Education

1. •Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union; Berkeley, CA - 1996
   

2. •M.A. Graduate Theological Union; Berkeley, CA-1987
   

3. •B.A. University of Redlands; Redlands, CA-1983
   

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Dissertation

1. •"Not with Excess of Word or Wisdom..." Power and Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament
   

Directorships

1. •Founder and co-Director, Centre for Rhetorics & Hermeneutics, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
   

2. •Co-Director, New Testament Rhetoric Project, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont, CA
   

Research Fellowships

1. •Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, University of Tübingen, 2002-03
   

2. •Fellow, Interfakultäres Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften, University of Tübingen, 2003-2007
   

International Research/Conferences

1. •Albert Ludwigs Universität; Freiburg, Deutschland--Philosophische Fakultät, 1982
   

2. •Göttingen, Deutschland--Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Summer 1987
   

3. •London, England--International Meeting on Rhetoric and the Bible, Summer 1995
   

4. •Lund, Sweden--International Symposium of Rhetorical Argumentation in the Scriptures, Summer 2000
   

5. •Claremont, California--Conference on the Rhetorics of Healing, January 2002
   

6. •Heidelberg, Germany--International Conference on Rhetoric and the Scriptures, Summer 2002
   

7. •Tübingen, Germany--Perspectives on Gender, Spring 2003
   

8. •Birmingham, England--British New Testament Society, Summer 2003
   

9. •Madrid, Spain--International Society of the History of Rhetoric, Summer 2003
   

10. •Redlands, California -- Conference on Rhetoric, Violence & Evil, January 2004
    

11. •Redlands, California -- Conference on Rhetoric of Identity: Place, Place, Sex and the Person, January 2005
    

12. •Society for Biblical Literature, American Academy of Religion, Jesus Seminar--numerous seminar and presentations, various  years