Archie T. Wright

Education

• Ph.D., University of Durham
• M.A., Oral Roberts University
• B.A., Oral Roberts University

Courses Taught

1. Biblical Hebrew I, II, and Exegesis
2. Advanced Readings in Biblical Hebrew
3. Biblical Greek I, II, and Exegesis
4. Introduction to the Hebrew Bible I, II
5. Early Judaism and the Origins of Christianity
6. Biblical Hermeneutics
7. O.T. Theology
8. Literary Background of the NT
9. Introduction to Aramaic
10. Introduction to Syriac
11. Synoptic Gospels
12. Interpreting Scripture

Research Interests

I would welcome working with doctoral students in these and related areas.

• Early Judaism and the Development of early Christian Traditions
• Dead Sea Scrolls and Pseudepigrapha
• Reception of the Biblical Tradition in Post-biblical Judaism
• History and literature of Post-biblical Judaism
• Philo of Alexandria
• Rabbinic Literature
• Gender and the Bible

Published Chapters and Journal Articles

• Renewal Biblical Hermeneutics, Kevin Spawn, Archie Wright, Amos Yong, and Graham Twelftree, eds. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, forthcoming Fall 2009.
• Early Jewish Literature: An Introduction and Reader, Archie Wright, Ron Herms, and Brad Embry, eds. Baylor, TX: Baylor University Press, forthcoming Fall 2010.
• "Michael the Archangel" in the Dictionary of Early Judaism, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming, 2009.
• "Angels" in the Dictionary of Early Judaism, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming, 2009.
• "Will" in New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Abingdon Press, 2005-2008.
• "Burning" in New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Abingdon Press, 2005-2008.
• "Firstborn" in New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Abingdon Press, 2005-2008.
• "Heritage" in New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Abingdon Press, 2005-2008.
• "Mutilation" in New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Abingdon Press, 2005-2008.
• "Suicide" in New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Abingdon Press, 2005-2008.
• "Wind" in New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Abingdon Press, 2005-2008.
• "Zophar" in New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Abingdon Press, 2005-2008.
• "The Book of Watchers: 1 Enoch 1-36 as a Background for the Demonic Pericopes in the Gospels" in Henoch (April, 2006).
• "Some Observations on Philo's De Gigantibus in Light of the Book of Watchers" in the Journal of the Study of Judaism (November, 2005).
• "Prayer and Incantation in the Dead Sea Scrolls" in Studies in Jewish Prayer. Eds. Robert Hayward and Brad Embry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, November 2005.
• "Burning" in New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible Nashville: Abingdon Press, Vol. 1, 2006.
• "Heritage" in New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible Nashville: Abingdon Press, Vol. 1, 2006.
• "The Book of Watchers: 1 Enoch 1-36 as a Background for the Demonic Pericopes in the Gospels" in Henoch (June, 2006).
• Incantation Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls in the BAJS Conference Proceedings to be published by the Journal of Semitic Studies (November, 2005).
• "Some Observations on Philo's De Gigantibus in Light of the Book of Watchers" in the Journal of the Study of Judaism (2005).
• Monograph (2005): The Origin of Evil Spirits in Early Judaism Mohr Siebeck.
• Bibliographische Dokumentation Qumran, Zeitschrift Für Althebraistik 14. Band 2001 Heft 2.

Published Reviews

• Pneuma: John Eifion Morgan-Wynne, Holy Spirit and Religious Experience in Christian Literature ca. AD 90-200 (Milton Keynes, UK, and Waynesboro, Ca.: Paternoster, 2006).
• Pneuma: Frank A. Spina, “The Faith of the Outsider: Exclusion and Includsion in the Biblical Story” (Grand Rapids, MI./Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans Publishing, 2005).
• Review of Biblical Literature: Marc Zvi Brettler, "Biblical Hebrew for the Students of Modern Israeli Hebrew" (Yale University Press: New Haven, 2002).
• Review of Biblical Literature: James C. VanderKam, "The Book of Jubilees" (Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield, 2001).
• Jerusalem Perspective: Joseph Frankovic, "Reading the Book, A Popular Essay on Christian Biblical Hermeneutics" (HaKesher: Tulsa, OK, 1997).

Professional Memberships

• Society of Biblical Literature
• British Association of Jewish Studies
• King's Church Durham
• Seminar for the Study of Judaism in Late Antiquity, University of Durham
• Research Seminar for the Study of the New Testament
• Research Seminar for the Study of the Old Testament