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Education:
Pennsylvania State University A.A. 1969-1971 (Letters, Arts & Science)
Wheaton College (Illinois) B.A. 1971-1973 (Near Eastern Archaeology)
University of Toronto M.A. 1973-1975 (Egyptian Archaeology)
Wycliffe College, Toronto Special Studies in Hebrew & Old Testament (1976-77)
University of Toronto Ph.D. 1977-1982 (Near Eastern Religions, major in Egyptian, minor in Israelite)
Archaeological Field Work:
1973 Bristol, Illinois - photographer & site supervisor
1975 East Karnak Excavations of the Akhenaten Temple Project
- photographer & site supervisor
1977 East Karnak Excavations of the Akhenaten Temple Project
- photographer & site supervisor
1994 Eastern Frontier Canal Survey, North Sinai - Project Director
1995 Eastern Frontier Canal Survey, North Sinai - Project Director
1999 Survey Season at Tell el-Borg, North Sinai - Project Director
2000 Tell el-Borg, North Sinai - excavations - Project Director
2001 Tell el-Borg, North Sinai - excavations - Project Director
2002 Tell el-Borg, North Sinai - excavations - Project Director
2004 Tell el-Borg, North Sinai - excavations - Project Director
2005 Tell el-Borg, North Sinai - excavations - Project Director
Museum Research:
1986 Researching Middle Kingdom coffins for publication at the Metropolitan Museum (New York), British Museum (London), Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), Liverpool Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), Cairo Museum, Mallawy Museum (Egypt), and Emory University Museum (Atlanta)
1988 Further coffin research was conducted at the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Liverpool Museum, and the Museum of the School of Oriental and Archaeological Studies, Liverpool.
1992 Research on Middle Kingdom Coffins and other historical inscriptions in the Louvre, Paris, and the State Museum in Leiden, Holland.
Teaching:
Richmond College (Ontario), Lecturer in Near Eastern History and Old Testament, 1976-1980.
Wheaton College (Illinois), Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Old Testament, 1980-1986.
Wheaton College (Illinois), Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Old Testament, 1986 to 1991.
Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Old Testament, May 1991 to 1999.
Wheaton College (Illinois), Chair of Graduate and Undergraduate Departments of Biblical, Theological, Religious and Archaeological Studies (1992-to 1998)
Trinity International University, Professor of Old Testament and Near Eastern Archaeology (1999-to the present)
Publications:
Books written & edited volumes:
1980-1983 Scripta Mediterranea (Bulletin of the Society for Mediterranean Studies, University of Toronto) [Editor].
1983 Egyptological Miscellanies: A Tribute to Professor Ronald J. Williams (Ancient World VI), [Co-editor with E.S. Meltzer].
1985 “Sacred” in the Vocabulary of Ancient Egypt, (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 59; Freiburg, Switzerland: Universitätsverlag).
1991 A New Commentary on the Whole Bible Based on Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Old Testament Revising Editor, Gen. Ed. J.D. Douglas (Wheaton: Tyndale) 1372 pages.
1994 Faith, Tradition, History: Old Testament Historiography in its Near Eastern Context [eds. A.R. Millard, J.K. Hoffmeier, and D.W. Baker], (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbraun).
1996 Israel in Egypt? The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press).
1999 Israel in Egypt? The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press - Paperback edition with revisions).
2003 The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methods and Assumptions (Eds. J.K Hoffmeier & A.R. Millard; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans)
2005 Ancient Israel in Sinai: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Wilderness Traditions (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, August 2005)
Articles:
1975 “Hunting Desert Game with the Bow: A Brief Examination,” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Newsletter VI, No. 2, 8-13.
1976 “The Hieroglyph { and the Egyptian Bowstring,” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Newsletter VI, No. 3, 6-11.
“The Evolving Chariot Wheel in the 18th Dynasty,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 13, 43-45.
1977 “Tents in Egypt and the Ancient Near East,” SSEA Newsletter VII, No. 3, 13-28.
