CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Kim
Ian Parker
ADDRESS: Department
of Religious Studies
Phone: 864-8594
Email: kparker@mun.ca
Languages:
reading knowledge of French, German, Hebrew, Greek, Latin
DEGREES: 1988,
McMaster University, Ph.D.
1982, McMaster University,
M.A.
1980, McMaster University,
B.A., Hons. (summa
cum laude)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY (at
Memorial):
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
(Memorial):
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:
Religious Studies 2050: Introduction to
the Old Testament (4th ed.)
Religious Studies 3030: The Torah (2nd
ed.)
Religious Studies 3060: The Prophets (3rd
ed.)
Graduate Courses
6100 Methods and Theories in Religious Studies
6120 Studies in Religious Texts:
Biblical Narratology
Biblical
Poetics
Postmodernism
and the Bible
Genesis 1-11 (Hebrew)
Genesis
1-50
6902 Special Topics in the Hebrew Bible:
Advanced
Biblical Hebrew
Feminist
Readings of Biblical Narratives
The
Book of Job
Interpretations
of Israelite History
The
Book of Genesis
6908 Special Topics in the History of Western
Thought:
Nietzsche
and Religion
Locke
and Religion
Political Readings
of Biblical Narratives
Theological-Political
Issues in 17th Century Europe
Graduate Student
Supervision
Trevor Pomeroy:
admitted to MA program, 2012, thesis route
Emily Worsely, “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” (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)
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).
RESEARCH:
Books:
An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/ Old
Testament (New York: Linus Publications, Inc, 2014), (Revised edition, in
press).
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.
Chapters in Books:
“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 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 28 ms
pages, in press.
“Spinoza, Locke, and Biblical Criticism,” in Conscience
and Scripture: Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics (New York: Springer Press,
2014), ed. by Luisa Simonutti, 41 ms pages, in press.
“Building the Second Temple,” in Biblica:
The Bible Atlas (Vancouver: Raincoast
Books, 2006), ed by Barry J. Beitzel,
348-361.
“Reason, Revelation, and Liberal Democracy,” in Liberal
Democracy and the Bible (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Mellen Biblical Press,
1994), ed. by Kim Ian Parker, 1-18.
“Locke’s Theologico-Political
Argument,” in Liberal Democracy and the Bible, (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Mellen, 1993), ed. by Kim Ian Parker, 101-128.
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.
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.
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:
Religion: Public or Private? “The Case of the Quebec
Charter of Values.” Rocket
Bakery, St. John’s, NL. (January, 2014)
Religious Studies Speaker Series. Presented Lecture, “The Story of the Fall: Corruption or
Confusion? (November, 2013).
Text and Context Symposium. Presentation
Paper, “Working with Manuscripts: Locke and Newton” (April, 2013) (co-organizer
of Symposium)
Religious Studies
Colloquium Series. 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.” Presented a paper on Leo Strauss’s “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, 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).
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.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Reviewer:
External Reviewer for Rowan Littlefield
(November, 2013)
External Reviewer for Oxford University Press
(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, November, 1996)
External Reviewer for McGill-Queen’s
University Press (October, 1998)
External Reviewer for Oxford University
Press (July, 1997)
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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
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