Schuller CV June 2011.pdf - Department of Religious Studies

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Curriculum Vitae
June, 2011
Name:
Eileen Marie Schuller
Home Address:
457 Dundurn Street South
Hamilton, Ontario
L8P 4M1 phone: 905 525 1485
Address:
Department of Religious Studies
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4Kl
phone: 905-525-9140, #23390
e-mail: schuller@mcmaster.ca
Citizenship: Canadian
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
Professional Organizations
American Academy of Religion
Association of Jewish Studies
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
Catholic Biblical Association
International Association of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
International Organization for Qumran Studies
National Association of Professors of Hebrew
Society of Biblical Literature
Employment History
1996 - 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

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Editorial and Advisory Boards
2008 -- : Advisory Board of Biblischen Notizen
2007– : Advisory Board of the Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten,
University of Bonn
2007– : Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the
Context of Early Judaism and Early Christianity, Copenhagen University
2003–2009: Associate Editor, New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, Abingdon
1995–2000: Associate Editor, Dead Sea Scrolls Encyclopedia, Oxford University Press
1990–93: Associate Editor, The HarperCollins Study Bible, joint project of
HarperCollins Press and the Society of Biblical Literature
Member of the Editorial Board for Journals:
2008–2011 Catholic Biblical Quarterly
1993-- : Dead Sea Discoveries
1994–2001 Journal of Biblical Literature
1993–95 Studies in Religion
1992–98 Catholic Biblical Quarterly
1992–2000 Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Journal Referee (by invitation)
Journal of Hebrew Studies (2007); Journal for the Study of Judaism (2009); Harvard
Theological Review (2009); Journal of Jewish Studies (2010)
Executive Positions
1998–2007 Steering committee, Qumran Section, SBL
1994–95 President, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
1992–97 Co-Chair, Qumran Section, Society of Biblical Literature
1987--90 Executive 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
2010 Honorary 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

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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
Undergraduate:
RS 3DD3 The Jewish World in New Testament Times
RS 2EE3 The Prophets
RS 2B03 Women in the Biblical Tradition
RS 2DD3 The Five Books of Moses
RS 3M03 The Songs of David
RS 3R03 Death and Afterlife in Early Judaism and Christianity
Graduate:
RS 742 The Dead Sea Scrolls
RS 709 Poetry and Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls
RS 709 Aramaic Texts from the Bible and Qumran
RS 709 The Book of Enoch
Supervision
PhD.: Supervisor: completed: 4; in progress: 6
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: Jennifer Zilm, “Liturgical Communion with Angels in the Dead Sea Scrolls
in Light of Parallels with Contemporaneous Hellenistic Judaism” (2003 - )
Nick Meyers (co-supervisor with S. Westerholm), “Anthropology and
Creation in the Sectarian Hymns and in Paul” (2007 - )
Eric Montgomery, “The Nature and Function of Revealed Knowledge in the
Hodayot” (2005 - )
Andrew Krause (2010 - )
Matthew Walsh (2010 - )

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Chelica Hiltunen (2010 - )
On PhD Supervisory Committees: completed: 10; in progress: 5
MA: Main Supervisor: completed: 7; in progress:
On committees: completed: 9; in progress:
Research Funding
2010–2013: SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “Hermeneia Commentary on the Hodayot
Psalms” $66, 472.00 over three years
2009: Arts Research Board, Conference Grant, World Congress of Jewish Studies,
Jerusalem, $1500.00
2007: Arts Research Board, Conference Grant, Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego,
$1619.00
2005: Arts Research Board Publication Grant, Preparation of manuscript, $572.00
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
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts,” edited with
Sarianna Metso and Hindy Najman, STDJ 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;
STDJ 35; Leiden: Brill, 2000
The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty: Proceedings of the 1997 Society of Biblical Literature
Qumran Section Meetings, edited with Robert A. Kugler; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999
Edition of Texts
Hartmut Stegemann and Eileen Schuller, 1QHodayot a with Incorporation of 1QHodayot b
and 4QHodayot a-f , Qumran Cave 1.III, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, XL; Oxford:
Clarendon Press (2009).

