Francis Landy

Dept of History and Classics

2-28 Tory Building

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta

CANADA T6G 2H4

Home address:

11453-79 Avenue

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

T6G 0P5

Office: (780)492-4876

Home: (780)439-2803

Fax: (780)492-2715

e-mail: Francis.Landy@Ualberta.ca.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:

B.A. University of Cambridge, June, 1969.

D.Phil. University of Sussex, March, 1983.

POSITIONS:

Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, 1984.

Associate Professor, University of Alberta, 1989.

Professor, University of Alberta, 1994

Courses Taught:

Introduction to the Study of Religion; Introduction to Western Religions; Introduction to Old Testament/Hebrew Bible; Jewish Religious Thought; The Pentateuch; the Prophets; the Writings; Intertestamental Literature; Jewish Mores, Folkways, and Customs; the Jewish Mystical Tradition; Classical Judaism; Medieval and Modern Judaism; Judaism in the Twentieth Century; Old Testament/Hebrew Bible texts; Rabbinic Texts; Rabbinic Interpretation; Concepts of Divinity; Studies in Hebrew Bible (Judges, Hosea, Job); Isaiah 1-12; Religion and Psychoanalysis; Leviticus; Amos; Midrash and Literature. Biblical Narrative.

Graduate Supervision

Renee Brodie (M.A.Religious Studies).(completed)

Beth Mackenzie (M.A.Religious Studies) (completed)

Karen Leonhardt (M.A.,Religious Studies)

Supervisory Committees

Dan Bogert-O’Brian (Ph.D. Ed.Policy, completed)

Sabah al-Alsowaifan (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, completed)

Matthew Unger (M.A. Religious Studies, completed)

Todd Lorentz (M.A.Religious Studies, completed)

Randy Klassen (Ph.D. Religious Studies, University of Calgary, incomplete)

Don Fisher (Ph.D. English, incomplete)

Danielle Lefebvre (M.A. Religious Studies, completed)

Kirsten Uszkalo (Ph.D. English, incomplete)

Membership of Learned Societies:

Society of Biblical Literature; American Academy of Religion; Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

1. The Tale of Aqhat (Introduction, Translation, Commentary). Menard Press, London, 1981.

2. Paradoxes of Paradise: Identity and Difference in the Song of Songs. Almond Press: Sheffield, 1983

3. Hosea Readings. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. 1995.

4. Beauty and the Enigma and Other Essays in the Hebrew Bible (JSOT Sup. 312; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001).

Articles

1. "The Song of Songs and the Garden of Eden" JBL 98 (1979) 513-528.

2. "Beauty and the Enigma: An Inquiry into Some Interrelated Episodes in the Song of Songs" JSOT 17 (1980) 53-106.

3. "The Name of God and the Image of God and Man" Theology 84 (1981) 164-170.

4. "Irony and Catharsis in Biblical Poetry: David's Lament over Saul and Jonathan" European Judaism 15/1 (1981) 3-13.

5. "Structure and Mythology in the Song of Songs" Prospice 11 (1981) 97-117.

6. "The Serpent in the Garden of Eden" Harvest 27 (1981) 38-44.

7. "Two Versions of Paradise: The Metaphor of the Garden in the Song of Songs and the Garden of Eden" Harvest 28 (1982) 112-129.

8. "The Case of Kugel: Do we Find ourselves when we Lose ourselves in the Text?" Comparative Criticism 5 (1983) 305-316.

9. "Eros and Hieros in the Song of Songs" The Heythrop Journal 24 (1983) 301-307.

10. "Poetics and Parallelism: Some Comments on James Kugel's 'The Idea of Biblical Poetry'" JSOT 28 (1984) 61-87.

11. "Are we in the Place of Averroes?" Semeia 32 (1985) 131-148.

12. "A Possible Trace of the Theme of the Centaur in the Midrash" Synkresis D 156-161, E 121-130 (1986).

13. "Gilead and the Fatal Word" Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies (1986) 39-44.

14. "Recent Developments in Biblical Poetics" Prooftexts 7 (1987) 163-178.

