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Curriculum Vitae J. Alan Groves Professor of Old Testament Westminster Theological Seminary email agroves@wts.edu

Education

Dartmouth College, BA, 1975

Dartmouth College, BE, 1976 Thesis: Ground Treatment of Wastewater

Westminster Theological Seminary, MAR, 1981

Westminster Theological Seminary, ThM, 1983 Thesis: Chiasm as a Structuring Device in Old Testament Narrative

Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Graduate Studies, 1981-82

Vrije Universiteit, Ph.D. candidate

Academic Positions

Lecturer in OT, Westminster, 1982-85

Assistant Professor of OT, Westminster, 1985-89

Director of Academic Computing, Westminster, 1988-present

Associate Professor of OT, Westminster, 1989-1998

Professor of OT, Westminster, 1998-present

Administrative Positions

Assistant Dean of Students, Westminster, 1982-85

Director of Admissions, Westminster, 1983-85

Dean of Students, Westminster, 1985-87

Publications

Electronic

Co-editor (w/ E. Tov) Westminster-Claremont-Michigan Electronic Text of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (1987)

Editor Westminster Electronic Hebrew Morphology of BHS (1991,1994,1997)

Contributor QUEST: A Grammatical-Syntactical Concordancing Program (1991,1999)

Technical Editor for Biblia Hebraica Quinta (2002?) [United Bible Society: electronic and hardcopy publication]

Co-sponsor Electronic Seminar on the Biblia Hebraica Quinta (Fall 1992)

 

Hardcopy

Author (w/ T. Longman) OT Prophetic Books (IBR bibliographical series, forthcoming)

Author The Gospel According to Isaiah (P&R, forthcoming)

Contributor NIV Cross Reference Bible (1984)

Contributor Geneva Study Bible (notes on Judges, 1995)

Contributor NASB Study Bible (notes on Samuel,forthcoming)

Contributor Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (1998)

Abstractor Old Testament Abstracts (1992 - 1996)

Translator New Broadman & Holman Translation (book of Judges)

Co-Editor (w/ T. Longman) The Gospel According to the OT Series (P&R)

Co-Editor, Technology and the Seminary: The 90's and Beyond [Published by a grant from the Lilly Foundation, 1990.]

"Correction of Machine-Readable Texts by Means of Automatic Comparison: Help with Method" (Bible and Computer: Methods, Tools, Results: Proceedings of the Second International Colloquium; Paris: Champion-Slatkine, 1989) 271-98.

"On Computers and Hebrew Morphology" (Computer Assisted Analysis of Biblical Texts, Applicatio 7; edited by E. Talstra; Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1989) 45-86.

"Saul Bashing: An Appropriate Agenda for the Book of Judges?" JETS (forthcoming)

Major Book Reviews

Emanuel Tov. A Computerized Data Base for Septuagint Studies: The Parallel Aligned TExt of the Greek and Hebrew Bible. (Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages. Supplement Series 1. Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies [CATSS], 2. Stellenbosch, 1986). [Reviewed in JQR 81 (1989) 166-68]

Gunther Specht. Wissensbasierte Analyse althebraischer Morphosyntax: Das Expertensystem AMOS (Munchener Universitatsschriften: Philosphische Fakultat Altertumskunde und Kulturewissenschaften; Arbeiten zu Text und Sprache im Alten Teatmanet 35; St. Ottilien: EOS, 1990) [Reviewed in CBQ 54 (1992) 771-72]

A.J.C. Verheij. Verbs and Numbers: A Study of the Frequencies of the Hebrew Verbal Tense Forms in the Books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles (Studia Semitica Neerlandica 28; Assen/Maastricht: Van Gorcum, 1990). [Reviewed in CBQ 54, (1992) 771-72]

Invited Lectures

Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam Nov 1987)

AIBI Second International Colloquium (Jerusalem June 1988)

Georgetown University (Washington, DC Oct 1988)

CATAB, Jean Moulin University (Lyon, France April 1989)

Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen (Tübingen July 1993)

Greifswald University (Greifswald June 1995)

Greifswald University (Greifswald Nov 1998) Conference: Was ist Computerphilologie?

Grants Received

National Endowment for the Humanities (1983-87)

Jewish Publication Society (1986)

Packard Humnanities Institute (1987-88)

Professional Societies and Consulting

Member of ETS (1989-), IBR (1986-), SBL (1986-), AIBI (1988-), IOSOT (1995-)

Co-chair, SBL's Computer Assisted Research Group, 1987-90

Co-organizer and chair, ETS, the "Literary Approaches to Judges Group," 1997-

Consultant to Electronic Standards Group for SBL

International Board for AIBI (1994-)

Organizing committee for AIBI's Third and Fourth International Conferences (1991, 1994)

Grant referee for NEH and STEGON (Netherlands)

Consultant for FABS International, Star Software, and Zondervan Electronic Publishing

Collaborative computing and Hebrew projects

University of Pennsylvania (Hebrew text project, 1983-87)

Hebrew University (Hebrew text project, 1983-87)

The Centre Informatique et Bible [Belgium] (Hebrew text project, 1983-87; Hebrew morphology project, 1987-91)

The Free University of Amsterdam, Greifswald Univesity and the German Bible Society (QUEST program, 1989-)

Capitol Seminary (Hebrew morphology project, 1987-91)

The United Bible Society (Biblia Hebraica Quinta, new critical edition of the Hebrew Bible, 1992 - )

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