Paul Elliott

Biography

Dr. Elliott received his Ph.D. and M. Phil. from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and is the lead professor of Hebrew for Concordia University Irvine’s Christ College. Dr. Elliott published “The Israel of God in the Sermon: Connecting Old Testament Texts to New Testament People” in Feasting in a Famine of the Word in 2016 and is preparing a commentary on the prophet Habakkuk.

Education

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, M.Phil., 2013; Ph.D., 2018
Concordia Seminary – St. Louis, M.Div., 2009
Concordia University – River Forest, B.A., 2003

Professional Experience

Concordia University Irvine, Assistant Professor, 2016-present
St. John Lutheran Church, Assistant Pastor, 2009-2016
Hebrew Union College/Xavier University/University of Dayton, Adjunct Professor, 2010-2016

Publications Completed

“The Israel of God in the Sermon: Connecting Old Testament Texts to New Testament People” in Feasting in a Famine of the Word: Lutheran Preaching in the Twenty-First Century, 2016.

Forthcoming

“Community and Closure: The Church in the Individual Complaint Psalms” in The Church as Fullness in All Things: Recasting Lutheran Ecclesiology in an Ecumenical Context, expected 2018.
Ambrose of Milan and His Use of Philo of Alexandria in His Letters on the Hexaemeron, Dissertation.
Habakkuk, Concordia Commentary, expected 2022.

Teaching/Research Interests

Old Testament/Prophetic Literature
Early Jewish and Christian Exegesis
Second Temple Judaism
Northwest Semitic Languages

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Bible, theology, and Hebrew courses

THL 311 Old Testament Book of the Bible
THL 590 Guided Readings
THL 595 & 596 Thesis I & II
TEXO 507 Old Testament Isagogics
TEXO 510 Old Testament Book