Dr Jim Trotter

Email Address:  J.Trotter@murdoch.edu.au

Phone:  +61 08 9360 6209 (Work)

Fax:    +61 08 9360 6480

PRESENT POSITION: Lecturer (Old Testament)

QUALIFICATIONS: BA Freed-Hardeman; MTS, PhD Emory University

TEACHING

• THE100 Life and Literature of Ancient Israel
• THE101 Biblical Hebrew I
• THE201 Biblical Hebrew II
• THE284 Old Testament Exegesis
• THE498/THE598 Advanced Old Testament Exegesis
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Judah (Yehud) in the Persian Period
• Achaemenid Empire
• Religion of Ancient Israel
• Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture

MEMBERSHIPS

• Society of Biblical Literature
• American Schools of Oriental Research
• Treasurer and Business Manager, Australia and New Zealand Society for Theological Studies

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• "Reading, Readers and Reading Readers Reading the Account of Saul's Death in 1 Chronicles 10," in M. Patrick Graham and Steven L. McKenzie, eds., The Chronicler as Author: Studies in Text and Texture (JSOT Supplements 263; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999) 294-310
• "Was the Second Jerusalem Temple a Primarily Persian Project?" Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 15 (2001) 276-94.
• Reading Hosea in Achaemenid Yehud (JSOT Supplements 328; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001).