1980 “Comments on an Unusual Hunt Scene from the New Kingdom,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities X, No. 3, 195-200.
1981 “Possible Origins of the Tent of Purification,” Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur IX,
167-177.
“A New Insight on Pharaoh Apries from Herodotus, Diodorus and Jeremiah 46:17,” JSSEA XI, No. 3,165-170.
1983 “Some Egyptian Motifs Related to Enemies and Warfare and their Old Testament Counterparts,” in Egyptological Miscellanies ... (Ancient World VI, 53-70).
“Some Thoughts on Genesis 1 & 2 and Egyptian Cosmology,” Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 15, 39-49.
1986 The Arm of God Versus the Arm of Pharaoh in the Exodus Narratives,” Biblica 67, No. 3, 378-387.
“Moses” in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia III, 415-425; “Mediterranean Sea” 306 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans).
1987 “Further Evidence for Infant Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East,” Review Biblical Archaeology XIII, No. 2, 60-61.
1988 “Quiver,” “Shihor,” “(Pharaoh) So,” “Stiff-necked,” “Straw,” “Taskmaster,” “Weapons of War,” and “Zipporah” in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia IV.
“A Relief of ‘the Chief of the Gang’ from Deir el-Medineh at Wheaton College,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 74, 217-220.
“Egypt as an Arm of Flesh: A Prophetic Response,” in Israel’s Apostasy and Restoration, ed. A. Gileadi (Grand Rapids: Baker) 79-97.
“The Chariot Scenes of Akhenaten at Karnak,” Akhenaten Temple Project II, Rwd-Mnw and Inscriptions, ed. D.B. Redford (Toronto: The University Press) 35-45.
1989 “Reconsidering Egypt's Part in the Termination of the Middle Bronze Age in Palestine,” Levant XXI, 181-193.
1989 “Exodus” in Evangelical Commentary on the Bible, ed. W. Elwell, (Grand Rapids: Baker).
1990 “Some Thoughts on William G. Dever’s “‘Hyksos,” Egyptian Destructions, and the End of the Palestinian Middle Bronze Age,” Levant XXII, 83-89.
1991 “James Weinstein’s ‘Egypt and the Middle Bronze IIC/Late Bronze IA: A Rejoinder’," Levant XXIII, 117-124.
“The Aftermath of David’s Triumph Over Goliath: the Text of 1 Samuel 17:54 in Light of Near Eastern Parallels,” Archaeology in the Biblical World I no.1, 18-23.
“The Coffins of the Middle Kingdom: The Residence and the Regions,” in Middle Kingdom Studies, ed. Stephen Quirke (Surrey, Kent: Sia Publishing) 69-86.
1992 “Plagues of Egypt,” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary Vol. 2 (Garden City, New York, Doubleday) 374-378.
“The Wives’ Tales of Genesis 12, 20, & 26 and the Covenants at Beersheba,” Tyndale Bulletin 43.1, 81-99.
“The Problem of ‘History’ in Egyptian Royal Inscriptions” in VI. Congresso Internazionale di Egittologia Atti (ed. S. Curto; Turin) 291-299.
1993 “The Use of Basalt on the Floors of Some Old Kingdom Pyramid Complexes,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 30, 117-123.
1994 “The Structure of Joshua 1-11 and the Annals of Thutmose III” in Faith, Tradition, History: Old Testament Historiography in its Near Eastern Context, eds. A.R. Millard, J.K. Hoffmeier, and D.W. Baker (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbraun) 165-179.
“The Egyptians” in Peoples of the Old Testament World (Eds. E. Yamauchi, G. Mattingly & A. Hoerth; Grand Rapids: Baker) 251-290.
1995 “Of Minimalists and Maximalists,” BAR 21 no. 2, 20-22.
“The Recently Discovered Tell Dan Inscription: Controversy & Confirmation,” Archaeology in the Biblical World 3 (1995) 12-15.
