Everyday Exegesis | STEVE'S CV

Education

2007: D.Litt. in Biblical Languages, Department of Ancient Studies, Stellenbosch University.
1999: M.T.S. in Biblical Languages, Graduate School of Theological Studies, Trinity Western University.1989: B.A. in Speech Communication, Department of Communication, Western Washington University.

Professional Appointments

July 2022: Scholar-In-Residence (full-time position), Clear Bible, Inc. (formerly Global Bible Initiative).
January-July 2022: Visiting Professor, Grace School of Theology.

2020–Present: Senior Research Associate, John W. Wevers Institute for Septuagint Studies, Trinity Western University.

2019–2021: Faithlife Corporation, Lexham Press, Academic Editor.
2006–2019: Faithlife Corporation, Original Content Department, Scholar-in-Residence.
2014, 2017: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, School of Theology, Visiting Professor.

2012: Dallas Theological Seminary, Department of New Testament Studies, Visiting Professor.

2009: Knox Theological Seminary, Visiting Professor.
2003–2004: Associated Canadian Theological Schools of Trinity Western University, Sessional Instructor.

2001: Trinity Western University, Department of Biblical Studies, Sessional Instructor.
1999–2000: Northwest Baptist Theological College, Sessional Instructor.

Publications

BOOKS
2019: High Definition Commentary: Galatians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

2015: High Definition Commentary: James. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press [trans. into Spanish, Comentario de alta definición: Santiago. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016].

2014: High Definition Commentary: Romans. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press [trans. into Spanish, Comentario de Alta Definición: Romano. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014].

2011: High Definition Commentary: Philippians. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press [trans. into Spanish, Comentario de alta definición: Filipenses. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2011].

2010: Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson (print edition).

2008: Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software (electronic edition).

EDITED VOLUMES AND DATABASES
2022: Postclassical Greek Prepositions and Conceptual Metaphor: Cognitive Semantic Analysis and Biblical Interpretation, co-editor with William A. Ross. Vol. 12 in Fontes et Subsida series. Berlin: De Gruyter.
2021: The Concise Lexham Bible Dictionary, managing editor. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.2020: The Lexham Context Commentary: Old Testament, co-editor with Douglas Mangum. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.2016: The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis, co-editor with Christopher J. Fresch. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
2012: Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible, co-editor with Joshua R Westbury. Lexham Bible Reference Series. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
2012: Lexham High Definition Old Testament: ESV Edition, co-editor with Joshua R Westbury. Lexham Bible Reference Series. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
2011: Discourse Studies and Biblical Interpretation: A Festschrift in Honor of Stephen H. Levinsohn. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
2008: Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament. Lexham Bible Reference Series. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
2008: Lexham High Definition New Testament: ESV Edition, Lexham Bible Reference Series. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

2016: “Markedness: Contrasting Porter’s Model with the Linguists Cited as Support.” Bulletin for Biblical Research 26, no. 1: 43–56.2016: “Rejoinder to Porter.” Bulletin for Biblical Research 26, no. 1: 81–82.
2015: “The Exegetical Significance of Synoptic Differences from the Standpoint of Discourse Grammar.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 52, no. 2: 325–34.
2014: “Contrastive Substitution and the Greek Verb: Reassessing Porter’s Argument.” Novum Testamentum 56: 154–73.
2012: “Relative Saliency and Information Structure in Mark’s Account of the Parable of the Sower.” Journal of the Linguistics Institute of Ancient and Biblical Greek 1: 103– 25.
2006: “Pragmatic Effects of Semantically Redundant Referring Expressions in Biblical Hebrew Narrative.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 32, no. 2: 85–102.

BOOK CHAPTERS 2022: “Land Forms, Weapons, and Body Parts: How Mismatches in Preferred Construals Have Shaped Our Understanding of Greek Prepositions.” In Postclassical Greek Prepositions and Conceptual Metaphor: Cognitive Semantic Analysis and Biblical Interpretation, edited by William A. Ross and Steven E. Runge.
2020: “Interpreting Constituent Order in Koine Greek.” In Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate, edited by David Alan Black and Benjamin L. Merkle. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Press.

2019: “The Greek Article: A Cognitive-Functional Approach.” In The Article in Post Classical Greek, edited by Daniel H. King. Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.

2017: “Redundancy, Discontinuity and Delimitation in the Epistle of James.” In From Ancient Manuscripts to Modern Dictionaries: Select Studies in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek, edited by Tarsee Li and Keith Dyer, 443–454. Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.

