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James Greenberg, PhD

Adjunct Faculty, Old Testament

Dr. James Greenberg is an adjunct faculty member in the Old Testament department, where he has served for fourteen years. He holds a PhD in Old Testament studies from Trinity College at the University of Bristol with a focus on the Pentateuch, the Book of Leviticus, and sacrificial atonement. Dr. Greenberg is the author of A New Look at Atonement in Leviticus published by Eisenbrauns, and a commentary of Leviticus for the new Zondervan NIV Messianic Study Bible.

In Perspective: Old Testament God vs. New Testament God

Books

  • A New Look at Atonement in Leviticus: The Meaning and Purpose of Kipper Revisited. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2019.

 

Book Reviews

  • Review of Christian Doctrine and the Old Testament: Theology in the Service of Biblical Exegesis, by Gary A. Anderson (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2019) in Bulletin of Biblical Research, vol 29, No 4.

 

Scholarly Papers

  • “A Pedagogical Review of the Grammar Biblical Hebrew a Living Language”  in Society of Biblical Literature/National Association of Professors of Hebrew. Denver, CO, 2022.
  • “Priestly Cultic Law (Lev 1-16): The History of Interpretation in light of the Comparative Method” for Evangelical Theological Society. Denver, CO, 2018.
  • “An Assessment of Jacob Milgrom’s View of the ḥaṭṭā`t Offering using a Text-Immanent Approach to Reading the Priestly Texts” for Society of Biblical Literature/Institute for Biblical Research. Boston, MA, 2017.
  • June 2016 “A Logical Inconsistency in Jacob Milgrom’s View of the ḥaṭṭā`t Offering” for Post Graduate Research Conference. Trinity College, Bristol, U.K., 2016.
  • “The Pedagogy of Game Playing for Learning Biblical Hebrew” for Post Graduate Research Conference. Trinity College, Bristol, U.K., 2014.