Dr. Darlene Seal is the Assistant Professor New Testament. She holds a PhD in Christian theology and biblical studies: New Testament from McMaster Divinity College, a master’s degree in New Testament from Denver Seminary, and a bachelor’s degree in Christian studies from Ouachita Baptist University. Seal has served as a lecturer in Greek at McMaster Divinity College and as adjunct professor at McMaster Divinity College and Denver Seminary.
In Perspective: Old Testament God vs. New Testament God
Monographs
- Craig L. Blomberg and Darlene M. Seal, with Alicia S. Duprée. From Pentecost to Patmos: An Introduction to Acts through Revelation. 2nd ed. Nashville: B & H, 2021.
Journal Articles
- “The Intersectionality of Gender and Slavery: Paul’s Social Creativity within an Unchangeable System.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2025 (in press).
- “Scriptural Re-Interpretation and Social Identity Negotiation in the Corinthian Letters.” Religions 14.10 (2023), 1219. DOI: 10.3390/rel14101219
Essays in Edited Volumes
- “Jesus and Paul.” In What is This Thing Called Christianity? ed. Anthony Bolos, Jim Watkins, and Richard Middleton. Milton Park: Routledge. Under contract.
- “Conflict, Covenant, and the Corinthians: Paul’s Appeals to Jeremiah in the Corinthian Letters.” In Jeremiah in the New Testament, ed. Seth Ehorn. LNTS. T & T Clark, forthcoming.
- “The Septuagint as Translation: The Intersection of Barr’s Semantics and Septuagint Studies.” In James Barr Assessed, edited by Stanley E. Porter. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
- “The Postcolonial Criticism of R. S. Sugirtharajah.” In Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 3: Further Essays on Prevailing Methods, edited by Stanley E. Porter and Zachary K. Dawson. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2021.
- “The Form Criticism of Vincent Taylor.” In Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 3: Further Essays on Prevailing Methods, edited by Stanley E. Porter and Zachary K. Dawson. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2021.
- Craig L. Blomberg, with Darlene M. Seal. “The Historical Jesus in Recent Evangelical Scholarship.” In Jesus, Skepticism, and the Problem of History: Criteria and Context in the Study of Christian Origins, edited by Darrell L. Bock and J. Ed Komoszewski, 43–66. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2019.
Book Reviews
- Review of Michael Gorman, Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission, in Denver Journal 19 (2016), accessible at www.denverseminary.edu/the-denver-journal/2016.
Encyclopedia Articles
- (Co-authored with Craig L. Blomberg) “James, Epistle of (Modern Europe and America, 1600–Present).” In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, edited by Dale C. Allison, Jr., et al., vol. 13. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2016.
- “Neither Colonialism nor Pluralism: Lesslie Newbigin as Prophetic Guide for Faithful Mission.” Annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in San Antonio, TX, November 2023. Session: Public Theology.
- “‘These Things Were Written for Us’: Scriptural Re-Interpretation and Social Creativity in the Corinthian Letters.” Annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Denver, CO, November 2022. Session: Writing Social-Scientific Commentaries (invited).
- “Shaping Social Identity through Language: A Methodological Proposal and Application to 1 Cor 10:1–22 in its Discourse Context.” Annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Denver, CO, November 2022. Session: Greek Language and Linguistics (invited).
- “The Intersectionality of Gender and Slavery: Paul’s Social Creativity within an Unchangeable System.” Annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Fort Worth, TX, November 2021 (deferred from 2020). Session: Greco-Roman Backgrounds (invited).
- “Prophetic Dialogue: Shepherd Allusions in Old Greek Zech 9–14 and Their Role in the Discourse.” Annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in San Diego, CA, November 2019. Session: Septuagint.
- “Negotiating Christian Identity: A Social Identity Analysis of Paul’s Strategy in 1 Corinthians 10:1–22.” Annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Denver, CO, November 2018. Session: Pauline Literature.
- “Participation with Christ: A New Status and a New Role for a New Creation People.” Regional meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society of Ontario/Quebec Region, October 2016.