Профессор Университета "Нотр Дам". Специалист в области библеистики.
Обучался в Albion College (бакалаврская степень в 1977 г.), в Duke University (магистерская степень в 1981 г.)
Защитил докторскую диссертацию (Ph.D) в Гарвардском университете в 1985 г.
Академические интересы: библеистика, христианство и иудаизм, раннехристианская история.
"Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination". Westminster-John Knox, 2001.
"Biblical Origins and the Problem of the Fall," Pro Ecclesia, 10 (2001) 1–14.
"'As We Have Heard So We Have Seen': The Iconography of Zion," Conservative Judaism, 54 (2002) 50-59.
"Joseph and the Passion of Our Lord." In The Art of Reading Scripture. Edited by E. Davis and R. Hays. Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 2003: 298-215.
"The Culpability of Eve: From Genesis to Timothy," in From Prophecy to Testament. The Function of the Old Testament in the New. Edited by Craig A. Evans. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004: 233-251.
"From Israel's Burden to Israel's Debt: Towards a Theology of Sin in Biblical and Early Second Temple Sources." In Reworking the Bible: Apocryphal and Related Texts at Qumran. Edited by Esther G. Chazon, Devorah Dimant and Ruth Clements. Leiden, Brill, 2005: 1-30.
"King David and the Psalms of Imprecation," Pro Ecclesia 15 (2006) 267-280.
"Mary in the Old Testament," Pro Ecclesia, 16 (2007) 33-55.
"Redeem Your Sins by the Giving of Alms: Sin, Debt, and the 'Treasury of Merit' in Early Judaism and Christianity," Letter & Spirit 3 (2007), 37-67.
“To See Where God Dwells: The Tabernacle, the Temple, and the Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition,” Letter & Spirit 4 (2008) 13-45.
“The Book of Tobit and the Canonical Ordering of the Book of the Twelve,” in J. Ross Wagner, A. Katherine Grieb and C. Kavin Rowe eds., The Word Leaps the Gap: Essays on Scripture and Theology in Honor of Richard B Hays (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008) 67-75.
“Moses and Jonah in Gethsemane: Representation and Impassibility in Their Old Testament Inflections,” in B. Gaventa and R. Hays eds., Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008) 215-231.