PATRICK, DALE ALFRED
Curriculum Vita
EDUCATION
Post-Graduate Study:
University of Manchester, England (sabbatical semester, 1975).
Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research, Tantur, Jerusalem, Israel (sabbatical year, 1989-90).
Graduate Theological Union/San Francisco Theological Seminary 1963-71 Th. D. (Biblical Area, OT) DISSERTATION TITLE: A Study of the Conceptual Models of the Covenant
School of Theology, Drew University 1961-63 B.D. magna cum laude
Union Theological Seminary, NY 1960-61
Lewis and Clark College 1958-60 BS (Philosophy)
Oregon State College 1956-58
HONORS AND AWARDS
Rockefeller Fellow, 1960-61.
Endowed Humanities Chair, 1995-
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1995- Drake University, DM (Professor; Endowed Humanities Chair)
1982-95 Drake University, DM (Associate Professor)
1981-82 University of Missouri, Columbia (Visiting Assoc. Prof.)
1974-81 Missouri School of Religion, Columbia (Assoc. Prof.)
1968-74 Missouri School of Religion, Assistant Professor
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation, with Allen Scult. Sheffield, GB: Almond Press, 1990.
Old Testament Law: An Introduction. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1984. London: SCM (by permission from John Knox).
The Rendering of God in the Old Testament. Overtures to Biblical Theology
10. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981.
Arguing with God: The Angry Prayers of Job. St. Louis: Bethany Press, 1977.
Collections Edited
Thinking Biblical Law, volume 45 of Semeia 1989; I edited this volume and contributed an essay, "Studying Biblical Law as a Humanities."
Book in Preparation
The Rhetoric of Revelation. Accepted for publication in the Overtures to Biblical Theology series, Fortress Press; publication is scheduled for summer of 1999.
Studies and Articles
"Crime," for Eerdmann's Bible Dictionary [submitted December 1996]
"God's Commandment," in God in the Fray: A Tribute to Walter Brueggemann, ed. by Tod Linafelt and Timothy K. Beal. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998, pp. 93-111.
"Sharing Simple Gifts," The Disciple January 1996, pp. 14-15.
"The First Commandment in the Structure of the Pentateuch," in Vetus Testamentum XLV/1 (1995), pp. 107-18.
"The Rhetoric of Collective Responsibility in Deuteronomic Law," Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom, ed. by David P. Wright, David Noel Freedman and Avi Hurvitz. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1995, pp. 421-36.
"Who is an Evolutionist?" Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law: Revision, Interpolation and Development, ed. by Bernard M. Levinson (JSOT Suppl. Series 181). Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994, pp. 152-59.
"Is the Truth of the First Commandment Known by Reason?" in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 56/3 (July 1994), pp. 423-41.
"The Rhetoric of Revelation," Horizons in Biblical Theology 16/1 (1994), pp. 20-40.
"Election, OT," The Anchor Biblical Dictionary, Vol 2 (D-G) New York: Doubleday, 1992. pp. 434-41.
"The Exegesis of Scripture in Theological Argumentation: A Reflection on Naim Ateek's Justice and Only Justice," PTR XXIV (1991, publ. 1992), pp. 19-25.
"Liberation in the Holy Land," Pacific Theological Review XXIV (1991, publ. 1992), pp. l3-18. [This is a review article].
"Making the Pastoral Prayer an Act of the Congregation," with James Kratz, in Encounter 51/2 (Spring 1990), pp. 183-89.
"The Kingdom of God in the Old Testament," in The Kingdom of God in 20th-Century Interpretation. Wendell Willis, ed. Peabody, Ma.: Hendrickson, 1987.
"We've 'swung too far' on Bible," In My Opinion column, The Disciple 13/1 (January 1986), pp. 52-3.
"How Should the Biblical Theologian Go About Constructing a Theological Model? A Debate with Terence Fretheim," Encounter 47/4 (1986), pp. 361-369.
"The Bible in the Church," The Disciple 13/1 (1986), pp. 52-3.
"Epiphanic Imagery in Second Isaiah's Portrayal of a New Exodus," Hebrew Annual Review, Vol. 8: 1984 (copyright 1985), pp. 125-141.
"The Identity of God," Bible Studies Leader 8/1 (1982), pp. 4-6.
"Job's Address of God," Zeitschrift für alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 91/2 (1979), pp. 268-82.
"Political Exegesis," in Encounter With the Text: Form and History in the Hebrew Bible. Semeia Supplement. Martin Buss, ed. Philadelphia: Scholars Press/Fortress Press, 1979.
"God Listens to Honest Prayer!" The Disciple (1979), p. 35.
