Contact

mark.nussberger@mtangel.edu

Education

ThD: Harvard Divinity School (2012)
MTS: Harvard Divinity School (2002)
MA: St John’s University (1997)
BA: Chaminade University (1994)

Courses taught

• Scripture: The Soul of Theology
• Synoptic Gospels
• Torah
• Psalms and Wisdom Literature
• Prophets
• Johannine Writings
• Intermediate New Testament Greek I & II
• Elementary New Testament Greek I & II
• Elementary Old Testament Hebrew I & II
• Chosenness in the Old and New Testaments
• Themes in Johannine Literature: “Abide and Go”
• The Psalms: The Church’s Prayer Book & Resource for Pastoral Ministry

Research interests

• Liturgy and biblical interpretation (in Judaism and Christianity), including theological-liturgical interpretation of the biblical texts proclaimed during the Easter Vigil
• Old Testament ethics & the relationships between biblical ethics and moral theology
• Literary-theological interpretation of biblical poetry, including that of the Psalter
• Ancient rabbinic and medieval Jewish biblical hermeneutics, as well as premodern Jewish interpretations of the ancestral narratives of Genesis and Exodus 32–34

Select projects

• “Reading in and for Communion: The Study of Scripture,” in Eucharistic Church, Eucharistic Formation, ed. Owen F. Cummings and Mark Nussberger (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2023).
• “Aniconism and Incarnation: Gregory of Nyssa’s Interpretation of Exodus 32–34 in De vita Moysis,” Revue Scriptura: Nouvelle Série 10.1 (2008) 35–45.

Professional associations

• Catholic Biblical Association
• Society of Biblical Literature