CURRICULUM
VITAE
URIAH
YONG–HWAN KIM
EDUCATION
• Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union
• Th.M. (magna cum laude), Candler School of Theology, Emory University
• M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary
• B.A., New York University, (Major: Philosophy)
• Cooper Union, (Major: Engineering); Degree: None
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor of Hebrew Bible, Hartford Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut, 2005 to present; Courses: Hebrew Bible Survey ( I and II), Biblical Hebrew (Elementary), David and His Supporting Cast; Reading David Our Time; Contextual Interpretation of the Bible; Old Testament Survey [for the Black Ministry Certificate Program]
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, 2004–2005; Courses: Introduction to Hebrew Bible/Old Testament; Introduction to Biblical Hebrew; Introduction to World Religions
Visiting Professor, Pacific School of Religion, Summer Session 2006
Adjunct Faculty, San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, California, 2000–2004; Courses: Biblical Hebrew (Fall 2003 and Winter 2004; Fall 2002 and Winter 2003; Fall 2001 and Winter 2002, Fall 2000 and Winter 2001); Reading in Biblical Hebrew, Fall 2002
Visiting Lecturer, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, Summer 2003; Course: Asian and Asian–American Biblical Hermeneutics
Newhall Teaching Fellow, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, Spring 2003; Course: The Bible, Memory and Asian America
Adjunct Faculty, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, Falll 2000–Spring 2004; Course: Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible (Fall 2000, Fall 2001); Wisdom Literature for the Certificate of Ministry Studies Program (October 2001); The Former Prophets for the CMS Program (October 2002; October 2003); Introduction to the Old Testament for the CMS Program (May 2004)
Teaching Assistant, Graduate Theological Union, 1999–2003; Courses: The Book of Joshua (Spring 2001); Prophets (Spring 2001); Introduction to the Old Testament (Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2003)
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
Identity and Land in Joshua and Judges: A Postcolonial Reading (in progress)
Identity and Loyalty in the David Story: A Postcolonial Reading (Hebrew Bible Monographs, 22; Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008)
Decolonizing Josiah: Toward a Postcolonial Reading of the Deuteronomistic History (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005)
Reviewed by Panel of 4 Presenters, San Diego, 2007 AAR/SBL Annual Meetings
Reviewed by Oded Lipschitz, Yaacov Shavit, and Omer Sergey, Reviews in Biblical Literature 09/2006 (8 pages in length; 3800 words)
Reviewed by Niels Peter Lemche, Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 19/2 (2005):302-303
Reviewed by Mark Sneed, The Bible and Critical Theory 2007; 3/3:47.1-47.3
Reviewed by Frank M. Yamada, Reviews in Religion and Theology 13/3 (2006):283-85
Reviewed by Alec Gilmore, Society for Old Testament Study Book List
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, Conversations in Religion and Theology 15/2 (2008)
Chapters/Articles in Books/Journals
“Beyond Single-Identity Politics,” The Progressive Christian, September/October 2008, pp. 26-28
“For Nothing?”, The Praxis, August 2008
“Postcolonial Criticism: Who Is the Enemy in the Book of Judges?” in Gale Yee, ed., Judges and Method (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007), pp. 161-182
“The Realpolitik of Liminality in Josiah’s Kingdom and Asian America,” in Jeffrey Kuan and Mary Foskett, eds., Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation (Chalice Press, 2006)
“Making Enemies Out of Neighbors,” Zion’s Herald, March/April 2006
“Uriah the Hittite: A (Con)Text of Struggle for Identity,” Semeia 90/91 (2002):69-85.
Contributed the following articles for The People’s Bible (NRSV study bible published by Fortress Press, 2008)
Introduction to the Historical Books
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
Dictionary Articles for New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible
Ashurbanipal/Assurbanipal
The Cherethites and the Pelethites
Jehoiakim
Jehoiachin
Lebo-Hamath
Manasseh (King)
Maon
Meshullam
Uriah
EDITORSHIP and BOOK REVIEWS
Editor, Reviews in Religion and Theology, August 2007 to present
Associate Editor, Reviews in Religion and Theology, August 2005 to July 2007
On the Editorial Board of Society of Asian North American Christian Studies, 2008
Book Review Essays and Editorials for Reviews in Religion and Theology
“Barak Obama and King/David,” editorial (15/4 September 2008:477-79)
“Response to Dr. Daniel L. Smith-Chritopher,” my response to his review of my book, Conversation in Religion and Theology 6/1 (2008):9-12
“From Strength to Strength,” an editorial (15/1 January 2008:3)
“Enjoying Life and Fearing God: A Theology and Ethics for the “Haves”,” a review article (co-wrote with Jane Ellingwood) on Eunny P. Lee, The Vitality of Enjoyment in Qohelet’s Theological Rhetoric (14/4 September 2007:474-78)
“Beckham’s Cultural Currency,” an editorial (14/5 September 2007: 325-27)
“Hold Back Abraham and Pusha Hagar and Sarah,” a review article on Phyllis Trible and Letty M. Russell, ed., Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children (13/4 September 2006:461-65)
“Time to Walk the Postcolonial Talk,” a review article on R. S. Sugirtharajah, ed., The Postcolonial Biblical Reader (13/3 July 2006:271-78)
“Oprah’s Book Club and RRT’s Review List,” an editorial (13/3 July 2006:269-70)
Book Reviews for Reviews in Religion and Theology
