Wayne Coppins, Southeastern Region
Wayne Coppins is assistant professor of New Testament at the University of Georgia. After completing the Zwischenprüfung in Theologie at the University of Tübingen (Germany), he went on to receive his MA from the University of Durham (UK), and his PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK). A revised version of his doctoral dissertation was published by Mohr Siebeck in 2009 under the title The Interpretation of Freedom in the Letters of Paul with Special Reference to the ‘German’ Tradition. Coppins’ teaching and research interests include the relationship between Paul and Luther, and the interpretation of the gospels of Mark and John. Some of his most recent work is forthcoming in Neotestamentica and in Lutherjahrbuch. Clinton J. Moyer, Central States Region
Clinton J. Moyer is Postdoctoral Fellow in Hebrew Bible at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. He completed his doctoral degree at Cornell University in 2009, producing a dissertation entitled “Literary and Linguistic Studies in Sefer Bil‘am (Numbers 22–24).” In this study, he explored the literary employment of dialect as a means of coloring the speech of the foreign prophet Balaam, and also examined a variety of other literary devices, both small- and large-scale, that enrich the story and help to articulate the central themes and levels of meaning that it conveys. Ultimately, he was able to posit a range of connections between the literary character of the pericope and the probable socio-historical context in which it was produced. Moyer’s general research interests center on the highly sophisticated literary artistry of the biblical corpus, the formation and development of a distinctive Israelite identity over the course of the biblical period, and biblical prophecy as a cultural and literary phenomenon. Katherine A. Shaner, New England Region
Katherine A. Shaner is Assistant Professor of New Testament at General Theological Seminary in New York, NY. Her dissertation, entitled "Religious and Civic Practices of the Enslaved: A Case Study of Roman Ephesos," juxtaposes archaeology, inscriptions, and literary texts, including early Christian texts, in order to argue that in the late first- and early second-century CE, slaves played active roles in configuring, defining, and enacting religious practices. Her research interests include material culture in early Christianity and Judaism; household religions in the Ancient Mediterranean; constructions of race, class, and gender in early Christianity; feminist and womanist biblical interpretation; and the ethics of biblical interpretation.