15. "The Song of Songs" The Literary Guide to the Bible ed. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode (Harvard U.P.: Cambridge and Collins: London, 1987) 305-319. Paperback edition 1990.

16. "Lamentations" The Literary Guide to the Bible, pp. 329-334.

17. "Vision and Poetic Speech in Amos" HAR 11 (1987) 223-246.

18. "Between the Bible and Torah" in Approaches to the Hebrew Bible in Translation ed. Barry N. Olshen and Yael S. Feldman (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1989) pp. 83-86.

19. "Narrative Techniques and Symbolic Transactions in the Akedah" in Signs and Wonders: Biblical Texts in Literary Focus ed. J. Cheryl Exum (Scholars Press: 1989) 1-40.

20. "Literariness and the Bible" Jewish Quarterly 135 (Autumn, 1989), 53-57.

21. "Shibboleth: The Password" Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies (1990) 91-99.

22. "On the Gender of God and the Feminist Enterprise: A Response to Shannon Clarkson" Studies in Religion 19 (1990) 485-487.

23. "Humour as a Tool in Biblical Exegesis" in On Humour and the Comic in the Hebrew Bible ed. A. Brenner and Y.T. Radday (Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield, 1990) 101-117. Reprint of "Humour in the Bible" Jewish Quarterly 29/1 (1980) 13-19.

24. Preface to Jan Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis: Specimens of Stylistic and Structural Analysis (JSOT Press: The Biblical Seminar 12: Sheffield, 1991) xi-xvi.

25. "Jouissance and Poetics." Union Seminary Quarterly Review 45 (1991) 51-64.

26. "In Defense of Jakobson" in JBL III(1992) 105-13.

27. "Mishneh Torah: A Response to Myself and Phyllis Trible" in A Feminist Companion to the Song of Songs ed. A Brenner (Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield 1993) pp. 260-265.

28. "Tracing the Voice of the Other: Isaiah 28 and the Covenant with Death." For The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible ed. David J. Clines and J. Cheryl Exum (Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield, 1993) 140-162.

29. "The Construction of the Subject and the Symbolic Order: A Reading of the Last Three Suffering Servant Songs." Among the Prophets: Language, Image and Structure in the Prophetic Writings ed. Philip Davies (Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield, 1993) pp. 60-71.

30. "On Metaphor, Play and Nonsense." Semeia 61 (1993) 219-237.

31. "Sacred Space and Public Pleasure." Muse II (1993) 22-27.

32. "Ruth and the Romance of Realism, or Deconstructing History" JAAR 62 (1994) pp.285-317.

33. "In the Wilderness of Speech: Problems of Metaphor in Hosea." Biblical Interpretation 3 (1995) pp.35-59.

34. "Fantasy and the Displacement of Desire in Hosea 2.4-17" in Athalya Brenner (ed.) A Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets (The Feminist Companion to the Bible 8; Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield), 1995 pp.145-160.

35. "Sex and Sadism in Hosea" in J. Magonet (ed.) Jewish Explorations of Sexuality London: Duckworth, Providence: Berghahn, 1995, pp. 17-26.

36. “Do We Want our Children to Read this Book?” Semeia 77 (Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips (eds) The Bible and the Ethics of Reading, 1997) pp.155-175

35. “Flood and Fludd” in J.Cheryl Exum and Stephen D. Moore (eds). _Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies: The Third Sheffield Colloquium_(Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) pp.117-159.

38 “Strategies of Concentration and Diffusion in Isaiah 6” Biblical Interpretation 6 (1999) pp.58-86.

39. "Leviticus, Deconstruction and the Body." Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 2 (1999)

40. “Seraphim and Poetic Process.” In Fiona C.Black and Erin Runions (eds) The Labour of Reading: Essays in Honour of Robert C. Culley at the Time of His Retirement ( Semeia Studies; Atlanta: ScholarsPress, 2000), pp.15-34

41. “The Song of Songs.” For David N. Freedman (ed.). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000) pp.1242-44

42. "Vision and Voice in Isaiah." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.88 (2000) pp.19-36.

