Robert A. Kugler/1
Robert A. Kugler, Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies
Lewis & Clark College, Religious Studies Department, MSC 45
Portland, Oregon 97219
(503) 768-7452
Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, May 1994 (Thesis: “The Levi-Priestly Tradition: From Malachi to Testament of Levi”)
M.Div. with Honors, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, CA, May 1984
B.A. with Honors, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, June 1979
Fields of study and language competencies
Hebrew Bible, Pseudepigrapha/Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Judaism, New Testament, Jewish Literature and History in Greco-Roman Egypt
Ancient Languages: Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew (lesser competency in Demotic)
Modern Languages: French, German (lesser competency in Modern Hebrew)
Professional experience
Interim Chair, Art Department, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, June 2006 to the present.
Interim Dean of Arts & Humanities, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, July 2005 to June 2006.
Director, Classical Studies Minor, June 2004-May 2005, May 2006 to the present.
Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, September 2002 to the present.
Chair, Religious Studies Department, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, September 2002 to the present.
Chair, Classical Civilizations Department, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, September 1999 to June 2002.
Instructor, Assistant, and Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, September 1993 to June 2002.
Books published
From Patriarch to Priest: The Levi-Priestly Tradition from Aramaic Levi to Testament of Levi (SBLEJL 09; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996).
The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty: Proceedings of the 1997 Society of Biblical Literature Qumran Section Meetings (ed. Robert Kugler and Eileen Schuller; SBLEJL 15; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999).
Religion at Qumran (ed. John J. Collins and Robert A. Kugler; Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000).
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (Guides to Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, forthcoming in August 2001).
The Book of Leviticus: Composition and Reception (ed. Rolf Rendtorff and Robert Kugler; Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature Series; Leiden: Brill, 2003).
Book in press
Introduction to the Bible (co-authored with Patrick Hartin; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, forthcoming).
Books in progress
The Book of Leviticus at Qumran (Leiden: Brill, due to publisher in August 2006).
Sexual Violence at Shechem: Genesis 34 in Interpretation (Themes in Biblical Narrative Series; Leiden: Brill, under development as a collection of essays on the interpretation of Genesis 34 among Jews, Christians, and Muslims from antiquity to the present).
Testament of Job: A Commentary (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, due to publisher in late 2011).
Articles and contributions to edited volumes
“4Q225 2 i 1–2: A Possible Reconstruction and Explanation,” Journal of Biblical Literature, forthcoming.
“Canon,” in Dictionary of the Hebrew Bible: Historical Books (ed. Bill T. Arnold and H.G.M. Williamson; Downwers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2005) 142-50.
“On Women and Honor in the Testament of Job,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 14 (2004) 43-62 (with Richard Rohrbaugh).
“Hearing the Story of Moses in Ptolemaic Egypt: Artapanus Accommodates the Tradition,” in The Wisdom of Egypt: Jewish, Early Christian, and Gnostic Essays in Honour of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen (AGJU/AJEC; eds. George H. van Kooten & Anthony Hilhorst; Leiden: Brill, 2005) 67-80.
“Women at Qumran: Introducing the Essays,” (with Esther Chazon), in Women at Qumran: A Special Issue of Dead Sea Discoveries, forthcoming in 2004.
“Joseph at Qumran: The Importance of 4Q372 1 in Extending a Tradition,” in Eugene Ulrich Festschrift (ed. P. W. Flint and J. Vanderkam; Leiden: Brill, 2004) (forthcoming).
“4Q123, 127,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts With English Translation (ed. James Charlesworth; vol. 6; Tübingen/Louisville: J. C. B. Mohr/WJKP, forthcoming).
“Leviticus Interpreted in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in The Book of Leviticus: Composition and Reception (ed. Rolf Rendtorff and Robert Kugler; Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature Series; Leiden: Brill, 2003) 432-57.
“Hearing 4Q225: A Case Study in Reconstructing the Religious Imagination of the Qumran Community,” Dead Sea Discoveries 10 (2003) 81-103.
“Making All Experience Religious: The Hegemony of Ritual at Qumran,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 33 (2002) 131-52.
“A Note on 4Q225 (4QPseudo-Jubileesa),” Revue de Qumrân 77 (2001) 133-39.