2016: “Verb Forms and Grounding in Non-Narrative Discourse.” In The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis, edited by Steven E. Runge and Christopher J. Fresch, 221–73. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

2016: “The Discourse Function of the Greek Perfect.” In The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis, edited by Steven E. Runge and Christopher J. Fresch, 458–85. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

2014: “Now and Then: Clarifying the Role of Temporal Adverbs as Discourse Markers.” In Reflections on Lexicography, edited by Richard A Taylor and Craig Morrison, 327–48. Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages 4. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.

2013: “Where Three or More Are Gathered There Is Discontinuity: The Correlation Between Formal Linguistic Markers of Segmentation and the Masoretic Petû!â and Setûmâ Markers in Genesis 12-25.” In Greeks, Jews, and Christians. Historical, Religious and Philological Studies in Honor of Jesús Peláez Del Rosal, edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta and Israël Munoz Gallarte, 13–28. Estudios de Filología Neotestamentaria 10. Cordoba: Ediciones El Almendro.

2011: “The Verbal Aspect of the Historical Present Indicative in Narrative.” In Discourse Studies and Biblical Interpretation: A Festschrift in Honor of Stephen H. Levinsohn, edited by Steven E. Runge, 191–224. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

2009: “Joel 3:1–5 in Acts 2:17–21: The Discourse and Text-Critical Implications of Quotation and Variation from the LXX.” In Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality, edited by Craig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias, 103–13. Library of Second Temple Studies and Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity. New York and London: T & T Clark.

REVIEWS AND DICTIONARY ARTICLES2012: “Discourse Analysis.” In The Lexham Bible Dictionary, edited by John D. Barry and Lazarus Wentz. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.2008: Review of Ivan Shing Chung Kwong, The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke: Its Foregrounded Messages, Review of Biblical Literature.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PRESS
2023: “Moving the Goalposts? The Implications of Disputed Pauline Authorship for Pastoral Ministry.” Essay in volume from “Pastoral Implications of Pseudepigraphy and Anonymity in the New Testament,” The International Reference Library for Biblical Research Conference, The Lanier Theological Library, Houston, Texas, May 19-21, 2022.

Conference Activity

INVITED LECTURES2021: “What Happens When We Read? Reassessing the Complexities of Reading Ancient Texts in Light of Kintsch’s Construction-Integration Model.” Postgraduate Research Seminar at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews, April 20.
2020: “Current Issues in NT Greek Linguistics,” Doctoral Colloquium at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC, June 25.
2019: “Representing the Unseen: Navigating the Constraints of Theology, Culture, and Human Cognition in Visual Depictions of God.” Joint Session of the Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation and Bible and Visual Art Sections, SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 23–26.

2019: “Interpreting Constituent Order in Koine Greek.” Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate Conference, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC, April 26–27.

2019: “Using Linguistics vs. Doing Linguistics: Some Lessons from Koine Greek.” Linguistics and the Biblical Text Research Group, Institute for Biblical Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov. 22.

2017: “Response to Porter, Fanning and Campbell.” Review panel of The Greek Verb Revisited, Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics section, SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 20.

2017: “A Container for your Greek Leftovers: Mismatched Conceptualizations and their Implications for Exegesis.” The Tyndale House Workshop in Greek Prepositions, Cambridge, UK, July 1.

2017: “εἰς and ἐν from a Cognitive and Prototype-Theoretic Perspective.” The Tyndale House Workshop in Greek Prepositions, Cambridge, UK, June 30.

2017: “Philippians for Sermon Prep: Translation and Discourse Analysis.” Alumni Academy, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY, Jan. 14.

2017: “The Greek Verb: The Current State of the Discussion.” Plenary address, Alumni Academy, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY, Jan. 13.

2016: “Reconsidering Galatians 2:11–16 from the Standpoint of Discourse Grammar.” Postgraduate seminar, School of Divinity, St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, May 25.

2016: “Revisiting the Greek Verb.” New Testament postgraduate seminar, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, England, May 23.

2016: “Revisiting the Greek Verb.” Postgraduate lecture, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford University, England, May 19.

2016: “Rethinking Greek Middle Voice.” Gamma Rho Kappa Society, Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, KY, May 10.

2016: “Revisiting the Greek Verb.” Ph.D. seminar, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC, Mar. 23.

2015: “Cognitive-Functional Introduction to Prepositions in Koiné Greek.” Discourse Marker panel discussion, Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics section, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 21.

2015: “The Discourse Function of the Greek Perfect.” Ph.D. colloquium, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC, Feb. 23.

2014: “Understanding the Greek Verb System,” Colloquium for pastors and students, Shepherds Theological Seminary, Cary, NC, Feb. 9.

2013: “A Cognitive-Functional Approach to the Article, Or Why 90% of It is Half Mental.” Greek Language and Exegesis section, ETS Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 21.

2011: “Now and Then: Clarifying the Role of Temporal Adverbs as Discourse Markers.” Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics section, SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20.

