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Curriculum Vitae
January 2018
Name: Eileen Marie Schuller
Address: Department of Religious Studies
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4Kl
phone: 905-525-9140, #23390
e-mail:
Educational Background
l984: PhD, Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
l973: MA, University of Toronto, Department of Near Eastern Studies
l970: Honors BA, University of Alberta, Department of Classics
Current Status at McMaster
Tenured, Professor
Senator William McMaster Chair in the Study of Religion
Emerita from July 1, 2016:
Professional Organizations
Society of Biblical Literature
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Catholic Biblical Association
National Association of Professors of Hebrew
American Schools of Oriental Research and Canadian-ASOR
Employment History
2016:Professor Emerita
1996–2016:Professor, Tenured, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University
1992–96: Associate Professor, Tenured, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University
l990–92: Associate Professor, Tenure-track stream, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University
l986–89:Associate Professor, Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax
1982–86: Assistant Professor, Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax
l973–77: Lecturer, Newman Theological College & St. Joseph's College, Edmonton
Scholarly and Professional Activities
Editorial and Advisory Boards
2013 – : Associate Editor, The Paulist Biblical Commentary, Paulist Press
2003–2009: Associate Editor, New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, Abingdon
1995–2000: Associate Editor, Dead Sea Scrolls Encyclopedia, Oxford University Press
1990–1993: Associate Editor, The HarperCollins Study Bible, joint project of HarperCollins Press and the Society of Biblical Literature
Member of the Editorial Board for Journals:
1993– : Dead Sea Discoveries
2008– : Biblischen Notizen
2008-2015:Catholic Biblical Quarterly
1994–2001 Journal of Biblical Literature
1993–1995 Studies in Religion
1992–1998 Catholic Biblical Quarterly
1992–2000 Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Executive/Administrative Positions
2016–2017Vice-President, President, Catholic Biblical Association
2011–2013Board of Consultors, Catholic Biblical Association
1994–95 President, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
1992–97Co-Chair, Qumran Section, Society of Biblical Literature
1987--90Executive Member-at-large, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
Areas of Interest:
Dead Sea Scrolls; Second Temple Judaism; Women in the Bible and Early Judaism; Biblical Studies, Translation of the Bible
Honours
2017:Women’s Mentor Award, Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, Society of Biblical Literature
2014: Elected member of the Royal Society of Canada
2013:Senator William McMaster Chair in the Study of Religion, McMaster University
2013:Lady Davis Foundation, Visiting Professorship in the Humanities, Hebrew University,Jerusalem
2011Reception of Festschrift, Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls and
Related Literature, ed. J. Penner, K. Penner, C. Wassen, Brill Press
2010Honorary Doctorate of Divinity, Regis College, Toronto
2005–06 Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Research Prize at Georg-August
University, Göttingen, Germany
2005 Honorary Doctorate of Divinity, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
l995–96 Visiting Professor, Hebrew University and the Orion Centre for
the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jerusalem
Senior Fellow, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research,
Jerusalem
1992: Jan–April Resident Fellow, Annenberg Research Institute, Philadelphia
1980–1981 George A. Barton Fellowship, W. F. Albright Institute, Jerusalem
Dorot Fellowship, Jerusalem; Department of Education and Culture Scholarship, Government of Israel,
1977–1980 Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University
1977 –1981 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
1972–1973 Ontario Graduate Fellowship
1970 Governor General’s Gold Medal, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta
Courses Taught (last five years)
Undergraduate:
RS 3DD3 The Jewish World in New Testament Times (2015, 2010)
RS 2EE3 The Prophets (2016, 2013, 2012, 2010)
RS 2B03 Women in the Biblical Tradition (2015, 2013, 2012)
RS 3R03 Death and Afterlife in Early Judaism and Christianity (2010)
