CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Kim Ian Parker

ADDRESS: Department of Religious Studies

Phone: 864-8594

Email: kparker@mun.ca

DEGREES: 1988, McMaster University, Ph.D.

1982, McMaster University, M.A.

1980, McMaster University, B.A., Hons. (summa cum laude)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Promoted to Full Professor, September 1, 2002

Promoted to Associate Professor, September 1, 1994

Granted tenure, September 1, 1990

Promoted to Assistant Professor, March 1, 1988 (on completion of Doctorate)

Appointed Lecturer (tenure-track), September 1, 1985

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate Courses

1000 Introduction to World Religions (also as research/writing version)

1010 Religion in the Modern World

1020 Christianity in Western Civilization

1050 Introduction to Biblical Hebrew I

1051 Introduction to Biblical Hebrew II

1200 The Bible in Western Religion and Culture (also at the Harlow campus)

2050 Introduction to the Old Testament (also as research/writing version)

3030 The Torah

3031 The Book of Genesis

3060 The Prophets of Israel

3090 The Writings

3091 Visions of Human Suffering in the Hebrew Bible

3272 Bible, Culture, and Interpretation

3820 Religion and the Arts (at the Harlow Campus)

4211 Genesis 1-11

4218 Seventeenth-Century Biblical Criticism

4902 Advanced Readings in the Hebrew Bible

Correspondence Course Manuals:

2050 Introduction to the Old Testament (4th ed.)

3030 The Torah (2nd ed.)

3060 The Prophets (3rd ed.)

Graduate Courses

6100 Methods and Theories in Religious Studies

6110 Thesis Writing

6120 Studies in Religious Texts:

Biblical Narratology

Biblical Poetics

Postmodernism and the Bible Biblical Poetics

Genesis 1-11 (Hebrew)

Genesis 1-50

6902 Special Topics in the Hebrew Bible:

Advanced Biblical Hebrew

Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives

Interpretations of Israelite History

The Book of Genesis

The Book of Job

6908 Special Topics in the History of Western Religious Thought:

Locke and Religion

Nietzsche and Religion

Theological-Political Issues in 17th Century Europe

Political Readings of Biblical Narratives

Graduate Student Supervision

Eliot Mason: “Fearful Symmetry: The Relationship between Leviathan and Yahweh as seen through the Lens of Monster Studies” (thesis) (MA, October 2016)

Lucas Cober: “‘The Eyes of the Blind Shall Be Opened:’ Blindness in Biblical Discourse” (thesis) (MA, October, 2016)

Trevor Pomeroy: “‘As Commander of the Army of the Lord I have Now Come’: Joshua 5:13-6:27 as War Narrative in Context” (thesis) (MA, October 2014)

Emily Worsley: “‘Where were you when I laid the Foundations of the Earth’?: Creation as Unfinished in God’s Speech to Job” (thesis) (MA, October 2013)

Lisa Walters: “Christianity and Conservatism on Parliament Hill” (project) (MA, May, 2013)

Lael Aucoin: “Reclaiming Dinah: A Feminist-Literary Analysis of Genesis 34:1-17” (MA, October, 2010)

Raelene Keating: “The Tower of Babel: A Literary Examination of Genesis 11:1-9” (MA, May, 2009)

Matt Sheedy: “Locke’s Inheritors: The Theological Underpinnings of the Letter Concerning Toleration and its Modern Implications for the Moral Dilemma of Religious Toleration” (MA, May, 2008)

Catherine Walsh: “Prophet in a Righteous Land: George W. Bush’s Rhetoric and the Hebrew Bible” (MA, October, 2004)

Ian Sherwood: “Job’s ‘Restoration:’ An Ascetic Misinterpretation of the Epilogue of the Book of Job” (MA, October, 2004)

Ben Carter: “Feuerbachian Imagination and the Reversal of Hegelian Ontology in The Essence of Christianity (1841)” (MA, October, 2003)

Daniel Gilroy: “The Genesis and Ecology Debate” (MA, May, 2002)

