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Professor of
Religious
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Saint Martin’s University Contact me by email |
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Academic Awards and Honors Ph.D. oral examination passed
"with distinction," April 1973 Burlington Northern Foundation Award
for Outstanding Teaching, The Commander's Certificate, Fort
Lewis Army Education Center Teaching Award, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers: The Adam and Eve Narrative in Christian and Jewish Tradition, Jerusalem, Summer 1996 |
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Employment1989- : Professor of Religious Studies, Saint Martin's University 1991-97: Dean of Humanities, Saint Martin's University 1983-89: Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Saint Martin's University 1981-83: Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Pacific Lutheran
University 1974-81: Assistant Professor of Religion, Wichita State University 1970-74: Social worker, Johnson Rehabilitation Nursing Home, Chicago, Illinois |
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Publications"The
Drama of Christian Theology in the Gospel of John," Journal of Religion 49
(1969): 275-80. "Apocalyptic
Patterns in the Similitudes of Enoch," Society of Biblical Literature 1978 Seminar Papers, ed. Paul J. Achtemeier, 2 Vols. (Missoula,
Montana: Scholars Press, 1978), 1:1-13. "Fallen
Angel, Fallen Priest: The Problem of
Family Purity in 1 Enoch 6-16," Hebrew
Union College Annual 50 (1979):
115-35. Tradition and Composition in the Parables of
Enoch, Society
of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series (Missoula, Montana: Scholars
Press, 1979). "Mašal in the Similitudes of Enoch," Journal of Biblical Literature
100 (1981): 193-212. "Weighed
in the Balance: The Similitudes of
Enoch in Recent Discussion," Religious
Studies Review 7 (1981): 217-21. "The
Measure of Redemption: The
Similitudes of Enoch, Nonviolence, and National Integrity," Society of Biblical Literature 1983
Seminar Papers, ed. Kent Harold
Richards (Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1983): 167-76. "Apocrypha,
Old Testament," "Baruch, the Book of," "Bel and the
Dragon," "Daniel, the Additions to," "Ecclesiasticus,"
"Esdras, the First Book of," "Esdras, the Second Book
of," "Esther, the Rest of the Book of," "Gentile,"
"Judith," "The Letter of Jeremiah," "Maccabees, the
First Book of the," "Maccabees, the Second Book of the,"
"The Prayer of Manasseh," "Pseudonym," "The Song of
the Three Children," "Susanna," "Theophany,"
"Tobit," "Vengeance," and "The Wisdom of
Solomon," Harper's Bible
Dictionary, ed. Paul J.
Achtemeier (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985): 36-38, 96, 102, 205, 237-38, 278-79, 282, 338-39, 518-19,
556-57, 590-92, 817-18, 840, 979, 1001, 1062-63, 1080-81, 1110-11, 1136-37. "Atmosphere
as Antagonist: The Symbolism of Evil
in Mark," Explorations: Journal
for Adventurous Thought 7/3 (Spring, 1989): 65-86. Review of Chrys C. Caragounis, The Son of Man: Vision and Interpretation, in Religious Studies Review 15 (1989): 364-65. "Of
the Devil's Party: The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell in Satanic
Verses," South Asian Review 16/13 (Jan. 1992): 63-78. Review
of Paul-Alain Beaulieu, The Reign of
Nabonidus, King of Babylon 556-539 B.C., in Biblical Archaeologist
55/4 (Dec. 1992): 234-35. Review
of Maxwell J. Davidson, Angels at
Qumran: A Comparative Study of 1
Enoch 1-36, 72-108 and Sectarian Writings from Qumran, in IOUDAIOS (an electronic journal), August
1993, ftp://ftp.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-review/3.1993/davidson.suter.019. Review
of Saul M. Olyan, A Thousand Thousands
Served Him: Exegesis and the Naming
of Angels in Ancient Judaism, in Religious
Studies Review 20/2 (April 1994):
159-60. "Advent
1," "Advent 2," "Advent 3," "Advent 4,"
"Christmas Eve," Sermonshop,
December 1994 (online lectionary reading commentary commissioned for sermon
preparation forum on Ecunet). "Apocrypha,
Old Testament," "Baruch, the Book of," "Bel and the
Dragon," "Daniel, the Additions to,"
"Ecclesiasticus," "Esdras, the First Book of," "Esdras,
the Second Book of," "Esther, the Rest of the Book of,"
"Gentile," "Judith," "The Letter of Jeremiah,"
"Maccabees, the First Book of the," "Maccabees, the Second
Book of the," "Maccabees, the Third Book of the,"
"Maccabees, the Fourth Book of the," "The Prayer of
Manasseh," "Psalm 151," "Pseudonym," "The Song
of the Three Children," "Susanna," "Theophany,"
"Tobit," "Vengeance," and "The Wisdom of
Solomon," HarperCollins Bible
Dictionary, ed. Paul J. Achtemeier (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco,
