Assistant Professor of Old Testament
Departments: College of Church and Leadership
Office: Miller 261
Education:
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PhD University of St Andrews, Biblical Studies: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
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MLitt University of St Andrews, Theological Interpretation of Scripture
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BA Central Bible College, Biblical Languages
Publications:
- “The Relationship of Scriptural Reuse to the Redaction of Malachi: Genesis 31-33 and Malachi 3.24” Vetus Testamentum (2019): 1-21.
- Scribal Composition: Malachi as a Test Case FRLANT, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht 2018.
- “The Daughter of a Foreign God: Wordplay as Interpretive Key in Malachi 2:11” Vetus Testamentum 65/3 (2015)
- “Revelation 19:16’s Inscribed Thigh: An Allusion to Gen 49.10b” New Testament Studies 60/3 (April 2014)
- “Visions of Locusts: The Composition of Rev 9.7-11” in ‘I Lifted My Eyes and Saw’: Reading Dream and Vision Reports in the Hebrew Bible, ed. E. R. Hayes, L. S. Tiemeyer, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014.
Research Interests:
Scriptural reuse; Scribal composition; Scribal habits; Malachi; Pentateuch; Revelation
Personal:
Dr. Sheree Lear began working for North Central University Fall 2019. She is married with two children.