David Miller, PhD

Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism

Email: dmiller@briercrest.ca

Department of Arts and Science

Education

BA, Bible Interpretation, Briercrest College 1995 
MA, New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School 1998

Visiting Research Student, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2000-2001
PhD, Religious Studies, McMaster University 2004

 

Areas of Specialization

New Testament (Gospels, Acts, Romans) Greek, Hebrew Hermeneutics History (Early Judaism [500 BC – 200 AD])

Biography

David completed a Ph.D. in Religious Studies at McMaster University in 2004, the same year he began teaching at Briercrest College and Seminary. As a scholar and a teacher, David's basic priorities are studying the New Testament in its first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts and learning with students what it means to hear and respond to the Bible's address to Christians today.

Growing up in Kenya as a child of missionary parents gave David a love for international travel. He and Tenyia were married on a semester break during a year of study in Israel, and they recently spent a vacation visiting archaeological sites in Turkey. David returned to Israel in 2009 as one of the leaders of Briercrest College and Seminary's first Israel Study Tour.

David, along with Kevin Daugherty, will lead another Briercrest study tour, the upcoming Study Tour 2013: Follow Paul through Turkey and Greece.

In his free time, David enjoys hiking, playing with his daughter Shoshana, and reading in his back yard under the amazing Saskatchewan sky.

Research Interests

Recent areas of research include Luke-Acts, Paul's letter to the Romans, prophecy in the New Testament and early Judaism, and Jewish identity (more specifically, the meaning of the Greek word normally translated 'Jew' or 'Judaean'). In addition to scholarly journal articles, aspects of my research appear from time to time on my blog: http://gervatoshav.blogspot.com/.

Notable Publications

  • "Ethnicity Comes of Age: An Overview of Twentieth-Century Terms for Ioudaios." Currents in Biblical Research 10.2 (February 2012): 293-311.
  • "The Meaning of Ioudaios and its Relationship to Other Group Labels in Ancient Judaism." Currents in Biblical Research 9.1 (2010): 98-126.
  • "Seeing the Glory, Hearing the Son: The Function of the Wilderness Theophany Narratives in Luke 9:28-36." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72.3 (July 2010): 498-517.
  • "The Messenger, the Lord, and the Coming Judgement in the Reception History of Malachi 3." New Testament Studies 53.1 (2007):1-16.
  • "Whom Do You Follow? The Jewish Politeia and the Maccabean Background of Josephus's Sign Prophets." Pages 173-183 in Common Judaism: Explorations in Second-Temple Judaism. Edited by Wayne O. McCready and Adele Reinhartz. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008.
  • Miller, David M., Ken M. Penner, and Ian W. Scott, eds.The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006-2007.

Memberships and Affiliations

Society of Biblical Literature

Canadian Society of Biblical Studies