“The Archaeological Salvage Work in Northern Sinai” Archaeology in the Biblical World 3 (1995) 3-4.
1996 “Are There Regionally-Based Theological Differences in the Coffin Texts?” in The World of the Coffin Texts: Proceedings of the Symposium Held on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Honor Adriaan de Buck, (ed. Harco Willems; Leiden: Nederlands Institut voor het Nabije Oosten) 45-54.
1997 “Son of God From Pharaoh to Israel’s Kings to Jesus,” Bible Review (June 1997) 44-49, 54.
“King Lists, Historiography,” in The Context of Scripture Vol 1 (ed. W.W. Hallo; Leiden: Brill, 1997) 68-73.
“The Evangelical Contribution to Understanding the (Early) History of Ancient Israel in Recent Scholarship” Bulletin for Biblical Research 7 (1997) 1-14.
“Egypt,” “Joseph,” “Plagues of Egypt,” “reed,” “fish, fishing,” “flax linen,” in New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis (Ed. W. VanGemeren; Grand Rapids: Zondervan)
“The King as God’s Son in Egypt and Israel,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 24 (1994/ published in 1997) 28-38.
1998 “Once Again the ‘Plumb Line’ Vision of Amos: An Interpretive Clue from Egypt?” in Boundaries of the Ancient Near Eastern World: A Tribute to Cyrus H. Gordon (ed. Meir Lubetski, et. al.: Sheffield Academic Press) 304-319.
1999 “Chariots,” in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (Ed. K. Bard; New York/London: Routledge) 193-195
2000 “The Heavens Declare the Glory of God: The Limits of General Revelation,” Trinity Journal 21 NS, No. 1 (Spring 2000), 17-24
2001 “The Biography of Ahmose son of Ebana,” “The Annals of Thutmose III,” “The Gebel Barkal Stela of Thutmose III,” “The Armant Stela of of Thutmose III,” The Memphis and Karnak Stelae of Amenhotep II,” “The (Israel) Stela of Merneptah” in The Context of Scripture Volume II (Ed. W.W. Hallo; Leiden: Brill) 5-22, 40-41
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (ed. D.B. Redford; New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press) “Fate,” Volume I, 507-508; “Israel,” Volume II, 194-196; “Military, Materiel,” Volume II, 406-412.
2002 “Understanding Hebrew and Egyptian Military Texts: A Contextual Approach,” The Context of Scripture III: Archival Documents from the Biblical World (Eds. W.W. Hallo & K.L. Younger; Leiden: Brill, 2002) xxi-xxvii.
2003 “Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt,” in Life and Culture in the Ancient Near East (eds. R. Averbeck, M. Chavalas & D. Weisberg; Bethesda: CDL Press, 2003) 327-351.
Egypt’s Role in the Events of 701 B.C. in Jerusalem,” in Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (eds. Andrew G. Vaughn & Ann E. Killebrew; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature) 219-234.
“Egypt’s Role in the Events of 701 B.C.: A Rejoinder to J.J.M. Roberts,” in Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (eds. Andrew G. Vaughn & Ann E. Killebrew; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature) 285-89.
“A New Military Site on ‘the Ways of Horus’ -- Tell el-Borg 1999-2001: A Preliminary Report,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol. 89, 169-97.
2004 “Aspects of Egyptian Foreign Policy in the 18th Dynasty in Western Asia and Nubia” in Egypt, Israel, and the Ancient Mediterranean World: Stuides in Honor of Donald B. Redford (eds. Gary Knoppers & Antoine Hirsch; Leiden; Brill) 121-141.
“The North Sinai Archaeological Project’s Excavations at Tell el-Borg (Sinai): An Example of the ‘New’ Biblical Archaeology?” in The Future of Biblical Archaeology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans) 53-68.
2005 “The Walls of the Ruler in Egyptian Literature and the Archaeology Record: Investigating Egypt’s Eastern Frontier I the Bronze Age,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 337 (2005).
