Conference Presentations
“Was Peninnah Really the Problem? What 1 Sam 1:1–7 Does Not Say.” To be presented at SBL Annual Meeting (Book of Samuel section). Boston, MA, Nov. 2025.
“Such a Number Was Slain as Could Not Be Believed by Those That Heard It” (Ant. 5.1.18). Presented at International SBL Annual Meeting (Numbers, Counting, and Number Symbolism section). Upsala, Sweden, June 2025.
“Big Ideas in Biblical Studies Course Design.” Presented at SBL Annual Meeting (Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies section) Nov. 2024.
“Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork.” Presented at SBL Annual Meeting (Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies section) Nov. 2022.
“The Reversal of (Food) Injustice; the Song of Hannah.” Presented at ETS Annual Meeting, Nov. 2022 (invited guest).
“David has killed his thousands, Saul his tens of thousands; Troop and Casualty Numbers in LXX, MT Samuel and Josephus.” Midwest Regional SBL annual meeting, February 2022.
“Without Ruth; The Transformative and Liberating Blessing of the Immigrant” – paper presented at The Bible on the Move conference at Fuller Theological Seminary (Jan 2020)
“Freeing Ahasuerus, Haman and Mordecai: Liberating the Oppressor in the Book of Esther.” Old Testament Colloquium, Fuller Theological Seminary, April 13, 2018.
“867-5309, The Function(s) of Numbers and Numerical Repetition in Joshua and Judges.” 2017 SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 19, 2017.
“Why You Should Love Your Enemies: Examining Motive Clauses in ‘Counsels of Wisdom’,” 2015 Annual SBL Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 24, 2015.
“What Was Anat’s Sin? Anat’s Impiousness in Aqhat in Light of the David-Bathsheba-Uriah Narrative.” 2015 Annual Pacific Coast Regional SBL Meeting, Azusa, CA, March 8, 2015.
“Allusions in Lamentations to Deuteronomy 28-32 and Leviticus 26.” 2014 Annual SBL Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 22, 2014.