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Daniel L. Smith, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of New Testament


Courses Taught

Theological Foundations, New Testament, Late Ancient Greek: Theological Texts

Education

Ph.D. in Theology (Christianity and Judaism), University of Notre Dame, 2011
M.A. in Early Christian Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2005

Research Interests

  • New Testament (Gospels and Acts) & Christian origins
  • Second Temple Judaism (incl. 1 Maccabees, Dead Sea Scrolls)
  • Early Jewish and Christian rhetorical strategies
  • Genre in Antiquity
  • Memory and History

Publications and Media Placements

The Rhetoric of Interruption: Speech-Making, Turn-Taking, and Rule-Breaking in Luke-Acts and Ancient Greek Narrative (BZNW 193; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012).

Into the World of the New Testament: Greco-Roman and Jewish Texts and Contexts (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015).

鈥淚nterrupted Speech in Luke-Acts.鈥 Journal of Biblical Literature 134.1 (2015): 177-191.

Co-authored with Zachary Kostopoulos, 鈥淏iography, History and the Genre of Luke-Acts.鈥 New Testament Studies 63.3 (2017): 390-410.

鈥淥n Appeals to an Imperfect Past in a Present Future: Remembering the Israelite Wilderness Generation in the Late Second Temple Period.鈥 Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 28.2 (2018): 123鈥42.

Why Paul鈥檚 Fabulous Body Is Missing Its Belly: The Rhetorical Subversion of Menenius Agrippa鈥檚 Fable in 1 Cor. 12.12-30.鈥 Journal for the Study of the New Testament 41.2 (2018): 143鈥60.  

鈥淔eet in the Wilderness, Eyes on the Promised Land: The Deuteronomic Posture as Response to a Faithful God.鈥 Journal of Theological Interpretation 12.2 (2018): 287鈥306. 

Co-edited with Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts, WUNT 2/519 (T眉bingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020).

Honors and Awards

  • Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, June 2016 鈥 June 2017 (Sponsored by Prof. Dr. Loren T. Stuckenbruck of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t M眉nchen)
  • Summer Research Award in the Humanities, SLU, Summer 2015
  • Summer Research Award in the Humanities, SLU, Summer 2014
  • Mellon Faculty Development Grant (Summer Stipend), SLU, Summer 2013

Professional Organizations and Associations

  • Society of Biblical Literature, since 2007
  • North American Patristics Society, since 2008
  • Institute for Biblical Research, since 2008
  • Catholic Biblical Association, since 2011

Community Work and Service

  • 老司机福利网 Prison Program
  • Church of St. Michael & St. George: Youth Education