Faculty

	Abegg, Martin Professor of Religious Studies; Co-Director, Dead Sea Scrolls Institute Department: FHSS; School of Graduate Studies; Biblical Studies; Religious Studies; MA Biblical Studies Email: abegg@twu.ca Phone: 604-888-7511 ex. 3124 Expertise: Biblical Hebrew; Dead Sea Scrolls; Texts and versions of the Hebrew Bible
	Allert, Craig Associate Professor of Religious Studies and History; Chair, Religious Studies Department Department: FHSS; School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; History; Religious Studies; MA Biblical Studies Email: allert@twu.ca Expertise: Early Christianity, Church Fathers; Development of Christian doctrine; Evangelicalism; Formation of the New Testament canon; Historical theology; Justin Martyr.
	Broyles, Craig Professor of Religious Studies Department: FHSS; School of Graduate Studies; Religious Studies; Biblical Studies; MA Biblical Studies Email: broyles@twu.ca
	Büchner, Dirk Professor of Biblical Studies Department: School of Graduate Studies; Religious Studies; Biblical Studies; MA Biblical Studies Email: dirk.buchner@twu.ca Expertise: Hebrew Bible / Old Testament; Hebrew, Aramaic and Syriac (grammar and syntax); Hellenistic Greek (grammar and lexicography); The Septuagint. Of more popular interest: The Bible and Social Justice; Creationism, Scientism and the Bible: why there should be no conflict between mainstream science and Christian faith.
	Clarke, Kent Brooke Foss Westcott Professorship of New Testament Textual Criticism, Greek Studies, and Hermeneutics Department: FHSS; School of Graduate Studies; MA Biblical Studies; Religious Studies; Biblical Studies Email: kentc@twu.ca Expertise: New Testament Studies; New Testament Textual Criticism; New Testament Canon Formation; Greek Languages; Hermeneutics; and 18th-19th Century Enlightenment and Biblical Criticism
	Cummins, Tony Professor of Religious Studies; Director, M.A. in Biblical Studies Department: FHSS; School of Graduate Studies;Religious Studies; Biblical Studies; MA Biblical Studies Email: Tony.Cummins@twu.ca Expertise: New Testament - Jesus and the Gospels, Paul, and the theological interpretation of Scripture.
	Dawn, Jonathan Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Department: FHSS; Relgious Studies; Inter-Cultural Religious Studies Email: Jonathan.Dawn@twu.ca
	De Silva, Ivan Instructor in Religious Studies Department: FHSS; Religious Studies; Biblical Studies
	Flint, Peter W. Canada Research Chair of the Dead Sea Scrolls; Director, Dead Sea Scrolls Institute; Professor of Religious Studies Department: FHSS; School of Graduate Studies, Biblical Studies; Religious Studies; MA Biblical Studies Email: flint@twu.ca Expertise: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha; Biblical interpretation; Dead Sea Scrolls; Greek, Hebrew, and Semitic Languages; Isaiah, Psalms, Daniel; Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Septuagint; Textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible
	Hatina, Thomas R, Associate Professor of Religious Studies Department: FHSS; Religious Studies; MA Biblical Studies Email: thatina@twu.ca Expertise: Early Christian Gospels, Historical Jesus, Mythology and Historiography in Late Antiquity, New Testament Theology and Religion.
	Lohr, Joel N. (Department of Religious Studies) Department: Religious Studies Email: joel.lohr@twu.ca Expertise: The Pentateuch/Torah; Jewish-Christian Dialogue; Use of Scripture in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; History of Biblical Interpretation; Religious Education in the Academy
	Pepper, Joanne Assistant Professor of Religious Studies; Coordinator, Inter-Cultural Religious Studies Department: FHSS; Religious Studies; Inter-Cultural Religious Studies Email: jpepper@twu.ca Expertise: Eastern Europe; Eastern world religions; Global theologies; Missiology; Mission issues in Latin America and new religious movements; Religion, contextualization, and change; Teaching English as a second language (TESL); Western world religions; Women and the Bible/Theology; Women in the developing world; Yoga/ Hinduisim; Hindu ideology.
	Peters, Dorothy Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religious Studies; M.A. Biblical Studies. Department: School of Graduate Studies; Religious Studies; Biblical Studies; MA Biblical Studies Email: dorothy.peters@twu.ca Expertise: Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew Language, Gender and the Bible, Formative Judaism and Christianity
	Scott, Jim Professor of Religious Studies Department: FHSS; School of Graduate Studies; Religious Studies; Biblical Studies; MA Biblical Studies Email: scott@twu.ca
	Spencer, Archie () Department: Religious Studies Email: archie.spencer@twu.ca Expertise: Theology
	Stiles, Peter (Adjunct Professor) Department: English and Religious Studies Expertise: Australian Literature, Victorian Literature, Modern Christian Poetry, Literature and Theology, Creative Writing, Christian Education
	Toews, Casey Sessional Instructor in Religious Studies Department: FHSS; Religious Studies; Biblical Studies Email: casey.toews@twu.ca
	Townsend, Calvin Instructor in Political Studies and Religious Studies; Campus Liaison for the Laurentian Leadership Centre Department: Political Studies; Religious Studies, International Studies Email: Calvin.Townsend@twu.ca Expertise: Christian worldview; Christianity and the political order; Contemporary Christianity; Influential Christian thinkers in the Western tradition; Political philosophy