Welcome to this blog, and thanks for your interest. I have served as an Associate Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, since 2019. Most of what you will see here has to do with “the” Septuagint, a collection of ancient Jewish Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible along with other compositions. It’s my academic specialty and a fascinating area of research that has important connections to many aspects of biblical scholarship. I’m also interested in linguistics and the history of philology, so you’ll occasionally see things here about those areas too.

In 2018, I finished a doctoral degree at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. My work there began in October 2014, when I began research as a Cambridge Trust Scholar in biblical studies under the supervision of James K. Aitken (ז״ל). My doctoral thesis focused on Septuagint lexicography, to advance a Greek-oriented lexicographical method and its implications for understanding Second Temple Judaism, especially in Ptolemaic Egypt. It’s now published as Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography (SBL Press 2021).

There’s lots more to say and I’ve tried to categorize it intelligently. You can read more about:

• Introduction to Septuagint Scholarship
• My Research Interests
• My Writing Projects
• Recent Reading