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A Ph.D. student at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace (Hartford Seminary), my research focuses on the various understandings of purity and ritual cleansing in First Century Palestine, particularly within early Rabbinic Judaism of the late Second Temple Period and amongst proto-Christian groups prior to the first councils. The central research question then becomes "What were the various ways people in the Palestine viewed the notion of 'abomination'?" In Israelite faith? In First Temple Judaism? How do views of 'abomination' differ between Jews in Solomon's Second Temple period verses the Jews of Herod the Great's expansion (also in the Second Temple Period)? Do the various forms of First Century Jews (i.e., Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Zealots) hold the same views? What about Jews in Galilee? What about Jews who followed Jesus? What about Paul and his converts? How do the emerging house churches and proto-Christian movements interpret 'abomination,' among other considerations in Levitical Law? And finally, how far off is the 21st Century popular understanding of 'abomination' from what Levites and other priests understood during the writing of Torah?
I am a full member of the following academies:
PhD student, Interreligious Studies: New Testament and Christian Origins, Hartford International University / Hartford Seminary
DMin, Practical Theology: Pastoral Care (Men and Masculinity), Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA
MA, Religious Studies, Hartford International University / Hartford Seminary
MAR, Theology, Meadville/Lombard in cooperation with the University of Chicago Divinity School
BA, Philosophy and Religion, Olivet Nazarene University (Bourbonnais, IL)