“The Sojourn in Egypt and the Exodus in and Egyptian Perspective,” Biblical Archaeology Review (2005)
“Tell el-Borg on Egypt’s Eastern Frontier: A Preliminary Report on the 2002 and 2004 Seasons,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (2005).
“New Paleo-Environmental Evidence from North Sinai to Complement Manfred Bietak’s Map of the Eastern Delta and Some Historical Implications,” in the Manfred Bietak Festschrift (Vienna: University of Vienna Press) co-authored with Stephen O. Moshier.
Book Reviews:
1977 K.A. Kitchen, The Bible in Its World (Downers Grove, IVP, 1977) in JSSEA VIII No. 3, 99-102.
1988 Lise Manniche, City of the Dead: Thebes in Egypt (Chicago: University Press, 1987) in Near Archaeological Society Bulletin 30, 107-109.
John Baines, Fecundity Figures (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1985) in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 75, 255-56.
1989 Cyril Aldred, The Egyptians [Revised], (London: Thames & Hudson, 1987) and Christine Hobson, The World of the Pharaohs (London: Thames & Hudson, 1987) in Biblical Archaeologist 53, no. 1, 41-43.
1991 William McKissic, Beyond Roots: In Search of Blacks in the Bible (Wenonah, NJ; Renaissance, 1990), in Archaeology in the Biblical World 1, no. 1, 56-59.
1992 Ashraf Iskander Sadek, Popular Religion in Egypt during the New Kingdom (Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Beitäge 27, 1987), in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 78, 338-339.
1993 Peter James, Centuries of Darkness (London: Jonathan Cape; 1991) in Biblical Archaeology Review 19 no 6, 6-10.
William H. Steibing, Jr., Out of the Desert? Archaeology and the Exodus/Conquest Narratives (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1989) in Ashland Theological Journal (1993) 132-135.
1994 Catherine Rommelaere, Les Chevaux Du Nouvel Empire Égyptien: Origines, Races, Harnachement (Bruselles: Connaissance de l'Égypte Ancienne, 1992) in Journal of the American Research Center 30, 228-229.
Ahmed Osman, Stranger in the Valley of the Kings (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987) in Archaeology in the Biblical World 2 no. 2, 52-53.
1997 Nili Shupak, Where can Wisdom be Found? The Sage’s Language in the bible and in Ancient Egyptian Literature (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 130; Freiburg, Switzerland: Universitätsverlag, 1993) in Hebrew Studies. 38 (1997) 159-1-62.
1998 William J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (SBL Writings from the Ancient World Series; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995) for Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (Summer 1998) 337-339.
2000 Fredrick J. Giles, The Amarna Age: Western Asia (The Australian Centre for Egyptology: Studies 5, 1997) in Bibliotheca Orientalis No 5/6, September-December 2000, 577-579.
2002 William Dever, What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? (Eerdmans, 2001) in Hebrew Studies.
2003 Amihai Mazar (ed.), Studies in Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan (JSOT Sup 331, Sheffield, 2001) in Bulletin of the Institute for Biblical Research 13.1 (2003), 290-94.
Scholarly Papers presented:
"The Possible Origins of the Tent of Purification in Egyptian Religion", at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (April 28, 1979).
"Reconsidering the Evidence for the Hyksos Introduction of the Chariot into Egypt", at the Society for Mediterranean Studies Annual Conference, University of Toronto (March 14, 1981).
"A New Insight on Pharaoh Apries", at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Boston (March 14, 1981).
"Akhenaton's Theban Temples Rediscovered: The East Karnak Excavations 1975-1977", Annual Meeting of the Near East Archaeological Society, Toronto (December 30, 1981).
"Admonitions of Ipuwer 6,5: A New Interpretation", at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, University of Texas, Austin (March 27, 1982).
"Akhenaton at Karnak", ALPHA, Friends of Antiquity Lecture, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (April 19, 1982) - by invitation.
