G. Brooke Lester
Apartment 1, 1014 Main Street, Evanston IL 60202
(847) 869-4221
brooke.lester@ptsem.edu

Denomination: Protestant Episcopal Church USA

Education:

• Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, autumn 2003 (anticipated).
• M.T.S., Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 1998.
• B.F.A., Drake University, 1988.

• Old Testament History (special area in 9th-8th century Israel).
• Old Testament Theology (special area in OT History of Religion).
• New Testament Theology (special area in NT History of Religion).

Explores the theological goals and the hermeneutical and literary strategies at play in the adaptation of Isaiah in Daniel's allusive discourse. Argues that Daniel's several allusions to Isaiah forge a major contribution to what the text means to say about God's ways in the world, and about God's ineluctable plan for Daniel's suffering community and its rebellious oppressors within and without. Anticipate completion in autumn of 2003.

• Merit Tuition Scholarship 1998-2000: Princeton Theological Seminary.
• American Bible Society Prize 1998: Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.
• H. N. Moss Book Award 1997: Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.

• Adjunct Instructor, "Hebrew I" and "Hebrew II," Winter and Spring 2003, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.
• Teaching Fellow, "Daniel," Fall 2001, Princeton Theological Seminary.
• Teaching Fellow, "Pauline Theology," Spring 2001, Princeton Theological Seminary.
• Teaching Fellow, "Introduction to Old Testament Studies," Fall 1999 and Fall 2000, Princeton Theological Seminary.
• Teaching Fellow, "Introductory Biblical Hebrew," Summer 1999 and Summer 2000, Princeton Theological Seminary.
• Participant, "Hebrew Learning Project," funded by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology and by Princeton Theological Seminary, 1999-present.
• Participant, "Graduate Teaching Workshop," Fall 1999, Princeton Theological Seminary.

• Research Assistant to C. L. Seow, Summer and Fall 2001, Princeton Theological Seminary.
• Research Assistant, "Classical Hebrew Lexicon Project," Princeton Theological Seminary.
• Proofreader, New Interpreter's Bible, Volume 6 electronic edition, Summer 2001, United Methodist Publishing.
• Lecturer, adult education, 1999, Trinity Episcopal Church (Princeton).

• "Admiring Our Savvy Ancestors: Rhetoric of Negotiation in Gen 23 and 32-3," Koinonia (forthcoming: Spring 2003).
• "Deuteronomism Rejected and Accepted In Daniel and in Isaiah 40-55: Toward a Christian Biblical Theology of Torah-Faithful Israel." Poster session, SBL Annual Meeting, 2002.
• "Ecclesiastes" (review article), Koinonia, XIII.1 (Spring 2001): 70-72.
• "Proverbs of Ancient Sumer" (review article), Koinonia, XI.2 (Fall 1999):267-69.
• "Violence in the Old Testament," presented at Trinity Episcopal Church, Princeton NJ, 1999.
• "Jonah Rehabilitated, or Christian Laughter Reconsidered," presented on the occasion of Princeton Pro Musica's "Jonah and the Whale," March 18 2000.

• Survey of both Testaments and their study
• History of Israel and Judah
• Biblical Hebrew, Greek
• Semitic languages
• Post-Holocaust Christian biblical theology
• Writings

• Modern: French, German.
• Ancient: Hebrew (biblical and epigraphic), Greek (Koine and LXX), Aramaic (several dialects), Syriac, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Egyptian (heiroglyphic).

1. Choon-Leong Seow, Henry Snyder Gehman Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature, Princeton Theological Seminary, PO Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542; office phone (609) 497-7934.
2. Katharine D. Sakenfeld, W. A. Eisenberger Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis, Princeton Theological Seminary, PO Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542; office phone (609) 497-7818.
3. Dennis T. Olson, Professor of Old Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary, PO Box 821, Princeton NJ 08542; office phone (609) 497-7769.