Archie T. Wright

Education

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

Courses Taught

• Literary Background of the NT
• Biblical Hermeneutics
• Introduction to Early Judaism
• Biblical Hebrew
• Hebrew Exegesis

Research Interests

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

• Second Temple Judaism and the Origins of Early Christianity
• Biblical Interpretation
• Dead Sea Scrolls and Pseudepigrapha and their use of the OT
• Evil Spirits in Early Judaism and Christianity
• Satan in Early Jewish Literature
• New Testament in light of Early Jewish Literature

Published Chapters and Journal Articles

• Bibliographische Dokumentation Qumran, Zeitschrift Für Althebraistik 14. Band 2001 Heft 2.
• Monograph: The Origin of Evil Spirits. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005
• Article: "The Book of Watchers: 1 Enoch 1-36 as a Background for the Demonic Pericopes in the Gospels" in Henoch (April, 2006).
• Article: "Some Observations on Philo's De Gigantibus in Light of the Book of Watchers" in the Journal of the Study of Judaism (November, 2005).
• Essay: "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.
• Dictionary Article: "Burning" in New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible Nashville: Abingdon Press, Vol. 1, 2006.
• Dictionary Article: "Heritage" in New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible Nashville: Abingdon Press, Vol. 1, 2006.

Published Reviews

• Review article: Review of Biblical Literature: Marc Zvi Brettler, "Biblical Hebrew for the Students of Modern Israeli Hebrew" (Yale University Press: New Haven, 2002).
• Review article: Review of Biblical Literature: James C. VanderKam, "The Book of Jubilees" (Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield, 2001).
• Review article: 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