1996): 39-42, 106, 112, 223, 260-61, 305-7, 310, 369-70, 556-57, 601, 636-39,
876-77, 892, 899, 1051, 1073-74, 1140, 1159-60, 1190-91, 1215-17. Review
of Bernard McGinn, Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human
Fascination with Evil, in Critical
Review of Books in Religion, 8 (1995): 494-96. Review
of Charlesworth, James H., and Craig A. Evans, eds., The Pseudepigrapha and Early Biblical Interpretation, in Religious Studies Review 22 (1996):
352. Review
of Jacob Neusner, Rabbinic Literature
and the New Testament: What We Cannot
Show, We Do Not Know, in Religious
Studies Review 22 (1996): 353. Review
of Martin Jaffee, Early Judaism, in
IOUDAIOS Review, September, 1997, ftp://ftp.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-review/7.1997/jaffee.suter.008. Review
of Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner, Judaism
in Late Antiquity: Part 4: Death, Life-after-Death, Resurrection and
the World-to-Come in the Judaisms of Antiquity, Review of Biblical Literature, 3/19/2001,
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=747&CodePage=747,1556. Review of Gary A. Anderson and Michael E. Stone, A Synopsis of the Books of Adam and Eve, Second Revised Edition, IOUDAIOS Review, January, 2002, ftp://ftp.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-review/1.2002/anderson.suter.001. “Enoch
as Precursor: The Role of the Enochic
Manuscripts in the Qumran Literature,” an online lecture for a course on
Qumran offered by James Davila at the University of Saint Andrews, http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/suter_enoch.html. “Revisiting Fallen
Angels ,” The Origins of Enochic Judaism: Proceedings of the First Enoch Seminar
(University of Michigan, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, June 19-23, 2001),
edited by Gabriele Boccaccini (Torino: Silvio Zamorani Editore, 2002): 137-42;
Henoch 24 (2002): 137-42. “Mapping
the First Book of Enoch: Geographical
Issues in George Nickelsburg’s Commentary,” George W. E. Nickelsburg in
Perspective: An On-Going Dialogue of
Learning, edited by Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck, Journal for the
Study of Judaism Supplements 80, 2 Vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003): 2: 387-94. Review of John J. Collins and Peter W. Flint, editors, The Book of Daniel: Part I: Composition and Reception, Review of Biblical Literature, 9/2/2002, http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=1556&CodePage=747,1556. Also published in the Journal of Biblical Literature 121 (2002): 552-56. "Why Galilee? Galilean Regionalism in the Interpretation of 1 Enoch 6-16," Henoch 25/2 (2003): 167-212. Review of Gabriele Boccaccini, Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History, from Ezekiel to Daniel, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 64/2 (2005): 140-41. “Boccaccini's Hypothesis: Theodicy and the Problem of the ‘Intimate Enemy,’ ” Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection, ed. Gabriele Boccaccini (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005): 329-35. “Temples and the Temple in the Early Enoch Tradition: Memory, Vision, and Expectation,” The Early Enoch Literature, ed. Gabriele Boccaccini and John J. Collins, Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplements 121 (Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill, 2007): 195-218. Review of Daniel Olson, Enoch: A New Translation, Review of Biblical Literature, 3/20/2005, http://www.bookreviews.org/BookDetail.asp?TitleId=4386. "Enoch in Sheol: Updating the Dating of the Book of Parables," Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables, ed. Gabriele Boccaccini (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007): 415-43. "The Third Enoch Seminar (Camaldoli, Italy, June 2-6, 2005) and the Problem of Dating the Parables of Enoch," Henoch 28/1 (2006): 185-92. "Hermon, Mount" and "Paneion," The Dictionary of Early Judaism, ed. John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, forthcoming). |
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Papers Presented
"Fallen
Angel, Fallen Priest: Method in the
Interpretation of Apocalyptic Texts," southwest regional meeting of the
Society of Biblical Literature, March 18, 1978. "Apocalyptic
Patterns in the Similitudes of Enoch," national meeting of the Society
of Biblical Literature, November 18, 1979. "The
Priesthood and Apocalyptic," national meeting of the Society of Biblical
Literature, December 21, 1981. "The
Measure of Redemption: The
Similitudes of Enoch, Nonviolence, and National Integrity," national
meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, December 20, 1983. "'To
Him Ascribe All Sin': 1 Enoch 1-36 as an Exemplar for Ethical Knowing," national meeting
