Papers & Presentations

Papers

• “Sleeping Dogs: Benjamin-Judah Relations in the Persian Period and the Chronicler’s Portrait of Saul.” Paper for the Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, March 14-15, 2013.
• “The Timeless, Unifying Rhetoric of Lamentations.” Old Testament Essays 25 (2012): 534-558.
• “Lamentations’ Acrostic Form and Fragmented Judah in the Persian Period.” Paper for the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 14, 2012.
• “Reading Lamentations as an Evangelical.” Invited lecture at Union Theological Seminary (New York), November 7, 2012.
• “When YHWH Becomes an Enemy: A Canonical Reading of Lamentations.” Community Convocation at Reformed Episcopal Seminary (Blue Bell, PA), October 15, 2012.
• “From Time-Bound to Timeless: The Rhetoric of Lamentations and its Appropriation.” MTh thesis, March 2012.
• “Rebellion With a Cause: Poetic Artifice and Community Cohesion in Lamentations.” Paper for the Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting of SBL, March 15, 2012.
• “Economic Failure of the Torah? Toward a Post-Industrial Reading of an Agrarian Text.” Paper for the Eastern Regional meeting of ETS, March 2, 2012 (Audio: 44.7 MB).
• “Unless You Have Utterly Rejected Us.” PBU Today, Winter 2011, 6-9.
• “‘Unless You Have Utterly Rejected Us’: Lamentations as an Instrument of Community Renewal.” PBU’s 2011 Agora Conference, October 29, 2011.
• “How Lonely Sits the Text: Lamentations 1-2 and Evangelical Appropriation of Postmodern Biblical Studies.” Second Prize, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Eastern Regional meeting of ETS, March 4, 2011.
• “A ‘Perfect’ Poem: The Use of the QATAL Verbal Form in the Biblical Acrostics.” Hebrew Studies 51 (2010): 49-72.
• “Reading the Bible: A Tip Sheet.” Compiled for Spring 2010 High-School Sunday School: “How to Read the Bible.”
• “‘Your Mama Was a Hittite’: Torah Exegesis and the Matrilineal Principal in the Ezrahite Reforms.” First Prize, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Eastern Regional meeting of ETS, March 26, 2010.
• “A ‘Perfect’ Poem: The Use of the QATAL Verbal Form in the Biblical Acrostics.” Paper for the Hebrew Poetry section of the Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting of SBL, March 12, 2010.
• “Wayhi and Wayyiqtol in Genesis 37 and 39.” Guest lecture, first-year Hebrew class, April 2009.

Sermons

• “Deuteronomy 7:1-16: Chosen for Holiness.” Sermon at Lansdale Presbyterian Church, October 28, 2012 (Reformation Sunday).
• “Romans 15:14-33: I Have a Dream.” Sermon at Preakness Valley United Reformed Church in Wayne, NJ, April 22, 2012.
• “Lamentations 1-2: ‘Look, YHWH, and See!’” Sermon at LPC, January 8, 2012.
• “Hebrews 10: Approaching the Throne.”  Sermon at Preakness Valley URC, July 31, 2011.
• Mini-series on Isaiah 5-7:
  • “Isaiah 7: Two Kings.” Sermon at Preakness Valley URC, July 31, 2011.
  • “Isaiah 6: Meeting a Holy God.” Sermon at Preakness Valley URC, June 26, 2011.
  • “Isaiah 5: Where’s the Fruit?” Sermon at Preakness Valley URC, May 1, 2011.
• “Revelation 5: A Slain Lamb, Not a Dead Lamb.” Sermon at Preakness Valley URC, November 28, 2010.
• “Deuteronomy 7: God’s Freedom, God’s Purpose.” Sermon at Preakness Valley URC, November 28, 2010.
• “Mark 10: Nice Guys Finish Last?” Sermon at Preakness Valley URC, October 17, 2010.
• “Numbers 21: Snakes on a Plain.” Sermon at Shellburne Bible Church in Wilmington, DE, October 10, 2010.
• “Ephesians 2: One House.” Sermon at Trinity Baptist Church, Voorhees, NJ, June 13, 2010.