Dr. Amber M. Dillon is an adjunct faculty in the New Testament department. She holds a PhD in New Testament with a focus on the Gospel of John and intertextuality from Ridley College, Melbourne. She also holds an MA in Biblical and Theological Studies from Western Seminary and a BTh from Portland Bible College. Dr. Dillon is passionate about demonstrating the deep connections between the Old Testament and the New, and she desires to see a more robust biblical theology within the Church that addresses real-world conversations and needs. Her research interests include Johannine Literature, intertextuality, memory and orality, and NT Greek.
Essays in Edited Volumes
- “The Subapostolic Era: John’s Jesus Remembered in an Oral Culture,” in John, Jesus, and History: Jesus Remembered in the Johannine Situation, ed. Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just, S.J., and Tom Thatcher, vol. 4 of ECL 34 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2024), 273–94.
Reviews
- Lori A. Baron, The Shema in John’s Gospel, in RBL (2024).
- Michael Barber, The Historical Jesus and the Temple, in Reading Religion (2024).
- Todd A. Scacewater, The Divine Builder in Psalm 68, in Reading Religion (2022).
Articles
- “The Sense of an Ending: What is the Real Last Book of the Old Testament?” BibleProject Blog 2018
- “Presence of God: Presence Pattern and Kingdom of Priests” BibleProject Blog 2018
Papers
- IBR Student Symposium, “1 John as Middle-Man: The Gospel of John Kerygma in the Catholic Epistle Collection,” September 2024.
- ETS NW Regional Meeting, “Come and See the One of Whom the Scriptures Wrote: Nathanael’s Intertextual Characterization in the Fourth Gospel,” February 2024.
- IBR Annual Meeting, “John the Baptist’s Spatial Drama: Memory and Intertextuality in the Fourth Gospel,” November 2023.
- ETS Annual Meeting, “Rest, Release, and Restoration: Jesus’s Sabbath-Jubilee Mission in the Gospel of Luke,” November 2023.
- Evangelical Women in Academia Conference, “Beauty and Lament: Martha’s Witness in the Gospel of John,” July 2023.
- ETS NW Regional Meeting, “The True Vine of Israel: John 15 in Jewish Tradition,” February 2023.
- SBL Annual Meeting, “Bearing Witness to the Lamb: John the Baptist and the Beloved Disciple as Intertextual Counterparts,” November 2022.
- ETS NW Regional Meeting, “John the Light?: John the Baptist’s Self-Perception in History and Tradition,” March 2022.
- “‘Jack the Dipper’: The Fourth Gospel’s Theological Interpretation of John the Baptist.” Annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA (forthcoming: November 2024).
- “‘More Than Characters’: Allusion and Characterization in the Fourth Gospel.” Annual Meeting for the Evangelical Theological Society in San Diego, CA (forthcoming: November 2024).
- “1 John as Middle-Man: The Gospel of John Kerygma in the Catholic Epistle Collection.” Institute for Biblical Research Student Symposium, September 2024.
- “Come and See the One of Whom the Scriptures Wrote: Nathanael’s Intertextual Characterization in the Fourth Gospel.” NW Regional Meeting for the Evangelical Society in Portland, OR, February 2024.
- “John the Baptist’s Spatial Drama: Memory and Intertextuality in the Fourth Gospel.” Annual Meeting for the Institute for Biblical Research in San Antonio, TX, November 2023.
- “Rest, Release, and Restoration: Jesus’s Sabbath-Jubilee Mission in the Gospel of Luke.” Annual Meeting for the Evangelical Theological Society in San Antonio, TX, November 2023.
- “Beauty and Lament: Martha’s Witness in the Gospel of John.” Evangelical Women in Academia Conference in Melbourne, Australia, July 2023 (invited).
- “The True Vine of Israel: John 15 in Jewish Tradition.” NW Regional Meeting for the Evangelical Society in Portland, OR, February 2023.
- “Bearing Witness to the Lamb: John the Baptist and the Beloved Disciple as Intertextual Counterparts.” Annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Denver, CO, November 2022.
- “John the Light?: John the Baptist’s Self-Perception in History and Tradition.” NW Regional Meeting for the Evangelical Society in Portland, OR, March 2022.