"New Kingdom Chariotry", Northern Illinois University, Graduate Seminar for Art History Department (April 20, 1982).
"Dsr, Its Root Meaning and Semantic Development", Third International Congress of Egytpology, Toronto, Ontario (September 1982).
"Egyptian and Hebrew Genesis," Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, Toronto, Onatrio (November 1982)
"Hebrew Prophetic Response to Egyptian-Israelite Relations During the Early Monarchy," Society of Bibilical Literature Mid-West Regional Meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington (Feb. 21, 1984).
"Reconsidering Egypt's Part in the Termination of the middle Bronze Age in Palestine," at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Museum of Art, Cleveland (April 1984).
"Technical Aspects of Egyptian Art," ALPHA, Friends of Antiquity Lecture, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (October 16, 1984) - by invitation.
"The Arm of God Versus the Arm of Pharaoh in the Exodus Narrative," Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, IL (December 1984).
"Religion in the Art of Akhenaton & Nefertiti", ALPHA, Friends of Antiquity Lecture, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (March 7, 1985).
"Amos 7-9: A Literary Unit?" Society of Bibilical Literature Mid-West Regional Meeting, Northwestern University (March 11, 1985).
"Some Egyptian Objects at Wheaton College," at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, New York University (April 26, 1985).
"Some Chariot Scenes of Akhenaton from Karnak," Fourth International Congress of Egyptology, Munich, W. Germany (August 31, 1985)
"Christianity and Egypt," 11th Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, University of Toronto (November 30, 1985) - by invitation.
"Some Inscribed Egyptian Objects at Wheaton College II," at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Washington, D.C. (April 28, 1986).
"The Hymns to Aten: Their Antecedents & Implications," at the Amarna Centennial Symposium, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (February 1987).
"Moses Versus Pharaoh: An Egyptologist's Perspective," at the Horn Museum Lecture Series, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI (March 9, 1987).
"Egyptian Toponyms and the 'Exodus'" at the Symposium "Who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus," sponsored by the Near East Archaeological Society, Memphis, TN (April 23, 1987) - by invitation.
"A Preliminary Report on Some Unpublished Middle Kingdom Coffins in England and Egypt," at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Memphis, TN (April 25, 1987).
"The Plagues of Egypt: An Egyptian Perspective," at the Annual Meeting of the Near East Archaeological Society, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Wenham, MA. (November 19, 1987).
"The Covenants of Abraham and Isaac with Abimelech in Genesis 21 and 26," at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literture, Boston, MA (November 20, 1987).
"The Coffins of the Middle Kingdom: The Residence and the Regions," Colloquium on the Middle Kingdom: The Residence and the Regions at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, (April 29, 1988) - by invitation.
"Lexical Considerations on the Nature of Egyptian Military Activity in Asia in the Early 18th Dynasty," Fifth International Congress of Egyptology in Cairo, Egypt (October 30, 1988).
"Egyptian Reflections on Palestine and its People in the Early 2nd Millennium," at the Wheaton College Annual Archaeology Conference (November 11, 1988).
"The Peoples of the Old Testament World: The Egyptians," at the Wheaton College Annual Archaeology Conference (November 11, 1989).
"The Aftermath of David's Triumph Over Goliath: the Text of 1 Samuel 17:54 in Light of Near Eastern Parallels," Near East Archaeological Society Annual meeting, San Deigo, CA (November 1989).
"The Origins and Religious Significance of the Egyptian Vaulted Coffin Lid," at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Berkeley, CA. (April 1990).
"Second Thoughts on Laying to Rest the "Reed Sea" Hypothesis: A Response to Bernard Batto," at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, LA (November 19, 1990).
"Further Insights on Pharaoh Apries: A Perspective on the 26th Dynasty From the Hebrew Bible," at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Boston, Mass. (April 28, 1991).
