Assistant Professor of Old Testament
B.C.S. North American Baptist College, Edmonton
M.T.S. Wycliffe College, Toronto
Ph.D. University of St. Michael's College, Toronto
pevans@mcmaster.ca
Paul joined the faculty at McMaster Divinity College in 2009 after teaching Biblical Studies for three years at Ambrose University College and Seminary in Calgary, Alberta. Paul specializes in Old Testament studies and in his teaching and research emphasizes the theological significance of the Old Testament and the value of its application for the Church today. He has published several articles on the books of Kings and Chronicles and a monograph entitled The Invasion of Sennacherib in the Book of Kings: A Source-Critical and Rhetorical Study of 2 Kings 18-19, which was awarded the 2010 R.B.Y. Scott Award by the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies recognizing an outstanding book in the areas of Hebrew Bible and/or the Ancient Near East . Paul was named the 2006 Regional Scholar for the Upper Midwest Region of the Society of Biblical Literature. Paul has also taught previously in Toronto at Tyndale University College and Wycliffe College.
Present Research Interests
Present Research Projects
Recent Lectures and Conference Papers
Recent Publications
Present Research Interests
- Historiography in the book of Kings, both in its literary presentation and historical referents.
- The book of Chronicles and its new vision of Israel's history in the postexilic era.
- The book of Isaiah.
Present Research Projects
Co-edited Volume
- The Book of Chronicles and Early Second Temple Historiography. eds. Tyler F. Williams and Paul S. Evans. Eisenbrauns, forthcoming.
Articles
Book Chapters
- “Prophecy Influencing History: Dialogism in the Chronicler’s Ahaz Narrative” in Prophets and Prophecy in Ancient Israelite Historiography. Edited by Mark J. Boda and Lyssa Wray Beal. Eisenbrauns, forthcoming.
- “Historia or Exegesis? Assessing the Chronicler’s Hezekiah-Sennacherib Narrative” in The Book of Chronicles and Early Second Temple Historiography. eds. Tyler F. Williams and Paul S. Evans. Eisenbrauns, forthcoming.
- “Teaching Biblical Hebrew: Practical Strategies for Introductory Courses” in forthcoming book on Teaching (title yet to be determined). Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Phil C. Zylla, McMaster Divinity College Press, forthcoming.
- “Worship that Fulfils the Law: The Book of Chronicles and its Implications for a Contemporary Theology of Worship” in forthcoming book on Worship based on presentations from the 2010 Bingham Colloquium.
Recent Lectures and Conference Presentations
Annual Meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association
(Los Angeles, CA, July-Aug 2010)
• “Historia or Exegesis? Assessing the Chronicler’s Hezekiah-Sennacherib Narrative”
Bingham Colloquium in New Testament of the Canadian
(Hamilton, ON, June 2010)
• “Worship that Fulfils the Law: The Book of Chronicles and its Implications for a Contemporary Theology of Worship”
Congress of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
(Montreal, QC, May 2010)
• “To Besiege or Not to Besiege: The Chronicler’s Presentation of the Invasion of Sennacherib”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
(New Orleans, LA, November 2009)
• “Isaiah 22-28: Voices, Images, and Genre”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
(New Orleans, LA, November 2009)
• “The Influence of Isaiah 7 on the Chronicler’s Ahaz Account”
Congress of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
(Ottawa, ON, May 2009)
• “Prophecy Influencing History: Dialogism in the Chronicler’s Ahaz Narrative”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
(Boston, MA, November 2008)
• “The Chronicler's Ahaz Account As Dialogic Rejoinder to both the Deuteronomist and Isaiah”
Congress of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
(Vancouver, BC, June 2008)
• “The Temple in Kings and Chronicles”
Recent Publications
Books
Chapters in Books
| "Sennacherib’s 701 Invasion into Judah: What Saith the Scriptures?” Pages 57-77 in The Function of Ancient Historiography in Biblical and Cognate Studies. Edited by Patricia G. Kirkpatrick and Timothy Goltz. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement Series) 489. London: T&T Clark, 2008. |
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• HEB 2A03 Introductory Hebrew 1
• Heb 2B03 Introductory Hebrew 2
• OT1A03 Old Testament Literature and History
• OT3XE3/6XE6 From the Beginning: The Book of Genesis
• OT6ZG6 Synoptic Traditions in the Old Testament
• OT 3P03/6P06 Old Testament Prophecy
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Articles available online:
• “Living by Faith and Not by Signs: Seeking but Not Divining the Will of God.”
• "Divine Intermediaries in 1 Chr 21:1: An Overlooked
Aspect of the Chronicler’s Theology"
Reviews available online:
• Review of Review of Joel N. Lohr, Chosen and Unchosen
• Review of John N. Oswalt, The Bible among the Myths
• Review of Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, Sustaining Fictions:Intertextuality, Midrash, Translation, and The Literary Afterlife of The Bible
• Review of Arnoud van der Deijl, Protest or Propaganda: War in the Old Testament Book of Kings and in Contemporaneous Ancient Near Eastern Texts.
• Review of Philip R. Davies, The Origins of Biblical Israel.
• Review of Daniel L. Simundson, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah
• Review of Isaac Kalimi, An Ancient Israelite Historian
• Review of Rodney R. Hutton, Fortress Introduction to the Prophets
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