David Moffitt, Southeastern Region

David M. Moffitt is presently a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University and a Visiting Lecturer at Duke Divinity School where he has taught courses on Matthew and Hellenistic Greek. David spent a year of his doctoral studies researching at Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen as a Fulbright Scholar. He has presented papers at the Annual, Regional, and International SBL conferences, as well as at other academic conferences. David has published articles in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der Älteren Kirche, and a volume of essays on the Epistle to the Hebrews. His dissertation, which he is scheduled to defend this spring, is entitled “A New and Living Way: Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle ‘To the Hebrews’.” The article he presented at the Southeast Regional meeting, which earned him this award, was titled, “Blood, Life, and Purification: Reassessing Hebrews’ Christological Appropriation of Yom Kippur.”

 

Timothy P. Henderson, Upper Midwest Region

Timothy P. Henderson is a Ph.D. candidate at Marquette University. Having studied in the Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity program at Marquette, he is currently in the final stages of completing his dissertation, “‘The People Believe That He Has Risen from the Dead’: The Gospel of Peter and Early Christian Apologetics.” For the last four years he has served as an adjunct instructor at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, MN. He has taught courses on the Gospels, Acts, the Pauline epistles, and Greek grammar. His research interests include Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity, extra- and intra-canonical gospels, and intertextuality in early Christian literature. Timothy has written numerous dictionary articles that are presently being published, and has presented papers at various regional and national conferences. The paper he presented at the 2009 Upper Midwest Regional meeting, which earned him this award, was titled, “Jesus the Murder Victim: Appropriating Scripture in the Gospel of Peter’s Narrative of Deicide.”