"The Covenant Code Source," Vetus Testamentum 27/2 (1977), pp. 145-57.
"Short Note: The Translation of Job XLII, 6," Vetus Testamentum 26/3 (1976), pp. 369-71.
"Short Note: Traditio-History of the Red Sea Account," Vetus Testamentum 26/2 (1976), pp. 248-49.
"The Moral Logic of Election," Encounter 37/2 (1976), pp.198-210.
"Casuistic Law Governing Primary Rights and Duties," Journal of Biblical Literature 92/2 (1973), pp. 180-4.
"The Word is Near at Hand," Encounter 33/4 (1972), pp. 385-92.
"Opening Niebuhrian Thought to the Left," Christianity and Crisis 30/17 (1970), pp. 212-5.
Articles in Preparation
"Rhetoric and Ideology: A Debate within Biblical Scholarship over the Import of Persuasion," with Allen Scult. A much revised version of this will be published under my name in a collection of papers delivered at a conference on Rhetoric and Bible held at Pepperdine University, July 1996.
"Theopolitics of Altar Building."
"Deuteronomy," for Chalice Introduction to the Old Testament (title tentative), ed. by Marti J. Steussy and Jon L. Berquist; Chalice Press; due out March 2001.
An article on Job's depictions of nature for the Earth Bible Project, Sheffield Academic Press. Norman Habel, chief ed.
Reviews
A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming, by Walter Brueggemann (Grand Rapids & Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 1998) Slated for Journal of Biblical Literature.
Familes in An cient Israel, by Leo Perdue, Published by Encounter (59.1 [1998])
Oral World and Written Word, by Susan Niditch. Library of Ancient Israel; Louisville: Westminister John KNox, 1996). Published by Encounter 1997.
Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah, by Phyllis Trible. Fortress, 1994. Published by Interpretation (51/1 [January 1997]), pp. 84-5.
Numbers, by Eryl W. Davies. New Century Biblical Commentary (London: Marshall Pickering; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995) Published by the Catholic Biblical Quarterly (July 1997).
Whose Bible is it Anyway? by Philip R. Davies. (JSOTSup 204; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995). Published by Journal of Biblical Literature (1997)
Wisdom and Creation, by Leo Perdue. Encounter. (I've lost the record on this review).
GOD: A Biography, by Jack Miles. Alfred A. Knoph, 1995. Published by Theology Today (53/1 [April 1996]), pp. 98-9.
Holy Root, Holy Branches: Christian Preaching from the Old Testament, by Ronald J. Allen and John C. Holbert. Abingdon, 1995. Published by Encounter (1995).
Overcoming Fear between Christians and Jews, ed. by James H. Charlesworth. New York: Crosword Publ. Co., 1993. Published by Encounter (Summer 1995), pp. 102-4.
Old Testament Ethics: A Paradigmatic Approach, by Waldemar Janzen. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox, 1994. Published by Interpretation (1994).
Der Fremde im antiken Juda: Eine Untersuchung zum sozialen Typenbegriff "ger" und seinem Bedeutungswandel in der alttestamentlichen Gesetzgebung, by Christoph Bultmann. FRLANT 153. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992. Published in Journal of Biblical Literature 113/2 (1994), pp. 321-3.
Reclaiming Her Story: The Witness of Women in the Old Testament, by Jon Berquist. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1992. Published in Encounter [Vol.] (1994), pp. 87-90.
Faith and the Intifada-Palestinian Christian Voices, ed. by Naim Ateek, Marc Ellis and Rosemary R. Ruether. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1992. Published in Pacific Theological Review 25/26 (1992/93), pp. 106-7.
Property and the Family in Biblical Law, by Raymond Westbrook. JSOTSup 113; Sheffield: JSOT, 1991. Published in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 55 (1993), pp. 564-5.
Symbols of Law: A Contextual Analysis of Legal Symbolic Acts in the Old Testament , by Åke Viberg. ConBOT 34; Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1992. Published in Catholic Biblical Quarterly [Vol.] (June 1993).
Biblical Criticism in Crisis? The Impact of the Canonical Approach on Old Testament Studies, by Mark G. Brett, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge Univ., 1991. Published in Critical Review of Books in Religion 5 (1992).
The Law in the Bible and Its Environment (Publication of the Finnnish Exegetical Society 51; Helsinki: The Finnish Exegetical Society; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1990), published in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 54 (1992), p. 609.
Deuteronomy [Interpretation ], by Patrick Miller, in Horizons in Biblical Theology 13/2 (1991).
