Lecturers
Lecturer
贰尘补颈濒:听rcummings@csun.edu
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Biography
Randal Cummings is a lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at California State University, Northridge.
He received his B.A. in English and Comparative Literatures from 快活林性息, his Masters in 鈥淗istory of Religions鈥� from UCLA and his C.Phil in 1. History of Religions; 2. Biblical Texts and Theology; 3. Church History; and听 4. Modern Intellectual History from UCLA.
Selected Publications
He recently published an article, 鈥淭eaching Fundamentalists in the Classroom鈥� for the AAR鈥檚 鈥淪potlight on Teaching鈥� series, and is currently completing a chapter forTeaching Religion and Violence听dealing with 鈥淩eligion and Violence in Popular Culture鈥� to be released by Oxford Press.
Memberships
Prof. Cummings chairs the Arts of Interpretation Group that meets annually at the American Academy of Religions.听
Lecturer
贰尘补颈濒:听james.findlay@csun.edu
Phone:听818-677-3925
Biography
Dr. Findlay is a lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at California State University, Northridge. James Findlay teaches courses in:听Introduction to Religious Studies, The Bible, World Religions, Christianity, Contemporary Ethical Issues,听and听Religion, Logic, and the Media.
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Memberships
Lecturer representative to the University Faculty Senate.
Education:
Ph.D.,听Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, The Claremont Graduate University, May 2005.
Th.M., Old Testament Studies, Harvard Divinity School, May 1997.
M.Div.,听Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary,听Recipient of the Hutchinson Academic Scholarship, May 1989.
B.A., Honors Graduate in Religion, Haverford College, May 1980.
Publications & Prizes:
The Other Side听Magazine, April 1985, 鈥淧ropaganda, Words, and the Word.鈥�
Society of Biblical Literature, Pacific Coast Region, Student Essay Prize in Hebrew Bible, Spring 1999, 鈥淎n Investigation of the Intertextuality of the Call Narratives of Isaiah and Jeremiah.鈥�
鈥淭he Priestly Ideology of the Septuagint Translator of Numbers 16-17.鈥澨�Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 30.4 (2006): 421-429.
From Prophet to Priest: The Characterization of Aaron in the Pentateuch, Peeters Publishers: Leuven, Belgium, 2017.
"Student Creative Projects: Aural and Video Productions as Biblical Exegesis,"听SBL Forum, n.p. [cited July 2008].
Polished Apple Award, California State University, Northridge, May 2012, May 2016, April 2017. Student Nominated Award for Teaching Excellence.
Awards/Honors
College of Humanities Golden Apple Award 2012 ()
Blog:
Dr. Findlay also has his own blog, "Spiritual Exploration," which focuses on spiritual practice and discernment. The blog can be found at:听听
Lecturer
贰尘补颈濒:听elaine.goodfriend@csun.edu
Biography
Dr. Elaine Goodfriend is a lecturer at California State University, Northridge and teaches courses in History, Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies. Elaine Adler Goodfriend has a B.A. in Semitic Languages and Literatures from Cornell University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from U.C. Berkeley. She has taught at 快活林性息 for the past sixteen years, and has taught at other local universities, including Loyola Marymount, the American Jewish University, and Claremont Graduate School.
Research and Teaching Interests
Her interests are the Hebrew Bible and Jewish History.
Selected Publications
Elaine鈥檚 most recent publication is the entry, 鈥淓thical Theories in the Bible,鈥� for听The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, edited by Elliot Dorff (publication forthcoming). She has published articles in the听Anchor Bible Dictionary, The Torah: A Women's Commentary,听and听The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture.
Lecturer
贰尘补颈濒:听timothy.kuns@csun.edu
Lecturer
Office: Santa Susana Hall 239
Phone:听818-677-2741
贰尘补颈濒:听rick.talbott@csun.edu
Biography
听Dr. Rick Talbott is professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions.听 He received his PhD from the History Department at UCLA where he also taught such courses as Introduction to the History of Religions,The Buddha and Jesus,Ritual in Modern Scholarship, and The Historical Background of Early Christianity. Dr. Talbott received his B.A. from 快活林性息 and where he has been teaching courses for the Department for over 20 years.听 He became a full-time member of the faculty in 2006.
Dr. Talbott teaches the following lower division courses: Introduction to Religious Studies,听 and The Bible.听 His upper division courses include:听 The New Testament, The Teaching of Jesus, Pauline Letters, Gnosticism.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Dr. Talbott鈥檚 current research interests focus on how social memory and oral culture help us understand the eventual creation of the New Testament Gospels.听 He continues to research how Ancient Mediterranean religious rituals and rhetoric functioned as part of the exercise of power in political and economic systems within the early Jesus movement.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Jesus, Paul, and Power: Rhetoric, Ritual, and Metaphor in Ancient Mediterranean Christianity. Cascade Books, 2010.
鈥淚magining the Mattehean Eunuch Community: Kyriarchy on the Chopping Block.鈥澨�Journal of Feminist Studies, 2006.
鈥淣azareth鈥檚 Rebellious Son,听BTB, 2008; 鈥淛esus, Paul, and Power: Rhetoric, Ritual, and Metaphor in Ancient Mediterranean Christianity,鈥� Cascade Books, 2010.
Book review of Maurice Casey鈥檚 鈥淛esus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian鈥檚 Account of His Life and Teaching,鈥澨�Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2012.
MEMBERSHIPS
American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature.听听
Co-editor with Professor Amir Hussain on a series of books the听History of Religions听for Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Member of the editorial board for the Journal of The American Academy of Religion.听
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Lecturer
贰尘补颈濒:听albert.tevanyan@csun.edu
Lecturer
贰尘补颈濒:听ingrid.wilkerson@csun.edu