideration of 1 Kgs 20:27, Vetus Testamentum 72.3 (2022): 1–19.

  • “Reading Joshua 2–7, 2 Kings 5, and Acts 5:1–11 Comparatively,” Wesleyan Theological Journal 58.1 (2023): 105–20.

  • “Torn Garments and Rethinking a Hezekian History,” Australian Biblical Review, forthcoming.

  • "1 Kings 2:1-9, the So-called 'Installation Genre,' and Egyptian Royal Instruction. Bulletin of Biblical Research, forthcoming. 

Edited Volumes

  • “On the State of the Old Testament: Essays and Reviews in Response to Brent A. Strawn’s The Old Testament is Dying,” The Asbury Journal 73.2 (2018): 8–72.

    • Contribution: “A Précis of Brent Strawn’s The Old Testament is Dying,” The Asbury Journal 73.2 (2018): 10–6.

  • With Jason A. Myers. “Scholars for the Kingdom of God: Essays in Decennial Celebration,” The Asbury Journal, 72.2 (2022). Republished as Scholars Called: Ten Years of Doctorates in Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminar. Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2023.

    • Contribution: “Breaking the Siege: Examining the נַעֲרֵי שָׂרֵי הַמְּדִינוֹת in 1 Kgs 20,” The Asbury Journal, 72.2 (2002): 378-99.

  • With Jessica Tomkins and Shane Thompson. Preparation, Enactment, and Remembrance of Warfare in the Ancient Near East and North Africa. Life and Society in the Ancient Near East. London: Transnational Press, TBD.

    • Contribution: “Between Hero and Villain: Hezekiah as a Complex Site of Memory for Sennacherib’s Siege of Jerusalem,” in Preparation, Enactment, and Remembrance of Warfare in the Ancient Near East and North Africa, eds. David B. Schreiner, Jessica Tomkins, and Shane Thompson (Life and Society in the Ancient Near East; London: Transnational Press), forthcoming.

Papers and Presentations

  • “The נִיר Passages in the Books of Kings and the נֵר Passages in the Books of Samuel: Wordplay?” Paper presented at the annual Free Methodist/Wesleyan Graduate Student Theological Seminar. Indianapolis, IN, October 2, 2010.

  • “Methodological and Semantic Musings on the נֵר/נִיר Passages in the Books of Samuel and Kings.” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Louisville, KY, March 4–6, 2011.

  • “Double Entendre, Disguised Verbal Resistance, and the Composition of Psalm 132.” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Atlanta, GA, March 2­–4, 2012, and the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature. Chicago, IL, November 17–20, 2012.

  • “Zerubbabel, Persia, and Inner-biblical Exegesis.” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Greenville, SC, March 15–17, 2013.

  • “The Annihilation of the Egyptian and Neo-Assyrian Armies: Inner-biblical Typology?” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Atlanta, GA, March 7-9, 2014, and the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego, CA, November 22–25, 2014.

  • “Torn Garments and History: Rethinking a Hezekian History.” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Nashville, TN, March 6–8, 2015.

  • “Literary and Literary-critical Observations on the Lamp (ner) in the Books of Samuel.” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Atlanta, GA, March 4–6, 2016.

  • “‘Now Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah’: Pondering the Semantic and Structural Significance of 1 Kgs 14:21.” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Raleigh, NC, March 3-5, 2017 and the annual conference for the Institute for Biblical Research. Boston, MA, November 17–19, 2017.

  • “The ‘Elisha’ Ostracon and Methodological Musings.” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Atlanta, GA, March 2–4, 2018.

  • “Pondering the Spade.” Chaney Lecture Series. Central Christian College, McPherson, KS. April 10-11, 2018.

  • Lectures: Setting the Stage: Discussing Archaeology and Biblical Studies | Mari and the Gligamesh Epic: Two Broad Convergences | The Tel Dan Stele and the Taylor Prism: Two Narrow Convergences | Some Other Important Finds and the Nature of their Convergences | Pondering the Spade: Musings from a Decade of Using Archaeology

  • “Sennacherib’s Siege of Jerusalem: A Case Study in Historiography.” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Greenville, NC, March 8–9, 2019.

  • “Gilgamesh, Akka, and Rehoboam: Exploring a Potential Comparison.” Paper presented at the Biblical Studies Seminary at Asbury Theological Seminary. Wilmore, KY, February 12 and the annual conference for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Athens, GA, February 28–March 1, 2020.

  • “On the Judean and Israelite Monarchies: Observing Comparative Historiographic Tendencies in the Book of Kings.” Paper to be presented at annual virtual conferences for the Institute for Biblical Research and the Society of Biblical Literature. Online, November–December, 2020.

  • “An Army Like Goats: A Semantic and Zoological Reconsideration of 1 Kgs 20:27.” Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature Southeast region. Online, March 2021.

  •  “Breaking the Siege: Examining the נַעֲרֵי שָׂרֵי הַמְּדִינוֹת in 1 Kgs 20.” Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Institute of Biblical Research. San Antonio, TX, November 2021.

  • “A Prototype? Comparing the Letter-prayers of Sin-iddinam and Hezekiah.” Paper to presented at the AAR/SBL Southeastern Regions Annual Conference. Online, March, 2022; to be presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver, CO, November 2022 and the annual meeting of the American Schools of Overseas Research, Online.

  • “Ahijah and the Tearing of a Garment: Where Mourning, Power Transition, and Historiography Converge.” Paper to be presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver, CO, November 2022.

  • “David’s Final Words to Solomon: A New Element to an Old Discussion.” Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Institute of Biblical Research. San Antonio, TX, November 2023.

  • “Porous Yet Definitive Boundaries: Herem in Joshua as a Foundational Concept for the Debate of Particularism and Holism.” Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Wesleyan Theological Society. Nashville, TN, March 2024.

  • “Radical Reforms: Comparing Josiah’s Reforms to the Daiva Inscription of Xerxes.” Paper to be presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego, CA, November 2024.

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