RS 4I03 Topics in Biblical Studies: Honours Seminar (2011, 2009)
Graduate:
RS 742 The Dead Sea Scrolls (2017, 2016, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008)
RS 709 Poetry and Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2014, 2012, 2010)
RS 709 Aramaic Texts from the Bible and Qumran
RS 709 The Book of Enoch
RS 747Topics in Early Jewish Literature: Women in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (Fall 2014)
Supervision
- PhDSupervisor:
Matthew Walsh, “Angels Associated with Israel in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
June 2015
Eric Montgomery, “A Stream from Eden: The Nature and Development of a
Revelatory Tradition in the Dead Sea Scrolls” Sept. 2013
Nick Meyers (co-supervisor with S. Westerholm), “Anthropogogy and
Theology in the Hodayot and the Letters of Paul” Sept. 2013
Erich Engler, “Reward and Punishment in Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum
Biblicarum” May 2012
Jeremy Penner, “Patterns of Daily Prayer in Second Temple Period Judaism”
July 2010
Ken Penner, “Verb Form Semantics in Qumran Hebrew Texts: Tense, Aspect and
Modality between the Bible and the Mishnah” March 2006
Cecilia Wassen, “Women in the Damascus Document,” September 2003
Lorenzo Ditommaso, “The Qumran New Jerusalem Text: Contents and Contexts,”
October 2001
In process:
Michael Johnson, “An Assessment of the Genres of Psalms in
1QHodayota”
b. MA: Main Supervisor:
Rachel Lambie (2017): “What About the Women? Archaeology at Qumran”
Andrew Krause (2009); Christine Bolton (2004); Holly Pearse (2004);
Jennifer Sanders (4004); Susan Haber (2004); Ben Sheehy (2003); Ken Penner (2000); Judith Miller (1998); Lorenzo DiTommaso (1994)
e. On PhD supervisory committees: completed: 12; in progress: 5
On MA supervisory committees: completed: 10
f. Other: Honors BA Theses in Religious Studies and in Arts & Science: 8
Publications
(a)Books:
The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned 50 Years On? SCM Press, 2006
The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned? Westminster John Knox Press, 2006
(reprinted Sept. 2007; translated into Arabic 2010)
Post-Exilic Prophets, The Message of Biblical Spirituality Series, Michael Glazier
Press, l988
Non-Canonical Psalms from Qumran: A Pseudepigraphic Collection, Harvard Semitic Studies 27, Atlanta: Scholars Press, l986
Books edited
Early Jewish Writings / Frühjüdische Schriften, edited with Marie-Theres Wacker. In The Bible and Women: An Encyclopaedia of Exegesis and Cultural History series. SBL Press/ Kohlhammer, 2017.
Purity, Holiness and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber, edited with Carl Ehrlich and Anders Runesson.Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 305. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts,edited with Sarianna Metso and Hindy Najman. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 92. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Sapiential, Liturgical and Poetical Texts from Qumran: Proceedings of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Oslo 1998, edited with D. Falk and F. García Martínez. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 35. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty: Proceedings of the 1997 Society of Biblical LiteratureQumran Section Meetings, edited with Robert A. Kugler. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.
Edition of Texts
The Hodayot (Thanksgiving Psalms): A Study Edition of 1QHa, with Carol A. Newsom.
Early Judaism and its Literature Series 36. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.
Hartmut Stegemann and Eileen Schuller, 1QHodayota with Incorporation of 1QHodayotb and 4QHodayota-f, Qumran Cave 1.III. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, XL. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009.
“4Q371-373, Narrative and Poetic Texts,” edited with Moshe Bernstein, in Qumran Cave 4.XXVI: Miscellaneous Texts, Part 2. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXXVIII. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001: 151-99.
“4QHodayot and 4QHodayot-Like, 4Q427-432, 433, 433a, 440,” in Qumran Cave 4.XX: Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 2. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXIX. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999: 68-254.
“4Q380 and 4Q38l, Non-Canonical Psalms A and B,” inQumran Cave 4.V1: Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 1. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XI. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998: 75-172.
