- 2023 Trip to Italy with 21 members of seminary community.
- Future trips planned to Dominica Republic, Ireland, and Greece/Turkey
- Invited and covered the cost of enrollment in Hebrew Intro & Hebrew Exegesis for Kojo Okoye, Senior Lecturer at University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast - Ghana (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
- Invited and covered the cost of enrollment in Old Testament Introduction for John Tee of the United Methodist University of Liberia (Fall 2023)
- Invited and covered the cost of enrollment in Old Testament in the Reformed Tradition for Barsino Bubu, Jr. of the United Methodist University of Liberia (Fall 2023)
- On Tuesday, I helped teach a Bible study where we got to learn about conditions in Ukraine and Gaza from the United Methodist (UM) Bishop overseeing Ukraine, the UM liaison to the United Nations, and the UM advocate in Jerusalem.
- I'm writing a commentary on Genesis for a series called The Bible in God's World that has an international group of authors from places such as the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Argentina, Singapore. About one-half of the Old Testament authors are from outside the United States.
- In the commentary just mentioned, I interact heavily with scholars from outside the United States, especially scholars in Argentina and South Africa.
- I recently published an essay with a group of international scholars in Reparations and the Theological Disciplines: Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair (Lexington, 2023).
- I have published in internationally renown journals like Journal of Biblical Literature.
- I published “The Paradoxes of Fear in the Hebrew Bible.” Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 84 (2019): 25–50. (A Swedish journal.)
I published “At Sin’s Entryway (Gen 4,7): A Reply to C. L. Crouch.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 124, no. 3 (2012): 409–415. (An international and German journal.)
I recorded video commentaries for a Disciple Bible Study app, which is aimed at an international audience.
In 2018, I delivered the lecture “The Paradoxes of Fear in the Hebrew Bible” for the Stockholm School of Theology, Stockholm, Sweden.
In the last few years, I have refereed works for Cambridge University Press, Oxford Research Encyclopedias, and T & T Clark (UK).
- Before COVID, I traveled to Southeast Asia and taught Old Testament at a seminary there.
- Before COVID, I gave a paper at Oxford on John Wesley's use of the Old Testament.
Matt, thanks for all this. Please attach some kind of summary or syllabus for Italy trip, maybe a flyer and/or date, location for the UM Bishop re. Ukraine, and Jerusalem advocate conversation.
Here's the syllabus for the Italy class.