Matthew Thiessen

Senior Lecturer in New Testament

Education

Ph.D., Religion, Duke University, 2010
M.St., Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, 2004
M.A., Biblical Studies, Trinity Western University, 2003

Teaching Appointments

College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, Senior Lecturer (2010-)
Elon University, Adjunct Instructor (2010)
Duke Divinity School, Instructor in Hellenistic Greek (2009-2010)
Duke Divinity School, Teaching Assistant (2006-2009)

Pastoral Experience

Rotational Preacher, Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship (2005-2010)
Deacon, Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship (2007-2009)
Adult Education Teacher, Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship (2006-2009)
Intern Youth Minister, Burnaby Pacific Grace Chinese MB Church (2003)

Publications

Contesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2011.

"The Text of Genesis 17:14." Journal of Biblical Literature 128.4 (2009): 625-42

"The Function of a Conjunction: Inclusivist or Exclusivist Strategies in Ezra 6.21 and Nehemiah 10.29-30?" Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 34.1 (2009): 63-79

"Hebrews 12.5-13, the Wilderness Period, and Israel's Discipline." New Testament Studies 55 (2009): 366-79

"4Q372 1 and and Continuation of Joseph's Exile." Dead Sea Discoveries 15.3 (2008): 380-95

"Hebrews and the End of the Exodus." Novum Testamentum 49.4 (2007): 353-69

"The Form and Function of the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1-43)." Journal of Biblical Literature 123.3 (2004): 1-23

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