Contributions to Books
“Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period,” in Functions of Prayers and Psalms in the Late Second Temple Period, edited by Mika Pajunen and Jeremy Penner, pp 5–23, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 486, Berlin: de Gruyter Press (2016), 5–23.
“A Reconsideration of 1QHb (1Q35),” in Reading the Bible in Ancient Traditions and Modern Editions: Studies in Textual and Reception History in Honour of Peter W. Flintedited by Andrew Perrin. Kyung Baek and Daniel Falk, Studies in Early Judaism and Its Literature 47, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature (2017), 483–500.
“Prose Prayers in Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical Antiquities,” in Opportunities for No Little Instruction: Festschrift for Daniel Harrington and Richard Clifford, ed. Thomas Stegeman and Christopher Frechette, Paulist Press (2014) 135-150.
“Biblical Texts about Purity in Contemporary Christian Lectionaries,” in Purity, Holiness and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber” ed. C. Erhlich, A. Runesson, E. Schuller.Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 305. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (2013), 283-300.
“Introduction to the Apocrypha,” “First Esdras,” “Tobit,”in Women’s Bible Commentary: Third Edition, ed. Carol Newsom, S. Ringe, J. Lapsley. Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox (2012),365-69, 376-82.
“Research on the Sectarian Scrolls in North America,” and “Canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research, ed. Devorah Dimant, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 99. Leiden: Brill (2012),31-48, 217-233.
“The Dead Sea Scrolls and Canon and Canonicity,” in Kanon in Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion,” ed. E-M Becker and S. Scholz. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter (2011), 293-314.
“Canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Canadian Collection, ed. P. Flint, J. Duhaime, K. Baek. Early Judaism and Its Literature 30.Atlanta/Leiden: Society of Biblical Literature/Brill (2011),3-20.
“The Past Decade of Qumran Studies: 1997–2007,” John, Qumran, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Sixty Years of Discovery and Debate, ed. M. Coloe and T. Thatcher. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature (2010), 3-14.
“Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Research in the Past Decade and Future Directions,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture: Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (July 6–8, 2008), ed. A. D. Roitman, L. H. Schiffman and S. Tzoref. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 93. Leiden: Brill (2010), 571-588.
“The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian Dialogue,” in From Judaism to Christianity: Tradition and Transition: A Festschrift for Thomas H. Tobin, ed. P. Walters. Leiden: Brill (2010),48–58.
“The Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot),” in The Qumran Scrolls and their World [In Hebrew, Scrolls of Qumran)] ed. M. Kister. Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press (2009), 261–74.
“Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism: A Research Survey,” and “Afterword” in Seeking the Favor of God, Vol. II: The Development of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism, ed. Mark Boda, Daniel Falk, Rodney Werline. SBLEJL. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature; Leiden: Brill (2007), 1–15, 227–37.
“Prayer in Qumran Literature,” in Prayer from Tobit to Qumran, ed. Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (2004), 411-28.
“Reflections on the Function and Use of Poetical Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Proceedings of the Fifth Orion International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. A. Pinnock and E. G. Chazon. Leiden: Brill (2003), 173-89.
“Patriarchs Who Worry about Their Wives: A Haggadic Perspective in the Genesis Apocryphon,” in George Nickelsburg in Perspective: An Ongoing Dialogue of Learning, ed.J. Neusner and A. J. Avery-Peck. Leiden: Brill (2003), 200-212.
"Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls," in Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament, ed. R. Longenecker. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2001), 66-88.
"Prayer in the Religion of Qumran, " in Judaism in Late Antiquity; Part Five: Judaism at Qumran, ed. A. Avery-Peck and J Neusner. Leiden: Brill (2001), 125-141.
"Petitionary Prayer and the Religion of Qumran," in Aspects of Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. J. J. Collins and R. Kugler. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2000), 29-45.
"The Classification of Hodayot and Hodayot-like Texts (with particular attention to 4Q433, 433a and 440)," in Sapiential, Liturgical and Poetical Texts from Qumran: Proceedings of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Oslo 1998, ed. D. Falk, F. García Martínez, E. Schuller. Leiden: Brill (2000), 182-93.
