Recent
Faculty Publications and Lectures
(listed
in alphabetical order)
C.
Clifton Black
Professor Black's most recent
books are Mark: Images of an
Apostolic Interpreter
in the Studies on Personalities of the New Testament
(Fortress Press/T & T Clark, 2001) and The Rhetoric of the Gospel: Theological Artistry in the Gospels and Acts (Chalice, 2001).
Three of his essays have appeared in others' books:
"Inquiring after God When Meditating on Scripture," in
Inquiring after God: Classical and
Contemporary Readings, edited by Ellen T. Charry (Blackwell Readings in Modern
Theology; London: Blackwell, 2000) 207-31; "Augustinian Preaching and the
Nurture of Christians," in The Lectionary Commentary: Theological Exegesis for Sunday's Texts:
The Third Readings, The Gospels, edited by Roger E. Van Harn (Grand
Rapids and London: Eerdmans/Continuum, 2001) 603-14; "The Education of
Human Wanting: Formation by Pater
Noster," in Character and Scripture: Moral
Formation, Community, and Biblical Interpretation, edited by William P. Brown (Eerdmans,
2002) 248-63. His most recently
published articles: "Short
Shrift Made Once More," Theology Today 57 (2000) 386-94; "Four
Stations en Route to a Parabolic Homiletic," Interpretation 54 (2000)
386-97; "Critic's Corner: Kindred
Books on Jesus," Theology Today 57 (2001) 533-39; "Does Suffering
Possess Educational Value in Mark's Gospel?" Perspectives in Religious
Studies 28 (2001) 85-98; "Journeying through Scripture with the
Lectionary's Map," Interpretation 56 (2002) 59-72; "Listening for the
Spirit's Voice: Advent 2, Year
B," Circuit Rider 26 (September–October, 2002) 6-7; and "Exegesis as
Prayer," The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 23 (2002) 131-45, his installation
lecture at Princeton as the Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology.
Two of his sermons at the Seminary have also been published:
"A View from the Parapet," The Princeton Theological Review
8
(2000) 42-43, and "Return of the Double–Minded," The Princeton
Seminary Bulletin 22 (2001) 85-87. In
various stages of development are his commentaries on the Gospels of Mark and
Matthew, and his exegetical treatments of preaching and prayer.
Brian
K. Blount
Professor
Blount's most recent publications include a volume edited along with
Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, Making Room At The Table: An Invitation
To Multicultural Worship (WJK, 2000), Then The Whisper Put On
Flesh: New Testament Ethics In An African American Context (Abingdon,
2001), Struggling With Scripture, with Walter Brueggemann and William Placher (WJK, 2002), and Preaching
Mark in Two Voices (Westminister John Knox, 2002), with Gary W.
Charles, pastor of the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Alexandria, VA. He has
also completed an article entitled, "Teaching Across Borders: Experimental Biblical Pedagogy."
It is awaiting publication in the journal SEMEIA. Professor Blount will do the John Albert Hall Lectures for
the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of
Victoria in Vancouver, Canada in the Fall of 2003. Sometime during
this period he anticipates the publication of the Discipleship Study
Bible by Westminister John Knox Press. He is an editor along
with Professors W. Sibley Towner, Bruce Birch, and Gail R. O'Day.
He has also written the introduction and notes for Mark and
Matthew. Currently, he is preparing a commentary on the Book
of Revelation (WJK). F.
W. Dobbs-Allsopp Professor
Dobbs-Allsopp’s most recent publications include a commentary on
Lamentations in the Interpretation
series (WJK, 2002) and various articles—on enjambment in Lamentations
(ZAW 113 [2001] 219-39, 370-85), on genre theory (JAOS
120 [2000] 625-30), and on situation aspect (Aktionsart)
in Biblical Hebrew (JSS 45
[2000] 21-53). He also wrote the introduction and notes for Lamentations
and Song of Songs in The
New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version
(OUP, 2001). His current projects include a monograph length
study of the Hebrew lyric and a commentary on the Song of Songs (ECC,
Eerdmans). He delievered the annual graduate dinner
lecture for the Department of Hebrew & Semitic Studies at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison on the topic of “Alphabetic Origins
in Light of the Wadi el-Hol
Inscriptions” (May, 2002) and will deliver the annual Horton Lecture
at Furman University on the topic of “Beauty and the Song of Songs”
(March, 2003). Beverly
Roberts Gaventa Professor
Gaventa, along with Professor Cynthia Rigby, edited Blessed
One: Protestant Perspectives on Mary for Westminster John Knox
Press. She has also recently published "Traditions in
Conversation and Collision: Reflections on Multiculturalism in the
Acts of the Apostles," in the edited volume, Making Room At The
Table: Invitation To Multicultural Worship (WJK, 2000).