Review of A. Philip Brown II and Bryan W. Smith, A Reader’s Hebrew Bible (16/2 March 2009: )
Review of Bruce K. Waltke, An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach (16/1 January 2009:27-30)
Review of Richard S. Hess, Israelite Religions: An Archaeological and Biblical Survey (16/1 January 2009: )
Review of Victor H. Matthews, Studying the Ancient Israelites: A Guide to Sources and Methods (15/3 July 2008:310-312)
Review of Thomas Römer, The So-called the Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical, and Literary Introduction (15/1 January 2008:18-20)
Review of Yehouda Shenhav, The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Relgion, and Ethnicity (14/4 September 2007:523-26)
Review of Peter Leithart, 1 & II Kings (14/4 September 2007:482-83)
Review of Tomás Czövek, Three Seasons of Chrismatic Leadership (14/3 July 2007: 338-41)
Review of Keith Bodner, David Observed: A King in the Eyes of His Court (13/4 (September 2006): 466-69)
Review of Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible, edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Craig G. Bartholomew, Daniel J. Treier, and N. T. Wright (13/4 (September 2006): 483-84)
Review of Victor H. Matthews, Old Testament Turning Points: The Narratives That Shaped a Nation (13/3 (July 2006): 287-89)
Book Reviews in other journals
Review of Karen Armstrong, The Bible: A Biography, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 28/1 (2009); http://www.case.edu/artsci/rosenthal/reviews/Bible2.htm
Review of Lester L. Grabbe, ed., Good Kings and Bad Kings, Biblical Interpretation 16 (2008):
Review of James Chukuma Okoye, Israel and the Nations, Theological Studies 68/4 (December 2007)
Review of Philip F. Esler, ed., Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in its Social Context, Theological Studies 68/1 (March 2007):172-3
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
“Reading the David Story with Asian Americans, ” SBL Annual Meeting, November 2008
Respondent to a panel on a postcolonial reading of Prophetic Literature, SBL Annual Meeting, November 2008
“David of Theology, History and Postcolonial Imagination,” The Asican Pacific American Religions Research Initiative’s annual conference, August 2008
"Reading the Story of David for Our Time" at a conference sponsored by New York Theological Seminary entitled “One Bible, Many Milieux,” Feb. 11, 2007
Response to Panel Book Review of Decolonizing Josiah, SBL Annual Meeting, November 2007
“Contextual Interpretations of the Deuteronomistic History in the Global Bible Commentary,” SBL Contextual Interpretation Consultation panel on the Global Bible Commnetary, SBL Annual Meeting, November 2005 [posted in the internet as “Inter(con)textual Interpretations of the Deuteronomistic History in the Global Bible Commentary” in http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/religious_studies/GBC/proscons.htm#kim
“Reading Josiah’s Death, Reading Domain Assumptions,” SBL Annual Meeting, November 2005
“The Realpolitik of Liminality in Josiah’s Kingdom and Asian America,” the Asian Pacific Americans and Religion Research Initiative’s annual conference, August 2004
“Decolonizing Josiah,” the Asian Pacific Americans and Religion Research Initiative’s annual conference, August 2002
“Uriah the Hittite: A (Con)Text of Struggle for Identity,” the SBL/Pacific Coast Region, March 2000
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
“Three Davids”; The College of Theology of Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, May 26, 2008
“Interpreting the Story of Joseph from Three Faith Traditions”; The Jewish Community Center of New Haven, December 2, 2007
Keynote speaker at a conference of the AADVENT Project at McCormick Theological Seminary, August 8-12, 2007
“The Joseph Story”; for Educational Outreach program at Hartford Seminary, May 2006
“The Politics of Interpretation and Identity”; for Educational Outreach program at Hartford Seminary, November 2005
Commencement Speaker at the 2004 Commencement of the Graduate Theological Unions (the speech can be read at http://www.gtu.edu/news-events/events/lectures-and-addresses/other-lectures/knowledge-and-jeong-on-holy-hill
Numerous speaking engagements at churches
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Wabash Center Summer Fellowship, Summer 2007
Selected to participate in the Wabash Center’s Workshop for Asian/North American Pre-Tenure Faculty (June 21-27, 2006; January 18-21, 2007; June 20-25, 2007)
North American Doctoral Fellowship, The Fund for Theological Education, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, and 2003-2004
Appenzeller Memorial Scholarship, International Foundations for Ewha Womans University, Spring 2004
Newhall Fellowship, Graduate Theological Union, Spring 2003
Presidential Scholarship, Graduate Theological Union, 1998–2000
SERVICE TO INSTITUTION/ACADEMY
Faculty Search Committees: Dean of Hartfor Seminary; Hartford Institute for Religions Research Faculty
A Faculty Trustee of Hartford Seminary’s Board of Trustees, 2006-2008
A member of the Steering Committee of the Asian and Asian American Hermeneutics Group, 2005 to present
Faculty Advisor, Recruitment Conference sponsored by The Fund for Theological Education, Emory University, October 2005
Faculty Advisor, “Nurturing the Next Generation of Scholars,” sponsored by The Fund for Theological Education, at SBL Annual Meeting, November 2008
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Society of Biblical Society
American Academy of Religion
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mail: Hartford Seminary, 77 Sherman Street, Hartford, CT 06105
Email: ukim@hartsem.edu
Phone: (860)509-9564 (office)
Fax: (860)509-9509
