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January 2014 Adam L. Porter Department of Religion 1120 West Lafayette Avenue Illinois College Jacksonville, IL 62650 1101 West College Avenue 269-767-8373 Jacksonville, IL 62650 [email protected] Voice: 919-245-3429 www2.ic.edu/aporter Fax: 919-245-3480 Education: Ph.D., Religious Studies, Duke University May 1999 Major Field: Judaic Studies Minor Fields: Old Testament, Art and Art History Master of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School May 1993 Concentration in Western Traditions Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College May 1988 Major: Economics, Minor: Religion Dean of the Faculty, July 2014 - present Overseeing search and hiring of faculty Assessing faculty performance Associate Academic Dean, July 2013-June, 2014. Leading the team writing Illinois College’s HLC re-accreditation assurance argument Overseeing search and hiring of non-tenure track faculty, as well as meeting with them to discuss their performance Coordinate efforts to improve student retention, serve on college’s Early Intervention Group, student academic advising and progress monitoring Coordinate selecting and brining major speakers to campus as part of Convocation program Special projects and troubleshooting as assigned by the Dean of the College Teaching Experience: Professor, Illinois College, fall 2012-present Associate Professor, Illinois College, fall 2006-spring 2012 Assistant Professor, Illinois College, fall 2000-spring 2006 Courses Taught Abrahamic Religions (fall 2002, 2003, spring 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013) Ancient Near Eastern Religions (fall 2003, 2005) Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean (spring 2003, fall 2004, 2006) Biblical Greek (AY 2004-05, AY 2008-09, AY 2010-11, spring 2012, fall 2012, spring 2013) BreakAway: Ancient Greece (spring 2008, 2010) BreakAway: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Spain (spring 2003) BreakAway: Italy (May 2012) BreakAway: London (May 2013) BreakAway: Morocco (January 2008) BreakAway: Peru, Past and Present - Inca Trail (Spring 2009) Curriculum Vitæ A. L. Porter BreakAway: Views of Japan (spring 2005) Classical Hebrew (spring 2002, AY 2003-04, AY2005-06, fall 2009) Computer Ethics (spring 2002, 2004) First Year Seminar: American Mythology and Film (fall 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012) Introduction to College (summer/fall 2001, 2002, 2003) Introduction to Hebrew Bible (fall 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012) Introduction to the Bible (each semester, fall 2000 - fall 2004, fall 2005, spring 2007, spring 2009 - 2012) Introduction to the New Testament (spring 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013) Reacting to Western Religion (spring 2007, fall 2008, spring 2011) Religion and Film (summer 2001, 2003, fall 2009, spring 2011, 2013) Senior Seminar: Religion and Literature (EN401/RE401, fall 2010) A Social History of Satan (spring 2009, 2011) Women in the Bible (fall 2008, 2010, 2012) Instructor Duke University: Ethics and the Internet (spring 2000) A Social History of Satan (spring 2000) Religions of Asia (fall 1999) Introduction to the Old Testament (fall 1998, summer 1999) Undergraduate Writing Course - Workshop in Rhetoric (fall 1996) Duke Divinity School: Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (academic year 1998-1999, summer 1999) Hellenism and Ethnicity (supervision of independent study, spring 1999) Readings in Pseudepigrapha (supervision of independent study, fall 1998) Talent Identification Program, Duke University: Religions of the World (summer 1996) Teaching Assistant Duke University: Contemporary Jewish Thought (spring 1996) Duke Divinity School: Introduction to the Old Testament (fall 1996, spring and fall 1997, fall 1998, spring 1999) Introduction to the New Testament (spring 1998) Publications: Books: Co-authored with David Stewart, The Josianic Reform: Deuteronomy, Prophecy, and Israelite Religion, Student manual and Instructor’s manual (approved for distribution by the Reacting Board via PDFs over the Reacting website, fall 2010). Introducing the Bible: An Active Learning Approach (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005). 2 Curriculum Vitæ A. L. Porter Articles and Chapters: “Neil Gaiman’s Lucifer: Reconsidering Milton’s Satan,” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 25/2 (2013): 175-185. “Satanic but not Satan: Signs of the Devilish in Contemporary Cinema,” Journal of Film and Religion, 17/1 (2013) http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol17/iss1/37/ “Role-Playing and Religion: Using Games to Educate Millennials,” in Teaching Theology and Religion, 11/4 (2008): 230-35. “What Sort of Jews Were the Tobiads?” in The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the “Other” in Antiquity. Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers, edited by C. Thomas McCollough and Douglas R. Edwards. ASOR Annual, vol. 60/61 (2007). “The Gospel of Judas: How Will It Affect Christianity?,” Illinois College Alumni Magazine (January, 2007), 8-11. “Archaeology of Palestine in the Roman Period,” with Mark A. Chancey, Near Eastern Archaeology (December 2001) Vol. 64/4: 164-203. “God Lives on the Ganges: Hinduism,” “New Religious Movements,” and “Chat Rooms, News Groups, and Mailing Lists” in The Complete Idiots Guide to Religion On-Line, by Bruce L. Lawrence (Indianapolis: Macmillian Computer Publishing, 1999). “Amathus: Gabinius’ Capital of Peraea?” Journal of Jewish Studies (Autumn, 1999), Vol. 50/2: 223- 229. “Second Temple Studies in Light of Recent Archaeology,” with Eric Meyers, et al., Currents in Research: Biblical Studies (January, 1995), Vol. 3: 129-152. Reviews and Encyclopedia / Dictionary