Ph.D., Old Testament 2016
Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, KY
Dissertation: “You Shall Know that I am YHWH: The Holiness Composition in the Book of Exodus”
Committee: Dr. Bill T. Arnold (mentor), Dr. John A. Cook (reader), Dr. Thomas B. Dozeman (examiner)
Masters in Divinity 2011
Harding School of Theology, Memphis, TN
Summer Modern Hebrew Program 2009, 2010
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; completed level Gimmel
B.A. (Bible, Philosophy, summa cum laude) 2008
Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, TN
Spiritual Director Training Program 2019-21
Years 1 & 2; Order of Sustainable Faith, Cincinnati, OH
Global School of Supernatural Ministry 2021-23
Year 1 & 2 Training in Global Awakening School of Ministry, Mechanicsburg, PA
Teaching
Adjunct Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, Lipscomb University Hazelip School of Theology, Nashville, TN, 2015-
Courses Taught: Hebrew I & II, Intermediate Hebrew Reading, Hebrew Tools, Critical Interpretation of the Old
Testament, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Introduction to Theological Studies, Wisdom Literature, Exodus, Minor
Prophets
ThD Mentor and Instructor, Global Awakening Theological Seminary, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2024-
Teaching: Research Design for ThD Students, mentoring dissertations
Adjunct Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX, 2016-
Courses Taught: Hebrew I & II, Critical Interpretation of the Old Testament
Adjunct Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, Kentucky Christian University, Grayson, KY, 2017-19
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Courses Taught: Hebrew I & II, Critical Interpretation of the Old Testament, Psalms
Publications
The Beauty of Praise: Aesthetics in the Book of Psalms (tentative title) Baylor University Press, forthcoming (2027).
Moses and Aristotle: The Means and Ends of Moral Formation in Deuteronomy and Nicomachean Ethics. Routledge
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biblical Criticism. London & New York: Routledge, forthcoming (2027).
Deuteronomy 27-34: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text. Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible; with Bill T. Arnold. Waco,
TX: Baylor University Press, forthcoming (2026).
Exodus 1-24: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text. Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible; with Brent A. Strawn. Waco, TX:
Baylor University Press, forthcoming (2029).
“Deuteronomy and Wisdom Literature,” in Deuteronomy: Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature, eds.
Dominik Markl, Craig A. Evans, and Kyung S. Baek. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.
“’We Know You Are True and Teach the Way of God Truthfully’ (Matt 22:16): Reading the Hebrew Bible With Jesus in
Matthew 22,” pages 41-52 in Teaching God’s Sons and Daughters: Essays in Honor of Allen Black, eds. Garrett E. Best &
Lance R. Hawley (Wilmore, KY: GlossaHouse, 2025).
“Reading Deuteronomy as Instruction,” Biblische Notizen 203 (2024): 3-20.
“Deuteronomy,” study notes in The Westminster Study Bible, ed. Stacy Davis, Mary Foskett, Emerson Powery, & Brent
Strawn. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2024.
“Educating a Society of Perceivers: Practical Wisdom and Perception in Nicomachean Ethics and Deuteronomy,”
Scandinavian Journal of Old Testament 38.1 (2024): 48-76.
“This Shall be Your Wisdom (Deut 4:6): The Wisdom of Deuteronomy Amidst Changing Paradigms for Hebrew Wisdom,”
Journal of Theological Studies 72 no. 2 (10/2023): 451-492.
Deuteronomy 12-26: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text. Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible; with Bill T. Arnold. Waco,
TX: Baylor University Press, 2022.
“The Shema as Total Meaning of Reality: Tradition, Freedom, and Verification in the Pedagogy of Deuteronomy.” The
Asbury Theological Journal 77 no.2 (2022): 400-415.
“Why Love Matters for Justice: Political Emotions between Narrative and Law in the Holiness Code.” Pages 83-104 in
Biblical Ethics: Tensions Between Justice and Mercy, Law and Love, eds. Markus Zehnder and Peter S. Wick. Piscataway,
N.J.: Georgias Press, 2019.
“The Priestly Grundschrift: Source or Redaction? The Case of Exodus 12:12-13,” Zeitschrift für Alttestamentliche
Wissenschaft 2 (2017): 205-219.
The Holiness Composition in the Book of Exodus. Forschungen zum Alten Testament II/98. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.
“Reconsidering Beliar: 2 Cor 6:15 in its Anti-Imperial Jewish Apocalyptic Context” Journal for the Study of Paul and His
Letters 4.2 (2014): 65-82.
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Translations
Translation, with Wes Crouser, of Abschied von der Priesterschrift: Zum Stand der Pentateuchdebatte (Leipzig: Evangelische
Verlagsanstalt, 2015), appearing as Farewell to the Priestly Writing? The Current State of the Debate. Ed. Friedhelm
Hartenstein and Konrad Schmid (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2022).
Scholarly Presentations
“Healing the Passions of the Soul in St. Basil’s Homilies on the Psalms,” SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2025
“Aesthetics and Environmental Ethics in the Psalms,” SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2025
“Reading the Hebrew Bible for Spiritual Formation” Training Seminar for Spiritual Directors, Wellsprings in the Wilderness
Ministries, Nashville, TN 2024
“Reading the Wilderness Narratives for Spiritual Formation,” Lanier Center for Archaeology Conference, Lipscomb
University, 2024
“One Lord, One Place, One Heart: First Principles and Second-Order Thinking in Deuteronomic Practices of Reason,” SBL
Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2024
“You Shall Open Wide Your Hand to Your Brother (Deut 15:11): Generosity and Friendship in Deuteronomy and Aristotle’s
Nicomachean Ethics,” SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2024
“Take to Heart All These Words and Command Them to Your Children (Deut 32:46): Reading Deuteronomy as
Instruction,” SBL Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 2022
“What Does it Profit? Qohelet and the Commodification of Nature,” SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2020
“Translating the Priestly Grundschrift: A Study of the Translation Technique of the Priestly Narratives in Genesis-Exodus-
Leviticus,” SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2016
“Sabbath in the Wilderness (Ex 16) and Sabbath of the Land (Lev 25): The Agricultural and Economical Theology of the
Sabbath Traditions in Priestly Narrative and Law,” SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2016
“A Tale of Two Passovers: Determining the Direction of Dependence between Ex 12:1-14 and 12:21-27,” SBL International
Meeting, Seoul, South Korea, 2016
“Revere my Sanctuary and Honor my Sabbaths: Aaronic Ritual Failure and the Possibility of Covenant Renewal in Ex 25-40
and the Holiness Code (Lev 26),” SBL International Meeting, Seoul, South Korea, 2016
“Monotheism in the Book of Ezekiel,” Stone-Campbell Journal Conference, Knoxville, TN, 2016
“Teaching Elementary Hebrew Tools for Ministry,” SBL Regional Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 2016
“Surely God is Good to Israel: Conceptions of the Goodness of God in the Hebrew Bible,” SBL Regional Meeting, St. Louis,
MO, 2016
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“Why Love Matters for Justice: Political Emotions between Narrative and Law in the Holiness Code,” SBL Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, GA, 2015
“Agrarian Rhetoric of the Sages: Farmers and their Markets in Proverbs” SBL Regional Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 2015.
“Agrarian Rhetoric of the Sages: Farmers and their Markets in Proverbs” Christian Scholars Conference, Abilene, TX 2015
“Ezekiel, Paul, and the Spirit of God: Two Theocentric Theologians of the Exile” at Stone-Campbell Journal Conference,
Nashville, TN 2013
Languages
Finnish, German, Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Akkadian
