Teaching
My research into the lived experience of religion allows me to engage students in diverse ways that go beyond the historical-critical study of texts to consider the experiences of the flesh-and-blood people who wrote and transmitted them. Because much of my scholarship actively brings marginalized ancient writings back into conversation with dominant canonical biblical texts, I regularly encourage my students to re-examine traditional biblical methodologies in light of postcolonial critiques of modern epistemic frameworks. In the classroom, I ask students to reintegrate disconnected binaries like canonical and non-canonical, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament, Christian and Jewish, thisworldly and otherworldly, and to reflect on their interdependence in light of the globalization of the field.
Summer 2025 Course
Introductory Hebrew: Summer Intensive
From Mid-May to end of June, 2025
Online Synchronous
Fall 2023 Courses
Synoptic Gospels
Second Temple Judaisms
Spring 2024 Courses
John: Gospel and Letters
Letter to the Hebrews
Introductory Survey Courses
* Introduction to the Bible
* Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
*Introduction to New Testament
*Synoptic Gospels
*Introduction to Religious Studies
*Introduction to Theology/ Foundations of Theology
*Literature and Theology of the Old Testament
* Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, using J. Hackett, A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, 2010.
I have taught a wide range of introductory level courses to both undergraduates and graduate students that require no prior knowledge of the subject. These survey courses focus on primary texts and the application of various methodological approaches.
Exegetical Courses on Specific Books
Students compare two different scholarly commentaries, alongside a weekly selection of articles and essays that highlight diverse methodological approaches.
*Gospel of Mark
*Gospel of Matthew
*Gospel of John
*Letter to the Hebrews
*Book of Daniel
Upper-Level Seminars
An interdisciplinary look at various topics
*Prayer and Ritual in the Biblical World
*Second Temple Judaisms
*Apocalypses: Visions and Otherworldly Journeys
*Disease, Illness, and Chronic Pain in the Biblical World
*Dead Sea Scrolls (undergraduate)
*Women and the Bible (undergraduate)
*Religious Diversity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity (undergraduate)