43. "The Covenant With Death." In Tod Linafelt (ed) Strange Fire: The Hebrew Scriptures After the Holocaust. (The Biblical Seminar 71; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000) pp.220-232.

44. "Récits d'amour dans la Bible hébraique" Le Monde du Bible 128 (2000) pp.53-55.

45. "Ghostwriting Isaiah." In Philip R. Davies (ed.) First Person: Essays in Biblical Autobiography (London and New York: Continuum, 2002) pp.93-114

46. "Writing, Depression, and the Parable of the Vineyard" in Alan Hauser (ed.) The Future of Biblical Interpretation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming).

47. “Perversity, Truth and the Readerly Experience” in Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger (ed) Autobiographical Biblical Criticism (Leiden: Deo, 2002). Pp.60-78.

48. “Prophetic Intercourse” in Alastair Hunter and Philip R Davies (eds), Sense and Sensitivity: Essays on Reading the Bible in Memory of Robert Carroll (JSOTS 348, Sheffield: SAP, 2002) pp,.261-279.

49. “Between David and David: Psalm 24 and David Clines” in J.Cheryl Exum and Hugh G. M. Williamson (eds) Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of David J. A. Clines.

50. “Torah and Anti-Torah” Biblical Interpretation (forthcoming)

51. “The End of the World: Qohelet 12.1-7 and Lamentations Rabbah” Derrida’s Bible ed. Yvonne Sherwood. (Palgrave, 2004/5)

Reviews

1. Joseph Leftwich (ed) An Anthology of Yiddish Literature; Eliezer Greenberg and Irving Howe (ed.) Selected Stories by I.L. Peretz; Abraham Sutzkever: Partisan Poet; Joseph Leftwich (ed.), Poems of Zalman Shazar . European Judaism 10 (1976) 43-46.

2. Howard Schwartz, Midrashim. Jewish Quarterly 25/2 (1977) 55.

3. Gabriel Josipovici, Four Stories. Jewish Quarterly 25/4 (1977) 49-50.

4. Alfred Alvarez, Autumn to Autumn and Selected Poems 1953-1976 and Hunt Jewish Quarterly 26 (1978) 119-121. Reprinted in American Review of Reviews.

5. Moshe Dor and Natan Zach (ed.) The Burning Bush: Poems from Modern Israel; Howard Schwartz (ed.) For a Few Hours Only: Selected Poems of Shlomo Vinner; Yehuda Amichai (tr. Ruth Nevo), Travels of a Latter-day Benjamin of Tudela; David Jaffin, The Half of a Circle; David Roskies, Night Words: A Midrash on the Holocaust; Ken Smith, Anus Mundi: Black Sonnets. European Judaism 13 (1979) 50-53.

6. Gerhard Lohfink, The Bible: NOW I Get It? A Form-Critical Handbook. JSOT 18 (1980) 121-122.

7. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, A Double Dying ; Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi, By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature. Jewish Quarterly 29/1 (1981) 53-56.

8. Steven Brams, Biblical Games: A Strategic Analysis of Stories in the Old Testament . JSOT 23 (1982) 109-113.

9. Gabriel Josipovici, The Air We Breathe Jewish Quarterly 30 1/2 (1982) 60.

10. Kathleen Raine, The Human Face of God: William Blake and the Book of Job. Harvest 28 (1982) 162-164.

11. James Kugel, The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History. Heythrop Journal 24 (1983) 210-212.

12. Enrica Salvaneschi, Cantico dei Cantici: interpretatio ludica. Heythrop Journal 25 (1984) 385-388.

13. Marcia Falk, Love Lyrics from the Bible. Heythrop Journal 25 (1984) 388-390.

14. Zali Gurevitch and Gabriel Levin (ed.) Poetry from Israel 1970-1980. Ariel 57 (1984) 132-133.

15. Julio C. Trebolle-Barrera, Jehu y Joas: Texto y composicion literaria de 2 Reyes 9-11. Journal of Theological Studies. 37 (1986) 141-142.