Rechtsprechung in Israel: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Gerichtsorganisation im Alten Testament , by Herbert Niehr, (SBS 130; Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1987), and Wandel der Rechtsbegründungen in der Gesellschaftsgeschichte des Antiken Israel: Eine Rechtsgeschichte des "Bundesbuches" Ex XX 22-XXIII 13, by Eckart Otto, (Studia biblica 3; Leiden/New York/København: Brill, 1988). Published in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 52 (1990), pp. 534-36.
The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church, by Roger Beckwith; published in Pacific Theological Review 20/3 (1987).
Law and Narrative in the Bible: The Evidence of the Deuteronomic Laws and the Decalogue, by Calum M. Carmichael; published in Journal of Biblical Literature 106/3 (1987).
The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective, by T. Fretheim; published in Word and World [Vol.] (1985).
Four books in Abingdon's Biblical Encounter Series: Achievement, by A. H. J. Gunneweg and W. Schmithals; Faith, by H.-J. Hermisson and E. Lohse; Death and Life, by O. Kaiser and E. Lohse; and Time and History, by S. Herrmann; published in Journal of Biblical Literature 103/1 (1984).
Aspects of Nonverbal Communication in the Ancient Near East, 2 Vols., by M. I. Gruber; published in Journal of Biblical Literature 102/2 (1983).
Suffering, by E. S. Gerstenberger and W. Schrage; and Faith Under Fire: Biblical Interpretations of Suffering, by D. J. Simundson; published in Journal of Biblical Literature 101/3 (1982).
The Living Word of the Bible, by B. W. Anderson; published in Currents in Theology and Mission [Vol.] (1979).
Papers and Presentations at Professional Meetings
"Authority and Conscience," presented to the Exegesis of Biblical Texts on Ethical Themes Group at the 1996 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Nov. 23-26, New Orleans, LA.
"The Impact of the First Commandment on the Psalms," with Ken Diable, presented to the Psalms Group at the 1994 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting.
"Theopolitics of Altar Building," presented to the Biblical Law Group at the 1993 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Nov. 1993.
"The First Commandment in the Structure of the Pentateuch": presented to Central States SBL Meeting, March 1993 and to the Theology of Hebrew Scriptures Section at the 1993 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Nov. 1993.
Respondant to Yehoshua Gitay, "A Rhetorical Approach to Prophetic Literature," in session devoted to Literary Approaches to Prophetic Literature, Israelite Prophetic Literature Section, SBL Annual Meeting, 1991.
"The Critical Scholarly Discussion of the First Commandment during the Last Forty Years," Biblical Law Group, 1990.
"Forensic Narration," Rhetorical Criticism Section, SBL Annual Meeting, 1988.
"The Bible Says...," Theology of Hebrew Scriptures Section, SBL Annual Meeting, 1985.
"A New Look at Biblical Law," Biblical Law and Comparative Studies Group, SBL Annual Meeting, 1984.
"Laws and Rules of Law," Biblical Law and Comparative Studies Group, SBL Annual Meeting, 1981.
"I and Thou in the Covenant Code," presented to the Group on Biblical Law and Comparative Studies, Annual Meeting of AAR/SBL, Fall 1978; printed in SBL Seminar Papers 1978, Vol. 1, pp. 71-86.
"Whose Word is God's? Conflict among the Prophets," Biblical Literature Section, AAR, 1975.
"'Laws' Concerning the Disadvantaged in the Light of Primary Rights and Duties," Task Group on Legal Forms, SBL Annual Meeting, 1975.
"Collective Address in Deuteronomic Law," presented to the Biblical Section of the AAR, Annual Meeting of the AAR/SBL, Fall 1974; printed in the AAR Biblical Literature 1974, pp. 1-13.
"Critical Remarks on Several of Liedke's Theses," Task Group on Legal Forms, SBL Annual Meeting, 1973.
"Genesis 49:3-4, 5-7 Interpreted as Law," Form Criticism (Hebrew Scriptures) Section, SBL Annual Meeting, 1972.
"Casuistic Law Governing Primary Rights and Duties," Old Testament Section, Western Region, SBL, Berkeley, CA., 1970.
Assigned Reviews
Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament, 3 Vols., ed. by E. Jenni and C. Westermann, trans. by Mark E. Biddle (Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson, 1997). For Horizons in Biblical Theology.
Etudes sur le livre des Nombres: Recit, histoire el loi en Nb 13,1-20,13, by Olivier Artus. OBO 157;(Fribourg: Editions universitaires; Göttingen: Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997). For CBQ.
Professional Organizations
Society of Biblical Literature
American Academy of Religion
Community Service
The Order of the Ministry Commission, Upper Midwest Region, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
The Organizing Committee for the Institute on the Ministry, Upper Midwest Region, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Past President of Glen Echo Christian Church, DM.