Professor and Chair of Religious and Theological Studies, St. Edward’s University
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Theology Department, Hebrew Bible and Judaica; minors in New Testament /Early Church and Mysticism and Spirituality
M.T.S. Harvard University, Divinity School, Biblical Studies
B.A. Indiana University, Bloomington, Double Major: Religious Studies and Germanic Studies; B.A. with honors
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Editor with Vincent Skemp. The Figure of Jesus in History and Theology: Essays in Honor of John Meier. CBQ Imprints 1. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Biblical Association of America, forthcoming October 2020.
Editor with Angela Kim Harkins and John Endres. Fallen Angels Traditions: Second Temple Developments and Reception History. CBQMS 53. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2014.
Editor with Angela Kim Harkins and John Endres, The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014.
Editor with E. F. Mason, S. Thomas et.al. A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam. 2 vols. JSJSup. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Lead Editor for Volume 2 (Early Judaism, Studies on Enoch and Jubilees, and New Testament and Early Christianity).
A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-19: “No One Has Seen What I Have Seen.” JSJSup 81. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
Works in Preparation
Invitation to the Pseudepigrapha. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, under contract.
1 and 2 Maccabees. Co-authored with Richard Bautch. Wisdom Commentary Series 18. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, in preparation.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“Rulers, Rivals and 1 Maccabees,” Biblische Notizen 200 (2024): 77-93.
“Spatiality and Apocalyptic Literature,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 5 (2016): 273-288
“Kyrios Christos in light of Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Second Temple Judaism,” Early Christianity 6 (2015): 30-50.
“Concealment, Pseudepigraphy and the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity,” Aries – Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 15 (2015): 1-8.
“A Retrospective on North American Contributions to the Scholarship of early Judaism and Christianity,” Henoch 31 (2009): 5-8.
“Decoration, Destruction and Debauchery: Reflections on 1 Enoch 8 in Light of 4QEnb,” Dead Sea Discoveries 15 (2008): 79-95.
“What Becomes of the Angels’ “Wives”? A Text Critical Study of 1 En. 19:2,” Journal of Biblical Literature 125 (2006): 766-80.
“‘The Vessel of the Potter Shall Be Broken’: The Material Culture from a Burial Cave at St. Étienne’s Monastery, Jerusalem,” Révue Biblique 107 (2000): 561-590.
Guest Editor of Thematic Issues of Journals
“Empire and Potentates,” Biblische Notizen 200 (2024).
“Priests, Scribes and Interpreters,” Journal of Ancient Judaism 13 (2022).
Editor with Jonathan Kaplan. Theme Issue: “Angels, Watchers, Giants Reimagined in Early Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” Henoch 41 (2019).
Editor with Jonathan Kaplan. Theme Issue: “Death and Afterlife Traditions in Early Judaism” Journal of Ancient Judaism 10 (2019).
Book Chapters
“Editions, Recensions and Literary Creativity: The Evidence from Aramaic Enoch.” Pages 141-56 in The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran. Edited by H. Drawnel. JSJSup 216; Leiden: Brill, 2024.
“The Law and the Prophet: Reading 1 Maccabees in the Days of John Hyrcanus.” Pages 183-203 in Torah in Early Jewish Imaginations. Edited by Ariel Feldman and Timothy Sandoval. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.
“The Visionary’s View: Otherworldly Motifs and Their Use/Reuse in Texts of Qumran and Nag Hammadi.” Pages 388-408 in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices. Edited by D. Burns, M. Goff. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
With Daniel Assefa. “Did the Sheep Worship the Golden Calf? The Animal Apocalypse’s Reading of Exodus 32.” Pages 59-72 in The Reception of Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Edited by A. J. Lucas, E. Lupieri, and E. F. Mason. Themes in Biblical Narrative. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
“Panopolitanus and Its Relationship to other Greek Witnesses of the Book of the Watchers.” Pages 72-86 in “Wisdom Poured Out Like Water”: Essays in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini. Edited by J. H. Ellens, I. W. Oliver, J. von Ehrenkrook, J. Waddell, J. Zurawski. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 38. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018.
“Mysticism Imagined: Major Ideas and Perspectives of Mystics.” Pages 361-376 in Secret Religion: Gnosticism, Esotericism and Mysticism. Ed. A. DeConick. MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks on Religion. Cengage Learning, MacMillan, 2016.
