John Wright CV

1989 Ph.D. in Theology, University of Notre Dame
1986 M.A., Theology, University of Notre Dame
1983 M.Div., Nazarene Theological Seminary
1980 B.A., Philosophy-Humanities and Psychology, Mount Vernon Nazarene College

• Wesley Center Fellowship, Wesley Center for Twenty-First Century Studies,  PLNC, Fall 1999.
• Regional Rhodes Consultation on Church-Related Colleges Grant, 1998-1999.
• Wesley Center Fellowship, Wesley Center for Twenty-First Century Studies, PLNC, Fall 1995.
• Medallion Alumni Award, Mount Vernon Nazarene College, November 1993.
• President's Award, Nazarene Theological Seminary, 1983.
• Valedictorian, Mount Vernon Nazarene College, 1980.

• "Wesley's Theology as Methodist Practice: Toward the Post-modern Retrieval of the Wesleyan Tradition," Wesleyan Theological Society, Bethany, OK, March, 1999.
• Daniel Spross and John Wright, "To the Angel of the Church, Write: A Biblical Vision of a Just World in the Book of Revelation" Nazarene Theological Symposium at the Compassionate Ministry Conference, Colorado Springs, October, 1998.
• "O How Firm a Foundation, or Is It? How Firm a Foundation!: Beyond Critique in a Theological and Scientific Analysis of Creation Science," Church of the Nazarene Science and Theology Conference, Kansas City, MO, March, 1998.
• "Miracle and the Historical/Theological Horizons of Anglo-American Biblical Translations: From Tyndale to the NIV," Western Regional William Tyndale Conference, Point Loma Nazarene College, January, 1998.
• Ron Benefiel with John Wright, "Consumer versus Commitment Based Congregations in the Church of the Nazarene, 1992-1996: Sociological and Theological Reflections," Association of Nazarene Sociologists of Religion, March 14, 1997
• "Francis of Assisi as Over-Human: A Nietzschean Theology of Christian Perfection," Conference on "What Happens to Person in a Post-Modern Era?" sponsored by The Wesley Center for 21st Century Studies, Point Loma Nazarene College, January 1997.
• "The Fabula of the Book of Chronicles," Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah Group, SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November, 1996.
• "No Prophet Like Moses: Deuteronomy 34:10-12 and the Theological Structure of the Pentateuch," AAR/SBL Western Regional Meeting, San Diego, California, March 1996.
• "Towards a Holiness Hermeneutic: The Old Testament against Israelite Religion," Wesleyan Theological Society, Dayton, Ohio, November 1994.
• "The End of an Era: 1 Chronicles 22-29 and the Iranian Epic Tradition," Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah Group, SBL Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 1993.
• "Vindicating the Guilty: The Innocence of David in 1 Chronicles 21," Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah Group, SBL Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri November, 1991.
• "Space, Power, and Community: Lessons from the Architectonics of the Iron Age II Israelite City, Community after Communism," Midwest Radical Scholars and Activists Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November 1991.
• "A Tale of Three Cities: Urban Gates, Public Squares, and Power in Iron Age II, Neo-Babylonian, and Achaemenid Israel," Sociology of the Second Temple Group, SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 1990.
• "The Founding Father: The Structure of the Chroniclers David Narrative," Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah Group, SBL Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, November 1989.
• "The Legacy of a Lameduck: The Narrative Function of 1 Chronicles 23- 27," Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah Group, SBL Annual Meeting, November 1988.
• "Guarding the Gates: 1 Chronicles 26:1-19 and the Roles of Gatekeepers in I and II Chronicles," Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah Group, SBL Annual Meeting Boston, November, 1987.

(1) Books Chronicles:

A Narratological Commentary, Berit Olam Series, Michael Glazier Press, contract signed.

Weaving the Story of God: Homiletics as American Biblical Hermeneutics, with Dr. Stephen Green, Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics Series, contract signed with Intervarsity Press.

Priests, Prophets, and Scribes: Essays on the Formation and Heritage of Second Temple Judaism in Honor of Joseph Blenkinsopp, co-edited with Eugene Ulrich, Robert Carroll, and Philip R. Davies. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992.

Festschrift with contributions from international colleagues, friends, and students of Joseph Blenkinsopp. And Then There Was One: A Search for the True Disciple in the Gospel of Mark. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1985. 111pp.

(2) Articles:

Geneaologies" and Election" Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch InterVarsity Press, contract signed.

The Fabula of Chronicles" in Chronicles as History (ed. by M. Patrick Graham and Steven McKenzie; Sheffield: JSOT Press) forthcoming.

The Founding Father: The Narrative Structure of the Chroniclers David Narrative," Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998) 45-59.

Sixty notes for the Life and Times Historical Reference Bible, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Press, 1998.

The Fight for Peace: Narrative and History in the Battle Accounts in Chronicles" in The Chronicler as Historian (ed. by M. Patrick Graham, Kenneth G. Hoglund, and Steven L. McKenzie; JSOTS 238; Sheffield, Eng: JSOT Press, pp. 150-177.

The Old Testament against Israelite Religion: Towards a Holiness Hermeneutic," Wesleyan Theological Journal 30 (1995) 68-90.

The Innocence of David in 1 Chronicles 21," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 60 (1993) 87-105.

From the Center to the Periphery: 1 Chronicles 23-27 and the Interpretation of Chronicles in the Nineteenth Century," in Priests, Prophets, and Scribes: Essays on the Formation and Heritage of Second Temple Judaism in Honor of Joseph Blenkinsopp, pp. 20-42. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992.

Another View of the Dead Sea Scrolls Scandal," Biblical Archaeological Review 18:3 (1992) 64-65.

Amram" (I, p. 217), Beno" (I, p. 674-5), Bilgah" (I, p. 742), Delaiah" (II, p. 133), Eliashib" (II, pp. 460-61), Gamul" (II, p. 966), Gershom" (II, pp. 993-94), Hakkoz" (III, pp. 24-25), Happizzez" (III, p. 55), Hezir" (III, p. 193), Huppah" (III, p. 334), Ibri" (III, pp. 355-56), Iddo" (III, pp. 375-76), Isshiah" (III, p. 578), Jahath" (III, pp. 611-12), Jakim" (III, p. 616), Jehezkel" (III, pp. 740-41), Jekamean" (III, p. 676), Jeriah" (III, p. 723), Jerimoth" (III, pp. 740-41), Jeshebeab" (III, p. 769), Jozebad" (III, pp. 1023- 24), Michael" (IV, pp. 811-12), Zechariah" (VI, pp. 1057-60), The Anchor Bible Dictionary. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

The Legacy of David in Chronicles: The Narrative Function of the Chroniclers 23-27," Journal of Biblical Literature 110 (1991) 229-42.

Guarding the Gates: 1 Chronicles 26:1-19 and the Roles of Gatekeepers in Chronicles," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 48 (1990) 69- 81.

Origen in the Scholars Den: A Rationale for the Hexapla," in Origen of Alexandria: His World and His Legacy, pp. 48-62. Edited by Charles Kannengiesser and William Petersen. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988.

Co-Chair, "Literature and History of the Persian Period Group," Society of Biblical Literature, 1997 -- present

Steering Committee, Chronicles, Ezra/Nehemiah Group, Society of Biblical Literature, 1991 -- present

Abstractor for Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft100:3 to present, Old Testament Abstracts

Catholic Biblical Association

Society of Biblical Literature

Wesleyan Theological Society