Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Keynote speech at the School of Discipleship conference, Canberra, July 2009

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher (born 1955) is an American Hebrew Bible scholar and

History Channel's religious programs.[1]

Early life and education

Smith-Christopher was born on 12 April 1955 in

Oxford University in England
, in 1987.

Career

Since 1989 he has taught at

History Channel, National Geographic, and PBS.[1]

Although not

Fortress Press (Minneapolis), named Smith-Christopher Undergraduate Theology Teacher of the Year in 2006.[1]
He also received a Fulbright Lecturer Award to lecture in Religion and Peace Studies at Jaime 1 University in Castellon, Spain. Smith-Christopher has been Director of Study Abroad Programs in New Zealand since the late 1990s, and takes groups of undergraduates and graduate students from Loyola Marymount University, and maintains an interest in New Zealand history, and especially the history of the encounter of the indigenous people of New Zealand, the Maori, and Christianity.

Smith-Christopher has particular interests in cross-cultural interpretation of the Bible, and was invited to write the entry on "Cross-Cultural Interpretation" for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation. He has also worked with Blues musician Bernie Pearl on a live presentation and program comparing Blues music with the Book of Lamentations, during which Pearl performs blues selections, as well as working with Zydeco and Flamenco musicians on thematic comparisons between these musical forms and Biblical themes. Smith-Christopher was invited to write the entry on "Blues" for the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts.

Works

  • The Religion of the Landless (1989)
  • The Citizen-Temple Community, Joel Weinberg (Translated from German by Daniel Smith-Christopher, 1994)
  • Commentary on Daniel (for The New Interpreter's Bible, Vol. 7: Abingdon Press, Nashville, 1996)
  • Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah (Oxford Bible Commentary, 2001)
  • Practiced in the Presence: Essays in Honor of T. Canby Jones (with D. N. Snarr, 1994)
  • Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions (1998)
  • A Biblical Theology of Exile (Overtures to Biblical Theology) (2002)
  • The Old Testament: Our Call to Faith and Justice - High School Textbook (2005)
  • The Old Testament: Our Call to Faith and Justice-Teachers Edition (with Janie Gustafson, Ph.D., 2005)
  • Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace to Power in the Bible (2007)
  • Lost Books of the Bible for Dummies (with Stephen Spignesi, 2008)
  • Micah: A Commentary (The Old Testament Library), 2015

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "LMU Theological Studies". Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved 2010-12-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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