2011: “James 2:1–26: A Discourse-Pragmatic and Cognitive Approach.” Greek Grammar and Exegesis session, ETS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 17.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
2017: Convener and co-chair, Greek Prepositions, Cognitive Metaphor, and Biblical Theology, Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK, June 30–July 1.
2015: Convener and co-chair, Linguistics and the Greek Verb, Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK, July 10–11.

PANELS ORGANIZED
2014: Principles and Strategies for Analyzing NT Greek Discourse, SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov. 21.
2014: Reconsidering the Greek Perfect Tense-form, ETS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov. 19.
2013: Principles and Strategies for Analyzing NT Greek Discourse, SBL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 22.

PAPERS PRESENTED
2022: “Moving the Goalposts? The Implications of Disputed Pauline Authorship for Pastoral Ministry,” presented at the “Pastoral Implications of Pseudepigraphy and Anonymity in the New Testament” Conference convened by The International Reference Library for Biblical Research, hosted at The Lanier Theological Library, Houston, Texas, May 19-21, 2022.
2019: “Reasoning Styles, Connectives, and Discourse Analysis.” New Testament Greek Language and Linguistics Section, ETS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov. 22. 2018 “Mismatched Construals of the Holy Spirit: What Are We Missing?” Cognitive Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation Section, SBL Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Nov. 17.
2016: “Differentiating Restrictive Connectives on the Basis of Unique Cognitive Constraints,” co-presented with Christopher J. Fresch. Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics section, SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 19.
2016: “Same Glosses, Different Lexemes: A Heuristic Approach to Expressing Unique Cognitive Constraints of Restrictive Connectives in a Lexicographical Entry,” co-presented with Christopher J. Fresch. Biblical Lexicography section, SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 19.

2016: “What If Paul Really Meant What He Wrote? Rethinking the Logic of Galatians 2:16.” New Testament Section, New Testament Grammar section, ETS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 15.

2015: “Left-dislocations in Koiné Greek: a Cognitive Functional Approach.” The Typology of Left-dislocation Constructions Symposium, Department of Ancient Studies and Department of African Languages, Stellenbosch University, Sept. 10.

2015: “Verb Forms and Grounding in Non-Narrative Discourse.” Linguistics and the Greek Verb Conference, Tyndale House, University of Cambridge, UK, July 10.

2015: “Strategies For Tracking Mainline And Offline Transitions.” Tyndale Fellowship New Testament Study Group, University of Cambridge, UK, July 9.

2014: “Discourse Function of the Greek Perfect.” Applied Language and Linguistics section, SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov. 20.

2014: “Discourse Function of the Greek Perfect.” Reconsidering the Greek Perfect Tense-form panel, ETS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov. 19.

2013: “The Perfect, Markedness and Grounding.” Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics section, SBL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 26.

2013: “Reconsidering the Semantics of the Greek Perfect.” Hellenistic Greek Language and Linguistics section, SBL International Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland, July 9.

2012: “Exegetical Significance of Synoptic Differences from the Standpoint of Discourse Grammar.” New Testament Grammar section, ETS Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, Nov. 14.

2011: “Semantic Meaning Versus Pragmatic Effect: An Effective Way Through the Polysemous Fog.” SBL International Meeting, London, UK, July 4.

2011: “Redundancy, Discontinuity and Delimitation in the Epistle of James.” Hellenistic Greek Language and Literature section, SBL International Meeting, London, UK, July 5.

2010: “The Verbal Aspect of the Historical Present Indicative in Narrative.” Greek Grammar and Exegesis section, ETS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 17.

2009: “The Aspect of the Historical Present Indicative in Narrative.” Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics section, SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 22.

2009: “The Effect of Redundancy on Perceptions of Emphasis and Discontinuity.” Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew section, SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 23.

2008: “The Discourse Function of Pendens Constructions and their Contribution to Information Structure.” Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics section, SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 21.

2008: “ ‘I want you to know...’ The Exegetical Significance of Meta-Comments for Identifying Key Propositions.” Discourse Grammar and Biblical Exegesis consultation, ETS Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, Nov. 20.

2007: “ ‘So, Brothers’: Pauline Use of the Vocative,” co-presented with Sean Boisen. Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics section, SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov. 18.

2007: “Joel 3:1–5 in Acts 2:17–21: The Discourse and Text-Critical Implications of Quotation and Variation from the LXX.” Greek Bible section, SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA., Nov. 19.

2007: “Teaching Them What NOT to Do: The Nuances of Negation in the Greek New Testament.” New Testament Grammar section, ETS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov. 14.

2007: “The Exegetical Significance of Prospective Demonstrative Pronouns in Luke’s Gospel.” ETS Pacific Northwest Regional Meeting, Salem, OR., Feb. 24.