"Women at Qumran," in The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Critical Assessment, ed.P. W. Flint and J. C. Vanderkam. Leiden: E. J. Brill (1999), Vol. II, 117-44.
"Further Hodayot Manuscripts from Qumran?" co-authored with J. Strugnell,
Antikes Judentum und frühes Christentum. Festschrift für Hartmut Stegemann, ed. B.Kollman et al; Gottingen: Walter de Gruyter (1998), 51-72.
"The Use of Biblical Terms as Designations for Non-Biblical Hymnic and Prayer Compositions," in Biblical Perspectives: Proceedings of the First Orion Center Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. M. E. Stone and Esther G. Chazon. Leiden: E. J. Brill (1997) 205-220.
"Evidence for Women in the Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls," Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World, ed. J. S. Kloppenborg and S. G. Wilson. London: Routledge (1996), 262-285.
“The Cave Four Hodayot Manuscripts: A Preliminary Description,” Qumranstudien: Vortrage und Beitrage der Teilnehmer des Qumranseminars auf dem internationalen Treffen der Society of Biblical Literature, Munster, 25-26.Juli 1993, ed. H-J. Fabry, A. Lange, H. Lichtenberger. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (1996), 87-102.
“Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics: Genesis l-3 as a Test Case,” in Gender, Genre and Religion: Feminist Reflections, ed.M. Joy and E. Neumgier- Dargyay. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press (l995), 31-46.
“Prayers, Hymns & Liturgical Texts from Qumran, a State-of-the-Art Review and Questions for the Future,” in Community of the Renewed Covenant, Notre Dame Symposium Volume, ed. E. Ulrich and J. Vanderkam. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press (l994), 153-17l.
"Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls," in Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site, ed. M. O. Wise, N. Golb, J. J. Collins, Dennis Pardee. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 722 (l994), ll5-132.
"A Preliminary Study of 4Q373 and Some Related (?) Fragments," The Madrid Qumran Congress: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Madrid 1991, ed. J. Trebolle Barrera and L. Vegas Montaner; Madrid and Leiden: Universidad Complutenseia/ E. J. Brill (1992), 516-530.
"4Q380 and 4Q38l: Non-Canonical Psalms from Qumran," in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research, ed. D. Dimant and U. Rappaport; Leiden: E.J. Brill (1992), 90-99.
"Some Observations on Blessings of God in Texts from Qumran," in Of Scribes and Scrolls: Festschrift for John Strugnell, ed. H. Attridge, J. J. Collins, T. Tobin. College Theological Society, Lanham: Catholic University Press (1990), 133-143.
“Women of the Bible in Biblical Retellings of the Second Temple Period,” Gender and
Difference, ed. P. Day. Minneapolis: Fortress Press (l989, 2007), 178-94.
Articles in Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Commentaries
Entry on “Second Temple Judaism. History II,” in Paulist Biblical Commentary (at press for August 2018)
Entry on “Barki Napshi” for T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, ed. Daniel Gurtner and Loren Stuckenbruck, T & T Clark (at press)
Entry on “Psalm 151” for The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Old Testament Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha, ed. Randall Chesnutt, Wiley-Blackwell Press (at press)
Articles on “shir, shira, rinna” in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, Vol. III, ed. H-J Fabry. Stuttgart:Kohlhammer, 2016, 694–95, 907-911.
“Hymns in Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism,” for Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol. 12, 2015, 648-50.
“Introduction to the Apocrypha,” for The Old Testament and Apocrypha: Fortress Commentary on the Bible, ed. G. Yee, H. Page, M. Coomber, Fortress Press, 2014, 942–952.
“Apocryphal Psalms of 11QPsa,” and “Non-Canonical Psalms, 4Q380–381” in Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Not Included in Scripture,ed. L. Feldman, J. Kugel, L. Schiffman. Jewish Publication Society/University of Nebraska Press (2013), 2095–2110.