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“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, Qumran Cave 4.V1: Poetical and
Liturgical Texts, Part 1, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XI; Oxford: Clarendon Press
(1998) 75-172
(b) Contributions to Books
“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; STDJ 93; Leiden: Brill (2010) 571-588
“The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian Dialogue,” in Early Jewish and Christian
Influences: Festschrift for Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., ed. P. Walters; Leiden: Brill (2010)
48–58.
“The Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot),” in The Qumran Scrolls and their World [In
Hebrew, Scrolls of Qumran)] edited by 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, Deuterocanonical and
Cognate Literature Yearbook, ed. by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley; 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, edited by 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,
edited by 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,
edited by R. Longenecker; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2001) 66-88

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"Prayer in the Religion of Qumran, " in Judaism in Late Antiquity; Part Five: Judaism at
Qumran, edited by A. Avery-Peck and J Neusner; Leiden: Brill (2001) 125-41
"Petitionary Prayer and the Religion of Qumran," in Aspects of Religion in the Dead Sea
Scrolls, edited by 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, edited by D. Falk, F.
Garcîa Martînez, E. Schuller; Leiden: Brill (2000) 182-93
"Women at Qumran," in The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Critical Assessment,
edited by 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, edited by
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, edited by M. E. Stone and Esther G. Chazon; Leiden:
E. J. Brill (1997) 205-20.
"Evidence for Women in the Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls," Voluntary Associations
in the Graeco-Roman World, edited by J. S. Kloppenborg and S. G. Wilson; London:
Routledge (1996) 262-85.
“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, edited by 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, edited by 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, edited by E. Ulrich and J. Vanderkam; Notre Dame: University of
Notre Dame Press (l994) 153-7l.
"Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls," in Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and
the Khirbet Qumran Site, edited by M. O. Wise, N. Golb, J. J. Collins, Dennis Pardee,
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 722 (l994) ll5-32
"A Preliminary Study of 4Q373 and Some Related (?) Fragments," The Madrid Qumran
Congress: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Madrid

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1991, edited by J. Trebolle Barrera and L. Vegas Montaner; Madrid and Leiden:
Universidad Complutenseia/ E. J. Brill (1992) 516-30
"4Q380 and 4Q38l: Non-Canonical Psalms from Qumran," in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty
Years of Research, ed. by D. Dimant and U. Rappaport; Leiden: E.J. Brill (1992) 90-9
"Some Observations on Blessings of God in Texts from Qumran," in Of Scribes and
Scrolls: Festschrift for John Strugnell, edited by H. Attridge, J. J. Collins, T. Tobin;
College Theological Society, Lanham: Catholic University Press (1990) 133-43
“Women of the Bible in Biblical Retellings of the Second Temple Period,” Gender and
Difference, edited by P. Day, Fortress Press (l989, 2007) 178-94
(c) Articles in Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Commentaries
Entry on “Woman (’issah)” in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, Vol. I, ed.
by H-J Fabry, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (2011) 309-17
Articles on “Hodayot” and “Apocryphal Psalms,” in Eerdmans Dictionary of Early
Judaism, ed. J. J. Collins and D. Harlow, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2010)
Article on “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,
eds. J. Neusner and A. J. Avery-Peck, Leiden: Brill (2007)
Article on “Prayers and Hymns, Curses and Imprecations” in Religions of the Ancient
World: A Guide, ed. S. Iles Johnston; Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2004)
Article on "Women" (with Cecilia Wassen) in Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, New
York: Oxford Press (2000)
"Tobit" and "l Esdras" in Women's Bible Commentary: Revised, eds. S. Ringe and C.
Newsom; Nashville: Abingdon (1998) 263-66, 272-78.
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) 843-77
"Confession," "Doxology," "Glorify," "Laments," "Liturgy," "Poetry," "Prayer," Psalms,"
in Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period, edited by J. Neusner and W. Scott Green,
MacMillan (1996)

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“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,
Westminster/John Knox Press (l992) 235-43.
“The Bible in the Lectionary,” in The Catholic Study Bible, New York: Oxford University
Press (1990) 440-51.
(d) Journal Articles
“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], 175–96.
“ Prayers and Psalms from the pre-Maccabean Period,” Dead Sea Discoveries 13 (2006)
306–18.
“Some Contributions of the Cave Four Manuscripts (4Q427-432) to the Study of the
Hodayot,” Dead Sea Discoveries 8 (2001) 278-87
"A Bibliography of the Hodayot, 1948-1996," (with Lorenzo Ditommaso), Dead Sea
Discoveries 4 (1997) 55-101
“A Thanksgiving Hymn from 4QHodayot b (4Q428 7),” Revue de Qumran 16 (1995)
517-32.
“The Cave Four Hodayot Manuscripts: A Preliminary Description,” Jewish Quarterly
Review 85 (l994) 137-50
“A Hymn from a Cave Four Hodayot Manuscript: 4Q427 7 i + ii,” Journal of Biblical
Literature ll2 (l993) 651-74.
“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) 349-76
"The Fortieth Anniversary of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Canadian Contribution," Studies in
Religion 18 (1989) 61-65.