Sonya (Sooley) Meade: “‘Bless God and Die’: An Examination of the Role of Job’s Wife in the Masoretic Text of Job” (MA, October, 1997)

Roy Bungay: “Narrative Structure and Character Development in 2 Samuel 11” (MA, May, 1996)

Pat Duke: “The Numinous Experience and Self-Understanding in 1QH” (MA, May, 1995)

Tony Lambe: “Genesis 38: Literary Design and Context” (MA, May, 1994)

Internal Examiner:

David Williams (MA, October, 2002)

Beth Williams (MA, May, 2002)

Kayla Brett (MA, Oct. 2001)

Matthew Mitchell (MA, Oct., 2000)

Corinne Walsh (MA, May, 1997)

Denise Reynolds (MA, Oct., 1996)

Bryce Hodder (MA, Oct., 1995)

Krista Gregory (MA, Oct., 1995)

Carla Pike Jenkins (MA, Oct., 1994)

RESEARCH

Grants:

SSHRC Travel Grant (internal), $1931.05 (2011)

SSHRC Standard Research Grant, $48,423 (2009-2012)

SSHRC Travel Grant (internal), $1,575 (2008).

SSHRC Vice-President's Research Grant (internal), $6,948 (2007-2008).

SSHRC Travel Grant (internal), $1,555 (2006).

CFHSS Grant to Wilfrid Laurier University Press, $7,000 (2005-2006)

SSHRC Standard Research Grant, $40,103 (2001 to 2004).

SSHRC Vice-President’s Research Grant (internal), $4,340 (2001-2004, declined).

SSHRC Vice-President’s Research Grant (internal), $2,575 (1998-2001).

Books:

An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament (New York: Linus Books, Inc., 2014).

The Biblical Politics of John Locke (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004).

Wisdom and Law in the Reign of Solomon (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Mellen Biblical Press, 1994).

Liberal Democracy and the Bible, Kim Ian Parker, ed. (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Mellen, 1993).

Text and Tradition: A Guide to the Old Testament (Burlington, ON: Trinity Press, 1990).

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

“Locke, Religion, Rights, and the Rise of Modernity,” LUMEN XXXI (2012), 115-129.

“Newton, Locke, and the Trinity: Sir Isaac’s Comments on Locke’s A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans,” The Scottish Journal of Theology 62.1 (2009), 40-52.

“‘Men Being Partial to Themselves’: Human Selfishness in Locke’s Two Treatises” (co-author with Greg Forster), Politics and Religion, 1.2 (2008), 169-99.

“That ‘Dreadful Name, Leviathan’: Biblical Resonances in the Title to Hobbes’s Famous Political Work,” Hebraic Political Studies, 2.4 (2007), 424-447.

“Adam the Postmodern Bourgeois Liberal?,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 29.4 (2005), 439-453.

“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Must We Leave Eden Once and for All?: A Lacanian Pleasure Trip through the Garden,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 83 (1999), 19-29.

“Solomon the Philosopher King? The Nexus of Law and Wisdom in I Kings 1-11,” reprinted in Sheffield Old Testament Readers Series, J. Cheryl Exum, ed., The Historical Books: A Sheffield Reader (Sheffield: Sheffield, 1997), 233-248.

“John Locke and the Enlightenment Metanarrative,” Scottish Journal of Theology 49 (1996), 57-73.

“Speech, Writing, and Power: Deconstructing the Biblical Canon,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 69 (1996), 91-103.

“Solomon the Philosopher King? The Nexus of Law and Wisdom in I Kings 1-11,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 53 (1992), 75-91.

“The Limits to Solomon’s Reign: A Response to Amos Frisch,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 51 (1991), 15-21.

“Repetition as a Structuring Device in I Kings 1-11,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 42 (1988), 19-27.

Peer-Reviewed Chapters in Books:

“Spinoza, Locke, and Biblical Criticism,” in Conscience and Scripture: Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics, ed. by Luisa Simonutti (New York: Springer Press, 2017), 41 ms pages, in press.

