A Higher Education

Andrew Garbarino

School of Christian Thought
Theology
  • DMin
  • Adjunct Professor of Christianity

Education

  • PhD Candidate, Biblical Studies (Old Testament), Princeton Theological Seminary (expected 2025)
  • MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary
  • AB, Harvard College

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Biblical Texts and Doctrines
  • Second Temple Judaism
  • Introduction to Biblical Greek
  • Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
  • Intermediate Hebrew

Teaching Focus

My primary field of specialty is biblical Hebrew poetry, integrating philological, literary, and comparative methods. I am writing a dissertation on sublime aesthetics in the Psalms. My other research interests include text criticism, papyrology, Ugaritic studies, historical Hebrew grammar, religious themes in contemporary sci-fi and fantasy literature, and theological aesthetics. In my work and teaching I seek to serve the academy, the church, and our great city of Houston. I am an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America (RCA).

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • With Heath D. Dewrell. “Names of God in the Hebrew Bible.” Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies. Edited by Christopher Matthews. New York: Oxford University Press. 2023.

  • “The Seal of All the Fathers: Alexandria, Antioch, and St. Cyril on Micah 6:8.” Coptica 19: 49–65. 2020.

Conference Papers

  • “Psalm 48, Tradition, and Zion as Ruin.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. 2024 (paper accepted).

  • “The So-Called “Doubled yod” of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 7.1007 as another πιπι.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. 2023.
  • “The Sublimity of Terror in Psalm 42/43.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. 2022.
  • “Metaphorizing Cosmology in Psalm 42/43.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. 2021
  • “A Clever Burn: How Jotham’s Fable (Judges 9:8–15) Functions as an Imprecatory Wisdom Saying.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (virtual). 2020.

Non-Academic Publications

  • “Sufjan Stevens and Hearing God in the Whirlwind.” Poiema 2: 3–6. 2020.