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(e) Other - Translation Projects
1984-1991: The Psalter, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, published by
Liturgy Training Program, Chicago, 1995
1988: The Psalms: New American Bible: Revised Edition; Washington: Catholic Biblical
Assocation, 1991.
Non-Peer Reviewed Journal articles (selected)
“Preface,” Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea
Scrolls, ed. J. Kalman and J. S. du Toit, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press (2010)
“Sur la piste des esséniennes: Où est la question des femmes à Qumrân?” Le Monde de la
Bible 151 (2003) 38-41
“At Work on the Scrolls,” Calliope: Exploring World History (2001) 15-19
"Women in the Lectionary," in Remembering the Women: Women's Stories from Scripture
for Sundays and Festivals, ed. J. F. Henderson; Chicago: Liturgical Training Publications
(1999) 368-74; reprinted from National Bulletin on Liturgy 27 (1994).
“The Dead Sea Scrolls: An Assessment after Fifty Years,” Canadian Catholic Review 16
(1998) 33-66
"Jeruzalem in de Dode-Zeerollen," Interpretatie (April 1997), 18-22.
"The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty Years," The Bible Today 35 (1997) 365-71.
"Going on Fifty: Reflections on the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls," Bulletin of the
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies1995-1996 (1996) 21-45.
“Some Criteria for the Choice of Scripture Texts in the Roman Lectionary,” Shaping
English Liturgy, edited by P. Finn and J. Schellman; Washington, D.C.: The Pastoral Press
(l990) 385-404.
“Inclusive Language Psalters: Current Translations,” The Bible Today (1988) 173-79
(e) Book Reviews (recent)
Review of Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship: New Insights into its History and
Interaction by A. Gerhards and C. Leonhard in Journal of Jewish Studies LXI (2010) 359-
60.
Review of 4QInstruction: Sagesse et Eschatologie by Jean-Sebastien Rey in Expository
Times 122 (2010) 101.

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Review of Prayer in Josephus by Tessel M. Jonquière in Journal of Jewish Studies 60
(2009) 330-331.
Review of Qumrân et les Esséniens: L'éclatement d'un dogme by André Paul in Catholic
Biblical Quarterly 71 (2009) 881-82.
Review of The New Damascus Document: The Midrash on the Eschatological Torah of the
Dead Sea Scrolls: Reconstruction, Translation and Commentary by Ben Zion Wacholder
for Expository Times 120/9 (2009) 466–67.
Review of The Heavenly Tablets: Interpretation, Identity and Tradition in Ancient Judaism
by L. LiDonnic and A. Lieber (eds) for Catholic Biblical Quarterly 71 (2009) 455–57.
Review of The Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures among the Dead
Sea Scrolls by Daniel K. Falk, for Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 9 (2009) online journal”
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/reviews/review350.htm
Review of The Social Role of Liturgy in the Religion of the Qumran Community by Russell
C. D. Arnold in Journal for the Study of Judaism 49 (2009) 74–75
Stoekl Ben-Ezra, Daniel, The Impact of Yom Kippur on Early Christianity: The Day of
Atonement from Second Temple Judaism to the Fifth Century by Daniel Stoekl Ben-Ezra,
in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 68 (2006) 782-84
Review of The Psalms of the Tamid Service: A Liturgical Text from the Second Temple by
Peter L. Trudinger, in Review of Biblical Literature, August 2006 (online)
Review of Biblical Interpretation at Qumran by Matthias Henze, ed. in Journal of Hebrew
Scriptures 6 (2006) (online)
Review of From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, by
S. A. Nigosian, in University of Toronto Quarterly 75 (2006) 218-19
Review of Pseudepigraphic Perspectives: the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Light of
the Dead Sea Scrolls, by. E. Chazon and M. Stone in Journal for the Study of the
Pseudepigrapha 15 (2006) 155-57
(iv) Accepted for Publication
“Canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls,” The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60, ed. J.
Duhaime and P. Flint, Early Judaism and Its Literature Series, Society of Biblical
Literature/Brill (at press)
“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, Society of