16. Poland, Lynn M., Literary Criticism and Biblical Hermeneutics. Journal of Religion 66 (1986) 466-468.

17. Meir Sternberg, The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading. JAAR 56 (1988) 360-362.

18. Edgar McKnight The Bible and the Reader: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 15 (1988) 245-247.

19. Amnon Cohen Jewish Life under Islam: Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century (Harvard U.P., 1984). Religious Studies and Theology 8 (1988) 43-45.

20. Colette Sirat A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages (Cambridge U.P., 1985). Religious Studies and Theology 8 (1988) 41-43.

21. Stephen Prickett Words and the Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation (Cambridge U.P., 1986). Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 16 (1989) 357-361.

22. Daniel Boyarin Intertextuality and the Study of Midrash (Indiana U.P., 1990). Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 18 (1991) 597-600.

23. Sister Timothea Elliot The Literary Unity of the Canticle (Peter Lang, 1989). Biblica 72 (1991) 570-572.

24. Hans-Josef Heinevetter Das Hohelied als Programmatische Komposition (Athenäum, 1989); Othmar Keel Das Hohelied (Zürcher Bibelkommentare, 1986); Raymond Tournay Word of God, Song of Love tr. Ed Crowley (Paulist Press, 1988). JBL 110 (1991) 332-336.

25. Freema Gottlieb The Lamp of God: A Jewish Book of Light (Jason Aronson: New York, 1989) Midstream 37/7 (October, 1991) 47-48. Reprinted in Jewish Book News (March 1992) 36-39.

26. Randall J. Bailey David in Love and War. For Bibliotheca Orientalis, forthcoming.

27. Thomas Jemielity Satire in the Hebrew Prophets (Louisville: Westminster). Critical Review of Books in Religion 7 (1994) 125-127

28. N.H. Snaith The Song of Songs (The New Century Bible; London: SPCK, 1994). Critical Review Books in Religion 8 (1995) 151-153

29. J. Neusner Israel's Love Affair With God: Song of Songs (Valley Forge: Trinity P. 1993). Hebrew Studies 36 (1995) pp.204-206.

30. Danna N. Fewell and David M. Gunn Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story (Nashville: Abingdon). Biblical Interpretation.4 (1996) pp.237-239.

31. Bible and Culture collective The Postmodern Bible (Yale U.P., 1995) (chapter on Psychoanalytic Criticism). Biblicon 1 (1997), pp.65-72.

32. Ariel and Chana Bloch, The Song of Songs (Random House, 1995). Journal of Semitic Studies, pp.67-69.

33. John Day, Robert P. Gordon and H.G.M. Williamson (eds.) Wisdom in Ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton ( Cambridge U.P. 1995). For Religious Studies and Theology.

34. J. Cheryl Exum Tragedy and Biblical Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.1992) pp.206; Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women (Sheffield Acad.P. 1996). Prooftexts 18 (1998) pp. 95-102.

36. Pinchas Giller The Enlightened Will Shine: Symbolization and Theurgy in the Later Strata of the Zohar. For Religious Studies and Theology.

36. Ulrike Wiethaus Ecstatic Transformation: Transpersonal Psychology in the Work of Mechthild of Magdeburg (Syracuse University Press. 1996). For Religious Studies and Theology.

37. Beatrice Martina Guenther The Poetics of Death: The Short Prose of Kleist and Balzac. (Albany: State Univerity of New York Press. 1996) Armando Petrucci tr. by Michael Sullivan. Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition (Stanford: Stanford University Press [Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture] 1998). Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature 25 (1998) pp.629-633.

38. Jörg Barthel. Prophetenwort und Geschichte: Die Jesajaüberlieferung in Jes 6-8 und 28-31 (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 19. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.). Journal of Biblical Literature 118 (1999), pp.543-545

39. Benjamin D. Sommer A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 (Stanford: Stanford University Press). Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, forthcoming.

40. Adele Reinhartz, "Why Ask My Name?” Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Journal of Biblical Literature 119 (2000) pp.541-543.

41. Meir Sternberg "Hebrews Between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998) Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 3 (2000).

