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Dr. Han currently serves on the SBL steering committees of Performance Criticism and Lexicography. His major research interests include reception history, cognitive linguistics, performance criticism, cultural studies, and philology in ancient Near Eastern languages and literature.

Christian origins within Formative Judaism, women in the early church, and the study of oral narrative and social memory in relation to the biblical text.

Philodemus and the New Testament World (ed. w/ J. T. Fizgerald and D. Obbink; Supplements to Novum Testamentum, Brill, 2003)

Divine Irony (Susquehanna University Press, 2000)

Tradition That You Received from Us: Two Thessalonians in the Pauline Tradition (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie; Coronet, 1987)

Performance criticism is central to my exploration of the listeners' experience of the recitation of Luke-Acts in the late first century, which is one aspect relevant to my dissertation.

Interested broadly in the history and literature of Hellenistic Judaism and ancient Christianity, he has presented papers on a variety of topics, including Galatians, Colossians, Clement of Alexandria, Genesis Rabbah, the Messianic Secret, and the Protevangelium of James.  He is co-chair of the newly created Society of Biblical Literature consultation entitled "Speech and Talk:  Discourses and Social Practices in the Ancient Mediterranean World."  He is currently working on a commentary on Jude and 2 Peter for the Hermeneia series.

I am interested in the Bible and all the different discourses in which these texts are involved. By use of theories from Gender Studies and Cultural Studies my research emphasize the ongoing dynamics and complex processes between ancient texts and meaning production today. In my research I have focused on how New Testament texts can be placed in the historical context in which they were produced (Jewish, Greco-Roman), to see how early Christian literature interact with other ideas and practices in antiquity.

New Testament Studies; History of Early Christianity; Biblical Hermeneutics; Orality-Literacy Studies; Media History of the Bible; Jewish-Christian Dialogue

My background is in performance. I am interested in the creative dynamic which brings the impact of immediate experience to utterance. I am presently preparing a work- "Vital Performance and Generative Thinking- which draws on my performance experience and  admiration for shamanic performance.  I have a very undeveloped interest in the Apocalypse as performance.

My current work is best described as being located at the intersection of cultural and cognitive memory studies, research on ancient media, and analysis of the history of the gospel tradition.

M.A. Thesis on the book of Job.  I am arguing for Job as the speaker of chapter 28.

Currently translating Ecclesisates with Dr. Knut M. Heim and I am investigating the theater in Jerusalem during the second temple time period (after the influence of Greek culutre).  Greek Tragedy seems to fit the context of Ecclesiastes, and perhaps it was an acutal "performace" (to be literal with the term).  There is a lot to explore, but am interested in heading this direction.

I have read Singing Moses' Song (Keith Stone), and have orderes Insights from Performance Criticism.

I have done a word-for-word scripture presentation from memory for at least almost all of every book of the New Testament. I have started into Old Testament series memorization work (which would not cover the whole Old Testament) and into Spanish and Portuguese scripture memorization work.

Inventing the methodology, practicing, and teaching sound mapping; Greek grammar, Hellenistic literary criticism