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Biblical Literature
(at press)
“The Dead Sea Scrolls and Canon and Canonicity,” in Kanon in Konstruktion und
Dekonstruktion,” eds. E-M Becker and S. Scholz, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter,
Articles on “Apocryphal Psalms of 11QPs a ,” “11QapocrPs” and “Non-Canonical Psalms,
4Q380–381” in Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Not Included in Scripture,
edited by L. Feldman, J. Kugel, L. Schiffman, New York: Jewish Publication Society
“Research on the Sectarian Scrolls in North America,” for The Dead Sea Scrolls: A
History of Scholarship, ed. D. Dimant and A. Steudel; Leiden: Brill
“Canadian Research on the Dead Sea Scrolls,” for The Dead Sea Scrolls: A History of
Scholarship, ed. D. Dimant and A. Steudel; Leiden: Brill
“Psalm 151,” The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of the Bible, ed. M. Coogan, New York: Oxford
University Press; to be published in 2012; currently available in Oxford Biblical Studies
Online
“Research on the Hodayot 1993–2009,” Currents in Biblical Research (fall 2011)
Presentations at Meetings:
(i) Invited
“Wisdom in the Hodayot,” for Wisdom and Apocalypticism Section, Society of Biblical
Literature, Atlanta, November 2010
Main speaker for plenary session at The 20th Congress of the International Organization
for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT), Helsinki August 2010 (declined because of
health)
“New Perspectives on the Hodayot,” Plenary Session of the Biblical Studies unit, World
Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, July 2009.
“Canon and Canonicity in the Qumran Texts,” International Conference on Religiöse und
literarische Kanonisierungs-und DeKanonisierungsprozesse als hermeneutisches Problem,
University of Erlangen, July, 2009.
“The Vocabulary for Male/Female in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Symposium at the University
of Bonn, November 2008
“Current Discussion on Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” 60 th Anniversary Dead Sea
Scrolls Conference, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, July, 2008
“Revisiting the Hodayot,” Special Session on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Canadian Society of
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“The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Matrix of Christianity,” Judaism in Antiquity and
the Dead Sea Scrolls at Sixty, special session at the Association of Jewish Studies,
Toronto, December 2007
“Current Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John, Jesus and History Group/ Johannine
Literature Section, Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2007
“Canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Canadian Bible Society and Trinity
Western University Symposium, Langley, B.C., October 2007
Respondent to paper by S. Metso on “Law Shaping Life: The Reception of Leviticus in the
Essene Community,” Ancient Judaisms and Christianities Seminar, University of Toronto,
November 2006
“Current Research on the Hodayot Manuscripts,” Doctoral Colloquium, University of
Erlangen, February 2006
“The Contribution of Hartmut Stegemann and Current Study of the Hodayot,” New
Testament and Old Testament Memorial Colloquium, Georg-August University,
Göttingen, January 31, 2006
“The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Jewish-Christian Dialogue,” 40 th Anniversary
of Nostra Aetate, Gregorianum University, Rome, September 2005
“Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism,” the Consultation on Penitential Prayer:
Origin, Development and Impact, Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, November
2004
‘Prayers and Psalms from the pre-Maccabean Period,” the International Society of Biblical
Literature, Groningen, July 2004
“Prayer in Qumran,” the International Conference of Deuterocanonical and Cognate
Literature, Salzburg, July 2003
“From Fragments to Publication,” Department of Classics and Linguistics and Department
of Theology, Concordia University, Montreal, 2003
“Current Issues in the Study of the Thanksgiving Psalms from Qumran,” Toronto School
of Theology Biblical Studies Colloquium, Toronto, February 2001
"Women and Children at Qumran and Related Sites” response to Qumran Section panel,
Society of Biblical Literature, Nashville, November 2000
"Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls," McMaster Divinity College Bingham Colloquium on
Prayer in the New Testament, Hamilton, May 1999
"Prayer and the Religion of Qumran," Trinity Western University, Langley B.C, June 1999

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“From Coexistence to Excommunication and Persecution: The Samaritans of Caesarea
before the Muslim Conquest,” response at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual
Meeting, 1997
“Going on Fifty: Reflections on the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Presidential Address,
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Montreal, l995
“Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics,” Conference on Women and Religion: A
Feminist Inquiry, Institute of the Humanities, University of Calgary, l99l
(ii) Contributed: Peer-Reviewed
“Petitions in the Hodayot,” International Society of Biblical Literature, London, July 2011;
Catholic Biblical Association Research report, August 2011
“The DJD Edition of the Hodayot: Challenges and Contributions,” International
Organization for Qumran Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2007
“What Have We learned from the Newly Published Hodayot Manuscripts?” Canadian
Society of Biblical Studies, Edmonton, 2000
"The Function and Use of Poetry and Psalmody in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Revisiting the
Question," the Fifth Orion International Conference, Jerusalem, 2000
"The Hodayot-Like Manuscripts at Qumran, especially 4Q440," International Society for
Qumran Studies, Oslo, Norway, 1998
"Hymnic Material (Other than the Hodayot) in the Dead Sea Scrolls," Jubilee Conference
on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Princeton Theological College,1997
"Reflections on the Language and Poetry of the Hodayot in Light of the Cave Four
Hodayot Manuscripts," 50th Anniversary Conference, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997
“Titles for Prayer: Influence of Biblical Terminology and Patterns,” First International
Qumran Conference, Orion Centre, Hebrew University, 1996
“Special Problems in the Publication of the Cave Four Hodayot Manuscripts,” Tantur and
University of Notre Dame Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jerusalem, 1995
“The Language of Love and Hate in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Conference on Two Thousand
Years of Agape, Brock University Philosophical Society, l995
“A Reconstructed Hymn from Cave Four,” Catholic Biblical Association, San Diego, 1994
“A Preliminary Report on the Cave 4 Hodayot Manuscripts,” International Society of
Biblical Literature and Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, Munster Germany, l993

