Doctoral Candidate Faculty of Divinity University of Cambridge Fitzwilliam College (Work:) Desk 3, Tyndale House 36 Selwyn Gardens Cambridge, CB3 9BA WilliamRoss27@gmail.com williamaross.wordpress.com UK Mobile: +44 7468 319774 US Mobile: +215-219-7577 (Home:) 35 Emery Street The Denmark House Cambridge, CB1 2AX EDUCATION University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 2014 2017 Cambridge Trust Scholar Doctoral Candidate (Faculty of Divinity), Old Testament Biblical Studies Westminster Theological Seminary Philadelphia, PA May 2014 Masters of Divinity, General Studies Grove City College Grove City, PA May 2009 Bachelors of Science Academic Dean s List 2008-2009 Cum Laude Other Study: Trinity Western University (ACTS) Vancouver, BC 27-31 May 2013 RELS 681 Current Issues in Septuagint Study The John William Wevers Institute for Septuagint Studies Drs. Larry Perkins, Robert Hiebert, Dirk Büchner, and Peter Flint Universidad Menéndez Pelayo Sevilla, España February May 2007 Estudios Internacionales Sobresaliente DISSERTATION Title: Right in Their Own Eyes: The Vocabulary of Old Greek Judges and its Later Revision Supervisor: Dr James Aitken (Temporary: Dr Peter J. Williams) Registration Assessment Passed: August 2015 Evaluators: Dr Simon Gathercole (Divinity), Dr Patrick James (Classics) Anticipated Date of Completion: Summer 2017
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Greek Collections Marker University of Cambridge Jan. 15 present Faculty of Divinity Responsible for collecting and grading all first year undergraduate Greek examinations, and generating individualized feedback for student improvement to Directors of Study and Greek tutors. Teaching Assistant in NT Westminster Theological Seminary Feb. 12 May 14 Department of Biblical Studies Assisted Dr Gregory K. Beale with overall course logistics, assignment grading, marking exegetical papers, and remedial Greek instruction. Courses included Greek III (NT013aa); Acts & the Pauline Epistles (NT223); New Testament Introduction II (NT 103). Research Assistant Westminster Theological Seminary Mar. 11 May 14 Department of Biblical Studies Worked alongside Dr Gregory K. Beale to research various current book and article projects. Conducted extensive research together, along with Dr Daniel J. Brendsel, to co-author an exegetically oriented handbook in New Testament Greek, published with Zondervan, 2014. Teaching Assistant in OT Westminster Theological Seminary Feb. 14 May 14 Department of Biblical Studies Assisted Dr Christopher Fantuzzo by writing and grading quizzes, midterm, final examinations. Courses included Hebrew III (OT 013); Old Testament History and Theology II (OT 223). Administrative Assistant Westminster Theological Seminary July 13 June 14 Office of the Provost Worked directly with Dr Jeffrey K. Jue, along with a small office team, to assist in his role as provost. Focused upon developing institutional mission and vision, facilitating accreditation processes, beginning campus development planning, and designing new degree program models later adopted by the institution. GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS Cambridge Trust Scholar University of Cambridge, 2014-2017 Hirst Player Studentship Fitzwilliam College, U. Cambridge, 2015-2016 College Senior Scholarship Fitzwilliam College, U. Cambridge, 2015-2016 Alasdair Charles Macpherson Fund University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity, 2014 Shipley Scholarship Fitzwilliam College, U. Cambridge, 2014-2015 Fitzwilliam Society Trust Research Fund Fitzwilliam College, U. Cambridge, 2014 Edwin L. Jones Graduate Fellowship Westminster Theological Seminary, 2014-2015 Thomas E. Welmers Award in Biblical Languages and Exegesis Westminster Theological Seminary, 2014 Edwin L. Jones Graduate Fellowship Westminster Theological Seminary, 2013-2014 Weersing Scholarship Fund Westminster Theological Seminary, 2013-2014 Thomas E. Welmers Award in Biblical Languages and Exegesis Westminster Theological Seminary, 2013-2 -
