Michal Beth Dinkler

Kurzbiografie

Education

Th.D. New Testament and Early Christian Studies. Harvard Divinity School
M.Div. summa cum laude. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Certificate in Theological Studies. Oxford University
M.A. summa cum laude. English Literature. Stanford University
B.A. summa cum laude. English Literature, Minor: Psychology. Stanford University
Graduate Coursework. Fuller Theological Seminary

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of New Testament, Yale Divinity School, 2019-
Assistant Professor of New Testament, Yale Divinity School, 2014-2019
Instructor in Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, 2012-2014
Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University,?2010-2011
Junior Tutorial Instructor, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University, 2009-2010
Teaching Fellow, Harvard Divinity School, 2008-2010
Adjunct Professor in English, Salem State University, 2003-2006
Visiting Professor of Theology, Kampala Theological Seminary, Uganda, Summer 2004
Adjunct Professor in English, San Jose Christian College, 2002-2003
Byington Scholar Teaching Fellow, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, 2004-2006

Teaching Positions?

2015- Senior lecturer (tenured, equivalent to US associate Professor), The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben Gurion University
2012-2015 Lecturer, (tenure-track, equivalent to US assistant Professor), The Rosen Family Career Development Chair in Judaic Studies, The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben Gurion University
2011-2012 Visiting lecturer, The department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University
2010-2011 Visiting lecturer, Department of Talmud, Bar-Ilan University
2010 Visiting lecturer, Department of Jewish History, Haifa University
2008 Instructor in Rabbinics, Yale Divinity School
2007-2008 Teaching fellow, Yale University
2006-2008 Visiting lecturer, Department of Religion, Smith College

Professional Service

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE AT YALE:

YDS Teaching Fellow Antiracist Pedagogy Trainings Organizer, 2021-2022
YDS Admissions Committee Chair, 2021-2022
YDS Reappointment Committee, Matthew Croasmun, 2021-2022
YDS Tenure Committee, Hebrew Bible recruit, 2021
YDS Anti-Racism Task Force, 2020-2021
YDS Promotion Committee, Yii-Jan Lin, 2020-2021
Faculty MAR Coordinator (New Testament), Divinity School, 2020-2021
YDS Faculty Liaison to the Department of Religious Studies, 2020-2021
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies (EMWAR), Department of Religious
Studies, 2020-2021?
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies (New Testament), Department of Religious?Studies, 2017-2019
Faculty MAR Coordinator (New Testament), Divinity School, 2018-2019
Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Religious Studies, 2017-2019
Faculty Co-organizer, with Prof. Stephen Davis, New Testament and Ancient Christianity, Doctoral Works-in-Progress Seminar (RLST 885), Department of Religious?Studies, 2017-2018
New Testament Faculty Search Committee. Divinity School, 2015-2016
Faculty Coordinator, NT/AC Dissertation Colloquia, Department of Religious Studies,?2015-2016
Spiritual Formation Committee. Divinity School, 2015-2016
Curriculum Committee. Divinity School, 2014-2015

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW AND EDITORIAL WORK:

Member of the Editorial Board, New Testament Studies, 2021-2024
Area Editor, Synoptic Gospels and Acts, Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (de?Gruyter), 2019-present?
Member of the Editorial Board, HTS Teologiese Studies, 2020-2025
Associate Editor, Catholic Biblical Quarterly Editorial Board, 2018-2026
Manuscript Reviews for: Brill Publishers, Oxford University Press, Cambridge
University Press, Fortress Press, Harvard Theological Review, Biblical Interpretation
Editorial Assistant, Harvard Theological Review (Cambridge UP), 2009-2012
Editorial Assistant, Harvard Theological Studies (Cambridge UP), 2009-2012
Editorial Assistant to Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza,?Harvard Divinity School,?2009-2012
Editorial Assistant to Fran?ois Bovon,?Harvard Divinity School,?2009-2012

SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE LEADERSHIP

Co-Chair,?“Book of Acts” Section. 2020-
Co-Chair,?“Gospel of Luke” Section,?2019-
Member, Steering Committee. “Book of Acts” Section,?2016-
Member, Steering Committee. “Gospel of Luke” Section,?2016-2019
Co-Chair,?“Speech and Talk: Discourses and Social Practices in the Ancient Mediterranean World” Section,?2013-2018