“What is “the Bible”? Pages 169-81 in The Bible in Political Debate What Does it Really Say? Edited by F. Flannery and R. Werline. Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016.
“Heavenly Beings in the Enoch Traditions and Synoptic Gospels.” Pages 105-127 in Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality. Edited by L. Stuckenbruck and G. Boccaccini. Early Judaism and its Literature. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2016.
“The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies’ Use of Jewish Pseudepigrapha.” Pages 337-50 in Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent: New Perspectives on Early Christian and Late Antique Apocryphal Texts and Traditions. Edited by P. Piovanelli and T. Burke. WUNT 349; Mohr Siebeck, 2015.
“‘Awaiting New Heavens and a New Earth’: The Apocalyptic Imagination of 1-2 Peter and Jude.” Pages 63-82 in Reading 1-2 Peters and Jude: A Resource for Students. Edited by Eric F. Mason and Troy Martin. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.
“The Fall and Fate of Renegade Angels: The Intersection of Watchers Traditions and the Book of Revelation.” Pages 69-93 in Fallen Angels Traditions: Second Temple Developments and Reception History.
“Obscured by the Scriptures, Revealed by the Prophets: God in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies.” Pages 120-136 in Histories of the Hidden God: Concealment and Revelation in Western Gnostic, Esoteric, and Mystical Traditions. Gnostica. Edited by April D. DeConick and Grant Adamson. Durham: Acumen, 2013.
With Daniel Assefa. “Patriarch, Prophet, Author, Angelic Rival: Exploring the Relationship of 1 Enoch to 2 Enoch in Light of the Figure of Enoch.” Pages 181-89 in New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only. Edited by A. Orlov and G. Boccaccini. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
“Hosts, Holy Ones, and the Words of Gabriel: The Angelology of Hazon Gabriel in the Context of Second Temple and Late Antique Literature.” Pages 131-52 in Hazon Gabriel: New Readings of the Gabriel Revelation Edited by Matthias Henze. EJL. Atlanta: SBL, 2011.
“Peter and the Patriarch: A Confluence of Traditions?” Pages 13-27 in With Letters of Light: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Jewish Apocalypticism, Magic, and Mysticism in Honor of Rachel Elior. Edited by Daphna Arbel and Andrei Orlov. Ekstatis 2; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010.
“The Heavenly Temple, the Prison in the Void and the Uninhabited Paradise: Otherworldly Sites in The Book of the Watchers.” Pages 37-53 in Other Worlds and Their Relation to this World. Edited by T. Nicklas, J. Verheyden, E. Eynikel, F. García Martínez. JSJSup 143. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2010.
“Amplified Roles, Idealized Depictions: Women in the Book of Jubilees.” Pages 338-52 in Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees. Edited by G. Boccaccini and G. Ibba. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.
“Putting Angels in Their Place: Developments in Second Temple Angelology.” Pages 174-88 in “With Wisdom as a Robe”: Studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich. Edited by Miklós Kõszeghy, Gábor Buzási, Károly Dobos. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009.
“Heavenly Beings Brought Low: A Study of Angels and the Netherworld.” Pages 59-75 in The Concept of Celestial Beings. Origins, Development and Reception Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook. Edited by F. Reiterer, T. Nicklas, K. Schöpflin. Deuterocanonical Yearbook 2007. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2007.
“Adamic Traditions in the Parables? A Query on 1 En. 69:6.” Pages 352-60 in Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables. Edited by Gabriele Boccaccini (with Jason von Ehrenkrook). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
“Situating the Afterlife.” Pages 249-64 in Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism. Edited by April DeConick. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature /Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Commentaries, Text Critical Resources and Reading Guides
“1 Maccabees: Introduction and Annotations,” New Oxford Annotated Bible, ed. Coogan, J. O’Brien (6th ed; Oxford: Oxford University Press), forthcoming.
“Textual History of 1 Enoch.” Pages 287-302 in Textual History of the Bible, Volume 2: Deuterocanonical Scriptures. Edited by F. Feder, M. Henze; Leiden, Brill, 2019.
“Greek Book of the Watchers.” Pages 308-18 in Textual History of the Bible, Volume 2: Deuterocanonical Scriptures. Edited by F. Feder, M. Henze; Leiden, Brill, 2019.
Area Editor with Archibald Wright, “1 Enoch and Related Texts” for Textual History of the Bible, Volume 2: Deuterocanonical Scriptures. Edited by F. Feder, M. Henze; Leiden, Brill, 2019.
