Nicolae Roddy, MA, PhD, PhD

Nicolae Roddy, PhD, MA, PhD

Nicolae Roddy, PhD, MA, PhD

Professor
College of Arts and Sciences

Expertise/Specializations

  • Hebrew Bible / Older Testament
  • Society and Literature of early Judaism and early Christianity
  • Syro-Palestinian Archaeology
  • Eastern Orthodox Theology and Culture

Academic Appointments

Department

  • Theology

Position

  • Professor

Biography

Dr. Nicolae Roddy primarily teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Hebrew Bible / Older Testament at Creighton University. From 1996-2016, he served as co-director and area supervisor for the Consortium of the Bethsaida Excavations Project (CBEP), an archaeological site located at the foot of the Golan Heights near the Sea of Galilee. He also co-directs the Virtual World Project, a web-based virtual reality resource dedicated to Syro-Palestinian archaeology, available at www.virtualworldproject.org. In addition, since 2003, Dr. Roddy has served as Faculty Associate and Visiting Professor (in Biblical Archaeology and in Ancient Jewish History) for the Jewish Studies Center at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, Romania. He is a member of the Board of the Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies and formerly served as Senior Editor for its acadmic journal. He is past President of the Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Region of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), and the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR). Roddy has also served on the steering committee of the Biblical Studies in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions sections of SBL and the Biblical Studies component of the International Orthodox Theological Association. Dr. Roddy has presented academic papers throughout Romania and Israel, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, and Amsterdam. He is the author of The Romanian Version of the Testament of Abraham: Text, Translation, and Cultural Context (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001), an edited work titled Words of a Shepherd: The Life and Writings of Protostavrophor Vojislav Dosenovich (Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Monastery, 2006), and an edited volume titled Biblical Wisdom Then and Now. He has authored numerous book chapters and journal articles and is currently writing a book on the prophetic critique of human institutions. Dr. Roddy earned the Master of Arts in Theology from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (1989) and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (1999), having completed his dissertation research as a Fulbright Scholar to Romania during the 1994-1995 academic year. Of Romanian heritage, Dr. Roddy is an active member of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Omaha. He is married to Alexandra Roddy, formerly of Bucharest, Romania, and has five children.

Publications and Presentations

Books

  • , i-v
  • , 375-388
  • , 180-192
  • , 65-71
  • , 1-7
  • , 11-21
  • , 1-10
  • , 43-49

Articles

  • , “The Niche of Skulls in the Cave of Letters.” Pp. 185-207, in Dead Sea: New Discoveries in the Cave of Letters. C. Savage, P. Reeder, R. Freund, and H. M. Jol, eds, 185-207
  • , Perry T. Hamalis and Valerie A. Karras, eds.; Orthodox Christian Perspectives on War. , 61-84
  • , Supplement series 14
  • , Studies in Orthodox Hermeneutics: A Festschrift in Honor of Theodore G. Stylianopoulos, 251-273
  • , 33, 233-240
  • , 10
  • , 256-66
  • , 11
  • , 7
  • , 91-100
  • , 12
  • , 43-49
  • , 8, 134-44
  • , 2
  • , 141, 91-100
  • , 8, 269-277
  • , 13, 35-47

Publications

  • , Dec 2014

Editing and Reviews

  • , 75, no. 4, 940
  • , 41 no. 1., 194-96.
  • , 93 no. 4. , 532-34.
  • , 68, 335-337
  • , 21, 42-46

Presentations

Research and Scholarship

Research and Scholarship Interests

  • Hebrew Bible / Older Testament; Society and Literature of Early Judaism and Early Christianity (Pseudepigrapha and apocryphal literature); Syro-Palestinian Archaeology; Eastern Orthodox Theology and Culture; Romanian Apocryphal Texts and Traditions, Balkan Studies, Romanian Rroma History and Culture.

Current Research Projects

  • Hebrew Bible / Older Testament; Syro-Palestinian Archaeology; Eastern Orthodox Theology and Culture; Rroma studies

Grant Funding Received

  • Kripke Center Research Grant, “Virtual World Project in the Galilee”
  • CU Faculty Summer Research Fellowship Program, “Developing the ‘Prophetical Priestly Perspective from the Exile’: A Catholic/Orthodox Approach for Teaching the Older Testament”

Awards and Honors

  • Consortium of the Bethsaida Excavations Project,, 2015
  • Kathleen Connolly-Weinert Leadership Award, Theta Alpha Kappa, 2014
  • Virtual World Project in the Galilee, Kripke Center Research Grant, 2012
  • Developing the Prophetical Priestly Perspective from the Exile: A Catholic/Orthodox Approach for Teaching the Older Testament, 2011