The Doctoral students of the Biblical Studies department submitted their accomplishments for the year. See below for each student's items of note.
Brian Carrier:
Began a job as Director of Discipleship at The District Church.
Xi Li:
An article accepted for publication: "A Purely Symbolic Theory on the Chronology in 1 Kings 6,1," Australia Biblical Review 67 (2019): 16-33.
Eric Trinka:
Publications:
“The End of Islands: Drawing Insight from John’s Apocalypse to Respond to Prisoner Radicalization and Apocalyptically-Oriented Terrorism.” Religions 10.2, 73 (2019): 1-14. DOI:10.3390/rel10020073
“‘If you will only remain in this land’: Migration Decision-Making and Jeremiah as a Religiously Motivated Nonmover.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 80.4 (2018), 580-96.
“The Hand of God and Divine Touch in the Book of Job.” In Viewpoints on the Bible. Edited by Mark Roncace. (Wingate, NC: Point of View, 2018).
Contributing Translator and Author: Jonah: La Bible en ses Traditions. Edited by Fr. Olivier- Thomas Venard, O.P. Lueven: Peeters. (In Progress)
Conference Presentations:
Universidad Nova de Lisboa – Lisbon, Portugal
Migration and Colonization in the Mediterranean during the 1st Millennium BC
Presentation: “Colonizing the Highlands of Canaan: Migration and its Effects on Internal Religious Diversity in Early Israel”
The Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting – Denver, CO
Presentation: “The End of Islands: Drawing Insight from John’s Apocalypse to Respond to Prisoner Radicalization and Apocalyptically- Oriented Terrorism”
The Catholic University of America – Washington, D.C.
Presentation: “Joseph and the Question of Assimilation in the Contexts of Forced Migration”
The Kartepe Summit – Kocaeli, Turkey
Migration, Refugees, and Humanity
Presenter: International Policies and Return – “Migrants, Globalization, and Religion”
Panelist: Borders for Migration: Limitations – “Why We Cannot Afford to Ignore Migrant Religiosity”
The Migration Conference – Lisbon, Portugal
Presentation: “Considering the Prophet Jeremiah as a Religiously-Motivated Non-Mover”
Eric Wagner:
Completed 1 year on the faculty at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, OH. His responsibilities have included 1) teaching Prophets, Pentateuch, and Luke-Acts, 2) weekly service on the college formation committee