“Esther.” Pages 390-97 in Paulist Biblical Commentary. Ed. Richard Clifford SJ, Carol Dempsey OP and Eileen Schuller, OSU. New Jersey: Paulist Press, 2018.
“Tobit,” “Judith,” “1 Maccabees”– Reading Guides. The Catholic Study Bible. 3rd ed. Ed. Donald Senior and John Collins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
“1 Maccabees.” Pages 438-43 in Women’s Bible Commentary: Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon Ringe, and Jacq Lapsley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2012.
Reference Articles
“Book of the Watchers.” Pages 1.164-68 in T&T Clark Encyclopaedia of Second Temple Judaism. Ed. L. Stuckenbruck and D. Gartner. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
“Geography, Otherworldly.” Pages 2.280-83 in T&T Clark Encyclopaedia of Second Temple Judaism. Ed. L. Stuckenbruck and D. Gartner. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
With Jack Weinbender. “Authoritative Scriptures (Other Texts).” Pages 278-83 in T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ed. G. J. Brooke and C. Hempel. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.
“Textual Criticism: Apocrypha and Deuterocanonical Books.” Pages 371–79 in The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation. Volume 2. Edited by Steven L. McKenzie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
“ירושלם (Jerusalem).” Pages 275-282 in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten (ThWQ; Theological Dictionary of the Qumran Texts). Volume 2. Edited by Heinz-Josef Fabry and Ulrich Dahmen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013.
“ים (Sea).” Pages 153-158 in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten (ThWQ; Theological Dictionary of the Qumran Texts). Volume 2. Edited by Heinz-Josef Fabry and Ulrich Dahmen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013.
“חנוך (Enoch).” Pages 1016-21 in Theological Dictionary of the Qumran Texts (Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten; ThWQ). Edited by Heinz-Josef Fabry and Ulrich Dahmen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2011.
“Geography, Mythic.” Pages 673-74 in The Dictionary of Early Judaism. Edited by John J. Collins and Daniel Harlow. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.
“Enoch, First Book of.” Pages 262-65 in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible 2. Edited by Pheme Perkins. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.
Book Reviews
Review of “Henryk Drawnel, Qumran Cave 4, the Aramaic Books of Enoch: 4Q201, 4Q202, 4Q204, 4Q205, 4Q206, 4Q207, 4Q212. Oxford University Press, 2020.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 86 (2024):150-52.
Review of Michael Stone, Secret Groups in Ancient Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) for Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 5 (2020): 243-49.
Review of Frances L. Flannery, Understanding Apocalyptic Terrorism: Countering the Radical Mindset (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016) for Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 3 (2017): 247-53.
Review of George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam, 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation (Hermeneia Series; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012) for Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2014.
Review of Peter Schäfer, The Origins of Jewish Mysticism. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2009 for The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, 2011. Pages 178-81.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Co-editor, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 2024-
Journal for Biblical Literature, 2017-2022
Early Judaism and Its Literature, 2016-2022
Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series, 2012-2018
Henoch: Journal for Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late Antiquity, 2006-2012
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AND STEERING COMMITTEES
Member of Program Committee, Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 2024-
President, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, 2023-2024
Vice-Director, Enoch Seminar, 2015-; Co-Chair, Enoch Seminar (2022); Co-Chair, Enoch Graduate Seminar (2016)
Co-Chair, Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Continuing Seminar, Catholic Biblical Association, 2023-
Co-chair, Pseudepigrapha Section, Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 2018-2023
Consultor, Executive Board, Catholic Biblical Association, 2019-2022
Member, International Society of Biblical Literature Program Committee, 2017-2022
President, Theta Alpha Kappa, the national honor society for Religious Studies and Theology, 2016-2020; Member, Board of Directors, 2011-2016
Co-chair, Esotericism and Mysticism in Antiquity, Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 2012-2017; member, 2010-2012
Member, Steering Committee, Digital Humanities, International Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 2012-2022
Catholic Biblical Association, Program Committee, 2009-2013
Co-chair, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Section, International Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 2008-2013
