Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Humanities: Philosophy College of Religious Education: Ancient Scripture

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Travis Anderson

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy

Research Interests:
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Art
- Film and architecture
- Contemporary French and German philosophy
- Philosophy of psychology
- History of Western Civilization
- Philosophy of Economics
- Studio drawing and painting
- Writing and critical thinking pedagogy

Daniel Becerra

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270B JSB

Research Interests:
- Moral formation in Late Antiquity
- Early Christianity
- Theology and ethics in the Book of Mormon

Dan Belnap

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316G JSB

Research Interests:
- Cultural and sociological influences in the Book of Mormon
- Use of ritual in ancient and contemporary contexts
- Doctrines of ascension and theosis in ancient Near East and Late Antiquity
- Comparative cosmologies

Lincoln Blumell

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
210F JSB

Research Interests:
- Early Christianity
- Ancient Christian Letters
- Greek papyrology

Ryan Christensen

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4081 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Philosophical theology
- Philosophical anthropology
- Philosophical logic
- Essence
- Truth

Jason Robert Combs

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
275B JSB

Research Interests:
- Cultural history of early Christianity
- Religious experience
- Dreams and visions

Amy Easton-Flake

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
210E JSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth-century women's reform literature
- Nineteenth-century women's biblical hermeneutics
- Latter-day saint 'home literature' in relation to the larger print culture
- Book of Mormon through a narrative lens
- Reception history of the Book of Mormon

Mark Ellison

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
275E JSB

Research Interests:
- Early Christianity
- Biblical reception
- Marriage, family and celibacy
- Portrayals of Jesus in Christian art
- Experience of ordinary Christians
- Adam and Eve

Nick Frederick

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
275G JSB

Research Interests:
- Relationship between the Bible and Latter-day Saint scripture
- Jesus and his Jewish setting
- Daily Life in Roman Galilee
- Sacred space, ritual, and priesthood in early Judaism
- Dead sea schools and early Jewish sectarianism
- Jesus followers in the Roman world
- Jesus in Film
- Joseph Smith's Study and Uses of Hebrew

Tyler Griffin

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
370C JSB

Research Interests:
- Religious education
- New Testament Parables
- Jesus life and Atonement

Derek Haderlie

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4083 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Metaethics
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of religion

Jared M. Halverson

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303K JSB

Research Interests:
- Scriptural Reception and Rejection History
- Secularization
- Faith Loss
- Anti-Religious Rhetoric
- Canonization
- LDS Scripture and History
- Philosophy of Humor

Mike Hansen

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4092 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Rationalism (especially Leibniz, Spinoza, Descartes)
- Philosophy of Mind (especially perception and point of view)
- Epistemology (especially self-knowledge)

J. B. Haws

College: Religious Education
Department: Church History and Doctrine
375B JSB

Research Interests:
- Latter-day Saint history
- Latter-day Saint reputation
- Contemporary American religions and interfaith dialogue

John Hilton III

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270E JSB

Research Interests:
- The Atonement of Jesus Christ
- Teaching and Learning
- Open educational resources
- Religious pedagogy

Shon Hopkin

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
375A JSB

Research Interests:
- Judaism and Islam
- Medieval cultures and literature
- Biblical studies
- Religions of the world

Kerry Hull

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316D JSB

Research Interests:
- Linguistics
- Ethnographic studies
- Archaeology
- Language and culture

Eric Huntsman

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
365F JSB

Research Interests:
- Johannine Literature
- Historical Jesus and His depiction in the gospel narratives
- Biblical studies: Luke through Acts and Pauline Epistles
- Early Christianity

David Jensen

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4093 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Ethics
- Medical Ethics
- Kant

Frank Judd, Jr.