of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 23, 1985. "Atmosphere
as Antagonist: The Symbolism of Evil
in Mark," northwest regional meeting of the Society of Biblical
Literature, April 24, 1987. "Transformations
in Satanic Verses and Ancient Child," northwest
regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion, May 5, 1990. "‘You
Are the Son of Man’: Sense and
Nonsense in the Interpretation of Apocalyptic Writings," northwest
regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion, May 3, 1991. "Insider
and Outsider, Ancient and Modern in the Dead Sea Scrolls," northwest
regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion, May 1, 1992. Panel review
of Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of
Domination, by Walter Wink, in a section on Exegesis of Biblical Texts on
Ethical Themes at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature,
Washington, D.C., November 20, 1993. "Between
Myth and Mysticism: The Book of Enoch
as an Esoteric Jewish Tradition," presentation to the Jewish Studies
Colloquium at the University of Washington, October 24, 1995. “Adam
and Eve among the Angels and the Beasts,” northwest regional meeting of the
American Academy of Religion, May 2, 1997. "A
Tour of Upper Galilee in the Third Century B.C.E.," northwest regional
meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature,
May 9, 1998. "Oneiromancy,
1 Enoch 14-16, and Tobit: A New Form-Critical Assessment,"
northwest regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of
Biblical Literature, May 8, 1999. "Methodological
Issues in the Interpretation of Textually-Based and Archaeological
Study," northwest regional meeting of the American Academy of
Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, April 28, 2000. “Fallen
Angels Revisited,” a paper presented to a special conference on the Book of
Enoch, hosted by the University of Michigan in Florence, Italy, June 21,
2001. “Mapping the First Book of Enoch: Geographical Issues in George Nickelsburg’s Commentary,” in the Pseudepigrapha Section at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 17, 2001, in Denver, Colorado. “Boccaccini’s Hypothesis: Theodicy and the Problem of the 'Intimate Enemy,'” a paper presented to a special conference on the Book of Enoch, hosted by the University of Michigan in Venice, Italy, July 4, 2003. "Celestial Architecture: The Temple in Heaven in 1 Enoch 14 in Relation to Earthly Sanctuaries," northwest regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, May 8, 2004. "Enoch in Sheol: Updating the Dating of the Similitudes of Enoch," northwest regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, April 30, 2005. "Enoch in Sheol: Updating the Dating of the Parables of Enoch," a paper presented to a special conference on the Book of Enoch, hosted by the University of Michigan in Camaldoli, Italy, June 9, 2005. "Return to Galilee: The Galilean Provenance of I Enoch 6-16 and the Psalms of the Sons of Korah," northwest regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, May 6, 2006. "Jubilees, the Temple, and the Aaronite Priesthood," a paper presented to a special conference on the Book of Enoch, hosted by the University of Michigan in Camaldoli, Italy, July 12, 2007. |
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Selected Professional Activities Old
Testament program chairperson for 1981 southwest regional meeting of the Society
of Biblical Literature. Project
Director, The Bridge: Engineering and
Human Values (Faculty-Student Conference, Saint Martin's University, April 17,
1985). Director
of Master of Arts in Ministry Program, Saint Martin's University (1985-92). Consultant
for "Another Kind of Courage," an oral history of conscientious
objection produced for radio by Phil Andrus, funded by the Washington
Commission for the Humanities (1986). Baccalaureate
address, Saint Martin’s University, May 17, 1991. Hosted
"Weaving a World of Justice II," a continuing education conference
on Catholic social teaching held in the Worthington Conference Center at
Saint Martin's University, November 18-19, 1994, by the Catholic Archdiocese of
Seattle. Hosted
the Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of
Biblical Literature at the Worthington Conference Center of Saint Martin's
University, April 27-29, 1995. Co-editor
of IOUDAIOS Review, 1996- . On
sabbatical leave, Fall Semester 1997, Spring Semester 2005. SBL
Research Grant, “The Book of the Watchers in Light of the Galilee in the
Third Century BCE,” Fall 1997. Director, Humanities Major, 1998-2003. Director, General Education, 2002- . |
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Professional Memberships Society of Biblical Literature The Enoch Seminar |
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