"The Problem of 'History' in Royal Inscriptions of the New Kingdom," at the Sixth International Congress of Egyptology, Turin, Italy (September 1-6, 1991).
"Once Again, The Route of the Exodus," The 36th Annual Archaeology Conference at Wheaton College (November 12, 1991)
"The Egyptian Historical and Political Background to Ezekiel 17:15-20," Near East Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City (November 22, 1991)
"The Structure of Joshua 1-11 and the Annals of Thutmose III," at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Kansas City (November 23, 1991).
"Why Was Different Colored Rock Used in the Floors of Some Old Kingdom Pyramid Complex Structures?" at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (April 25, 1992).
Chaired panel a discussion of D.B. Redford’s, Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times (Princeton 1992) at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, in San Francisco (November 24, 1992).
"Are There Regionally-Based Theological Differences in the Coffin Texts?" at "The World of the Coffin Texts Colloquiium in Honor of the Centenary of Professor Adriaan de Buck," Leiden University (December 19, 1992) - by invitation.
"Further Investigation of the Ancient Egyptian, Eastern Frontier Canal: A Research Proposal," at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting in Baltimore (April 24, 1993).
"The Hymns to the Aten: Their Antecedents and Implications," at The Akhenaten Temple Project Symposium: In the Time of the Heretic King at the University of Toronto (May 6, 1993) - by invitation.
"The Origin of Israel from and Egyptological Perspective" Near East Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, Colloquium on the Origin of Israel, Tysons Corner,VA. (Nov. 19, 1993) - by invitation.
"Recent Developments in Historiogrpahy: Implications for the Study of Egyptian "Historical" and Old Testament Texts" at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, in Washington, D.C. (November 21, 1993).
“In Search of the ‘Eastern Frontier Canal’: A Report on Explorations in the North Eastern Delta and Sinai (Winter 1994)” Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Toronto, Ontario (April 29, 1994).
“Recent Explorations in North Sinai: Some Possible Implications for the Biblical Exodus Tradition,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in Chicago (November 21, 1994).
“Archaeological Explorations in North Sinai: In Search of the Eastern Frontier Canal,” ARCE North Texas/Archaeology Institute of America,” February 23, 1995 - in Arlintgon, TX (February 24, 1995) - by invitation.
“The Multicultrual/Multi-Ethnic World of the Old Testament,” Heritage and Hope Conference in Arlintgon, TX (February 24, 1995) - by invitation.
“The Eastern Frontier Canal Project: North Sinai 1994-95,” at the International Congress of Egyptologists in Cambridge, Englandπ (September 6, 1995)
“The King as God’s Son in Egypt and Israel,” at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in Philadelphia (November 1995)
“Further Investigation of the Ancient Egyptian Eastern Frontier Canal: North Sinai 1994-1995, at the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, September 1995. (This paper was voted first runner up to the best interdisciplinary presentation of the congress).
“The King as God’s Son in Egypt and Israel,” at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings in Philadelphia (November 1995)
“Some Grammatically Based Geo-Political Observations from the Victory Hymn in the Merneptah Stela,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting in St. Louis (April 12, 1996)
“The Evangelical Contribution to Understanding the (Early) History of Ancient Israel in Recent Scholarship” November 23, 1996 in New Orleans- by invitation.
“Egyptian Foreign Policy in Western Asia During the 18th Dynasty,” at Mid-West Regional Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research and Society of Biblical Literature, February 17, 1997 at Wheaton College.
Lecturer for the Archaeology Institute of Australia, 11 lectures given, March 11-15, 1997
• Moore College, “Israel in Egypt”
• Sydney Unversity, Dept. of Archaeology & Classics Seminar, “Egyptian Foreign Policy in Western Asia During the 18th Dynasty”
• Macquarie University, “Recent Explorations in Sinai" and "A Visit to to Unvisited Pyramids”
• Southern Cross Bible College, “Israel in Egypt?”