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316C JSB

Research Interests:
- Latter-day saint interpretation of scripture
- Historical geography and archaeology of the Bible
- Near Eastern Studies

David Laraway

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4086A JFSB

Research Interests:
- Hispanic Literature
- Hispanic Culture
- Basque and Basque-American Literature
- Basque and Basque-American Culture
- Philosophy of Art
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy in the Spanish-speaking World

Jan Martin

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316A JSB

Research Interests:
- The Bible and the Book of Mormon
- Early English religious practices
- King James translation of the Bible
- Early English reformers -- William Tyndale, Miles, Coverdale, and John Frith
- Development of the language of English theology

Taylor-Grey E. Miller

College: College of Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4087 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Metaphysics
- The relationships that essence, ground, and metaphysical generation bear to one another.
- Philosophy of religion
- Philosophical theology

Gordy Mower

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy

Research Interests:
- Hume
- Descartes
- Montaigne
- Machiavelli
- Locke
- Confucianism
- Taoism
- Legalism
- Republicanism
- Virtue theory
- Civic theory
- Natural law theory
- Professional ethics
- Neo-Confucianism
- Korean Philosophy

Kerry Muhlestein

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270L JSB

Research Interests:
- Archaeology
- The advent of Christianity in Egypt
- Texts and iconography of Egyptian religion
- Ancient Egyptian religion, history, and culture
- Overlap of the Biblical and Egyptian worlds

Katharina Paxman

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4086C JFSB

Research Interests:
- Hume
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Philosophy of the mind
- History of Philosophy of emotions
- Moral psychology
- Metaethics
- Applied ethics
- History of women in philosophy

George A. Pierce

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303F JSB

Research Interests:
- Regional settlement patterns
- Archaeological digital data structure, creation, maintenance and dissemination
- Archaeological and geographic aspects of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament

Krystal V. L. Pierce

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303L JSB

Research Interests:
- Ancient Near Eastern society, religion, and culture
- Expatriates and refugees
- Personhood and gender

Nathan Rockwood

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4089 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Locke
- Descartes
- Philosophy of Religion

Aaron Schade

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316J JSB

Research Interests:
- Northwest Semitic inscriptions
- Archaeology
- The Old Testament

Joshua Sears

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270C JSB

Research Interests:
- Israelite prophecy
- Marriage and family in the ancient world
- Latter-day Saint scripture history and publications

David Seely

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303G JSB

Research Interests:
- King James translation of the Bible
- The temple in ancient and modern times
- The Old Testament

Avram Shannon

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
210C JSB

Research Interests:
- Idolatry and Image Worship
- Jewish and non-Jewish interactions
- Tribal and Affinity Groups
- Kingship and priesthood in the ancient world

Joseph Spencer

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270R JSB

Research Interests:
- Philosophy
- Theology
- Scripture

Gaye Strathearn

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
370D JSB

Research Interests:
- Bridal chamber ritual in Gnosticism
- The life and teachings of Paul
- The Gospel of Matthew

Charles Swift

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316F JSB

Research Interests:
- Bridal chamber ritual in Gnosticism
- The life and teachings of Paul
- The Gospel of Matthew

Stephan D. Taeger

College: College of Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303J JSB

Justin B. Top

College: College of Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
210J JSB

Angela Wentz Faulconer

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4085 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Moral philosophy
- Political philosophy
- Morality of genome editing
- Human germ line
- Physician assisted suicide
- The distribution of scarce resources (medicine)
- Ethics of compensation for bodily goods

David Whitchurch

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303D JSB

Research Interests:
- Latter-day Saint history
- Old and New Testament studies
- The coming forth of the English Bible
- Graeco-Roman burial traditions

Justin White

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4079 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth century European Philosophy
- Twentieth Century European Philosophy
- Philosophy of Agency
- Moral psychology

Keith Wilson

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270A JSB

Research Interests:
- The coming forth of the Book of Mormon
- Latter-day Saint history

Mark Alan Wright

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316E JSB

Research Interests:
- Ancient Mesoamerican ritual and religion
- Historicity of the Book of Mormon