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Department
of Religion, Philosophy and Classics
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Education
Ph.D., Union Theological
Seminary
M. Div., Luther Theological Seminary
B.A., Augustana College (SD)
Courses
Taught:
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Exploring the Christian Faith
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The Problem and Promise of God for the Twenty
First Century
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Story and Theology: The Bible and the Detective
Story
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Lessons in Living: Biblical and Contemporary
Reflections on Wisdom
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Power, Politics, and the Biblical Prophets
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Wildman, Warrior; Family Man, Friend: God and
the Changing Shape of American Masculinity
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Seminar in Biblical Studies
Research
Interests:
Literary and Post-modern
Analysis of the Hebrew Bible
Theology of the Detective Story
Violence in the Bible
The Portrayal of God in the Bible
Publications,
Presentations, Etc.
"The Complexity of
Character and an Ethics of Complexity: The Case of King David" in Character
Ethics and the Bible, ed. William P. Brown (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
2001).
"Samson and the Son of God or Dead Heroes
and Dead Goats: Ethical Readings of Narrative Violence in Judges and Matthew,"
Semeia
77 (1997).
"Narrative Criticism of Judges: Human Purpose
in Conflict with Divine Presence" in Judges and Method, ed. Gale
Yee (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995).