Articles: Review of J. M. F. Heath, Paul’s Visual Piety: The Metamorphosis of the Beholder (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), Catholic Biblical Quarterly, (in press). Respondent to question on Bible Odyssey, Hebrew Bible section (http://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/ tools/ask-a-scholar-q-a/hebrew-bible.aspx), July, 2014. Review of Stephen Jones (ed), Shadows over Innsmouth (London: Titan, 2013) in Fantasy Matters (http://www.fantasy-matters.com/2013/10/beyond-lonely-towns-and-mysterious.html), 30 October 2013. Review of Kim Newman, Anno Dracula 1959: Dracula Cha, Cha, Cha (London: Titan Books, 2012) in Fantasy Matters (http://www.fantasy-matters.com/2013/01/anno-dracula-1959-dracula- cha-cha-review.html), 2 January 2013. “Hard Boiled Zombies: Mike Carey’s Felix Castor series,” in Fantasy Matters (http://www.fantasy- matters.com/2012/07/hard-boiled-zombies-mike-careys-felix.html), 27 July 2012. “Why Does Fantasy Matter?” in Fantasy Matters (http://www.fantasy-matters.com/2012/05/why- does-fantasy-matter.html), 30 May 2012. “Rereading Bartimaeus, Part III: Ptolemy’s Gate,” in Fantasy Matters (http://www.fantasy- matters.com/2012/05/rereading-bartimaeus-part-iii-ptolemys.html), 15 May 2012. “Rereading Bartimaeus, Part II: The Golem’s Eye,” in Fantasy Matters (http://www.fantasy- matters.com/2012/05/re-reading-bartimaeus-ii-golems-eye.html), 9 May 2012. “Another Boy Wizard: Re-reading Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Trilogy,” in Fantasy Matters (http://www.fantasy-matters.com/2012/05/another-boy-wizard-re-reading-jonathan.html), 1 May 2012. Articles for Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, edited by Klauck, McGinn, et al. (New York: De Gruyter, forthcoming): Elijah (Film), Essenes (Film), Exorcism (Film) (submitted Dec, 2010). 3 Curriculum Vitæ A. L. Porter Face (Film), Freemasonry (submitted June, 2011). Goliath (Film) (submitted, Nov, 2011). Exodus, The (film), Enemies (film) (submitted, March 2013). E. A. Myers, The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East: Reassessing the Sources (New York: Cambridge, 2010) in Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 73/4 (2011): 880-82. Book of Eli (Hughes Brothers, 2010), in Journal of Film and Religion [http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/Vol14no1/Reviews/BookEli.html] vol 14/1 (April, 2010). Carol Hupping (ed.), The Jewish Bible: A JPS Guide (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2008), in Teaching the Bible [http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/TBnewsletter.aspx] vol. 2/2 (2010). David Goodblatt, Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, vol 9 (2009) (http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/reviews/reviews_new/review357.htm). Alice Hunt, Missing Priests: The Zadokites in History and Tradition (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 452; New York/London: T & T Clark, 2006), in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, vol 7 (2007) (http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/reviews/review279.htm). Zeev Weiss, et al., The Sepphoris Synagogue. Deciphering an Ancient Message through its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2005) in American Journal of Archaeology, vol 111 (January 2007): 179. Articles for The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, general editor (Nashville: Abingdon Press). Volume 1, A-C (2006): “Antipatris,” pp. 183-184; “Attalia,” p. 348; “Cohort,” p. 698; “Commagene,” p. 707; “Crates,” p. 779. Volume 2, D-H (2007): “Dividing Wall,” p. 143; “Door,” pp. 158-159; “Emesa,” p. 253; “Herodian Fortresses,” pp. 812-813; “Hannibal,” p. 733; “Hour,” p. 902. Volume 3, I-Ma (2008): “Imalkue,” p. 22-23. Volume 4, Me-R (2009): “Menelaus,” p.42, “Miqvah, Miqva’oth,” p. 99, “Myndos,” p. 184, “Naarah,” p. 200, “Nadabath,” p. 205, “Nanea,” p. 219, “Numenius,” pp. 299-300, “Party,” p. 386, “Pliny,” p. 549, “Pompey,” p. 560, “Popilius, Gaius,” p. 564, “Preparation Day”, p.595, “Rathamin,” p. 737, “Ras, Beit,” p. 737. Volume 5, S-Z (2009): “Sabbath Day’s Journey,” pp. 10-11, “Salamis,” p. 43, “Samos,” p.
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  • Gospel of John (Chapters 1 & 2)

    Gospel of John (Chapters 1 & 2)

    Second Lesson THE GOSPEL OF JOHN (CHAPTERS 1 & 2) I. WHO IS JOHN THE BAPTIST? John the Baptist was the last great prophet prior to the birth of Christ. He was a rabbi and minister who foretold the coming of the Messiah, paving the way for Christ by preparing the mind, bodies and spirits of his disciples for his arrival. Prophet Malachi in 3:1-3 prophecies of John’s coming. He is believed to have belonged to an ascetic group known as Essenes. Who were the Essenes? The Essenes were a Jewish mystical sect somewhat resembling the Pharisees living Qumran caves near the Dead Sea. They lived lives of ritual purity and separation. They originated about 100 B.C., and disappeared from history after the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. The Essenes are not directly mentioned in Scripture. It has been popular among some scholars to claim that John the Baptist was an Essene. There are some similarities between John and the Essenes: 1. John was in the desert (Luke 1:80). The Essenes were in the desert. 2. Both John and the Essenes used Isaiah 40:3 to describe themselves as the voice in the wilderness. 3. The baptism (or washing) practiced by John and the Essenes required a change of heart. The Essenes as a sect of Judaism do not exist today. John’s disciples: He also drew his share of disciples. The first two peoples Andrew and John that Jesus called to follow him were first followers of John (John 1:35 - 39). Philip was probably another disciple of John the Baptist.