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)

 

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

 

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

 

Departmental Committees:

 

                        Department Head:

                                    September 01, 2011 to August 31, 2014

(renewed, September 01, 2014 to August 31, 2017)

 

                        Graduate Studies and Honours Committee:

                                    Member (2013 – present)

                                    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

                                    2013 – present

 

                        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)

 

            Faculty of Arts Committees:

 

                        Philosophy PhD Review Committee (2012-13)

 

                        Philosophy Headship Committee (chair, 2005-2006)

 

                        Graduate Coordinator

                                    Departmental Representative (2010-11)

                                    Departmental Representative (2008-2009)

                                    Departmental Representative (2000-2003)

                                    Departmental Representative (1995-1997)

 

                        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)