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INSTRUCTORS

Rev. Bill Adams, C.Ss.R. is the Spiritual director of Follow Me Ministries, a television production ministry in Huntington Beach, California. In the past he served as the Provincial of the Redemptorist Order, Western Province. He served as president of the Southern California Renewal Communities in the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Father Adams completed his scripture studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

Rev. Lawrence Boadt, C.S.P., S.S.D. is President and Publisher of Paulist Press in Mahwah, New Jersey, and Professor Emeritus of Scripture Studies at Washington Theological Union in Washington, D.C. and author of Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction.

Carol J. Dempsey, O.P., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Theology (Biblical Studies) with particular expertise in Old Testament and Prophets at the University of Portland, Oregon.

Dorothy Jonaitis, O.P., D.Min. holds a D.Min. in Preaching from the Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis, MO. She is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Religious and Pastoral Studies at the University of Dallas, Irving, Texas.

Rev. J. Patrick Mullen, S.T.L., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California. A frequent exegetical contributor to Weekday Homily Helps (St. Anthony Messenger Press), he has also most recently contributed to Liturgical Ministry and is the author of Dining with Pharisees (2004). He is a member of the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature.

Kay Murdy, M.A. is a founding member of the Catholic Bible Institute, and is a member of the coordinating and teaching staff of CBI. She has a Masters in Religious Studies from Mount St. Mary's College. Kay teaches in parishes and archdiocesan programs. She writes a monthly column for Ministry and Liturgy magazine, and is the author of four books on spirituality and the Bible.

Barbara Murphy, M.A. holds a Masters Degree from Loyola Marymount University with a concentration in scripture. She is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association.

David Sánchez, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of New Testament Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Sánchez is currently researching the Gospel of Mark as an “end times” gospel and its ramifications for contemporary Christians. He is the author of From Patmos to the Barrio: Subverting Imperial Myths.

Rev. Donald Senior, C.P., S.T.D. is Professor of New Testament Studies and President of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Illionois. He is particularly interested in the connection between the theological and literary characteristics of each Gospel and the pastoral and missionary contexts of the early church. A member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, he is general editor of the Catholic Study Bible and author of the four-volume The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John.

William Shaules, Ph.D. holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, and an M.A. in Religious Studies from Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles. He teaches at St. John’s Seminary and Loyola Marymount University, and is currently teaching and coordinating the Diaconate Formation Program for the Archdiocese.

Jeffrey S. Siker, Ph.D. is Professor of Theological Studies at LMU. Siker teaches in the area of New Testament theology and early Christianity, the history of biblical interpretation, and the use of the Bible in theological debate. He is the author of Disinheriting the Jews: Abraham in Early Christianity Controversy; Scripture and Ethics: 20th Century Portraits; and editor of Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate.

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, D.Phil., Professor of Theological Studies, has taught Old Testament at Loyola Marymount University since 1989. A frequent teacher and speaker in Adult Education in many Ecumenical contexts, he is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and nine major books, including his most recent, Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes (Abingdon Press, 2007). Smith-Christopher, raised a Quaker, completed his B.A. at George Fox University in his native Oregon, and then studied at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (M.Div.). He completed his Ph.D. at Oxford University in England before living in Israel/Palestine for two years as a volunteer Peace Worker with the British Quakers.