“A King Like Other Nations: Political Theory and the Hebrew Republic in the Early Modern Age,” in The Oxford Handbook to the Bible, ed. by Kevin Killeen, Helen Smith, and Rachel Willie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 384-396.

“Reason, Revelation, and Liberal Democracy,” in Liberal Democracy and the Bible, ed. by Kim Ian Parker (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Mellen Biblical Press, 1994), 1-18.

“Locke’s Theologico-Political Argument,” in Liberal Democracy and the Bible, ed. by Kim Ian Parker, (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Mellen, 1993), 101-128.

Chapters in Books:

“Johannes Buxtorf and Christian Hebraism,” in The Finest Room in the Colony: The Library of John Thomas Muillock, edited by Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby and Nancy Earle (St. John’s: Memorial University Libraries, 2016), 58-59.

“Mullock’s Bibles,” in The Finest Room in the Colony: The Library of John Thomas Muillock, edited by Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby and Nancy Earle (St. John’s: Memorial University Libraries, 2016), 60-61.

“Hebrew Research Tools,” in The Finest Room in the Colony: The Library of John Thomas Muillock, edited by Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby and Nancy Earle (St. John’s: Memorial University Libraries, 2016), 88-89.

“Building the Second Temple,” in Biblica: The Bible Atlas, ed. by Barry J. Beitzel (Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2006), 348-361.

Book Reviews:

Book review of Wayne G. Rollins’s Soul and Psyche: The Bible in Psychological Perspective (Fortress, 1999), in Toronto Journal of Theology 2003 (19/1), 89-90.

Book review of Francis Landy’s Beauty and the Enigma (Sheffield, 2001), JSOTSS 312; in Studies in Religion 31/3-4 (2002), 452-453.

Book review of J. Cheryl Exum and David J. A. Clines, The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible, JSOTSS 143 (Sheffield, 1993), in Studies in Religion 26, NO. 4 (1997), p. 510.

Book review of G. Gutierrez's The Truth Shall Make you Free: Confrontations (Orbis, 1990) for the Newfoundland Churchman, vol. 36, NO. 9 (November, 1990).

Book Review of Marc H. Ellis and Otto Maduro's (eds.) The Future of Liberation Theology: Essays in Honor of Gustavo Gutierrez (Orbis, 1989) for the Newfoundland Churchman, vol.36, NO. 4 (April 1990), pp. 16,18.

Book review of J. Blenkinsopp's Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament (Oxford, 1983) for Religious Studies and Theology, vol. 9, (1989), pp. 27-28.

Book review of L. Ryken's Words of Delight: A Literary Introduction to the Bible (Baker Book House, 1987) for Religious Studies and Theology, vol. 8, (1988), pp. 100-102.

Book review of G. Gutierrez's On Job (Orbis, 1987) for the Newfoundland Churchman, vol. 35, NO. 6 (June 1989).

Book review of Frederick C. Holmgren’s Israel Alive Again: A Commentary on the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985) for Religious Studies and Theology, vol. 7 (May 1987), 92-93.

Published Reviews of The Biblical Politics of John Locke:

History of Intellectual Culture, vol 8:1 (2008/09), 1-3.

Ars Disputandi, vol. 7 (2007) [http://www.ArsDisputandi.org].

Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 40:3 (2007), 482-486.

Interpretation, vol. 34:1 (2006), 83-97.

Journal of Theological Studies, vol. 57:1 (2006), 776-781.

University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 75:1 (2006), 258-259.

Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 18:1/2 (2006), 205-207.

Locke Studies, vol. 6 (2006), 237-242.

Toronto Journal of Theology, vol. 22:1 (2006), 92-94.

Canadian Book Review Annual (2006), 2178.

Philosophy in Review, vol. 25 (2005), 372-374.

Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol 38:2 (2005), 513-514.

Introductions:

“Preface” to A. E. Combs and K. H. Post’s The Foundations of Political Order in Genesis and the Chandogya Upanisad (Lewiston: Mellen, 2006), ix-xiv.

Encyclopaedia Articles:

“Biblical Criticism,” in Modern Germany: an Encyclopaedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), 107-08.

