Affiliations

• The Society of Biblical Literature
• The American Schools of Oriental Research
• The Institute for Biblical Research
• The Evangelical Theological Society

Awards and Honors

• Recipient of the SBL Midwest Regional Scholar Award (2007-2008) for the paper Assessing Sacred Asses: Bronze Age Donkey Burials
• Recipient of the Jacob Ziskind Memorial Fellowship at Hebrew Union College (2000-2004).
• Recipient of Summer in Israel Scholarship at Hebrew Union College (2001): seven weeks of training in archaeology and modern Hebrew language.
• Recipient of the Gleason L. Archer Old Testament Award for Best Thesis or Dissertation at Trinity International University (Spring 2000).
• Named in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges: 2000. 66th Volume. Tuscaloosa: Randall, 2000 (p. 1386).
• Recipient of Presidential Scholarship at Trinity International University (1997)
• Recipient of the Student Paper Award from the Evangelical Theological SocietyMidwest (Regional Meeting, 1997).

Publications

Books

• Teach the Text: Judges (Grand Rapids: Baker, forthcoming); series editor: J. H. Walton

• Donkeys in the Biblical World: A Ceremonial and Symbolic Study (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011).

Articles

• Thirty-two entries (5,000 words) in the Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary edited by T. Longman, P. Enns and M. Strauss (Grand Rapids: Baker, forthcoming).

• "Assessing Sacred Asses: Bronze Age Donkey Burials in the Near East" Levant 42/2 (Nov 2010):213-228.

• “Donkey Domain: Zech 9:9b and Lexical Semantics” Journal of Biblical Literature 129/1 (2010): 105-114.

• “Animals in the Prophetic World: Literary Reflections on Numbers 22 and 1 Kings 13” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 34/1 (2009): 47-62.

• “The God of Noble Character? Proverbs 31:10-31 in Context” Biola Magazine (Spring 2009: 39).

• “Archaeology: What It Can And Can't Do For Old Testament Studies” Sundoulos (Fall 2008): pp. 2-7.

• “Balaam's Hobby-Horse: The Animal Motif in the Balaam Traditions” Ugarit-Forschungen 37 (2005 Volume - Stanislav Segert in memoriam): 679-693.

• “Jehoshaphat” in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books, eds. Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2005) pp. 531-534.

Book Reviews

• Review of “Psalms in Community: Jewish and Christian Textual, Liturgical, and Artistic Traditions”, eds. H. W. Attridge and M. E. Fassler (Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 127/1 (2007): 108-109.

• Review of L. Allen and T. Laniak, “Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, NIBC” (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2003) in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 47/4 (December 2004): 706-708.

• Review of M. Fishbane, “The JPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot” (Philadelphia: JPS, 2002) in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 46/2 (June 2003): 334-336.

• Review of E. Stern, “Archaeology of the Land of the Bible”, vol. II: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods, 732-332 BCE (New York: Doubleday, 2001) in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 45/4 (December 2002): 688-689.

Presentations

• 2008 “Donkey Domain: Zech 9:9b and Lexical Semantics” - presented at the Biblical Lexicography section of the SBL Annual Meeting in Boston, MA (November).

• 2008 “Animals in the Prophetic World: Literary Reflections on Numbers 22 and 1 Kings 13” - to be presented at the SBL Pacific Coast Regional Meeting in Pasadena, CA (March 30-31, 2008).

• “Assessing Sacred Asses: Bronze Age Donkey Burials in the Near East” - presented at the SBL/AOS/ASOR Midwest Regional Meeting in Bourbonnais, IL (February 17, 2007).

• 2007 “Of Prophets and Donkeys: Literary Reflections on Numbers 22 and 1 Kings 13” - presented at the Stone-Campbell Journal Conference (April 13-14, 2007; Cincinnati Bible Seminary).

• 2006 “Donkeys in the Biblical World” (Dissertation Lecture): Multimedia presentation on April 25 at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati.

• 2005 “Balaam's Hobby Horse: The Animal Motif in the Balaam Traditions” presented at the SBL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (S20-18: Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature).

• 2005 “The Animal World of Balaam” presented at the Stone-Campbell Journal Conference (April 15-16; Cincinnati Bible Seminary). Theme: Encountering the Old Testament Today.

• 2004 “The Top Ten Connections Between Archaeology and the Bible” (Docent Training Lecture): multimedia presentation at HUC's Skirball Museum, Cincinnati (November).

• 2004 “Archaeology and Bible Interpretation” (guest lecture) delivered to undergraduate students at Cincinnati Christian University (December).

• 2002 “'Who Can Stand Before the Sons of 'Anaq?' (Deut 9:2)” presented at the semiannual conference of the Cincinnati Consortium of Ancient Studies/From Sumer to Caesar (Nov 14; University of Cincinnati).