Shane Berg
Assistant Professor in New Testament
Department of Biblical Studies
115 Tennent Hall
Phone: 609.430.2788
Fax: 609.497.7829
Email: shane.berg@ptsem.edu

Shane Berg is an instructor in New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his M.Div. from the Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. His academic interests include the theology of Scripture, religious epistemology in ancient Judaism and Christianity, the Dead Sea Scrolls, papyrology, and the social history of the Greco-Roman world. He teaches courses in Greek language, Greek exegesis of Galatians, and issues in the theology of Scripture. A Presbyterian, he is a candidate for ordination to the ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Presbytery of the Northern Plains. He is a member of the American Philological Association, the American Society of Papyrology, the Catholic Biblical Association of America, and the Society of Biblical Literature.

“A New Papyrus Fragment of the Psalms,” in New Studies on Yale Manuscripts from the Late Antique to the Early Modern Period. Yale University Library Gazette Occasional Supplement 7. Robert Babcock, ed.  (2005)
“An Elite Group within the Yahad,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls: New Perspectives, New Voices. B.A. Strawn and M.T. Davis, eds. (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2006)
“A Tax Receipt Concerning Necropolis Workers,” in P.Yale IV: Texts from the American Society of Papyrology 2003 Summer Institute. A. Hanson, H. Cuvigny, A. Bulow-Jacobson, and R. Duttenhoffer, eds. (Scholars Press, forthcoming)