Dr. Bill Anderson
Professor, Pop Culture and Religious Studies
Education
- PhD, University of Glasgow (1997)
Academic Interests and Specializations
Postmodern Philosophy and Hermeneutics, Biblical Exegesis and the Theological Task, Wisdom Literature, Ancient Near East, Archaeology and Historiography, Pop Culture, Philosophy and Religion
Courses Regularly Taught
POPC 111 Pop Culture, Philosophy and Religion 1
POPC 112 Pop Culture, Philosophy and Religion 2
POPC 213 Film, Philosophy and Religion 1
POPC 214 Film, Philosophy and Religion 2
REL 252 Old Testament Literature
REL 320 The Pentateuch
REL 321 Historical Literature of the Old Testament
REL 322 The Prophetic Literature of the Old Testament
REL 323 The Poetic Literature of the Old Testament
REL 337 Ancient Near Eastern Religions
REL 338 Dead Sea Scrolls
REL 339 Biblical Archaeology
Select Publications
Books Edited
Space, Philosophy and Ethics (Vernon Press forthcoming 2024)
Anime, Philosophy and Religion (Vernon Press 2023)
Film, Philosophy and Religion (Vernon Press 2021)
Technology and Theology (Vernon Press 2020)
Indigenous People and the Christian Faith: A New Way Forward (Vernon Press 2019)
Atheism and the Christian Faith (Vernon Press 2017)
Books Authored
Scepticism and Ironic Correlations in the Joy Statements of Qoheleth? (Gorgias 2010)
Qoheleth and Its Pessimistic Theology: Hermeneutical Struggles in Wisdom Literature (Edwin Mellen Press 1997)
Articles and Chapters
“King David as a Biblical ‘Goodfella’ and ‘The Godfather’: Cultural-Social Analogies with Monarchy and La Cosa Nostra” in Film, Philosophy and Religion (Vernon Press 2021)
“From Marilyn Manson to Amos: Navigating Pluralism in the Twenty-First West” Evangelical Quarterly 88.4 (2017) 320-30
“A Theology of Religious and Cultural Tolerance in a Pluralistic Context from Amos 2:1-3” Evangelical Quarterly 88.3 (2016) 259-67
“Ecclesiastes in the Intertextual Matrix of Ancient Near Eastern Literature” in Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually (T&T Clark 2015)
“What’s with All the Zombies? A Christian Interpretation of Zombie Culture” Canadian Journal for Scholarship and the Christian Faith 2014
“Ecclesiastes, Book of” Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture, 126-127 (Sheffield Phoenix Press 2012)
“A Critique of the Standard Interpretations of the Joy Statements of Qoheleth” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 27.2 (2001) 77-95
“Ironic Correlations and Scepticism in the Joy Statements of Qoheleth?” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 14.1 (2000) 65-98
“Historical Criticism and the Value of Qoheleth’s Pessimistic Theology for Postmodern Christianity through a Canonical Approach” Old Testament Essays 13.2 (2000) 143-55
“A Note on יתר for Qoheleth” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 26.1 (2000) 133-36
“What is Scepticism and Can it Be Found in the Hebrew Bible?” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 13.2 (1999) 225-57
“The Meaning הבל and רוח רעות in the Hebrew Bible and for Qoheleth” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 25.2 (1999) 59-73
“The Problematics of the Sitz im Leben of Qoheleth” Old Testament Essays 12.2 (1998) 233-48
“Philosophical Considerations in a Genre Analysis of Qoheleth” Vetus Testamentum 48.3 (1998) 289-300
“The Curse of Work in Qoheleth: An Exposé of Genesis 3:17-19 in Ecclesiastes” Evangelical Quarterly 70.2 (1998) 99-113
“The Poetic Inclusio of Qoheleth in Relation to 1,2 and 12,8″ Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 12.2 (1998) 203-13
“Jewish Education Around the Time of the New Testament (100 BCE-100CE)” Journal of Beliefs and Values 18.2 (1997) 217-26
“Economics After the Return” Biblical Illustrator 21.4 (1995) 46-48
Visiting Professor
University of Liebenzell in Germany Fall 2021
University of Porto in Portugal June 2019
University of Pisa in Italy May 2018