Dr. D. Nathan Phinney


 
Dr. Nathan Phinney
Dr. D. Nathan Phinney
Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies
Office Phone:  330-471-8194
 
 
 
Dr. Phinney’s teaching specialties include ancient Israelite religion, the Israelite prophets, Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament Theology.  Dr. Phinney comes to Malone from Yale University where he completed his dissertation on the literary presentation of the prophet Ezekiel.  While in Connecticut , Dr. Phinney taught courses in New Testament and in Jewish Ethics at Connecticut College.  He also taught Introductory Hebrew at Yale Divinity School .  Dr. Phinney is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature.
 
Dr. Phinney continues his work on the book of Ezekiel.  Recently completed research projects include an investigation of the early Jewish interpretation of the book of Ezekiel and an analysis of the relationship between Ezekiel and Zechariah.  Dr. Phinney is currently completing a project which investigates the book of Ezekiel as a work of first-person literature.  His other interests include first person writing in the Old Testament, theories of scriptural authority and Christian interpretation and appropriation of Old Testament texts. 
 
Dr. Phinney's wife, Janelle, is a pianist who teaches at Malone, Mount Union College and in her home studio.  Dr. and Mrs. Phinney are active members of Grace Presbyterian Church  in Hudson, OH.
 
Dr. Phinney is the 2007 recipient of the Malone College Distinguished Faculty award for Teaching. 
 
 
Courses Taught:
Introductory and Intermediate Hebrew
Poetic and Wisdom Literature
Israelite Prophets
Old Testament Theology
Exegesis of Ezekiel 
 
Publications and Book Reviews
 
“The Prophetic Objection in Ezekiel 4:14 and Its Relation to Ezekiel's Call,” in Vetus Testamentum 55:1 (April 2005). 
 
“Ezekiel, Book of” in The Dictionary of Early Judaism. Edited by John J. Collins and Daniel Harlow. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming November 2008.
 
“Zechariah and Ezekiel: Life Writing in the Hebrew Bible,” in Tradition in Transition. Edited by Mark J. Boda and Michael H. Floyd. London: T & T Clark, forthcoming 2008.
 
Review of: A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament (Second Edition; 2005) in Horizons in Biblical Theology 29 (2007), 242.
 
Review of: Word and Spirit in Ezekiel in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (Volume 8, 2008). 
 
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