K. L. Noll
Shalom, and welcome!
K.L. Noll, Associate Professor, Brandon University.
Religion Department Chair.
Office: Room 303, Clark.
Office phone: 204-727-9690.
Email: nollk@brandonu.ca
General Information
I am a historian of religion with focus on ancient Israel, early Judaism, and early Christianity.
In the classroom, I encourage students to step back from personal religious commitments to ask questions about religion generally: What is a religion, and why do religions exist?
Education
Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.
Master of Theology, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.
Master of Arts, with Honors, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg.
Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Shippensburg University.
Books by K. L. Noll
Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: An Introduction.
Biblical Seminar Series 83.
London: Sheffield Academic Press/Continuum, 2001.
The Faces of David.
JSOT Supplement Series 242.
Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.
Academic Articles/Essays
“The Deconstruction of Deuteronomism in the Former Prophets: Micaiah ben Imlah as Example.” In In Search of Philip R. Davies: Whose Festschrift Is It Anyway? edited by Duncan Burns and John W. Rogerson. London: T&T Clark International, in press.
“The Evolution of Genre in the Hebrew Anthology.” In Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality. Pt.1, Thematic Studies, edited by Craig Evans and Daniel Zacharias. London: T&T Clark International, 2009:10-23.
“Was There Doctrinal Dissemination in Early Yahweh Religion?” Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches 16 (2008): 395–427.
“The Evolution of Genre in the Book of Kings: The Story of Sennacherib and Hezekiah as Example.” In The Function of Ancient Historiography in Biblical and Cognate Studies, edited by Patricia G. Kirkpatrick and Timothy Goltz. London: T&T Clark International, 2008: 30–56.
“Deuteronomistic History or Deuteronomic Debate? (A Thought Experiment).” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 31 (2007): 311–45.
“Is the Book of Kings Deuteronomistic? And Is It a History?” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 21 (2007): 49–72.
“Canaanite Religion.” Religion Compass 1 (2006): 61–92.
“The Kaleidoscopic Nature of Divine Personality in the Hebrew Bible.” Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches 9 (2001): 1–24.
“An Alternative Hypothesis for a Historical Exodus Event.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 14 (2000): 260–74.
“Is There a Text in This Tradition? Readers’ Response and the Taming of Samuel’s God.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 83 (1999): 31–51.
“Looking on the Bright Side of Israel’s History.” Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches 7 (1999): 1–27.
“The God Who Is among the Danites.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 80 (1998): 3–23.
“Nahum and the Act of Reading.” Proceedings, the Annual Bulletin of the Eastern Great Lakes and Midwestern Biblical Societies 16 (1996): 107–20.
“The City of Dan in the Pre-Assyrian Iron Age.” Proceedings, the Annual Bulletin of the Eastern Great Lakes and Midwestern Biblical Societies 15 (1995): 145–56.
Recent Academic Papers
“Neither Prophets nor History in the Nebi’im,” to be presented to the Ancient Historiography Seminar of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (CSBS), Ottawa, May 25, 2009.
“Why Does the New Testament Exist?” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston, November, 2008.
“Rethinking Literary Function in the Emerging Hebrew Canon.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, November, 2007.
Book Reviews
These book reviews are on-line at the Society of Biblical Literature’s RBL (www.bookreviews.org)
1. Review of The Origins of Biblical Israel, by Philip R. Davies. Review of Biblical Literature (2009).
2. Review of Twilight of the Gods: Polytheism in the Hebrew Bible, by David Penchansky. Review of Biblical Literature (2007).
3. Review of Prophecy and Discernment, by R. W. L. Moberly. Review of Biblical Literature (2007).
4. Review of Josiah’s Reform and Jeremiah’s Scroll: Historical Calamity and Prophetic Response, by Mark Leuchter. Review of Biblical Literature (2006).
5. Review of Is the Bible Fact or Fiction? An Introduction to Biblical Historiography, by Barbara E. Organ. Review of Biblical Literature (2004).
6. Review of Prelude to Israel’s Past: Background and Beginnings of Israelite History and Identity, by Niels Peter Lemche. Review of Biblical Literature (1998).
Courses That I Teach at Brandon University
86:150 What Is a Religion?
86:161 Introduction to Western Religion
86:256 Ancient Judaism
86:257 Judaism in the Common Era
86:258 Christian Beginnings
86:260 Christian Foundations
86:288 Religion and Film
86:366 Religious Pluralism in a Secular World
86:369 Jesus
86:373 Prophets
86:HEB:101 Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
86:GRK:102 Introduction to Hellenistic Greek