Keith Bodner


Keith Bodner is one of the preeminent scholars of the Old Testament in Canada. He currently teaches at Crandall University in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Early life

Raised in British Columbia, Keith Bodner received his higher education in Canada and the United Kingdom. He received a BA in Politics and English from the University of Manitoba, an MA in Theological Studies from Regent College, a PhD in the Hebrew Bible and Literary Criticism from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and a PhD in Intertextuality and Renaissance Drama from the University of Manchester in England.

Career

Bodner began teaching at the University of Aberdeen, and then began full-time teaching as an assistant professor, later an associate professor, at Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto, winning that school’s Faculty Award for Research Excellence in 2005. He then left to take a position as professor of religious studies at Atlantic Baptist University, later Crandall University, where he was later given the Stuart E. Murray Chair of Biblical Studies and awarded the Stephen and Ella Steeves Excellence Awards in Teaching and Research.
Along the way, Bodner lectured at Regent College, Briercrest Seminary, and McMaster Divinity College in Canada, and at Wuhan University and Fudan University in China.
Bodner has served on PhD committees at Claremont Graduate University, the University of Sydney, and the University of Toronto. He chaired a section of the Society of Biblical Literature, sits on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, and has served the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies as executive secretary since 2013.
Bodner is the author of several dozen refereed journal articles and book chapters, and dozens more conference papers and reviews. He has authored a dozen monographs on various texts of the Old Testament, and is one of only two members of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies to twice receive its annual R. B. Y. Scott Book Award.

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