David Joseph Sigrist

Current Residence: 19366 65th Ave., #109

Surrey, BC V4N 5S1

Mobile: (604)-754-3752

Email: davidjsigrist@gmail.com

Date of Preparation: May 5, 2013

Education:

PresentTrinity Western University, Langley, BC

MA in Biblical Studies

Thesis: The Psalms and Qumran: A Comprehensive Textual Evaluation of All Psalms Witnesses at and near Qumran and the Text of the Hebrew Bible (tentative title)

Advisor: Dr. Martin Abegg

2012Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, WI

M. Div., with high distinction

Thesis: A Matter of Choice: On the Feasibility and Utility of an Eclectic Text of the Hebrew Bible

Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Cherney

2007Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN

BA in Liberal Arts, with high distinction





RESEARCH LANGUAGES:

AncientModern

Classical/Ecclesiastical Latin (advanced)German (advanced)

Homeric/Classical/Koine/Patristic Greek (advanced)Spanish (advanced)

Biblical/Qumran/Rabbinic Hebrew (advanced)Hebrew (intermediate)

Syriac (intermediate)Greek (beginner)

Aramaic (intermediate)French (beginner)

Coptic (beginner)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

-Hebrew/Aramaic Bible and its transmission, translation, and reception in Early Judaism, especially with regards to the Psalter

-Linguistics and translation studies

-Scribal culture and orality-literacy studies

-Dead Sea Scrolls studies

-Early Jewish and Orthodox Christian interpretations of biblical texts

SELECTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Projects

PresentOxford Hebrew Bible Project, Psalms graduate editor for Dr. Peter Flint

PresentGöttingen Septuagint coding, tagging, and editing for Accordance Bible Software

2013Summer textual criticism workshop at Wycliffe Hall at the University of Oxford for editing Bodmer Papyrus XXIV as an assistant to Dr. Rob Hiebert, thanks to the Green Scholars Initiative







Bible Software

Accordance Bible Software (attended training seminar, October 19, 2012)

Logos Bible Software (several years of experience)

Editor Experience

2004-07World and Culture Editor for The Knight’s Page (Martin Luther College student publication)

-managed calls for papers and accepted qualified submissions

-managed source checking and process reviews

-designed, formatted, and typesetted each issue

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS



2013“Did I Say, ‘You Are Gods?’: John 10:34-36’s Midrashic Use of Embedded Scripture”

Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences and the International Meeting of the SBL

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCES:



2012Koine Greek Instructors Fluency Workshop, Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, CA

2012Curriculum Development for Spoken Koine Greek Intensive Seminar, Asia Lutheran Seminary, Hong Kong

2007-09Summer Hebrew Institute, Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Society of Biblical Literature

Canadian Society of Biblical Studies

SELECTED ACADEMIC HONOURS AND AWARDS:

2013Logos at Oxford Fellowship

2012-14Canadian Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies with Dr. Peter Flint at Trinity Western University

2010-12Charles E. Kropp Fellowship, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary

2008-12Siebert Foundation Grant, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminar

2008-12Salem Foundation Grant, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary

2007Highest GPA among graduates in Pastoral Studies, Martin Luther College

2006Northwestern College Ernst Scholarship for Confessional Languages

2005-07SBC Foundation Scholarship

2003-07Martin Luther College Academic Scholarship