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“A multi-year research project on spirituality at UCLA (HERI) recently confirmed something I’ve believed for more than three decades: the search for God, the quest for meaning, and the longing for spiritual wholeness are dynamic forces in the lives of most college students. At The University of Findlay I have the grand opportunity to be part of a department that dares to address such matters, that doesn’t shy away from the big questions in life. As the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard contended many years ago, religion is far more that the acquisition of knowledge or the recital of creeds; true religion involves engagement, encounter, and experience. I believe this is also the case when we explore spirituality and religious traditions. In other words, the academic study of spirituality and religious traditions is not a sterile and detached enterprise, but one that demands curiosity, passion, and involvement."
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Meet Our Staff
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Louis Stulman, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy, Professor of Religion
Year Started at UF: 1997
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Contact Information
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Office Location: 334 Frazer Street #A
Telephone: 419-434-6988
E-mail: stulman@findlay.edu
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Credentials |
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Ph.D., Drew University
M.Phil., Drew University
B.A., Roberts Wesleyan College
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Profile
Louis Stulman's teaching and research interests focus on the Prophetic Literature in the Hebrew Bible. He received his M. Phil. and Ph.D. from Drew University and he has done post-doctoral work at the University of Michigan.
Professor Stulman is the author and co-editor of several books (see below) and he has written essays in edited volumes, magazines, and journals including the Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Horizons in Biblical Theology, and Interpretation. His awards for teaching include the “Outstanding Educator” (Chamber of Commerce), the “Founder’s Academic Excellence Award for Faculty,” and 2005 "Excellence in Education."
Dr. Stulman is presently co-chair of the Society of Biblical Literature Group on the Book of Jeremiah and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature.
In addition to his professional activities, he enjoys hiking, almost every genre of music, and watching movies with friends and family. In another life he played lead guitar in a soul band called The Star Sapphires.
Professional Activity
Recent Public Lectures
“’But the Word of our God Endures Forever’: The Literarization of Prophecy,” Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society, 2007
“Reading the Prophets as Meaning-Making Literature for Communities under Siege,” Annual AAR/SBL Meeting in Washington, DC, 2006
“Collages of Terror, Tapestries of Hope: Reading Prophetic Texts in the Twenty-First Century,” Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society, 2006
“Jeremiah as Social Commentary and Map of Hope,” McCown Symposium, Rochester, New York, 2005
“Mapquesting our Lives for Signs of Fear and Love,” 2005 Winter Commencement Address at The University of Findlay
“Imagined Violence as a Liturgy of Hope: A Proposal for Readings the Oracles Against the Nations in Jeremiah 46-51” Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society, 2005
"Sculpting New Beginnings out of Fallen Worlds: Jeremiah as a Map of Hope." Annual AAR/SBL Meeting in Atlanta
“Internal Hermeneutical Clues for Reading Prophetic Texts,” Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium
“Is there Life after Wreckage? Conflicting Paths to Hope in Jeremiah,” Columbia Theological Seminary Spring Symposium
Recent Publications and/or Performances
Books and Edited Volumes
Prophetic Literature: Collages of Chaos, Tapestries of Hope, with Paul Kim (Abingdon Press, under contract)
Jeremiah: Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries (Nashville: Abingdon Press).
Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East. Essays in Honor of Herbert B. Huffmon, edited with John Kaltner (New York and London: T & T Clark).
Troubling Jeremiah, edited with A. R. Diamond and Kathleen M. O’Connor (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press).
Order Amid Chaos: Jeremiah As Symbolic Tapestry (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press).
The Prose Sermons of the Book of Jeremiah. A Redescription of the Correspondences with Deuteronomistic Literature in the Light of Recent Text-Critical Research (Atlanta: Scholars Press).
The Other Text of Jeremiah. A Reconstruction of the Hebrew Text Underlying the Greek Version of the Prose Sections of Jeremiah (New York and London: University Press of America).
Selected Articles
“Jeremiah as Messenger of Hope in Crisis,” Interpretation (Spring 2008)
“Jeremiah, Book of,” in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible,” ed., Katharine Doob Sakenfeld et al. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, forthcoming, 2008).
“Reading the Prophets as Meaning-making Literature for Communities under Siege, Horizons in Biblical Theology 29 (2007) 153-175
“Conflicting Paths of Hope in Jeremiah,” Shaking Earth and Heaven: Essays in Honor of Walter Brueggemann and Charles B. Cousar, edited by Christine Yoder, Kathleen M. O’Connor et al. (Westminster John Knox, 2005).
“Jeremiah as a Polyphonic Response to Suffering,” in Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of Herbert B. Huffmon, eds., John Kaltner and Louis Stulman (T & T Clark, 2004).
“Jeremiah the Prophet Astride Two Worlds,” in Reading the Book of Jeremiah: A Search for Coherence, ed., Martin Kessler (Eisenbrauns, 2004).
“The Prose Sermons as Hermeneutical Guide to Jeremiah 1-25: The Deconstruction of Judah’s Symbolic World” in Troubling Jeremiah.
"Sex and Familial Crimes in the D Code: A Witness to Mores in Transition," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 53: 47-63.
"Encroachment in Deuteronomy: An Analysis of the Social World of the D Code," Journal of Biblical Literature 109: 613-632.
For a complete listing of publications, see my resume.
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