Languages:

French, German, Hebrew, Greek, Latin (reading knowledge)

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

Invited:

“Montesquieu and Locke and the Idea of Consent,” Discussant for the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA (November 2012)

“The Contribution of the Bible to the Development of Modernity: John Locke and Seventeenth-Century Biblical Exegesis.” Paper for the “Bible in the Seventeenth Century: The Authorised Version Quatercentenary (1611-2011),” York, UK (July, 2011).

“‘A King like Other Nations’: Political Theory and the Hebrew Republic in the Early Modern Age.” Paper for the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA (January, 2011).

“Locke, Religion, Rights, and the Rise of Modernity,” Paper presented to Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, St. John's, NL (October, 2010).

“Athens or Jerusalem?: Strauss, Spinoza, and Genesis.” Paper for the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA (January, 2008).

“No Man Can Serve Two Masters’: Politics and the Bible in Hobbes Leviathan.” Paper for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL (August, 2007).

“Men Being Partial to Themselves: Human Selfishness in Locke's Two Treatises” (co-author with Greg Forster). Paper for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA (August, 2006).

“Human Rights, the Creator, and the Genesis of John Locke’s Theory of Property.” Paper for the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA (January, 2006).

Refereed:

“A Learning Community Across Two Campuses” (with Catherine Innes-Parker). Presented at the Association of Atlantic Universities Teaching Showcase, St. John's, NL (October, 2006).

“Sir Isaac Newton: Biblical Scholar.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, London, ON (2005).

“The Creator and Inalienable Rights.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Society, Halifax, NS (2003).

“Adam, the Postmodern Bourgeois Liberal.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Edmonton, AB (2000).

“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Must We Leave Eden Once and for All?: A Lacanian Pleasure Trip through the Garden.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, St. John’s, NL (May, 1997).

“Speech, Writing, and Power: The Biblical Canon in a Postmodern Age.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Calgary (May, 1994).

“John Locke and Modern Critical Discourse: Showdown in Eden.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Ottawa (May, 1993).

“Liberalism and the Bible: John Locke, Robert Filmer, and Genesis.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Kingston, ON (May, 1991).

“Solomon the Philosopher King? The Nexus of Law and Wisdom in I Kings 1-11.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Victoria, BC (May, 1990).

“Repetition as a Structuring Device in I Kings 1-11.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Hamilton, ON (May, 1987).

“The Theologico-Political Teaching of Genesis 1:22.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Halifax, NS (May, 1981).

Other:

Text and Context Symposium V (MUN). Presented Paper, “A Brief History of the Life and Death of God” (April, 2017) (also co-organizer with Barry Stephenson).

Text and Context Symposium IV (MUN). Presented Paper, “John Locke as Biblical Scholar: The Spinoza Connection” (April, 2016) (also co-organizer with Barry Stephenson).

Text and Context Symposium III (MUN). Presented Paper, “John Locke as Biblical Scholar: The Spinoza Connection” (April, 2015) (also co-organizer with Patricia Dold).

Text and Context Symposium II (MUN). Presented Paper, “John Locke as Biblical Scholar: The Spinoza Connection” (April, 2014) (also co-organizer with Jennifer Selby).

Religion: Public or Private? (MUN). Presented paper, “The Case of the Quebec Charter of Values.” Rocket Bakery, St. John’s, NL. (January, 2014)

Religious Studies Speaker Series (MUN). Presented Lecture, “The Story of the Fall: Corruption or Confusion? (November, 2013).

Text and Context Symposium I (MUN). Presented Paper, “Working with Manuscripts: Locke and Newton” (April, 2013) (also co-organizer with Jennifer Selby)

Religious Studies Colloquium Series (MUN). Presented paper, “A King like Other Nations: Political Theory and the Hebrew Republic in the Early Modern Age” (March, 2011).

Philosophy Department’s “Jockey Club” (MUN). Presented paper, “Athens and Jerusalem” (February, 2011).

