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Michael W. Graves
Assistant Professor of Old Testament
On faculty since 2004

Phone: (630) 752-7119
Michael.W.Graves@wheaton.edu


Education

Ph.D. Hebrew Union College, 2006

M.Phil. Hebrew Union College, 2004

M.A. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1999

B.A. Wheaton College, 1995

 
Professional and Personal Interests

My reason for teaching at Wheaton College is simple: I believe in the immeasurable value of higher education that is both distinctively Christian and universal in scope. Since God is the Maker of all that is good and well ordered in the world, there is no avenue of human inquiry that does not properly belong in the domain of Christian learning. Because the world is in need of redemption, the way in which we approach our research must be shaped by our commitment to Christ.

Courses Taught

  • HEBR 301: Elementary Hebrew
    HEBR 302: Elementary Hebrew II
  • HEBR 401x: Intermediate Hebrew
    BITH 558: Biblical and Targumic Aramaic
  • BITH 211: OT Literature and Interpretation
    BITH 349: Judges
    BITH 349: Daniel
    BITH 433: Jeremiah
    BITH 449/536: Minor Prophets

Membership in Professional Societies
  • Society of Biblical Literature
  • National Association of Professors of Hebrew
  • North American Patristics Society

Research
  • Jerome, the ancient versions, and Old Testament interpretation
  • Patristic Biblical interpretation
  • Rabbinic Biblical interpretation
  • Ancient Christian exegesis and the classical tradition
  • Old Testament Textual Criticism

Publications and Presentations

Publications

Jerome's Hebrew Philology. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

"The 'Pagan' Background of Patristic Exegetical Methods," in Ancient Faith for the Church's Future, ed. Jeffrey P. Greenman and Mark Husbands (forthcoming, IVP, 2008).

"The Public Reading of Scripture in Early Judaism," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 50 (2007): 467-87.

"'Judaizing' Christian Interpretations of the Prophets as Seen by Saint Jerome," Vigiliae Christianae 61 (2007): 142-56.

"The Origins of Ketiv-Qere Readings," Textual Criticism 8 (2003) (http://purl.org/TC).

Papers Presented

"A Roman in Greek Palestine: Jerome and the Development of Near Eastern Studies," Wheaton College 51st Annual Archaelogy Lecture Series, 2006.

"Literary Appreciation in Jerome's Reading of the Old Testament," Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, 2006.

"Judaizing Christian Interpretations of the Prophets as Seen by St. Jerome," Annual Meeting of the SBL, 2004.

"St. Jerome's Knowledge of Hebrew," Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, 2004.

"Digression and Redaction in the Homiletical Midrashim: Pesikta deRav Kahana Chapter Five," Conference of the Cincinnati Consortium of Ancient Studies, 2003.

"The Origins of Ketiv-Qere Readings: Evaluating the Evidence," Southeast Regional SBL, 2003.