42. Joseph Blenkinsopp Isaiah 1-39 (Anchor Bible 19; New York: Doubleday, 2000). Review of Biblical Literature. (2/22/2003)

43. Tod Linafelt Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 71 (2003) pp.218-22)

44. Dianne Bergant The Song of Songs (Berit Olam; Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2001). Review of Biblical Literature. (5/10/2003)

45. Jan Fokkelman Reading Biblical Poetry (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2001). Review of Biblical Literature (7/19/2003)

46. J.William Whedbee The Bible and the Comic Vision (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002). Catholic Biblical Quarterly (forthcoming).

47. Joseph Blenkinsopp Isaiah 40-55: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Bible 19A; New York: Doubleday, 2002). Forthcoming.

48. Oona Ajzenstat Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas’s Postmodernism (Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press). Review of Biblical Literature. Forthcoming.

Papers

1. "The Wife-Sister Motif and the Character of Isaac" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 1981.

2. "Honey in the Old Testament" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, New York, December 1982.

3. Response to Othmar Keel on the Song of Songs at the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) Congress, Salamanca, August 1983.

4. "Symbolic Transaction and the Binding of Isaac" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Dallas, December 1983.

5. "Egypt in the Prophets" Conference on Egyptology and the Bible, Jerusalem, April 1984.

6. "Rhetorical Stratagems and Symbolic Inversions in Isaiah 19" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 1984.

7. "Literary Anorexia and Proverbial Wisdom" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Anaheim, November 1985.

8. Review of Robert Alter The Art of Biblical Poetry. CSBS Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, June 1986.

9. "Vision and Poetic Speech in Amos" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 1986.

10. "Ruth: Romance for Deconstruction?" CSBS Annual Meeting, Windsor, June 1988, and SBL International Meeting, Sheffield, August 1988.

11. "Reader, Poetics and Anti-Poetics" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 1988.

12. "Jewish Approaches to Bereavement." Symposium on Death, Dying and Grieving, Edmonton, June 1989.

13. Response to Mieke Bal on "The Current State of Feminist Biblical Scholarship," Westar Conference, Toronto, October 1989.

14. "Between Centre and Periphery Her Story" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Anaheim, November 1989.

15. "Who is Blind as the Servant of the Lord? Or his Interpreter?" Jewish-Christian Bible Week, Bendorf, West Germany, July 1990.

16. "Construction and Deconstruction in the Psalms" SBL International Meeting, Vienna, August 1990.

17. "You Mean There's Comedy in the Bible?" Conference on Comedy in the Bible, University of Sussex, March, 1991.

18. "Language, Prostitution and Prophecy: Narrative and Distantiation in Hosea 1," Dept. of Biblical Studies Seminar, University of Sheffield, April, 1991.

19. "Parable, Prostitution and Paradox: A Reading of Hosea 1." The Erhardt Seminar, University of Manchester, May 1991.

20. "Isaiah 28 and the Covenant with Death." SBL International Congress, Melbourne Australia, July 1992.

21. "Is Fancy Free? Imagination and Discipline in the Study of Religion." Pneuma and Gnosis series, U of A Chaplaincy, November, 1992.

22. "Disintegrating Metaphor in Hosea." AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 1992.

23. "Parables and Princesses in the Bahir." AAR/SBL NW Pacific Regional Meeting, Edmonton, May 1993.

24. "Varieties of Metaphor in Hosea." Religious Studies Colloquium, Edmonton, October 1993.

25. Introduction to Plenary Session, "Biblical Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century." AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 1994

26. Response to Gender and Cultural Criticism Consultation Session, "Queens of Hollywood: Biblical Spectacles and Hollywood Glitz." AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 1994

27. "Prophetic Burdens in Isaiah 13-23" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 1994.

28. "Metaphor, Mysticism, Misogyny: A Reader-Response Commentary on Hosea." McCalla Professorship Lecture. April 1995.

29. Seminars on "The Burdens of Isaiah" at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities May 1995

30. “Ethics and Interpretation” AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Nov.1996.

31. “Strategies of Concentration and Diffusion in Isaiah 6” Pacific North-West AAR/ SBL regional meeting, Great Falls, Montana, and CSBS Annual Meeting, St. Catherine’s, May and June, 1996.