M. Phil program (MUN). Presented Paper, “The Biblical Theory of Types” (October, 2004).

Religious Studies and Philosophy Colloquium. “Widening Access to Sacred and Canonical Texts,” University of Nottingham, England (July, 2003).

French Department’s Speaker Series (MUN). Presented Paper, “What is a Discipline?” (February, 2000).

English/Women's Studies Research Seminar (UPEI). Presented Paper, “Eve: Between the Pit and the Pedestal” (March, 1998).

Deans and Directors (MUN). Presented Paper, “The Hebrew Bible and its Interpreters” (May, 1994).

M. Phil program (MUN). Presented Paper, “Locke's Rationalized Christianity” (June, 1993)

M. Phil program (MUN). Presented Paper, “Writing and Speech in the Bible” (May, 1993)

Joint Seminar for the Humanities (MUN). Presented Paper, “The Biblical Politics of John Locke” (March, 1990).

SERVICE

Reviewer:

External Reviewer for the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, May 2017.

External Reviewer for Cambridge University Press (monograph, August, 2016).

External Reviewer for Harper Row (monograph, November, 2015).

External Reviewer for Lexington Books (monograph, September, 2014).

External Reviewer for Rowan Littlefield (monograph, November, 2013).

External Reviewer for Oxford University Press (monograph, May, 2011).

External Reviewer for American Political Science Review, January, 2010.

External Reviewer for Locke Studies, June, 2006.

Assessor for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowships Program (2000-2001).

Assessor for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant Program (January, 2001)

External Reviewer for Studies in Religion (March, 2001)

External Reviewer for McGill-Queen’s University Press (monograph, October, 1998)

External Reviewer for Oxford University Press (monograph, July, 1997)

External Reviewer for Studies in Religion (November, 1996)

National Committees:

Membership Secretary and Treasurer, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (1996-1997).

Membership Secretary and Treasurer, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (1995-1996).

Member-at-Large, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (1994-1995).

Interim Editor, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Bulletin (1986-1987).

Memberships:

Canadian Society of Biblical Studies

Society of Biblical Literature

Southern Political Science Association

Northeastern Political Science Association

American Political Science Association

Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Department Head:

September 01, 2011 to August 31, 2014

Renewed, September 01, 2014 to August 31, 2017

Graduate Studies and Honours Committee:

Member (2013-2016)

Chair and Graduate Officer (2010-2011)

Chair and Graduate Officer (2008-2009)

Chair and Graduate Officer (2007-2008)

Chair and Graduate Officer (2002-2003)

Chair and Graduate Officer (2001-2002)

Chair and Graduate Officer (2000-2001)

Chair and Graduate Officer (1996-1997)

Chair and Graduate Officer (1995-1996)

Chair and Graduate Officer (1994-1995)

Undergraduate Officer:

Departmental Advisor (2013)

Tenure and Promotion Committee:

Member (2010-2011)

Chair (2008-2009)

Member (2007-2008)

Chair (2004-2005)

Member (2003-2004)

Member (2002-2003)

Chair (2001-2002)

Member (2000-2001)

Member (1997-1998)

Chair (1996-1997)

Member (1995-1996)

Chair (1994-1995)

Member (1992-1993)

Chair (1990-1991)

Search Committee:

Member (2010-2011)

Member (2007-2008)

Chair (2003-2004)

Member (2002-2003)

Member (2001-2002)

Member (2000-2001)

Chair (1996-1997)

Member (1995-1996)

Member (1994-1995)

Chair (1993-1994)

Member (1992-1993)

Member (1990-1991)

Religious Studies Headship Committee:

Member (2003-2004)

Member (2000-2001)

Member (1994-1995)

Philosophy PhD Review Committee (2012-2013)

Philosophy Headship Committee (Chair, 2005-2006)

Vice-President’s Research Grants Committee:

Member (2007-2008)

Member (Winter, 2006)

Member (2001-2003)

Dean’s Advisory Committee on the Budget (2001-2006)

Henrietta Harvey Committee:

Chair (2004-2005)

Member (2003-2004)

Public Engagement:

November 26, 2014: CBC radio interview (Gander), “History of the Advent Calendar.”