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Douglas Penney
Professor of Ancient Languages
On faculty since 1995

Phone: (630) 752-5792
E-mail: Douglas.Penney@wheaton.edu


Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago (Northwest Semitic Philology)

Arabic Language School, Amman, Jordan

B.A., Wheaton College (Ancient Languages)

 
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Professional and Personal Interests
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Courses Taught

Akkadian
Hebrew
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)

Membership in Professional Societies

Society of Biblical Literature

Institute for Biblical Literature

Chicago Society for Biblical Research

Research

Sheffield Academic Press cancelled the series in which they had agreed to publish my dissertation.  I have submitted the dissertation (January 2004) to Mark S. Smith, Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at New York University, for review and publication recommendation. 

Fabulae Aesopicae
: Greek Text, Vocabulary and Notes.  A reader in Attic Greek designed to smooth the transition of students of Koiné. In contact with expected publisher, Bochazy-Carducci, Wauconda, IL.

Papers Published and/or Presented

Publications:

Review of Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek by David Alan Black (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1988) in Religious Studies Review 15/3 (July 1989) 262.

“By the Power of Beelzebub:  An Aramaic Incantation Formula from Qumran (4Q560),” with Michael O. Wise, Journal of Biblical Literature 113/4 (1994): 627-650. 

Consulting Editor for the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery, InterVarsity Press, responsible for the final form of 110 articles, 1994-97.

Author of the following articles for the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (InterVarsity Press, October 1998):  “Animals of the Bible, Arrow of God, Birds of the Bible, Cosmology, Demons, Dreams, Facial Gestures, Idols and Idolatry, Magic, Mythical Animals, Oracle, Ox, Pit, Plague, Serpent, Shave and Storm.”

“What hath Jerusalem to do with Athens - Again?” Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages (3:2002)

“My Name Is Legion for We are Myriad: Mark 5:9 in the light of Psalm 91:7.”  (Submitted to Novum Testamentum, Spring 2003.)

“Finding the Devil in the Details:  Onomastic Exegesis and the Naming of Evil in the World of the New Testament.” in New Testament Greek and Exegesis:  Essays in Honor of Gerald F.  Hawthorne. Amy M. Donaldson and Timothy B Sailors, eds. (Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).

Papers and Lectures:

"Ancient Writing Systems," a lecture presented at the Wheaton Archaeology Conference, Wheaton College, November 1987.

"By the Power of Beelzebub (4Q560)," a paper presented to the Jewish Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, January 18, 1993.


Additional Papers & Lectures