“Testaments,” in volume 1 of Justification and Variegated Nomism: A Fresh Appraisal of Paul and Second Temple Judaism (2 vols.; ed. D. A. Carson, Peter O’Brien and Mark Seifrid; WUNT; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 2001) 189-214
“Rewriting Rubrics: Sacrifice and Religion at Qumran,” in Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. John J. Collins and Robert A. Kugler; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000) 90-112
“Qumran: Place and History,” in Dictionary of New Testament Background (eds. Craig A. Evans and Stanley Porter; Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2000) 652-58
“The Priesthood at Qumran,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (2 vols.; ed. Peter W. Flint and James VanderKam; Leiden: Brill, 1999, 2000) 2.93-116
“Naphtali, Testament of,” in The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. James VanderKam and Lawrence Schiffman; Oxford: Oxford University, 2000) 602-3
“Priests,” in The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. James VanderKam and Lawrence Schiffman; Oxford: Oxford University, 2000) 688-93
“Testaments,” in The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. James VanderKam and Lawrence Schiffman; Oxford: Oxford University, 2000) 933-36
“Twelve Patriarchs, Testaments of the,” in The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. James VanderKam and Lawrence Schiffman; Oxford: Oxford University, 2000) 953-54.
“Zadok,” in The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. James VanderKam and Lawrence Schiffman; Oxford: Oxford University, 2000) 1005
“The Deuteronomists and the Latter Prophets,” in Those Elusive Deuteronomists: “Pan-Deuteronomism” and Scholarship in the Nineties (ed. Linda Schearing and Steven McKenzie; JSOTSup 268; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999) 127-44
“The Priests of Qumran: The Evidence of References to Levi and Levites,” in The Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Technological Innovations, New Tests, & Reformulated Issues (ed. Donald Parry and Eugene Ulrich; Leiden: Brill, 1999) 465-79
“The Mystic Rules of Tyconius,” in Augustine and the Bible (ed. Pamela Bright-Kannengiesser; Notre Dame, IN; University of Notre Dame, 1999) 129-48
“Holiness, Purity, the Body, and Society: The Evidence for Theological Conflict in Leviticus,” JSOT 76 (1997) 1-27
“Halakhic Interpretive Strategies at Qumran: A Case Study,” in Legal Texts and Legal Issues: Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the IOQS, Cambridge 1995 (ed. Moshe Bernstein, Florentino García Martínez, and John Kampen; Leiden: Brill, 1997) 131-40
“A Note on 1QS 9:14: The Sons of Righteousness or the Sons of Zadok?” Dead Sea Discoveries 3 (1996) 315-20
“Some Further Evidence for the Samaritan Provenance of Aramaic Levi (1QTestLevi; 4QTestLevi),” Revue de Qumrân 65-68 (1996) 351-58
“A Note on the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Mal 2:3ab,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 108 (1996) 426-29
Recent paper presentations
“Revisiting the Shechem Incident (Genesis 34) in Aramaic Levi,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, August 2006.
“History, Theory, Text and Society: ‘Clarking’ the Social-Scientific Approach to Biblical Studies and Ancient History,” presented at the Annual Context Group Meeting, Menucha Retreat Center, OR, March 2006.
“Whose Scripture? Whose Community? Reflections on the Dead Sea Scrolls Then and Now,” presented at the “Reading Between the Lines: Community and Scripture at Qumran” Symposium in Honor of the 6oth Birthday of James C. VanderKam, Notre Dame, IN, March 2006.
“The Herakleopolis Papyri: Signposts Toward a Fresh Appreciation of the Jews in Egypt,” presented at the Annual Catholic Biblical Association Meeting, Collegeville, MN, August 2005.
“4Q225 2 i 1-2: A Possible Reconstruction and Explanation,” presented in the Qumran Section of the Annual Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 2004.
“Hearing the Story of Moses in Ptolemaic Egypt: Accommodating the Tradition,” presented in the Hebrew Scriptures Section of the Annual Pacific Northwest Regional AAR/SBL Meeting, Vancouver, BC, May 2004.
Editorial positions held, Service to the Wider Academic Commubnity
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006 Challenge Grants, February 2006.
Special Issue co-editor (with Esther Chazon) of Dead Sea Discoveries, “Women and Children at Qumran,” forthcoming in 2004.
Associate Series Editor, Themes in Biblical Narrative Series (with Brill Publishers), January 2003 to the present.
Associate Editor, Journal of Biblical Literature, January 2002 to the present.
Associate editor, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, August 1999 to the present.
Societies and leadership positions held
American Society of Papyrologists
Catholic Biblical Association.
Society of Biblical Literature.
International Organization for Qumran Studies.
International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament.
References
Esther Chazon, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
John J. Collins, Yale University, New Haven, CN
John Endres, SJ, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, CA
Eileen Schuller, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Eugene Ulrich, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
James VanderKam, University of Notre Dame, IN