Philadelphia (PCA) Presbytery Under Care Scholarship Westminster Theological Seminary, 2010-2014 ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT ETS Conference Program Unit Steering Committee 2015 Present Evangelical Theological Society Co-founded the Septuagint Studies program unit as of the 2015 national conference, and ongoing member of the steering committee. Chairman: Dr James A. E. Mulroney. Professional Society Memberships: Institute for Biblical Research Evangelical Theological Society International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies Society of Biblical Literature Presentations: Feb. 14 present Jan. 13 present Nov. 12 present March 12 present Evangelical Theological Society National Conference 2015 (Atlanta, GA: 17-19 November) Modern Language Translations of the Septuagint: A Methodological Comparison. Society of Biblical Literature National Conference 2015 (Atlanta, GA: 21-24 November) Vocabulary and Recension: Lexical Features of Greek Judges. Society of Biblical Literature National Conference 2015 (Atlanta, GA: 21-24 November) Hostiles & Hospitality: The Reception of LXX-Gen. 19:4-11 in OG Judges 19:22-25. Oxbridge Biblical Studies Conference (Cambridge, United Kingdom: 1 May 2015) Language & Style in LXX-Judges: Hapax Legomena. Society of Biblical Literature National Conference 2014 (San Diego, CA: 22-25 November) The Divergent Battle Language in LXX-Judges: Polemeō and Paratassō. Evangelical Theological Society National Conference 2014 (San Diego, CA: 19-21 November) There is No Spoon: Text-Critical Question Begging in the Acrostic of Nahum 1, in Psalms & Hebrew Poetry section. International Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) 2013 (Munich, Germany: 1-5 August) Lexical Possibilities in Septuagint Research: Revision and Expansion. Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) Eastern Regional Meeting 2013 (Lynchburg, VA: 1-2 March) Chipping Away at the Broken Acrostic in Nahum 1:2-8: An Exercise in Septuagintal Textual Criticism. Eastern Great Lake Biblical Society (EGLBS) Annual Meeting 2013 (Erie, PA: 4-5 April) YHWH Will Be Your Everlasting Light: A Motific Analysis of Light and Darkness in Isaiah. - 3 -
Trinity Western University Seminar in Current Issues in Septuagint Study (Vancouver, BC: May, 2013) Genesis 19:5-8 An MT/LXX Comparison, Analysis, and Commentary. LANGUAGES Ancient: Biblical Hebrew & Aramaic, Koine Greek, Latin (beginner) Modern: Spanish (advanced), French (reading knowledge), German (reading knowledge) RESEARCH INTERESTS Hebrew Bible Biblical Theology Pentateuch, Historical Books & Wisdom Literature Cognitive Linguistics Textual Criticism Greek Old Testament Koine Greek Sociolinguistic Context of Ptolemaic Egypt Kaige Recension Textual Criticism PUBLICATIONS AND WRITING Books: Ross, William A., G. K. Beale and Daniel J. Brendsel. An Interpretive Lexicon of New Testament Greek: Analysis of Prepositions, Adverbs, Particles, Relative Pronouns, and Conjunctions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2014. Articles & Contributions: Text-Critical Question Begging in Nahum 1,2-8: Re-evaluating the Evidence and Arguments. Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 127/3 (October 2015): 459-74. Lexical Possibilities in Septuagint Research: Revision and Expansion. In XV Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS), Munich, 2013. Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Martin Meiser, and Michaël van der Meer. SBLSCS 64. Atlanta, Ga., SBL Press, (forthcoming). Judges, Book of, in Dictionary of the Septuagint and Early Greek Jewish Scriptures. Scholars Publisher, (under agreement). - 4 -