2006: “Where Two or Three are Gathered, There is Discontinuity: Correlation between Formal Linguistic Markers of Discontinuity and the Masoretic Paragraph Markers in Genesis 12– 25.” Pericope: Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity section, SBL International Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 4.

2006: “Referring Expressions as Exegetical Signposts in Genesis 16.” Pentateuch (Torah) section, SBL International Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 5.

2006: “What Difference Does It Make If NT Greek Has a Default Word Order or Not?” New Testament Grammar section, ETS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., Nov. 15.

2005: “The Pragmatic Effects of Semantically Redundant Discourse Anchors in BH Narrative.” Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew section, SBL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 20.

2005: “Relative Saliency and Information Structure in Mark’s Account of the Parable of the Sower.” Biblical Greek and Linguistics section, SBL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 19.

Research Supervision

Teaching Experience

University of Melbourne
External reader for Amy Cruickshanks, “Middle morphology Utilisation in Koiné Greek,” Ph.D. dissertation in the School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts (2022).

University of Aberdeen
External reader for Dr. Winfred Neely, “Reframing 2 Samuel 11 and 12: An Exercise in Cognitive Hermeneutics and Intertextual Close Reading, Ph.D. dissertation in Old Testament Studies under Dr. Peter Hatton (2021).
Trinity Western University
Thesis Supervisor for Rachel Aubrey, “Hellenistic Greek Middle Voice: Semantic Event Structure and Voice Typology,” Master of Arts in Linguistics & Translation (2020).
Asbury Theological Seminary
External reader for Shawn Craigmiles, “The Pragmatic Constraints Of %λλ&'in the Synoptic Gospels,” Ph.D. dissertation under Dr. Fredrick Long (2015).

University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity
Consulting Ph.D. advisor with Dr. James Aitken for Christopher J. Fresch, “Discourse Markers in the Septuagint and Early Koiné Greek with Special Reference to The Twelve” (2011–2015).

University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Consultant for Laurent Pinchard, “The Greek Text of the Gospel of Matthew: a Renewed Text-critical Approach with a Focus on the Issue of Harmonizations in Codex Bezae,” Ph.D. dissertation under Dr. Jenny Read-Heimerdinger (2011-2014).

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Consultant and External reader for Jason Weaver, “The Discourse Function of ο(ν in Romans,” M.A. thesis under Dr. Dana Harris (2011).

Trinity Theological College, Singapore
External reader for Daphne Marie T Falag-ey, “A Study of Hebrew Particles: 'al- ken and laken,” M.Th. thesis under Dr. Roland Chia (2010).

Professional Service

2018–Present: Steering committee, Cognitive Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation section, SBL Annual Meeting.

2016–Present: Referee, Open Theology, DeGruyter.
2014–2018: Series editor, Lexham Discourse Commentary Series, Lexham Press.
2012–2015: Steering committee, Hellenistic Greek Language and Linguistics section, SBL International Meeting.

2010–2015: Referee, Functions of Language, John Benjamins Company.
2008–2010: Convener and steering committee chair, Discourse Grammar and Biblical Exegesis Consultation, ETS Annual Meeting.

Professional Associations

Society of Biblical Literature

Institute for Biblical Research

International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies
Evangelical Theological Society

UNDERGRADUATE

Grace School of Theology (Spring 2022)

Pentateuch

Israelite History

Romans

Trinity Western University

Introductory Greek Grammar I (Fall 2001)

Greek Readings: Philippians (Fall 2001)

Introductory Greek Grammar I & II (Teaching assistant for Stanley Porter, 1994–1995)

Northwest Baptist Theological College (1999–2000)

Introduction to Pauline Literature

Introduction to Theology

Israelite History and Thought

Old Testament Survey

Wisdom Literature

GRADUATE

Grace School of Theology (Spring 2022)

Gospels

Greek 1 and 2

Shepherds Theological Seminary (2020)

Greek Exegesis of Ephesians

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Greek Exegesis: Philippians (2017)

Introduction to Greek Discourse Grammar (2014)

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Doctoral Seminar on Greek Discourse Grammar (2014)

Union School of Theology

Introduction to Greek Discourse Grammar (Summer 2013, Summer 2015)

Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford

Introduction to Greek Discourse Grammar (Summer 2011)

Dallas Theological Seminary

Advanced Greek Grammar (Summer 2009)

Knox Theological Seminary

Intermediate Greek Grammar (January 2009)

Associated Canadian Theological Schools of Trinity Western University

Introductory Greek Grammar I (Fall 2003)

Introductory Greek Grammar II (Spring 2004)

Greek Exegesis I (Teaching assistant for Howard Andersen, Fall 1996)

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