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Ronald R Cox
Associate Professor of Religion

Division: Religion Division
Office: Appleby Center (APC) 212
Phone: (310) 506-4265
Fax: (310) 506-6907
E-mail: ronald.cox@pepperdine.edu

  • Ph.D, University of Notre Dame, 2005
  • M.Div., Pepperdine University, 1996
  • B.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1991
Courses:
  • History and Religion of Early Christianity
  • Christianity and Culture (The Theology of C.S. Lewis' Fiction)
  • Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
  • Pauline Writings II
  • History of Christianity -- Ancient and Medieval
Key Awards/Affiliations:
  • Book Review Editor, Studia Philonica Annual
  • Visiting Professor, Seaver International Program, Florence, Italy (2009-2010)
  • Lela Armstrong Fellow in Religion (2007-2008)
  • Seaver Research Council Grant (2007-2008)
  • Seaver Fellow in Religion (2006-2007)
  • Voted "Most Influential Faculty Member" by Rochester College Student Body (2004)
  • Member, Society of Biblical Literature
  • Member, North American Patristic Society
Academic Interests:
  • Pauline Literature (esp. Colossians)
  • Philo of Alexandria
  • Sethian Gnosticism
Selected Works:
  • By the Same Word: Creation and Salvation in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity (BZNW; Walter de Gruyter, 2007)
  • The New Testament Preaches the Psalms: Problems and Possibilities in Performing the Psalms: And the World Imagined in Scripture, edited by D. Fleer and D. Bland (Chalice Press, 2005)
  • The Bible in the Hands of an Angry God: A Sermon on Hebrews 4:12-13 in Preaching Hebrews, edited by D. Fleer and D. Bland (ACU Press, 2003).
Performances:
  • 2008 - "Hebrews 5:11-6:12 as 'Frank Criticism' (Parresia)." Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, Massachusetts, November.
  • 2007 - "'The Mystery Now Revealed': Lohse's Colossians and Philemon as the First Word on Hermeneia." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, California, November.
  • 2007 - Visiting Professor, Institute of Theology and Christian Ministry, St. Petersburg, Russia, August.
  • 2006 - "Let the Word of Christ Dwell in You Richly: Preaching Colossians." Seminar presented at the Cascade College Expositors' Seminar, Portland, Oregon, January.
  • 2006 - "The Church and the Nations." Panel Presentation at the 89th Annual Bible Lectureship, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, September.
  • 2006 - "Do You Have the Anointing? Learning 'What is True and Is Not a Lie' in 1 John 2:27." Lecture presented at the 63rd Annual Bible Lectureship, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, May.
  • 2005 - "Through Him and To Him: Jesus as Savior and Creator in Colossians 1:15-20." Lectures presented at the 87th Annual Bible Lectureship, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, February.
  • 2004 - "The New Testament Preaches the Psalms: Problems and Possibilities." Paper presented at the 7th Annual Rochester College Sermon Seminar, Rochester Hills, Michigan, May.
  • 1999 - "Philo's Life of Moses: Reading Torah Biographically." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Orlando, Florida, November.
  • 1999 - "'A Sharp Pen vs. Fragrant Myrrh': Comparing and Contrasting the Commentaries of Cyril of Alexandria and Theodore of Mopsuestia on Psalm 45." Paper presented at The Harp of Prophecy: Early Christian Exegesis of the Psalms Conference, Notre Dame, Indiana, April.
  • 1997 - "The History of the Churches of Christ 'Put Another Way': The Historiography of Richard Hughes in the Light of Alasdair MacIntyre." Paper presented to Restoration Theological Research Forum, San Francisco, California, November.