• University of Melbourne, Dept. of Classics & Archaeology “Egyptian Foreign Policy in the 18th Dynasty”
• Bible College of Victoria, “Recent Explorations in Sinai: Implications for Israelite Exodus"
• Ridley College, “Israel in Egypt” and “Recent Explorations in Sinai : Implications for Israelite Exodus”
• Flinders Petrie Oration, Melbourne University, “Recent Explorations in Sinai: Implications for Israelite Exodus”
• Ancient Times House, "A Visit to Unvisited Pyramids"
“Ancient Tjaru: Tell Abu Sefeh or Tell Hebua?” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, April 10, 1997.
“The Plumb Line Vision of Amos: An Egyptian Motif?” the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, San Fransisco, November 23, 1997.
“Egypt and the Other in the Eighteenth Dynasty: An Examination of Egypt’s Foreign Policy in the Levant and Nubia from Ahmose to Thutmose III,” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting at U.C.L.A., April 25, 1998.
“Recent Explorations in Northern Sinai: Implications for the Hebrew Exodus,” the James Henry Breasted Lecture of the American Institute of Archaeology at Rockford College, September 23, 1998. - by invitation.
“Psalm 104 and the Hymns to the Aten,” at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, Orlando, November 21, 1998.
“The East Frontier Archaeological Project in Sinai, 1998 and Beyond,” at the American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 24, 1999.
“Work and Leisure in Ancient Egypt” at the Annual Archaeology Conference at Wheaton College, November 12, 1999. -by invitation.
“A New New Kingdom/Late Bronze Fort on Egypt’s Eastern Frontier?” at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Boston, November 19, 1999.
“Scripture and the Monuments: Egypt” at the Mid-West SBL/ASOR Meetings at the University of Chicago, February 11, 2000. - by invitation.
“A Recently Discovered New Kingdom Site in North Sinai: Tell el-Borg,” at the International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, March 30, 2000.
“The Exodus form Egypt: An Egyptologists Perspective,” at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta,GA - by invitation.
“Tell el-Borg: A New LBA/New Kingdom Site in Northern Sinai,” at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual Meetings, Nashville, November 17, 2000.
“Egypt’s Role in the Events of 701 B.C. in Jerusalem” at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, Nashville, 19, 2000.
“Recent Excavations at Tell el-Borg,” The Egypt Exploration Society, Cairo, March 23, 2001 - by invitation.
“Recent Explorations on the ‘Ways of Horus’: The 2000 and 2001 Seasons at Tell el-Borg,” the American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meetings, Brown University (Providence, RI) March 30, 2001.
“Israel in Egypt” A Look at the Archaeological Evidence,” Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University, Provo - October 12, 2001 - by invitation.
“From Joseph to Moses - How Does an Egyptian Archaeologist Look at the Bible and Read the Text”? The Simmons Family Charitable Foundation Twelfth Annual Program in Biblical Archaeology, The University of Judaism, Los Angeles, November 5, 2001 - by invitation.
“Recent Explorations on the ‘Ways of Horus’: The 2000 and 2001 Seasons at Tell el-Borg,” Horn Archaeological Museum Archaeological Lectureship, Andrews University, November 12, 2001 - by invitation.
“The 2001 Season at Tell el-Borg,” ASOR Annual Meetings, Boulder, CO., (November 2001).
“The 2002 Season at Tell el-Borg,” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meetings, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (April 28, 2002).
“New Light on the Ways of Horus: Tell el-Borg 1999-2002,” The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Lecture series, University of Toronto ( November 18, 2002).
“’The Walls of the Rulers’ in Egyptian Literature and the Archaeological Record,” ASOR Annual Meetings, Toronto, Ontario (November 20, 2002). - by invitation.
“Egyptologists and the Exodus,” SBL Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario (November 21, 2002).
“Some Preliminary Observations about New Kingdom history: Excavations at Tell el-Borg Since 2000,” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meetings, Atlanta, GA (April 25, 2003).
