Michael DeRoche
Department of Religious Studies
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL, Canada
A1C 5S7
mderoche@mun.ca
Associate Professor
Educational Background
Religious Studies, McMaster University, 1986.
Dissertation: "The Dynamics of Promise: Narrative Logic in the Abraham Story."
Theologie, Universite Laval, 1979.
Religious Studies, McMaster University, 1978.
(Honours) Religious Studies, Acadia University, 1977.
Teaching Experience
1995 - present; Memorial University, Religious Studies:
2001 - Head of the Department
1999 - Associate Professor
1995 - Assistant Professor
1985-1995; Lecturer, University of Calgary, Religious Studies.
Courses Taught
Rels 1000: The Religions of the World
Rels 1020: Christianity in Western Civilization
Rels 1051: Introduction to Biblical Hebrew II
Rels 2012: Introduction to Judaism and Islam
Rels 2013: Introduction to Christianity
Rels 2050: Introduction to Hebrew Bible
Rels 2051: Introduction to New Testament
Rels 2130: Religion from the Early Church to the Middle Ages
Rels 3200: Jesus: His Life and Teaching
Rels 3210: Paul and His Writings
Rels 3272: Interpreting the Bible
Rels 3305: The Religion of Ancient Israel
Rels 3310: Judaism at the Beginning of the Christian Era
Rels 3315: The Development of Modern Judaism
Rels 6120: Studies in Religious Texts
Articles
"Saved by the Word: The Christian Understanding of the Relationship between Scripture and Salvation," Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin 9 (1996).
"Patristic Exegesis," Chapter 6 of The Early Church: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature in English. Ed. T. Robinson and B. Shaw. Scarecrow Press, 1993.
"Isa. xlv 7 and the Creation of Chaos," Vetus Testamentum 42 (1992) 11-21.
"The ruah elohim in Gen 1:2c," in Ascribe to the Lord: Biblical and Other Studies in Memory of Peter C. Craigie. Ed. L. Eslinger and G. Taylor. Sheffield, JSOT Press, pp. 303-318.
"Yahweh's Rib against Israel: A Reassessment of the So-Called 'Prophetic Lawsuit' in the Pre-Exilic Prophets," Journal of Biblical Literature 102 (1983) 563-574.
"Jeremiah 2:2-3 and Israel's Love for God During the Wilderness Wanderings," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 45 (1983) 364-376.
"Structure, Rhetoric and Meaning in Hos. IV 4-10," Vetus Testamentum 33 (1983) 185-198.
"The Reversal of Creation in Hosea," Vetus Testamentum 31 (1981) 400-409.
"Israel's 'Two Evils' in Jeremiah II 13," Vetus Testamentum 31 (1981) 369-372.
"Contra Creation, Covenant and Conquest (Jer. viii 13) ," Vetus Testamentum 30 (1980) 280-290.
"Zephaniah I 2-3: The 'Sweeping' of Creation," Vetus Testamentum 30 (1980) 105-109.
"Is Jeremiah 25:15-29 a Piece of Reworked Jeremianic Poetry?" Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 10 (1978) 58-67.
Conference Papers:
"Chaismus in the Abraham Narrative," Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Edmonton, 2000.
"The Ark of the Covenant," Annual Meeting of the Mediterranean Society of Calgary, Calgary, 1994.
" Pre-language Language and the Description of Chaos in Gen 1:2," Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Victoria, 1990.
"Linearity and Circularity in 2 Kings 3," Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Calgary, 1989.
"Episode and Plot in Biblical Narrative," Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Calgary, 1987.
"Isaiah 45:7 and the Cosmological Significance of Darkness," Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Hamilton, 1987.
"Abram's Journey to Blessing," The Conference on Bible and Literary Criticism, Edmonton, 1987.
"Narrative Techniques in the Abraham Stories," Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, 1983.
