Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, Ph.D.

Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, Ph.D., joined the faculty of Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary as associate professor of Christian Scriptures in the fall of 2022. He is concurrently serving as director of the Black Church Studies Program. Prior to this, he was the founding Dean and Associate Professor of Biblical Languages and Literature at Allen University’s Dickerson-Green Theological Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina.

Dr. Hopkins has been a Christ and Being Human Pedagogy Fellow with Yale University's Center for Faith and Culture (2020-2024) and a Faculty Research Fellow with the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University (2023-2024). He is a current Fellow with the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, where he is part of the research group on The Post-Secular Conception of Science and a contributor to the Defending Religious Freedom Initiative. His research has been supported by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, the Calvin Institute for Christian Worship, and the Sacred Writes Media Partnership.

Having also been ordained as a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Church of God in Christ, he is the author of numerous publications, including the book Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Gorgias Press, 2022) and the forthcoming biblical commentary 1-3 John (Word and Spirit Commentary on the New Testament Series, Baker Academic Press).