Faculty

Room 228

306.966.7890

Rev. Dr. Kristine Ruffatto

Assistant Professor of Old Testament

BA (French, Religion), Concordia College, Moorhead, MN (summa cum laude)
MDiv, Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary, St. Paul, MN
Diplôme de Français Approfondi, Institut de Formation de Cadres pour le Développement, Brussels, Belgium (with high distinction)
PhD Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (Biblical Theology)

Seminary Professor (Biblical Theology; Systematic Theology), Ecole de Théologie de l'Eglise Evangélique Luthérienne de la République Centrafricaine, Baboua, Central African Republic, 1990-1992
Pastor and Co-Director of Youth Leadership Development, Bouar, Central African Republic (co-director of national youth program and writer of curriculum materials in the Sango language), 1987-1992

"Visionary Ascents of Moses in Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: Apocalyptic Motifs and the Growth of Visionary Moses Tradition" (unpublished PhD dissertation, 2010)
"The Concept of Rest in the Greek Acts of Thomas," Orientalia Christiana Periodica 75 (2009): 133-55
"Raguel as Interpreter of Moses' Throne Vision: The Transcendent Identity of Raguel in the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 17.2 (2008): 122-40
"Polemics with Enochic Traditions in the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 15.3 (2006): 195-210

"The Exaltation of Moses in 4Q374 and 4Q377: A Divinized Moses at Qumran?" Graduate Enoch Seminar – Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ (17 June 2008)
"Polemics with Enochic Traditions in the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian," Graduate Enoch Seminar – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2 May 2006)
"Raguel as Interpreter of Moses' Throne Vision: The Transcendent Identity of Raguel in the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian," Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature – Philadelphia (22 November 2005)
" 'In His Rest Shalt Thou Rest': The Concept of Rest in the Acts of Thomas and its Roots in Jewish Rest Tradition," Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society – Chicago (1 June 2005)