President, Southwest Region, Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, 2009-2010; President-Elect, 2008-2009
Chair, Hebrew Bible Program, Southwest Region, Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, 2007-2008
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Chair, Department of Religious and Theological Studies, St. Edward’s University, 2020-
Area Coordinator, Religious Studies Department, St. Edward’s University, 2007-2009
Co-chair, St. Edward’s SOURCE Committee (The Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression) 2005-2007; member of the committee, 2004-2005
Advisor, Pi Chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa, National Religious Studies Honor Society (2005-2012); St. Edward’s University Religious Studies Club, 2003-2007
AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS
Champion Award for Mission-Informed Teaching, Center for Teaching Excellence, St. Edward’s University
“Mission-Aligned Learning for 2027 and Beyond: Fostering Student Success through Inclusive and Experiential Learning Grant” Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning
Promotion of Biblical Scholarship Grant, Catholic Biblical Association, for project “The Reception of 1 Maccabees in African Contexts”
Fellow, Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Barnett Visiting Scholar, Jewish Studies Program, Brite Divinity School
Invited Residency: Qumran Residency, École biblique, Jerusalem
McCarthy Chair, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome
CCD Biblical Scholarship and Biblical Literacy Promotion Grant
American Academy of Religion Regional Development Grant for “Jewish Studies in the Borderlands: A Colloquium”
Curriculum Development Grant, St. Edward’s University
Distinguished Teaching Award, St. Edward’s University
Kathleen Connolly-Weinert Award, Theta Alpha Kappa
Presidential Excellence Grant, St. Edward’s University
Regional Scholar of the Southwest Region, Society of Biblical Literature
Lilly Theological Research Grant for the study of the material culture at the site of St. Stephen’s monastery, Israel
Archaeological Research Stipend, Catholic Biblical Association for archaeological research
Harvard University Sheldon Fellowship for research project entitled: “Speculative Traditions in Apocalypses, ” Harvard University
Endowment for Biblical Research Travel Award, American School for Oriental Research
SELECT ACADEMIC LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS
Keynote Presenter, “Horizons, Peripheries, and Dreamscapes: Twenty-First Century Tours of 1 Enoch 1-36,” Worlds Above and Below: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Supernatural Worlds in Classics, Judaism, and Early Christianity, University of Otago, July 2024
“The Reception of 1 Maccabees in African Contexts,” Research Report. Catholic Biblical Association Annual Meeting, Creighton University, July 2023
“Political-Economic Dynamics and the Maccabean Revolution,” Economics in the Biblical World Section, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November 2022
“A Reconsideration of the Authorizing Prophet,” Biblical and Early Christian Studies Global Seminar (BECS), Australian Catholic University, October 2022
“The Law and the Prophet: Reading 1 Maccabees in the Days of John Hyrcanus,” (The) Torah in Early Jewish and Christian Imaginations, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, May 2022
“‘Advancing to the Ends of the Earth’: Lamenting Domination in 1 Maccabees,” Postcolonial Studies and Biblical Studies, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 2021
“The Missing Matriarchs of 1 Maccabees,” Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Seminar, University of Notre Dame, November 2021
“Reading 1 Maccabees Faithfully,” Research Report, Catholic Biblical Association Online Meeting, August 2021
“What have forty years revealed? Reflections on M. Smith’s ‘History of Apokalypto and Apokalypsis’,” Enoch Seminar / LMU Munich Congress on Apocalypticism in Antiquity, May 2021.
“Elijah Redivivus: John the Baptist and the Prophet Performed, Embodied, and Returned,” Nangeroni Meeting on John the Baptist Online Meeting, January 2021.
“More than One Recension? The Evidence from Aramaic Book of the Watchers,” International Conference on the Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch, Institute of Biblical Studies (KUL, Lublin, Poland), October 2020
“Superhuman Figures as Necessary to Expressions of Evil? Examining the Evidence from the Book of the Watchers,” Enoch Seminar Online, June-July 2020
“Shelamzion: What’s in a Name?” Second Temple Judaism Section, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies; February 2020
“The Textual History of 1 Enoch and Enochic Literature,” International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies; Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; November 2019
“Royal Women, Women Regents, and 1 Maccabees,” Catholic Biblical Association Annual Meeting, Walsh University, July 2019.
“The Visionary’s View: Otherworldly Motifs and their Use/Reuse in Texts of Qumran and Nag Hammadi,” The Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi Codices, July 2018.