32. Response to David Atkinson and Daniel Bogert-O’Brien, “What’s the Point of Liberal Education”, CIRLA Conference, Banff, May, 1996.

33. “Seraphim and Poetic Process” AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Nov.1996.

34. “Isaiah and the Politics of Death”, Faculty of Arts Research Connections Series, Feb. 1997

35. "Flood and Fludd" For the Third Sheffield Colloquium: The Bible Into Culture. Sheffield, England, April, 1997

36. "Nancy Jay's Theory of Sacrifice" CSBS Annual Meeting, St.John's, Newfoundland, June, 1997

37. “Hidden Texts in Isaiah.” AAR/SBL Annual Meeting. San Francisco. Nov.1997

38. “Vision and Voice in Isaiah” PN AAR/SBL Regional Meeting, Portland, May 1998.

39. "Noah's Ark and Mrs. Monkey" PN AAR/SBL Regional Meeting, Tacoma, April 1999.

40. "Towards a Post-Holocaust Reading of Isaiah" CSBS Annual Meeting, Sherbrooke, Quebec, June, 1999.

41. "Leviticus, Deconstruction and the Body" CSBS Annual Meeting, Sherbrooke, Quebec, June, 1999.

42. "Prelude to a Poetics of Biblical Hebrew Poetry" SBL International Meeting. Lahti, Finland, July 1999.

43. "Six Walks in the Canonical Woods" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, November, 1999.

44. "The Man Question: An Answer?" Response to Biblical and Cultural Studies Session, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, November 1999.

45. "Kabbalah between Christian and Islamic Worlds" Edmonton Mediterranean Institute, February, 2000.

46. "Abraham Abulafia's Commentary on the Book of Creation" University of Alberta Philosophy Colloquium, March 2000.

47. Panelist on "Who Do You Say That I Am?" Provincial Museum, October 2000.

48. "Perversity, Truth and the Readerly Experience" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Nashville, November 2000.

49. "For Three Sins of X and for Four I Will Not Retract It: Structure and Rhetorical Entrapment in Amos' Oracles Against the Nations (1.3-2.3)" Pacific North-West AAR/SBL Regional Meeting, Edmonton, May, 2001.

50. "The Divine Trap in Amos 3.3-8" CSBS Annual Meeting, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Quebec, May 2001.

51. "The Discourse of Sexuality in Isaiah 1-12" SBL International Meeting, Rome, July 2001.

52. "Judges 1: The City of Writing, the Sacred, and the Fragmentation of the Body" AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Denver, November 2001. Presented also at University of Calgary, March 2002.

53. Discussant and referent at Colloquium organized by Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, “The Book of Job: Suffering and Cognition in Context,” Amsterdam, April, 2002.

54. “The End of the World: Qohelet 12.1-7, Lamentations Rabbah, and Abraham Abulafia” for “Reading a Page of Scripture with a Little Help from Jacques Derrida” section of the AAR/SBL Meeting, Toronto, Nov.2002.

GRANTS:

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for 1990-91: $8,000.

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for 1991-94: $27,000.

McCalla Professorship, 1993-94.

SSHRC 4A Grant for 1995-96: $4,000

SSHRC Grant for 1996-99: $19,000.

SSHRC Ggrant for 2003-2006. $77,,012.

ADMINISTRATION

Departmental Library Representative 1984-89, 1995-96.

Undergraduate and Honors Student Advisor 1986-90, 1991-94, 1996-99.

Graduate Student Advisor, 1999-present.

Chair, Departmental Teaching Awards Committee, 1999-2001.

Member, Academic Affairs Committee, 1999-2002.

Chair, Faculty Ad Hoc Committee for the William McHardy Alexander Award for Sessional Teaching.

Member of various Faculty and GFC Appeals Committees

Member, Departmental Graduate Committee. 1999-2003.

Member, Teaching Awards Committee, Faculty of Arts, 2002-.

Departmental Visiting Speakers Committee (2002-3).

Acting Director of Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies (2003-4).

EDITORIAL WORK

On editorial boards of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, Biblical Interpretation, and Biblicon.

SERVICE

Member, SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellowship Committee, 2000-2003.