Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, Junior Fellow, John William Wevers Institute for Septuagint Studies; Research Associate, Dead Sea Scrolls Institute
Research Interests
Priesthood and Priestly Covenant in Second Temple Judaism
Concept of Covenant in Pentateuch
Dead Sea Scrolls:Institutionalization of the Qumran community
Septuagint: Description of Aaron and Priesthood in Hebrew and Greek Exodus texts.
Jewish Temples in the late Second Temple Period
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: Ben Sira, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Jubilees.
Publications
Books
Phinehas, the Sons of Zadok, and Melchizedek: Priestly Covenant in Late Second Temple Texts. Library of Second Temple Studies series. London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016. Awarded the Book of Excellence Award in Theology and Biblical Studies, Sharing Hope Foundation, Korea, 2018.
Articles
“Phinehas,” T&T Clark Encyclopaedia of Second Temple Judaism. Edited by Daniel Gurtner and Loren T. Stuckenbruck. London: T&T Clark, 2017.
“Jesus as Moses and Aaron: Hebrews’ Reading of OT Traditions for the Priestly Christology of the New Covenant Era,” Journal of the New Testament Society of Korea 23 (2016): 1115–1141.
“Phinehas Tradition in the Intertestamental Period,” Society of Reformed Theology and Practice 10 (2016): 195–229.
Reviews
Don (Dongshin) Chang, review of Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat: New Methods and Perspectives, Carmen Palmer, Andrew R. Krause, Eileen Schuller, and John Screnock (eds.), Northwest Institute for Ministry Education Research, www.nimer.ca, (December 10, 2021).
Presentations
Keynotes
“Covenant and Land: Sojourner in the Old Testament,” Keynote speech at Youngnam New Testament Society, 7th Annual Meeting at Dae Chung Church, Busan, Korea, 27 October, 2018.
Papers
“Conceptualization of the Hebrew gēr in the Old Testament as a Missional Identity” at Evangelical Missiological Society National Conference 2017 at Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas Texas, 15–17 September, 2017. (Peer Reviewed Paper)
“Jesus as Moses and Aaron: Hebrews’ Reading of OT Traditions for the Priestly Christology of the New Covenant Era” at Korean Biblical Colloquium of Society of Biblical Literature Annual International Meeting in Seoul, Korea, 3–7 July, 2016.
“A Priestly War: Who Was the Heir of the Priestly Covenant” at Re-Imagining the Scriptural Past in the Dead Sea Scrolls. A public lecture hosted by Dead Sea Scrolls Institute of Trinity Western University in Langley BC, February 23, 2016.