Joseph Michael Henderson Assistant Professor of Literature and Hermeneutics Torrey Honors Institute Biola University

Curriculum Vitae

Education: Fuller Theological Seminary (2003-2010) Doctorate in (Old Testament Studies), Summa Cum Laude University of , (2000) Seminar: Satan in English Literature with Henry Ansgar Kelly Seminar: Literature of the English Civil War with Jonathan Post Asbury Theological Seminary (1991-1998) Master of Arts (Research) in Biblical Studies, Cum Laude Asbury College (1987-1991) , Cum Laude Double major: English Literature & English Secondary Education Double minor: Mathematics & History Oxford University: Exeter College (1990) Seminar: Modern British History and Literature Tutorial: Modern British Novel C. S. Lewis Summer Institute: St. Hilda’s College, Oxford (1988) Rift Valley Academy: Kijabe, Kenya (1986-1987)

Academic Award: William Sanford LaSor Award in Old Testament from Fuller Theological Seminary (2008)

Teaching Experience: Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University, La Mirada, California (2000- present) Christian Academy, Greenwood, Indian (1999-2000) Rift Valley Academy, Kijabe, Kenya (1994-1997) Kenya Highlands Bible College, Kericho, Kenya (1994)

Languages: Biblical Hebrew Biblical Greek Biblical Aramaic German (basic competency for research) Membership: Society of Biblical Literature Evangelical Theological Society

Publications and Scholarly Presentations: The Structure of Jeremiah 4:5-6:30: Masters Thesis for Asbury Theological Seminary (May, 1998)

“Who Weeps in Jeremiah VII 23 (IX 1)?: Identifying Dramatic Speakers in the Poetry of Jeremiah” in Vetus Testamentum LII (June, 2002), 191-206.

“Isaac, , and Israel: Canonical Interpretation of Genesis 22,” presented at the Pacific Coast Regional Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature (March 2006)

“Jeremiah 2-10 as a Unified Literary Composition: Evidence of Dramatic Portrayal and Narrative Progression," in Uprooting and Planting: Essays on Jeremiah for Leslie Allen, ed. John Goldingay (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2007)

“Jeremiah as a Romantic Poet: Precedents to Bernhard Duhm in Robert Lowth and Johann Gottfried Herder," presented at the Pacific Coast Regional meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (March 2009).

“Duhm and Skinner’s Invention of Jeremiah,” presented at the Jeremiah section of the Society of Biblical Literature National conference (November 2009).

“John Milton: On Evil and Heroism” in The Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization, ed. John Mark Reynolds (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2011).

“John Wesley: On Salvation” in The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization, ed. John Mark Reynolds (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2011).

“Did Isaac Bear the Cross,” presented at the Genesis section of the national convention of the Evangelical Theological Society (November 2012).

“Yahweh’s Prose Messages and Poetic Laments,” presented at Jeremiah section of the national convention of the Society of Biblical Literature (November.2012).

“Duhm and Skinner’s Invention of Jeremiah” in Jeremiah Invented, eds. Carolyn Sharp and Else Holt, The Library of Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Studies (Bloomsbury 2014).

Jeremiah under the Shadow of Duhm: An Argument from the History of Scholarship against the Use of Poetic Form as a Criterion of Authenticity. Dissertation passed with distinction (Fuller Theological Seminary, April 2010).

Seminars Taught: Pauline Epistles (2003) Hebrews and the Old Testament (2003) Milton’s Poetry and Prose (2005) The Doctrine of Scripture (2007) Psalms and their Reception in English Literature (2011)