Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew
Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew
Dr. Noonan joined the faculty of CIU鈥檚 Seminary & School of Counseling in 2014. He teaches Old Testament and Hebrew courses and is the faculty advisor for Grad Life Council and CIU鈥檚 Eta Beta Rho chapter. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, the Institute for Biblical Research, the Tyndale Fellowship, and the Evangelical Theological Society. His wife, Jenn, who also has a PhD in Hebrew Bible, teaches for CIU as well. Together they raise their very creative, energetic daughter.
Education
- PhD, Hebrew Union College鈥揓ewish Institute of Religion
- MPhil, Hebrew Union College鈥揓ewish Institute of Religion
- MA, Wheaton College
- BS, Wheaton College
Selected Publications
Books
- Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew & Aramaic: New Insights for Reading the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020)
- Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact, Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 14 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2019)
- 鈥淲here Shall Wisdom Be Found?鈥 A Grammatical Tribute to Professor Stephen A. Kaufman, co-edited with H茅l猫ne M. Dallaire and Jennifer E. Noonan (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2017)
Book Chapters
- 鈥淎n Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: The Style and Symbolism of Joseph鈥檚 Garment in Genesis 37,鈥 in The Body: Adorned, Cultured, and Embodied, eds. Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Christine E. Palmer, and Angela Roskop Erisman (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2022), 319鈥360
- 鈥淭he Patriarchs鈥 Altar-Building as Anticipation of the Israelite Conquest,鈥 For Us, But Not to Us: Essays on Creation, Covenant, and Context in Honor of John H. Walton, eds. Adam E. Miglio, Caryn A. Reeder, Joshua T. Walton, and Kenneth C. Way (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2020), 254鈥275
- 鈥淓gyptian Loanwords as Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus and Wilderness Traditions,鈥 in 鈥淒id I Not Bring Israel Out of Egypt?鈥 Biblical, Archaeological, and Egyptological Perspectives on the Exodus Narratives, eds. James K. Hoffmeier, Alan R. Millard, and Gary A. Rendsburg, Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement 13 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016), 49鈥67
Journal Articles
- 鈥淥n the Efficacy of the Atoning Sacrifices: A Levitical Biblical Theology of Sacrifice,鈥 Bulletin for Biblical Research 31 (2021): 285鈥318
- 鈥淗igh-Handed Sin and the Promised Land: The Rhetorical Relationship between Law and Narrative in Numbers 15,鈥 Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 45.1 (2020): 79鈥92
- 鈥淒aniel鈥檚 Greek Loanwords in Dialectal Perspective,鈥 Bulletin for Biblical Research 28 (2018): 575鈥603
- 鈥淯nraveling Hebrew 砖讈址注址讟职谞值讝,鈥 Journal of Biblical Literature 135 (2016): 95鈥101
- 鈥淭here and Back Again: 鈥楾in鈥 or 鈥楲ead鈥 in Amos 7:7鈥9?鈥 Vetus Testamentum 63 (2013): 299鈥307
- 鈥淎braham, Blessing, and the Nations: A Reexamination of the Niphal and Hitpael of讘专讱 听in the Patriarchal Narratives,鈥 Hebrew Studies 51 (2010): 73鈥93
Blogs and Podcasts
- 鈥溾澨The Biblical Mind Podcast, audio podcast hosted by Dru Johnson, March 18, 2022
- 鈥,鈥 The Ancient Near East Today: Current News about the Ancient Past 8.6/2 (June 2020),听
- 鈥,鈥听The Shaun Tabatt Show, audio podcast hosted by Shaun Tabatt, March 8, 2020
Awards and Honors
- ATS Innovation Grant, Association of Theological Schools, 2017
- HUC-JIR Graduate Tuition Scholarship, Hebrew Union College, 2005鈥2009
- Richard J. Scheuer Israel Archaeology Scholarship, Hebrew Union College, 2006
- Magna cum laude Graduation Honors, Wheaton College, 2004
- Randall D. Isaac Physics Merit Scholarship, Wheaton College, 2003鈥2004
- Dean鈥檚 List Honors, Wheaton College, 2000鈥2005