Following an extensive review of J.L. Martyn's Galatians in RBL
(3), she published the article "Witnessing to the Gospel in the
Acts of the Apostles: Beyond the Conversion or Conversation
Dilemma," in Word and World (22). She looks forward to the forthcoming publication of The Acts of the
Apostles, a commentary in the ANTC series. She
delivered the Smyth lectures at Columbia Seminary in October 2002 and
the Britt Lectures in Honolulu, Hawaii in February,
2003. She will also deliver a plenary paper at the SNTS
conference in Bonn, Germany in August 2003. Jacqueline
E. Lapsley Professor
Lapsley has recently published two articles: “Pouring
Out Her Soul Before the Lord: Women and Worship in the Old Testament,”
in Making Room at the Table:
An Invitation to Multicultural Worship, edited by Brian K.
Blount, Leonora Tubbs Tisdale ( Louisville: WJKP,
2000), and “Shame and Self-Knowledge: The Positive Role of Shame in
Ezekiel’s View of the Moral Self,” in The Book of Ezekiel:
Theological and Anthropological Perspectives,
edited by Margaret S. Odell, John Strong, SBL Symposium Series (Atlanta:
Society of Biblical Literature, 2000). She anticipates the publication of Whispering The Word:
Strategies For Reading Women's Stories In The Old Testament
(Louisville: WJK) in 2003. Also forthcoming is the article,
"Feeling Our Way: Love For God IN Deuteronomy," in CBQ. Patrick
D. Miller Professor
Miller’s most recent larger work is the commentary on "The Book
of Jeremiah" in The New Interpreter’s Bible, vol. VI.
Among publications in the past year are two editorials in Theology
Today, titled "Terror All Around" (January, 2002, vol. 58,
pp. 497-501) and "Work and Faith" (October, 2002, vol. 59, pp.
349-53). Other essays include: "Preaching the Ten
Commandments," Journal for Preachers, 25 (Lent 2002), 3-8;
"The Story of the First Commandment: The Book of Exodus," American
Baptist Quarterly, 21 (2002), pp. 234-46; "Slow to Anger: The
God of the Prophets," in The Forgotten God: Perspectives in
Biblical Theology, edited by A. Andrew Das and Frank Matera (Louisville:Westminster
John Knox Press, 2002), pp. 39-55; and "The Good Neighborhood:
Identity and Community Through the Commandments," in Character
and Scripture: Moral Formation, Community, and Biblical Interpretation,
edited by William P. Brown (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002), pp. 55-72.
During this past year, he has delivered the Sprunt Lectures at Union
Theological Seminary-PSCE, the Caldwell Lectures at Louisville
Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the Spring Lectures at Central
Baptist Theological Seminary, and the Ryan Lectures at Asbury
Theological Seminary. Dennis
T. Olson Professor
Olson’s recent publications include “Dialogues of Life and
Monologues of Death:
Jephthah and Jephthah’s Daughter in Judges 10:6-12:7,” in A.
K. M. Adam, ed., Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible--A Reader (St.
Louis, Chalice Press, 2001), 43-54,
“How Does Deuteronomy Do Theology?
Literary Juxtaposition and Paradox in the New Moab Covenant in
Deuteronomy 29-32,” in Brent Strawn and Nancy Bowen, eds., Torah and
Song, Essays in Honor Patrick D. Miller (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
2002), 201-213;
“‘O LORD God, How Am I to Know?’ The Pentateuch and
Contemporary Understandings of Truth,” Princeton Seminary Bulletin 23
(2002), 86-99; “Sacred Time: The Old Testament Sabbath and Christian
Worship,” in Holy to the Lord, Old Testament Resources for a Theology
of Christian Worship , eds. Carol Bechtel and John Witvliet (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003). and “Violence for the Sake of Social Justice?