“Thank, Confess (yadah)” in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, Vol. II, ed. H-J Fabry. Stuttgart:Kohlhammer (2013), 70–78.
“Psalm 151,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible, ed. M. Coogan. New York: Oxford University Press (2011).
“Woman (’issah)” in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, Vol. I, ed. H-J Fabry.Stuttgart:Kohlhammer (2011) 309-317.
“Hodayot (1QH) and Related Texts” and “Psalms,Apocryphal” in Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, ed. J. J. Collins and D. Harlow. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2010), 747-749, 1104-05.
“Canon in the Old Testament,” in The New Interpreter’s Bible One Volume Commentary. Nashville: Abingdon Press (2010), 944–948.
Ten articles in the Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity, ed. J. Neusner and A. J. Avery-Peck. Leiden: Brill (2007).
“Prayers and Hymns, Curses and Imprecations” in Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, ed. S. Iles Johnston. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2004).
"Women" (with Cecilia Wassen) in Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls,ed. L. Schiffman and J. VanderKam. New York: Oxford Press (2000).
"Tobit" and "l Esdras" in Women's Bible Commentary: Revised, ed. S. Ringe and C. Newsom. Nashville: Abingdon (1998), 263-266, 272-278.
“4Q380-381, Qumran Pseudepigraphic Psalms,” in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek Texts with English Translations, Vol. 4A Pseudepigraphic and Non-Masoretic Psalms and Prayers, ed. J. H. Charlesworth. Tübingen/Louisville: Mohr Siebeck/Westminster John Knox (1997), 1-39.
Commentary on Malachi in The New Interpreter’s Bible, Volume VII, ed. L. Keck, D. Petersen, et al. Nashville: Abingdon Press (1996), 843-877.
"Confession," "Doxology," "Glorify," "Laments," "Liturgy," "Poetry," "Prayer," Psalms," in Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period, ed. J. Neusner and W. Scott Green. New York: MacMillan (1996).
“Biblical Translation,”in Dictionary of Feminist Theologies, ed. L. Russell & J. Shannon. Clarkson, Westminster/John Knox Press (1996).
“Prayer,” “Lectionaries, Christian,” in Oxford Companion to the Bible, ed. B. M. Metzger and M. D. Coogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press (l993).
“The Apocrypha,” in The Women’s Bible Commentary, ed. C. Newsom and S. Ringe.Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press (l992), 235-243.
“The Bible in the Lectionary,” in The Catholic Study Bible. New York: Oxford University Press (1990), 440-451.
Journal Articles
“Recent Scholarship on the Hodayot 1993-2010,” Currents in Biblical Research 10/1 (2011), 119-162.
“Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Some Observations from a Dictionary,” Revue de Qumran 93/1 (2009), 49–59.
“George Brooke and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 86 (2004) [publication and copyright date: 2008], 175–196.
“ Prayers and Psalms from the pre-Maccabean Period,” Dead Sea Discoveries 13 (2006), 306–318.
“Some Contributions of the Cave Four Manuscripts (4Q427-432) to the Study of the Hodayot,” Dead Sea Discoveries 8 (2001), 278-287.
"A Bibliography of the Hodayot, 1948-1996," (with Lorenzo Ditommaso), Dead Sea Discoveries 4 (1997), 55-101.
“A Thanksgiving Hymn from 4QHodayotb(4Q428 7),” Revue de Qumran 16 (1995),
517-532.
“The Cave Four Hodayot Manuscripts: A Preliminary Description,” Jewish Quarterly Review 85 (l994), 137-150.
“A Hymn from a Cave Four Hodayot Manuscript: 4Q427 7 i + ii,” Journal of Biblical Literature ll2 (l993), 651-674.
“The Psalm of Joseph Within the Context of Second Temple Prayer,” Catholic Biblical
Quarterly 54 (1992), 67-79.
"4Q372 l: A Text about Joseph," Revue de Qumran 14 (1990), 349-376.