Awards and Fellowships

Grant Recipient, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Grant for?Advancing Anti-Racist Pedagogy Teaching Fellow Training,?2021-2022
Summer Research Fellowship, The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Centre for Advanced?Studies, Universit?t Regensburg,?Summer 2022
John Templeton Foundation and Yale Center for Faith and Culture Grant: “Joy and?Adolescent Faith and Flourishing,” December 2018
Participant, Yale Center for Faith and Culture. Consultation: “The Future of Theology,”?December 2016
Inspiring Yale Faculty Award (Nominee),?2018
Inspiring Yale Faculty Award (Recipient),?2016
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Summer Research?Grant,?2016
Graduate Writing Fellow, Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Harvard University,?2011
The Society of Biblical Literature Best Student Paper Award (Northeast Region),?2011
Mensa Foundation Lester London Research Grant,?2010-2011
Word & World Best Article by a Doctoral Candidate Award,?2010-2011
Zondervan Hebrew Award,?2006
Ministry Fellow, Fund for Theological Education,?2006

Professional Development

Selected Participant, Project Narrative Summer Institute, Ohio State University, Summer 2021
Selected Participant, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Year-Long Virtual Symposium: Becoming Anti-Racist and Catalysts for Change, 2020-21
Participant, “Criss-crossing boundaries of structural and personal: White faculty as ‘Allies’ in the?Academy,” Wabash Center Webinar, July 21, 2020
Participant, Mentoring Workshop with Rena Seltzer, “Mentor and Coach: Utilizing?Coaching Tools to Support Dynamic Mentoring Relationships with Faculty and?Students,” Yale Women’s Faculty Forum, September 8, 2017
Selected Participant, Wabash Center Workshop for Pre-Tenure Faculty at Theological?Schools, 2015-2016
Selected Participant, Intercultural Pedagogy Workshops, Loyola Marymount University,?2013-2014

Courses?

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL/YALE UNIVERSITY

REL 512. Narratives of the Earliest Christians: English Exegesis of Acts, (seminar)
REL 501a/505. New Testament Interpretation (Gospels and Acts). Offered
regularly, in rotation with other faculty?(lecture)
REL 501b/506. New Testament Interpretation (Epistles and Revelation). Offered
regularly, in rotation with other faculty?(lecture)
REL 515. Literary Criticism and the New Testament?(seminar)
REL 585. Greek Exegesis of the Gospel of Luke?(seminar)
REL 580. Greek Exegesis of the Gospel of Matthew?(seminar)
REL 596. Doctoral Seminar: History & Methods in NT Scholarship?(seminar)
REL 534. English Exegesis of 1 Corinthians?(seminar)
REL 602. Doctoral Seminar: Early Christian Literature in Theoretical Perspective,
Co-taught with Prof. Harold Attridge?(seminar)
RLST 613/CLSS 877/CPLT 556. Rhetorics of the Ancient World. Co-taught with Prof. Irene Peirano?(seminar)
REL 538. English Exegesis of the Gospel of Mark?(seminar)
REL 3699. Directed Studies in Narratology?(individual reading course)

Conferences organized and Panels moderated

“Ethical Reading: Exemplarity.” Oxford University, England. Co-organized with Hindy?Najman (Oxford) and Irene Peirano (Yale). March 2019
“Biblical Perspectives on Belonging, Selfhood, Human Flourishing, and Joy.” Yale
Center for Faith and Culture. December 2018
“Violence and Eschatology in Luke’s Gospel” Panel Moderator. Society of Biblical
Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2017
“The Ascension and the Ascended Christ in the Book of Acts,” Panel Moderator. Society?of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 2016
“Speech, Sight, and Space” Panel Moderator. Society of Biblical Literature Annual
Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2015
“Exploring Speech and Talk: Discourses and Social Practices in the Ancient
Mediterranean World” Panel Moderator. Society of Biblical Literature Annual
Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2014
“Harvard-Yale-Brown Conference on New Testament and Early Christianity.”?Harvard?Divinity School. Co-organized with Jung Choi. March 2008

Organizational Affiliations and Memberships

Elected Member, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, 2018-
Research Fellow, The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Centre for Advanced Studies,?Universit?t Regensburg, 2022
Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, Research Associate, 2017-
Society of Biblical Literature, Member, 2006-
American Academy of Religion, Member, 2006-
Catholic Biblical Association, Member, 2012-
Presbyterian Church (USA), Ordained Minister, 2017-

Kurzbibliografie

Books?

IN PROGRESS:

The Gospel of Luke; New Greek International Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, under contract).
The Oxford Handbook of the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles, co-editor with Gregory?Sterling (Oxford: Oxford University Press, under contract).
How to Do Things with Stories: Early Christian Narrative as Rhetoric (Cambridge: Cambridge?University Press, under contract).

