Dorothy M. Peters Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religious Studies; M.A. Biblical Studies.

Department: School of Graduate Studies; Religious Studies; Biblical Studies; MA Biblical Studies

Area of Expertise: Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew Language, Gender and the Bible, Formative Judaism and Christianity

Research: Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls; History of Traditions and Literary Readings

Education: Education: B.A., M.A. (Trinity Western); M.St. (Oxon); Ph.D.(Manchester)

Currently on research leave as Harold Hyam Wingate Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, a recognized independent centre of the University of Oxford.

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

Founding Member of the Gender Studies Institute (Trinity Western University)
Society of Biblical Literature
B.C. College of Teachers

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Book

Noah Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Conversations and Controversies of Antiquity. Society of Biblical Literature Early Judaism and its Literature series 26. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008.

Journal Articles and Essays

“Beatitudes.” In the T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by George J. Brooke and Charlotte Hempel. T&T Clark. Forthcoming.

“Dead Sea Scrolls” and “Essenes.” Articles for the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels 2. Edited by Daniel G. Reid. Intervarsity Press. Forthcoming.

“Noah Traditions Within the Cultural Mosaic at Qumran: Multilingual Conversations and Controversies.” In Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Canadian Collection. Edited by Jean Duhaime, Peter W. Flint, and Kyung S. Baek. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature and Brill Academic Publishers. Forthcoming.

“The Scrolls and Scriptures on the Margins:Remembered in Canon and Forgotten in Caves.” In The World of Jesus and the Early Church: Identity and Interpretation in Early Communities of Faith. Edited by Craig A. Evans. Hendrickson Publishers, forthcoming.

"The Recombination and Evolution of Noah Traditions as Found in the Genesis Apocryphon and Jubilees: The DNA of Fraternal Twins." Pages 223-232 in Qumran Cave 1 Revisited. Texts from Cave 1 Sixty Years after Their Discovery: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the IOQS in Ljubljana, Edited by Daniel K. Falk, Sarianna Metso, Donald W. Parry, and Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

"Joseph, Apocryphon of (4Q371 and 4Q342)." In the Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism. Edited by John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2010.

" ‘Atoning for the Land' in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Day of Atonement Reinterpreted." Studies in Biblical Law. Edited by George J. Brooke; Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement Series 25. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010.

“The Primacy and the Shunning of a Priestly Noah in 4QCommentary on Genesis A-D and the Damascus Document at Qumran.” Pages 301-209 in With Wisdom as a Robe: Qumran and Other Jewish Studies in Honour of Ida Frölich. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009.

"Noah Traditions in Jubilees: Evidence for the Struggle between Enochic and Mosaic Authority." Henoch 31 (2009/1):116-122.

"The Tension between Enoch and Noah in the Aramaic Enoch Texts at Qumran." Henoch 29/1 (2007): 13-30.

"Noah." In Forschungsstelle Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer). Forthcoming.

Book Reviews

Review of Michael E. Stone, Aryeh Amihai and Vered Hillel, editors, Noah and His Book(s).Journal of Jewish Studies. Forthcoming.

Review of William Loader, Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality: Attitudes Towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, The Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees. In the Toronto Journal of Theology 24 (2008/2): 267-269.

Review of David R. Jackson, Enochic Judaism: Three Defining Paradigm Exemplars. Journal of Semitic Studies 53/2 (2008):348-350.

Review of Gabriele Boccaccini, Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection. Journal of Semitic Studies 53/1 (2008): 172-175.

Review of Vor uns die Sintflut: Studien zu Text, Kontexten und Rezeption der Fluterzählung Genesis 6-9. Society of Old Testament Booklist 2006.

Short notice on Hagit Amirav, Rhetoric and Tradition: John Chrysostom on Noah and the Flood. Journal of Semitic Studies 50/2 (2005): 422-423.

Review of Carol M. Kaminski, From Noah to Israel: Realization of the Primaeval Blessing after the Flood. Society of Old Testament Booklist 2005.

Review of Ellen M. Herron, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Catalog of the Exhibition of Scrolls and Artifacts. Society of Old Testament Booklist 2004.

Review of David J. Pleins, When the Great Abyss Opened: Classic and Contemporary Readings of Noah's Flood. Society of Old Testament Booklist 2004.

Papers Presented

"In Whose Hand the Sword?: War and Peace at Qumran." Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November 22, 2010.

"Hospitality and Violence Towards the 'Outsider': From Torah to Qumran." Paper presented to the International Organization of Qumran Studies Congress in Helsinki, August 2, 2010.

"The Inside Story on the Enemy Outsider: Scriptural Lament Reshaped within the Thanksgiving Psalms at Qumran." Paper presented to the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting in Tartu, Estonia, July 28, 2010.

"The Bilingual Noah at Qumran: A Builder or Bridges or Walls?" Presented at Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, March 8, 2010.

“ ‘Once Again You Shall See the Difference Between the Righteous and the Wicked’:A Proposed Reunification of 4QCommentary on Malachi and 4QCommentary on Genesis B.” Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 25, 2008.

"Noah Traditions Within the Cultural Mosaic at Qumran: Bilingual Conversations and Controversies." Paper presented to the Dead Sea Scrolls Symposium 2007, Trinity Western University, Langley, B.C., October 12, 2007.

"The Recombination and Evolution of Noah Traditions as Found in the Genesis Apocryphon and Jubilees: The DNA of Fraternal Twins." Paper presented to the VIth Congress of the International Organization of Qumran Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 16, 2007.

"Noah Traditions in Jubilees: Evidence for the Struggle between Enochic and Mosaic Authority." Paper presented to the biennial meeting of the Enoch Seminar, Camaldoli, Italy, July 2007.

"Noah Traditions in the Hebrew and Aramaic Texts at Qumran: Evidence for Mosaic, Enochic and ‘Levi-tic' Authority." Paper presented to the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Congress, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 2007.

"Prototypical ‘Noahs' in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Tensions between Enochic and Mosaic Sources of Revelation." Presented to the M.A. in Biblical Studies Department Seminar, March 2007.

"Noah in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Summary of Re-contextualizations and Reinterpretations." Presented to the West Coast Qumran Study Group, Seattle, Washington, October 2006.

"The Tension Between Enoch and Noah in the Aramaic Enoch Texts at Qumran." Paper presented to the Graduate Enoch Seminar, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2-4, 2006.

"Noah the ‘Righteous' in the Genesis Apocryphon: Enoch's Noah Rebiblicized?" Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature Conference, Philadelphia, November 2005.

"The Use of ‘Atoning for the Land' at Qumran: a Trajectory of Progressive Differentiation between Insiders and Outsiders." Presented to the Manchester/Sheffield-Lausanne/Geneva Meeting of The Bible and Law, University of Sheffield and University of Manchester, May 10, 2005.

"The Use of ‘Atoning for the Land' at Qumran: a Trajectory of Progressive Differentiation between Insiders and Outsiders." Presented to the Third Annual Meeting of the West Coast Qumran Group, Trinity Western University and Mayne Island, B.C., October 2004.