Anthony Le Donne
About Me
I am currently teaching two courses for William Jessup University: Biblical Interpretation and Romans. The first is designed to teach the students the basic principals of hermeneutics, how to write a research paper and about the cultural context(s) of ancient Judaism and Christianity. This course also serves as a primer for Biblical Hebrew and Greek. The second course does much of the same but focuses on Paul’s letter to the Romans with all of the above in mind.
I live in Northern California with my wife of eleven years and my two children. Before this, we lived on Catalina Island (off the coast of Los Angeles) and before that, in Durham, England.
While in Durham, I studied with James Dunn as he completed his Jesus Remembered and with John Barclay as he completed his commentary on Josephus' Against Apion. Both Jimmy and John were brilliant conversation partners and beyond generous with their time and investment in me and my research. I was Jimmy's last PhD candidate and John's first at Durham.
These years at Durham saw a confluence of fortunate turns for New Testament studies. Dunn was still very active in the department, Barclay made the move from Glasgow, Loren Stuckenbruck hadn't yet left for Princeton, and Tom Wright was appointed Bishop of Durham. The weekly New Testament Seminar was a theological perfect storm.
I consider myself, first and foremost, a writer for students. I think that the most difficult thing to do in academia is to translate complex ideas for non-specialists. This requires knowing a subject extremely well and knowing one's audience even better. In my opinion, there are only a handful of specialists that do this well. I aspire to this.
Besides writing, I enjoy web design, cooking, baseball, fantasy/sci-fi, film, and Minnesotan folk music.
Links of interest:
forbiddengospels.blogspot.com
bibleinterp.com
I live in Northern California with my wife of eleven years and my two children. Before this, we lived on Catalina Island (off the coast of Los Angeles) and before that, in Durham, England.
While in Durham, I studied with James Dunn as he completed his Jesus Remembered and with John Barclay as he completed his commentary on Josephus' Against Apion. Both Jimmy and John were brilliant conversation partners and beyond generous with their time and investment in me and my research. I was Jimmy's last PhD candidate and John's first at Durham.
These years at Durham saw a confluence of fortunate turns for New Testament studies. Dunn was still very active in the department, Barclay made the move from Glasgow, Loren Stuckenbruck hadn't yet left for Princeton, and Tom Wright was appointed Bishop of Durham. The weekly New Testament Seminar was a theological perfect storm.
I consider myself, first and foremost, a writer for students. I think that the most difficult thing to do in academia is to translate complex ideas for non-specialists. This requires knowing a subject extremely well and knowing one's audience even better. In my opinion, there are only a handful of specialists that do this well. I aspire to this.
Besides writing, I enjoy web design, cooking, baseball, fantasy/sci-fi, film, and Minnesotan folk music.
Links of interest:
forbiddengospels.blogspot.com
bibleinterp.com
“This is the true
joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty
one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of
ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to
making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole
community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I
can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more
I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It
is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want
to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
~George Bernard Shaw
~George Bernard Shaw