PUBLISHED:?

Influence: On Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation; Brill Research Perspectives Series (Leiden:?Brill, 2021), 105 pp.
Literary Theory and the New Testament; Anchor Bible Reference Series (New Haven:?Yale University Press, 2019), 284 pp.
Silent Statements: Narrative Representations of Speech and Silence in the Gospel of Luke;?Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Series (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter,?2013), 261 pp.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles??

AT PRESS, UNDER REVIEW, OR IN PROGRESS:

“Stylistic and Generic (Dis)Unity in Luke and Acts: Revisiting the Old Questions,” Early?Christianity (in progress).?
“Pauline Epistles as Affective Technologies: Liberating Literary Form and the Letter to?Philemon,” Biblical Interpretation (forthcoming).

PUBLISHED:

“The Narrative Rhetoric of Speech and Silence in the Acts of the Apostles,” New Testament?Studies 67 (2021): 1-21.
“Citing Sarah in the New Testament and Rabbinic Literature: Does Original Context Matter?” cowritten?with Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 96 (2020): 443-57.
“The Politics of Stephen’s Storytelling: Narrative Rhetoric and Reflexivity in Acts 7.2-53,”?Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 111 (2020): 33-64.
“A New Formalist Approach to Narrative Christology: Returning to the Structure of the Synoptic?Gospels,” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 73 (2017): 1-11. Available at?https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/4801/10440
“Building Character on the Road to Emmaus: Lukan Characterization in Contemporary Literary?Perspective,” Journal of Biblical Literature 136 (2017): 687-706.
“Interpreting Pedagogical Acts: Acts 8.26–40 and Narrative Reflexivity as Pedagogy,” New?Testament Studies 63 (2017): 411-27.
“Narcissus Has Been With Us All Along: Ancient Stories as Narcissistic Narratives,” Frontiers of?Narrative Studies (2017): 33-49.?
“New Testament Rhetorical Narratology: An Invitation Toward Integration,” Biblical?Interpretation 24 (2016): 203-228.?
“Suffering, Misunderstanding, and Suffering Misunderstanding: The Markan Misunderstanding?Motif as a Form of Jesus’ Suffering,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament (2016): 1-23.?
“Reading Power(s) and Potential(s) in Jesus’ ‘Triumphal Entry’ (Luke 19:28-40),” Review &?Expositor 112 (2015): 525-41.?
“Stories, Secular and Sacred: What’s at Stake?” Religion and Literature 47 (2015): 53-60.
“The Thoughts of Many Hearts Will be Revealed: Listening in on Lukan Interior Monologues,”?Journal of Biblical Literature 133 (2015): 371-97.
“Silence as Rhetorical Technique in Luke 14.1-6,” Perspectives in Religious Studies 40 (2013):?337-348. [Chinese translation in Journal for the Study of Biblical Literature 15 (2017): 53-75;?Available at China Academic Journals Full-Text Database: http://oversea.cnki.net/kns55/]
“Telling Transformation: How We Redeem Narratives and Narratives Redeem Us,” Word &?World 31 (2011): 287-96.

Contributions to Edited Volumes

AT PRESS, WITH AN EDITOR, OR IN PROGRESSS:

“Creation and Creator as Characters in Luke-Acts,” Creation Concepts and Creation Care in Early?Judaism, Early Christianity, and Beyond, ed. Ruben Zimmermann (in progress).
“Fractals, Layers, Shifts, and Mirrors: Literary Paradigms and New Testament Narratives,” Arbeit?am Paradigma. Eine Bestandsaufnahme der Forschung zu Literatur und Religion, ed. Andreas?Mauz and Daniel Weidner (at press).
“Character Speech and Interiority in Ancient and Modern Narratives,” Handbook of Diachronic?Narratology, ed. Peter Hühn, John Pier, and Wolf Schmid (Berlin: de Gruyter, at press).
“Introduction: Gospel of Luke,” HarperCollins Study Bible, 3rd ed., ed. Steven L. McKenzie,?Kristin De Troyer, F. Scott Spencer (New York: HarperCollins, forthcoming).
“The Narrative Design of the Synoptic Gospels,” Oxford Handbook of The Synoptic Gospels, ed.?Stephen Ahearne-Kroll (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“Rhetorical Narratology,” Oxford Handbook of New Testament Rhetoric, ed. Mark Given?(Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).