Department News

Awards and Prizes to Religious Studies Faculty

and M.A. in Biblical Studies Graduates

Many congratulations to colleagues Dr. Dorothy Peters and Dr. Joel Lohr, and to M.A. in Biblical Studies graduates Mr. Fred Tappenden and Mr. Andy Perrin, who have recently received awards and prizes, as indicated in the details which follow.

Dr. Dorothy Peters, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity Western University, has been awarded the Harold Hyams Wingate Fellowship and will be the Harold Hyams Wingate Visiting Fellow for Michaelmas Term (October – December 2011) at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

The Fellowship is funding the research for Dr. Peters' book In Whose Hand the Sword? The Pursuit of Peace and Justice in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and will cover travel, accommodation, and a monthly stipend. During the tenure of the award, she will be working with other scholars at the University of Oxford and will be delivering several papers in Oxford and London.

Dr. Joel N. Lohr, Adjunct Member of the Department of Religious Studies at Trinity Western University, and presently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, is the recipient of the R.B.Y. Scott Book Award, given at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (CSBS), for his publication Chosen and Unchosen: Conceptions of Election in the Pentateuch and Jewish-Christian Interpretation (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 2. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2009). "This award recognizes an outstanding book in the areas of Hebrew Bible and/or the Ancient Near East written by a member of the CSBS and published during the previous two years” (see http://www.ccsr.ca/csbs/ScottAward.html).

Mr. Fred Tappenden, a 2007 graduate of the M.A. in Biblical Studies program at Trinity Western University, and currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Manchester, was awarded The Founders Prize, at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the CSBS for his essay “Imaging Resurrection: Toward an Image Schematic Understanding of Hellenistic Jewish Conceptualizations of Resurrection.” This graduate student essay prize is one of two awarded from among submissions which "must demonstrate graduate level research ability and show familiarity with the appropriate original languages and the modern languages of scholarly research" (see http://www.ccsr.ca/csbs/StudentPrizes.html).

Mr. Andrew Perrin, a 2009 graduate of the M.A. in Biblical Studies program at Trinity Western University, and currently a Ph.D. candidate at McMaster University, was a co-recipient with Dr. Daniel Machiela, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University, of the Norman E. Wagner Technology Award, awarded at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the CSBS. "This award recognizes the innovative use of technology relating to biblical scholarship” by members of the CSBS, and was given for the recipients’ computer work in relation to the Dead Sea Scrolls (see http://www.ccsr.ca/csbs/WagnerAward.html).