“Historiolae and Pseudepigraphy: An Assessment with an Eye toward Ritual and Ascent,” Western Esotericism, American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2017
Respondent for Judith Newman, “Sensing the Temporal: On Integrating Embodied Perspectives into the Study of Apocalyptic” and Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, “The Changing Apocalypse: Apocalyptic Literature as a Provisional Genre in Early Rabbinic Judaism”; Enoch Colloquium on “The Sense(s) of History. Apocalyptic Literature and Its Temporalities,” November 2017
“Rogue Angels and the Origin of Evil: Contemporary Perspectives on Ancient Theology,” Baylor University, January, 2017
“Old Testament Pseudepigrapha as Christian Literature,” Catholic Biblical Association Annual Meeting, August, 2016
“On Writing a Feminist Commentary: Authors from the Wisdom Commentary,” Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Southwest Regional Meeting SBL, March 2016
“Digging up the Past and Shifting Narratives: The Quest to Assign Authorship to Pseudepigraphal Texts,” Keynote Address, Central Texas Colloquium on Religion Research Conference, February 2016
“Demons, Heroines or Victims? Key Female Figures in Early Jewish Traditions,” Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Conference on Demons and Demonology in Late Antiquity, December 2015
“The Textual History of the Greek Book of the Watchers: Contextual Clues from Translation and the Value of Variant Readings,” in the Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2015
“The Politics of Apocalypticism: Assigning Authorship and Jewish-Christian Relations,” Boston College, November 2015
“Toward an Understanding of the Translations and Textual History of Enochic Literature,” Catholic Biblical Association Annual Meeting, August 2015
“Aramaic and Greek Book of the Watchers: Clarifying the Relationship,” Hellenistic Judaism section, International Meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, July 2015
“Spatiality and Apocalypticism: The Animal Apocalypse as Case Study,” Barton College Scholars Conversations, May 2015
“Lament and Prayer in 1 Maccabees,” Barton College Scholars Conversations, May 2014
“First Maccabees from a Feminist Postcolonialist Lens,” The Rest Is Commentary, Rice University, April 2014
“Inviting Non-Specialists to the Study of the Pseudepigrapha,” Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Southwest Regional Meeting SBL, March 2014
“Kyrios Christos in light of Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Second Temple Judaism” in the Extent of Diversity in Early Christianity Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2013
“Escaping from Lusty Angels: Early Jewish and Early Christian Portrayals of Women and the Divine.” James Madison Visiting Scholar; James Madison University, October 2013
“Traditions of Enoch: Their Value for New Testament Studies.” Invited Simultaneous Session Speaker, Catholic Biblical Association, Annual Meeting, August 2013
“Heavenly Beings in the Enoch Traditions and Synoptic Gospels.” Invited major paper for the Enoch Seminar, July 2013.
“The New Testament and Early Christianity in Light of Hazon Gabriel,” invited panelist for “The Gabriel Revelation: A Recently Discovered Inscription and Its Meaning, SBL joint session for Hebrew Bible and New Testament, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Southwest Regional Meeting SBL, March 2012
Review of George Nickelsburg James VanderKam, 1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch. Chapters 37-82 (Hermeneia; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012). Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2011
“Contemporary Studies on Enoch and their Relevance to New Testament Scholarship,” Columbia University, Seminar for New Testament and Early Christianity, May 2011
“Revealed by the Prophets, Obscured by the Scriptures: God in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies,” Hidden God, Hidden Histories Symposium, Rice University; April 2010
“Eve-ning the Score: Exegetical Trajectories of Genesis 2-3 and Related Traditions on the First Woman,” Presidential Address, Southwest Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, March 2010
“Goddesses and Monsters: Otherworldly Feminine Figures of Ancient Rome” in Art and Religions of Antiquity Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2009
“The ‘Fall’ and the Fate of the Renegade Angels in the Book of Revelation and the Watchers Tradition,” Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Literature Task Force, Catholic Biblical Association, Annual Meeting, August 2009
“The Enthroned Entourage: Exploring the Origins of a Motif,” in the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2008
“The Depiction of Women in the Book of Jubilees,” the Enoch Studies Seminar, July 2007
“Envisioning the Otherworld in the Book of the Watchers,” at the symposium “The Otherworld and its Relationship to This World,” Radboud University and the Catholic University of Leuven, March 2007
“Seduction or Rape? Examining the Fate of the Angels’ Wives,” in the Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2006
