Douglas Penney, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Classical Languages | Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL, UNITED STATES
Dr. Penney teaches Greek, Hebrew, and Akkadian
Education (3)
University of Chicago: Ph. D., Northwest Semitic Philology
Arabic Language School: Amman, Jordan
Wheaton College: B. A., Ancient Languages
Areas of Expertise and Research Interests (3)
Greek Language
Biblical Hebrew
Ancient Greece
Professional Affiliations (3)
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Institute for Biblical Literature
- Chicago Society for Biblical Research
Presentations and Event Appearances (3)
Aesop's Fables as Paidagogue
Presentation to the Humanities Division Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Wheaton College
2014-04-11
Entertaining Angels Unawares in the Text
presentation to the Humanities Division Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Wheaton College
2013-04-24
Evolution: Language as Fossil
Wheaton College Science Division Lunch Seminar Wheaton College
2013-03-18
Academics and Published Research (1)
Courses Taught
- Akkadian - Hebrew (Beginning and Intermediate) - Old Testament Literature and Interpretation - Greek (Beginning and Intermediate) - Latin - Linguistics - Advanced Koine Greek - Tobit and Apocalypse of Enoch - Advanced Classical Greek - Plato's Apology of Socrates - Senior Seminar in Classics - Independent Studies- Sophocles: Antigone; Judges (Hebrew text); Herodotus (Ionic text); Exercises in Comparative Semitic; Feminist Koine Readings (Judith, Joseph & Aseneth, Paul and Thecia, Callirhoe)
Select Articles, Chapters, Reviews, and Other Publications (5)
4Q560 (4QExorcism ar)
The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader: Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts
Donald W. Parry and Emanuel Tov, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2005) 226-227
The Forgotten Nativity (lectures on CD)
Books in Motion, Spokane, WA. 2009
mastered by Oliver Witte
Finding the Devil in the Details: Onomastic Exegesis and the Naming of Evil in the World of the New Testament
New Testament Greek and Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Gerald F. Hawthorne
Amy M. Donaldson and Timothy B Sailors, eds. (Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).
By the Power of Beelzebub: An Aramaic Incantation Formula from Qumran (4Q560)
Journal of Biblical Literature
1994
What hath Jerusalem to do with Athens - Again?
Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages
Douglas Penney
2002