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David BossmanProfessor Dept. of Religious Studies office: 4 Glebe St. |
SyllabiRELS 101: Approaches to Religion RELS 115: Religion and Society
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David Bossman, S.T.B., M.A., M.S., Ph.D., Professor; Director, Sister Rose Thering Endowment, Graduate Department of Jewish-Christian
Studies
Seton Hall University
David M. Bossman, earned graduate degrees from the Catholic University in Washington, D.C., the State University of New York at Albany, and Saint Louis University (Ph.D. in Biblical Language and Literature). Editor of Biblical Theology Bulletin since 1981, he applies cross-cultural analysis to the study of Christian and Jewish sources, contemporizing Jewish and Christian values, and cooperative partnerships. He is founding director of the Sister Rose Thering Endowment for Jewish-Christian Studies. He teaches courses such as Lessons from the Holocaust, Jewish and Christian Foundations for Social Service, Values for a Pluralistic Society, Jewish History I (Bible to Talmud) and II (Medieval and Modern), and Cross-Cultural Analysis for Jewish-Christian Studies. Bossman explores Christian and Jewish origins, history, and cross-cultural values in a contemporary settings.
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
"What Makes a Real Man: A Social Inquiry," in Emergence of Man Into the 21st Century, Eds. Patricia L. Munhall and Virginia Fitzimmons, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2002.
“Educational Values for a Pluralistic Society,” in Understanding Cultural Diversity: Culture, Curriculum and Community, ed. by Virginia M. Fitzsimons and Mary Elizabeth Kelley, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2000.
“Institutional Culture and American Professional Education,” The Culture for Learning: Access, Retention and Mobility of Minority Students in Nursing, ed. Virginia M. Fitzsimmons and M.E. Kelly. New York: National League of Nursing Press, 1995, 163-178.
“Kinship and Religious System in the Prophet Malachi,” in Religious Writings and Religious Systems: Systematic Analysis of Holy Books in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, ed. by Jacob Neusner, pp. 127-141. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.
“Authority: First Century Judaism and Christianity in Cross-Cultural Analysis,” Authority and Theology, ed. Richard Penaskovic, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishing Co., 1-13, 1987.
Journal Articles
"Reinhold Niebuhr, Jews, and Evangelization," Josephinum Journal of Theology (2003).
“Christians and Jews Read the Gospel of Matthew Today,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 27:2 (1997), 42-52.
“Paul’s Fictive Kinship Movement,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 26:4 (1996), 163-171.
“Paul’s Mediterranean Gospel: Faith, Hope, Love,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 25:2 (1995) 71-78.
Editor's Essays (Biblical Theology Bulletin)
"Respectful and Realistic," Biblical Theology Bulletin 37:4 (2007), 144.
"The Shape of Biblical Theology Today," Biblical Theology Bulletin 27:3 (2007), 88-89.
"The Interpreter's Craft," Biblical Theology Bulletin 27:2 (2007), 46
"The Human Touch," Biblical Theology Bulletin 27:1 (2007), 2.
"Fundamentals Reconsidered," Biblical Theology Bulletin 36:4 (2006)
"Once Upon a Kingdom," Biblical Theology Bulletin 36:3 (2006)
"Reflections on Reshaping Biblical Characters and Values," Biblical Theology Bulletin 36:2 (2006)
"The Marginal Person: Politicizing Differences within the Human Family," Biblical Theology Bulletin 35:4 (2005)
"In Search of the Means," Biblical Theology Bulletin 35:3 (2005)
"Identity and Imagined Realities," Biblical Theology Bulletin 35:2 (2005)
"Freedom of Creative Social Adjustment," Biblical Theology Bulletin 35:1 (2005)
"A Needed Critique of Bible-Based Traditions," Biblical Theology Bulletin 34:4 (2004)
"When Violence Rules," Biblical Theology Bulletin 34:3 (2004)
"Equal Protection Works for All," Biblical Theology Bulletin 34:2 (2004)
"Impaired Communions," Biblical Theology Bulletin 34:1 (2004)
"Gainful Reappraisal," Biblical Theology Bulletin 33:4 (2003)
"Lead Us Not into Temptation," Biblical Theology Bulletin 33:3 (2003)
"A Season for Thanksgiving," Biblical Theology Bulletin 33 (2003), 86-87.
"Filling the Gaps, The Dynamics of Growth," Biblical Theology Bulletin 33:1 (2003), 2-5.
"A Confusion of Myths," Biblical Theology Bulletin 32:4 (2002), 158-159.
"Text, Context, and Liberation," Biblical Theology Bulletin 32:3 (2002), 114-116.
"Leland J. White---A Challenging Legacy, Biblical Theology Bulletin 32:2 (2002), 42-43.
"Imagined History," Biblical Theology Bulletin 32:1 (2002), 2-3.
"Religion's Bitter Fruits," Biblical Theology Bulletin 31:4 (2001), 127-129.
"What Do We Remember?" Biblical Theology Bulletin 31:2 (2001), 42–43.
“Biblical Theology in a Secular Society,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 31:1 (2001), 1-2.
“Tarnished Images,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 30:3 (2000), 78-80.
“Rethinking the Past for an Energized Biblical Theology,” Biblical Theology Bulletin, 30:2 (2000), 44-45.
"The Next Step," Biblical Theology Bulletin, 29:2 (1999), 54-55.
"Spheres of Awareness," Biblical Theology Bulletin 29: 4 (1999), 136-137.
“Ask Me What to Tell Your Children,” Biblical Theology Bulletin, 29:1 (1999), 1-2.
"The Passing of Raymond E. Brown," Biblical Theology Bulletin 28: 3 (1998), 128-9.
"Are We Trying to Defend the Indefensible?" Biblical Theology Bulletin 28:2 (1998), 42-44.
“Extending the Context,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 27:3 (1997), 74-75.
“Jerusalem 3000: the Limits of Particularism,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 26:1 (Spring 1996), 2-3.