School of Theology

Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 5657
Phone 2: (626) 815-5450
Email: rrduke@apu.edu
Office Location: West Campus, Duke 235
Office Hours: Fall 2008: MWF 2:10-3:05pm

Robert R. Duke, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of biblical studies in Azusa Pacific University's School of Theology. His areas of expertise include Old Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Second Temple Judaism. Duke has spent almost four years studying in the Middle East, which has highly influenced his perspectives and teaching. He enjoys teaching Service Learning courses, which help students see modern context in which to apply the commands to love God and neighbor.

Ph.D. -Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006
M.A. - Hebrew Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
M.A. - Hebrew Bible, Jerusalem University College, 1999
B.A. - Theology, Multnomah Bible College, 1996

Presentations
Duke, Robert. (2006). 4Q543-547 (Vision of Amram) and Moses' Hebrew Name, Southwest Region American School of Oriental Research.

Duke, Robert. (2005). The Interjection heh in Biblical and Inscriptional Texts, Society of Biblical Literature.

Duke, Robert. (2004). Parchment or Papyrus: Wiping Out False Evidence, Southwest Region American School of Oriental Research.

Duke, Robert. (2004). The Provenance of 4Q543-547, Pacific Region Society of Biblical Literature.

Duke, Robert. (2003). Qumran and False Prophecy, Pacific Region Society of Biblical Literature Meeting.

Publications
Dead Sea Scrolls Editor: Online Critical Pseudepigrapha (http://ocp.acadiau.ca/)

Parchment or Papyrus: Wiping Out False Evidence: Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 21/1 (June 2007) 144-53.

Duke, Robert (2007). Moses' Hebrew Name: The Evidence of the Vision of Amram, Dead Sea Discoveries 14(1), 34-48.

Duke, Robert (2007). Parchment or Papyrus: Wiping Out False Evidence, Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament. (Forthcoming)

Duke, Robert (2007). Review of An Aramaic Wisdom Text from Qumran: A New Interpretation of the Levi Document, by Henryk Drawnel, Religious Studies Review. (Forthcoming)

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Academic Experience
Visiting Assistant Professor, Azusa Pacific University 2006-2007

Adjunct Professor, University of Judaism 2006

Adjunct Professor, Fuller Seminary 2006

Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles 2006

Instructor, University of California, Los Angeles 2004, 2005

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Honors, Awards, Recognition
Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005-2006
Albright Fellow, Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, 2005
Nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department (UCLA), 2004
Research Mentorship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003-2004
Excellence in Hebrew Award, Bnai Zion: The American Zionist Fraternal Organization, 2002
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, Hebrew University

Associations, Boards, Committees
Member, Society of Biblical Literature
Member, American School of Oriental Research
Member, American Academy of Religion

West Coast Dead Sea Scrolls Study Group
Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls Annual Conference
Data Entry/Grammatical Tagging for the Accordance Bible Software (Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Inscriptions Modules)
Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center
Qumran archaeological dig
Tel Rehov archaeological dig

Introduction to Biblical Literature: Exodus/Deuteronomy (UBBL 100)
Hebrew Prophets I (UBBL 311)
Hebrew Prophets II (UBBL 410)
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Biblical World (UBBL 420)