“The Exodus from Egypt: New Evidence from Archaeology,” Biblical Archaeology Lecture Series, Queens College, NY (October 20, 2003) - by invitation.
“The Exodus from Egypt in the Light of Recent Archaeological Explorations” Miami University (OH), American Institute of Archaeology/ History Department (October 31, 2004) - by invitation.
“The Exodus from Egypt in the Light of Recent Archaeological Explorations,” Covenant Theological Seminary, Archaeology Club (November 7, 2004) - by invitation.
“The Exodus from Egypt in the Light of Recent Archaeological Explorations,” Asbury Theological Seminary (November 14, 2004).
Some Preliminary Observations about New Kingdom history: Excavations at Tell el-Borg Since 2000,” ASOR Annual Meetings, Atlanta, GA (November 20, 2003)
“The Exodus from Egypt in the Light of Recent Archaeological Explorations,” Biblical Archaeology Fest of the Biblical Archaeology Society, Atlanta, GA (November 21, 2003)
“New Light on the Route of the Exodus,” New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (December 7, 2004) - by invitation.
“Geography of the Book of Exodus: The Pitfalls and Promises of Site Identification in Egypt” at a Symposium held at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY (January 2004) - by invitation.
“Tell el-Borg on the ‘Ways of Horus’: the 2004 Season,” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meetings, University of Arizona (April 17, 2004)
“The Ways of Horus” Clarified: Recent Excavations at Tell el-Borg, North Sinai,” The 9th International Congress of Egyptologists, Grenoble, France (September 2004)
“The Exodus From Egypt: Recent Archaeological Evidence?” Evangelical Theological Society, San Antonio (November 18, 2004) - by invitation.
“Egypt’s LBA Fort on the Eastern Frontier: Tell el-Borg 2004,” American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting (November 19, 2004)
Two lectures for the Center for the Study of Antiquity, Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids, MI. (March 16-17, 2005) - by invitation.
Three lectures for symposium sponsored by the Danish Biblical Archaeology Society in Copenhagen (May 21-23, 2005) - by invitation.
“Recent Excavations at Tell el-Borg, Sinai: The Ways of Horus Revealed,” at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen (May 26, 2005) - by invitation.
Organization of Conferences and Colloquia:
Organized consultation “Egyptology and the History and Culture of Ancient Israel” for the 1990 Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature in New Orleans, LA.
Organized consultation “Egyptology and the History and Culture of Ancient Israel” for the1991 Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature in Kansas City, MO.
1990 McManis Lectureship (“Faith, Tradition, and History”) and Symposium (Old Testament Historiography in its Near Eastern Context), Wheaton College.”
Program Chair for “Egyptology and the History and Culture of Ancient Israel” Group, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, in San Francisco 1992.
Organized colloquium “Critical Approaches to Comparable Biblical and Egyptian Literature” at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, in Washington, D.C (November 20, 1993).
Organized colloquium “The Origins of Israel: Egyptian Perspectives” at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, in Chicago, IL, November 19, 1994.
Organized colloquium “Religious and Ideological Foundations of Egyptian and Israelite Monarchy: Kingship,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings Philadelphia (November 1995)
Organized colloquium “The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methods and Presuppositions” at Trinity International University, August 12-14, 2001.
Society Memberships:
International Association of Egyptology
Egypt Exploration Society (London)
Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (Toronto)
American Research Center in Egypt
Society of Biblical Literature
Institute for Biblical Research
Near East Archaeological Society
Courses Taught:
Ancient Near Eastern Religions
Ancient Near Eastern History
Old Testament Literature
Introduction to the Old Testament
Book studies in Genesis, Exodus, Jeremiah
Prophetic Literature
Hebrew Exegesis
Old Testament Theology
Archaeology and the Old Testament
Origins of Israel
Egypt and the Bible
Ancient Egypt
Introduction to Middle Egyptian
Egyptian Religious Texts
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