“Decoration, Destruction and Debauchery: Reflections on 1 Enoch 8 in Light of 4QEnb,” at the symposium “Reading between the Lines: Scripture and Community in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” University of Notre Dame, March 2006
“All about Eve: How the First Woman Fares in Enochic Literature,” in the Pseudepigrapha Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2005
“To Rest in the West, to Feast in the East? How Geography and Traditions Relating to Afterlife Interrelate in Early Jewish Mystical Literature,” in the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Section, the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2005
“Progenitor of Wisdom and Mother of the Living: Portraits of Eve in Enochic Literature,” for the “Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Literature” Continuing Seminar. Catholic Biblical Association, Annual Meeting, August 2005
“‘Using the Scriptures as Jesus Taught’: The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies’ Approach to Interpreting Biblical Texts,” Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Literature Continuing Seminar, Catholic Biblical Association, Annual Meeting, August 2004
“Enochic Literature and Petrine Traditions,” Pseudepigrapha Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2003
Consultant for “Banned from the Bible,” produced by Filmroos for the History Channel, 2003
“The Mesopotamian Influence upon the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-36,” Pseudepigrapha Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, November 2000
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE AND RESEARCH ON MATERIAL CULTURE
Colloquium on Material Culture and Ancient Religion (Rome, Naples, Pompei, Herculaneum; 2009)
St. Stephen’s Monastery, Jerusalem with archaeologist Gabriel Barkay, Susan Sheridan and Richard Bautch (1999)
St. Stephen’s Monastery, Jerusalem with bio-anthropologist Susan Sheridan, École Biblique (1997, 1998)
Bethsaida Excavations (1997, 1998)
Honorary Research Fellow, Albright Institute in Jerusalem (1994-95)
Ashkelon Excavations (1994)
LANGUAGES
- German
- Modern/Biblical Hebrew
- French
- Classical/Koine Greek
- Latin
- Aramaic
- Sahidic Coptic
- Ge’ez
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Catholic Biblical Association
- Enoch Seminar
- Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES IN SEMINARIES, CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES; PRESENTATIONS ON SPIRITUALITY
“Recovering Stories of the Maccabean Matriarchs,” Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit, Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment
“Judaism before the Dead Sea Scrolls,” St. David’s Episcopal Church
Retreat Leader, “Pursuing the Beloved Community: Biblical Backgrounds,” Subversive Spirituality
“Reflections on Writing for the Paulist Biblical Commentary,” St. Austin’s Catholic Parish
“The Book of Revelation: Fitting Capstone to the Christian Canon,” The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
“What is the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and Why Should Christians Care?” University United Methodist Church
Retreat Leader, “Justice—Then and Now,” Subversive Spirituality
With Deborah Prince, “Spirituality, Scripture and Scholarship: A Discussion about Renewing and Energizing Academic Life.” Catholic Biblical Association Annual Meeting
“A New New Testament? Thinking about the Development of the Christian Canon.” University United Methodist Church
Retreat Leader, “Celebration and Affirmation: Discerning Joy, Surprises, Lessons and the Transcendent in the Course of the Year,” Subversive Spirituality
“Outside the Canon: the Unusual Books of Enoch, the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary,” Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church
Invited Homilist for Midday Prayer Service, Catholic Biblical Association Annual Meeting, University of Notre Dame
“Hearing the Call: Exploring a Spirituality of Vocation and Education.” 2-part Series. Seton Cove Sessions on Vocation and Education
Planning Committee, Subversive Spirituality Lecture Series, St. Edward’s University
“Judge, Maiden, Warrior, Victim: Women in the Book of Judges,” for the Ninth Annual Tapestry of Jewish Learning, the Jewish Community Center of Austin
2007 Hoxie Thompson Lecturer, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, (“Forced Migrations, the Fall of Jerusalem and Jeremiah”)
“The History and Faith of Islam,” St. David’s Episcopal Church
Retreat Leader, “Journey and Pilgrimage” for collegians at Moreau House, St. Edward’s University
“The Dead Sea Scrolls,” St. Theresa’s Parish
“Women and the Bible,” St. Theresa’s Parish
“Jewish Women in the Second Temple Period,” Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest
ADDITIONAL SERVICE
- St. Edward’s Nostra Aetate Program, 2003-
- St. Edward’s Faculty Evaluation Committee, 2012-2014
- Chair, St. Edward’s Faculty Performance Committee, 2011-2012
- St. Edward’s Faculty and Staff Campaign, 2003-2005
- St. Edward’s Academic Retention Committee, 2002-2003