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.
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.
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