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"4Q373 and Some Related (?) Fragments," International Qumran Conference, Madrid, l99l
"A Preliminary Study of 4Q372 l," Texts of Qumran and the History of the Community
Conference, International Society of Qumran Studies, Groningen, Holland, l989
(ii b) Public Lectures (recent)
“Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Science Museum, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2010
“The St. John’s Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Chancellor’s Lecture, Regis College,
Toronto, May 2010
“Canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls,” panel on “The Dead Sea Scrolls in
Canada: An Untold Story,” Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill, and American Academy
of Religion, Nov. 8, 2009
“The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Knox College, Centre for Continuing
Education, Toronto, Oct. 24, 2009
“The Dead Sea Scrolls: How do They Affect Our Reading of the Bible,” Festival of Faith,
Diocese of London, Oct . 17, 2009
“Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Ann Tannenbaum Lecture Series, Royal Ontario
Museum, Toronto, Oct. 15, 2009; and Dominican University College, Ottawa, Nov. 6,
2009
“Reading the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned,” Newman Centre,
University of Toronto, Oct. 7, 2009
“The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Jewish-Christian Dialogue,” Montreal
Jewish-Christian Dialogue Group, Montreal, June 8, 2009; Toronto Dialogue Group, Nov.
25, 2009
“Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” The Jewish Museum, New York, November 2008
“The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Christians,” in conjunction with Dr. Adolfo
Roitman, Curator of the Shrine of the Book, Jerusalem, Canadian Catholic Biblical
Society, Toronto, January 2007
“The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Jewish-Christian Dialogue,” Jewish/Christian
Dialogue Group and the Georg-August University, Göttingen, June 2006
“Research on the Dead Sea Scrolls Today,” Annual Awardees Symposium of the
Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Bamburg, March 2006
“The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Beginnings of Christianity,” Pope John XXIII Centre,

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Geneva, February 2006
“The Study of Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” The Angela Merici Lecture, Brescia
University College, London, Ontario, January 2005
Administrative Work at McMaster
(i) Department
2009–2010: Chair of Jewish Studies Committee, Dept. of Religious Studies
2007–08: Acting Chair, Department of Religious Studies
2006–07: Chair of Jewish Studies Committee, Dept. of Religious Studies
2000–05: Chair, Department of Religious Studies
1996–99: Chair of Graduate Affairs Committee, Dept. of Religious Studies
1993–95: Chair of Colloquium Committee, Dept. of Religious Studies
(ii) McMaster University
2010: Faculty Grievance Panel
Records Management Committee (December 2010)
2006–08: Tenure and Promotion Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences
1997–2001: University Senate
1997–2001: Senate Appointments Committee; 1999–2000, Vice-chair
2000–05: E. Togo Salmon Roman Studies Fund Allocation Committee
2000–01: Dean of Graduate Studies Advisory Group on Scholarship Allocations
1999–00: Library Users Committee
1997–2000: Scholarship Committee of the Graduate Council
1996: Selection Committee for Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster
1993–94: Internal Review Committee for the Women's Studies Program
Other Responsibilities
2009: Review of the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies,

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University of British Columbia
2006: Review of new MA degree program for Concordia University College, Edmonton
2009 - : President, Canadian Friends of the École Biblique et archéologique
francaise de Jérusalem
2010 - : member-at-large, Alexander von Humboldt Association of Canada
2007–10: Chair of the Canadian Christian–Jewish Consultation (CCJC); ongoing
member
2009 : Consultant for the exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Royal Ontario
Museum, Toronto
2003–04: Consultant for the Museum of Civilizations, for the Dead Sea Scrolls
Exhibit (catalogue, development of lecture series)
1996–98: Chair, Campus Ministry Council, McMaster University
1992– : member of the Campus Ministry Council