Neologism, in Dictionary of the Septuagint and Early Greek Jewish Scriptures. Scholars Publisher, (under agreement). Greek Language in the Greek Jewish Scriptures, in Dictionary of the Septuagint and Early Greek Jewish Scriptures. Scholars Publisher, (under agreement). Book Reviews: Review of James K. Aitken, ed. The T&T Clark Companion to the Septuagint. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Bulletin for Biblical Research (forthcoming). Review of Iain Provan, Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters. Waco, Tx.: Baylor University Press, 2014. Westminster Theological Journal (forthcoming). Review of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: A Reader s Edition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2014 / Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2014. Bulletin for Biblical Research 25.3 (2015): 371-72. Review of Eugen J. Pentiuc, The Old Testament in Eastern Orthodox Tradition. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2014. Westminster Theological Journal (forthcoming). Review of Samuel L. Adams. Social and Economic Life in Second Temple Judea. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2014. Bulletin for Biblical Research 25.3 (2015): 386-88. Review of Iain Provan, Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters. Baylor University Press: Waco, TX, 2014. Westminster Theological Journal (forthcoming). Review of Brian N. Peterson, The Authors of the Deuteronomic History: Locating a Tradition in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis, Mn.: Fortress Press, 2014. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58/2 (2015): 376-77. Review of William T. Miller, A Compact Study of Numbers. Eugene, Or.: Wipf & Stock, 2013. Themelios 40/1 (April 2015): 110-11. Review of Joy A. Schroeder, Deborah s Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Bulletin for Biblical Review 25.1 (2015): 96-97. Review of J. Ross Wagner, Reading the Sealed Book: Reading Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics. FAT 88; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck / Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013. Bulletin for Biblical Research 24.3 (2014): 405-06. Review of Joshua G. Mathews, Melchizedek s Alternative Priestly Order: A Compositional Analysis of Genesis 14:18-20 and Its Echoes throughout the Tanak. BBRSup 8; Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2013. Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 76, No. 2 (Fall 2014): 465-67. - 5 -
Review of Jason S. DeRouchie, ed., What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Jesus Bible. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Academic, 2013. Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 76, No. 2 (Fall 2014): 463-64. Review of Abi T. Ngunga, Messianism in the Old Greek of Isaiah: An Intertextual Analysis. FRLANT 245; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Spring 2014): 230-31. Review of Myrto Theocharous, Lexical Dependence and Intertextual Allusion in the Septuagint of the Twelve Prophets: Studies in Hosea, Amos, and Micah. LHB/OTS 570; T&T Clark, 2012. Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 75, No. 2 (Fall 2013): 383-86. Online Publications: Self-Control and Your Inward City Wall, The Gospel Coalition, 5 Oct. 2015 In Peace or Crisis, Instruct Your Children in the Lord, The Gospel Coalition, 17 Aug. 2015 5 Reasons to be Silent, The Gospel Coalition, 14 May 2015 Should We Pray the Imprecatory Psalms? The Gospel Coalition, 17 March 2015 Dear Rules, I Love You, The Gospel Coalition, 4 March 2015 Eat the Law and Live, The Gospel Coalition, 12 December 2014 Academic Blog: Old Testament & Septuagint Studies www.williamaross.wordpress.com REFERENCES Dr. James Aitken Lecturer in Hebrew, Old Testament, and Second Temple Studies Faculty of Divinity University of Cambridge jka1@cam.ac.uk Dr. Peter J. Williams Honorary Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies, University of Aberdeen Warden, Tyndale House warden@tyndale.cam.ac.uk Dr. G. K. Beale Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology Westminster Theological Seminary 2960 Church Road Glenside, PA 19038 GKBeale@gmail.com Dr. Jeffrey Jue Provost, Stephen Tong Associate Professor of Reformed Theology Westminster Theological Seminary jjue@wts.edu Dr. Fredric C. Putnam Associate professor of Old Testament - 6 -
Templeton Honors College Eastern University fputnam@eastern.edu - 7 -