Narrative, Ethics and Indeterminacy in Moses’ Slaying of the
Egyptian (Exodus 2:11-15)” in The Meanings We Choose, ed. Charles
Cosgrove (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2003).
His current writing projects include an Introduction to the
Pentateuch (Westminster John Knox Press) and a commentary on Exodus (Abingdon
Press).
Olson recently gave the 2002 Kerschner Lectures at Emmanuel
School of Religion in Johnson City, Tennessee on “The Bible in
Crisis” which explored issues of biblical authority, claims of truth,
responses to human suffering, and the role of the Bible in ethical
decision-making.
J.J.M.
Roberts Professor
Roberts’ most recent publications include The Bible and the Ancient
Near East: Collected Essays (Eisenbrauns, 2002), “Melchizedek
(11Q13 = 11QMelch),” in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with
English Translations: Pesharim, Other Commentaries and Related
Documents, Vol 6B, ed. by James Charlesworth (MohrSiebeck/WJK,
2002), and “God’s Imperial Reign According to the Psalter,” in Horizons
in Biblical Theology 23. Soon to appear is his “Prophets and
Kings: A New Look at the Royal Persecution of Prophets Against Its Near
Eastern Background,” in the Pat Miller Festschrift. He is currently
working on a Hebrew Lexicon and the Hermeneia Commentary on Isaiah 1-39. Katharine
Doob Sakenfeld Professor
Sakenfeld's most recent publications include "Feminist Reading of
the Bible: Problems and Promises," Bangalore Theological
Forum 32 (2000) 18-27; "Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and the Wife
of Uriah: The Company Mary Keeps in Matthew's Gospel," in
Blessed One: Protestant Perspectives on Mary, edited by B.
Gaventa and C. Rigby (Louisville: WJK, 2002) 21-31; and "At the
Threshing Floor: Sex, Reader Response, and a Hermeneutic of
Survival," Old Testament Essays 15/1 (2002). Soon to
appear are "Naoni's Cry: Reflections on Ruth 1:20-21,"
in A God So Near, edited by B. Strawn, et. al., (Winona Lake,
Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003), and a book on selected Old Testament
women for WJK which is scheduled for June 2003. She will be
teaching in a continuing education event at St. Andrews, Scotland in the
Summer of 2003. Choon-Leong
Seow Professor
Seow recently completed a commentary on the book of Daniel (WJKP) and
translated various Northwest Semitic inscriptions in a forthcoming
volume on Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East in the
SBL's Writings of the Ancient World series. His recent publications
include, “Theology When Everything is Out of Control,” Interpretation
(July 2001) 237-49; "Job, Ecclesiastes," in The New Oxford
Annotated Bible (Oxford University Press, 2001) 726-74, 944-58;
"Ecclesiastes," in The HarperCollins Bible Commentary (Harper,
2000 466-71; "Beyond Mortal Grasp: The Usage of Hebel in
Ecclesiastes," Australian Biblical Review 48
(2000) 1-16; "Rehabilitating `the Preacher': Qohelet's Theology in
Context," in Papers of the 1997Henry Winters Luce III Fellows in
Theology (ATS, 2000). He is currently working on a critical edition
of the book of Job in the Oxford Hebrew Bible Series and a commentary on
the book of Job (ECC, Eerdmans). Seow delivered the Shoki Coe Memorial
Lectures at Tainan Theological College and Seminary, Taiwan, and
recently lectured in the University of Melbourne (Theological Hall) and
United Theological College in Sydney, Australia.
J.
Ross Wagner Professor
Wagner recently published Heralds
of the Good News: Paul and Isaiah "In Concert" in the Letter
to the Romans. (NovTSupp 101; Leiden: Brill, 2002) and completed an
essay with Mark D. Baker, “‘The Righteousness of God’ and
Hurricane Mitch: Reading Romans in Hurricane-Devastated Honduras,”
which will appear in Navigating
Romans Through Cultures, edited by K. K. Yeo (TPI).
His current major project is a literary-theological commentary on
the Septuagint version of Isaiah. This
spring, Wagner will participate in an inter-disciplinary colloquium on
"Christian Readings of the Old Testament" sponsored by Emory
University. He is also
slated to teach a course on Intercultural Hermeneutics at Western
Theological Seminary in January 2003 and to lead an extended seminar,
"Aliens and Strangers: Lessons from the Book of Hebrews for a
post-Christendom Church," for the Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry
in April.
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