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We invite friends and colleagues of the Wabash Center from across North America to contribute periodic blog posts for one of our several blog series.
Contact:
Donald Quist
[email protected]
Educational Design Manager, Wabash Center
Roger Nam, Ph.D., is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Candler School of Theology/Emory University. His research interests include Ezra-Nehemiah, Northwest Semitics, diaspora studies, and ancient economies. He is the author of Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings (Brill, 2012) and The Theology of the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He is presently working on two books: an Ezra-Nehemiah commentary for the Old Testament Library (Westminster John Knox) and The Economics of Diaspora (Oxford University Press).
Hi Dr. Nam, good to have you in Korea!
BJ, It’s great to be here in Seoul. I’m looking forward to a wonderful year!
Now I won’t sleep until I learn about Middle Bronze Age Highland trajectories! But I promise not to inflict them on my Intro students.
Probably.
Brooke, my UCLA colleagues who witnessed the disaster continue to give me a hard time about it every SBL. It’s not like it was only eight years ago!!!