Kenneth Berding, Ph.D. Associate Professor of New Testament Talbot School of Theology at Biola University Address: 13800 Biola Ave., La Mirada, CA 90639 E-mail: [email protected] Office Telephone: (562) 944-0351 x 3500 Fax: (562) 777-4017 Home Telephone: (562) 944-8682 Home Address: 14503 Mansa Drive, La Mirada, CA 90638 EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation (New Testament emphasis) Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA, 2000 Master of Arts in New Testament Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, La Mirada, CA, 1996 Master of Arts in Biblical Studies Trinity Theological Seminary, Newburgh, IN, 1992 TEFL Certificate (Teaching of English as a Foreign Language) International Teachers Training Institute, London, UK, 1988. Bachelor of Theology, Minor in New Testament Greek Multnomah University (new name), Portland, OR, 1986. TEACHING AND MINSTRY EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor of New Testament Talbot School of Theology / Biola University, La Mirada, CA, 2002 to present (tenured, 2008). Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Greek Nyack College, Nyack, NY, 1998-2002 Pastor of Worship (part-time) Living Christ Church (new name), Nyack, NY, 2000 to 2002 Adjunct Professor (Biblical Greek and Hermeneutics) Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA, 1998-1999 (Greek) Alliance Theological Seminary, Ukraine Extension Site, 1999 (Greek) Alliance Theological Seminary, New York City Extension Site, 2001 (Hermeneutics) Alliance Evangelical Divinity School, Anaheim, CA, 2006 (Hermeneutics) Greek Tutoring / Research Assistantships Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, CA, 1995-1996 Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA, 1997-1998 Teacher of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Cinar School of English, 1989-1990 Dilmer School of English, 1993-1994 Church Planter in Middle East, 1988-1995 Refuge Ministry, Portland, OR, 1985-1987

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Intern in Music and Youth Ministries Los Gatos Christian Church, San Jose, CA, 1981-1983 MISCELLANEOUS SKILLS Proficiency in four musical instruments: piano, guitar, drums, and saz Composer of more than 160 songs Fluent in modern Turkish LARGE PROJECTS (BOOKS AND MUSIC)

Polycarp and Paul: An Analysis of Their Literary & Theological Relationship in Light of Polycarp’s Use of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Literature. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 62 (Leiden: Brill, 2002). Reviews: Themelios 29 (2003): 81-83; The Journal of Theological Studies 54 (2003): 738-746; Religious Studies Review 30 (2004): 205; Journal of Early Christian Studies 12 (2004): 121-123; Vigiliae Christianae 58 (2004): 98-101; Bulletin Paulinien (2005): 401-402; Westminster Theological Journal 66 (2004): 443-445.

What Are Spiritual Gifts? Rethinking the Conventional View (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2006). Reviews: Bibliotecha Sacra (April-June, 2008): 254-255; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 50 (2007): 852-854; Biola Connections (Fall, 2007): 13; Christianbookreviews.net 10-26-06; Christians in Context Blog, 1-14-09 and 1-16-09; Eutychus Blog, 1-7-09

Sing and Learn New Testament Greek: The Easiest Way to Learn Greek Grammar (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008). Reviews: New Testament Perspectives Blog, 5-17-08; Koinonia Blog, 9-16-08 and 9-17-08; Idle musings of a bookseller, anebooks.blogspot.com, 12-11-08; TheoSource, 2-10-10.

What The New Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Their Writings (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2008). Co-editor with Matt Williams and author of two chapters. Fifteen different contributing authors from twelve Christian colleges and universities across North America. Reviews: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 52 (2009): 372-373; Nijay K Gupta Blog, nijaygupta.wordpress.com, 11-14-08.

Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008). Co-editor with Jonathan Lunde and author of the conclusion. Contributing authors: Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Darrell L. Bock, and Peter Enns. Reviews: Themelios 33 (2008), New Testament Perspectives Blog, 11-10-08, The Denver Journal 12 (2009), Says Simpleton//Ched Spellman Blog, 12-30-09, McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry 11 (2009-2010): 11-14.

Stepping Out in the Spirit (Wheaton: Crossway, forthcoming in 2011). The Story of the Righteousness of God: A Redemptive-Historical Workbook in Romans (Biola University Bookstore, 2009). Sing Thru the Bible, copyright 2000, 2003 (sequencing by Dwayne Condon, vocals by Jennifer Condon). A demo-level music CD, lead-sheets, and introduction to each biblical book. Produced for college students in Bible Survey at Nyack College and Biola University. Thirty minutes of music spanning all the central characters, events, and themes in the Bible. PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS “Depth and Delight,” Discipleship Journal 104 (March/April 1998): 75. “Polycarp of Smyrna’s View of the Authorship of 1 and 2 Timothy,” Vigiliae Christianae 53 (1999): 349-360. “Confusing Word and Concept in ‘Spiritual Gifts’: Have We Forgotten James Barr’s Exhortations?” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 43 (2000): 37-51.

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“The Hermeneutical Framework of Social-Scientific Criticism: How much can Evangelicals get involved?” The Evangelical Quarterly 75 (2003): 3-22. “Romans 12.4-8: One Sentence or Two?” New Testament Studies 52 (2006): 433-439. “How Did the New Testament Canon Come Together?” Sundoulos (Spring 2007): 2-7. “Introducing Paul,” in What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2008), 128-139. “Philippians,” in What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2008), 176181. “An Analysis of Three Views on the New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament,” in Three Views on the New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008), 234-244. “John or Paul? Who was Polycarp’s Mentor?” Tyndale Bulletin 58 (2008): 135-143. “God’s Word or Paul’s Personal Opinion? 1 Corinthians 7:12 in Context,” Biola Magazine, Summer 2008. “Spiritual Gifts,” in Baker Handbook to the Bible, ed. Scott Duvall and Danny Hays (Grand Rapids: Baker, forthcoming). “Polycarp’s Use of 1 Clement: An Assumption Reconsidered,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 19.1 (Spring 2011, forthcoming). “Polycarp of Smyrna” in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley-Blackwell) (forthcoming). “Who Searches Hearts and What Does He Know in Romans 8:27?” (under review). “Actually Praying,”WHBC Leader’s eNewsletter (February 2010). PUBLISHED BOOK REVIEWS Review of Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture, by David A. deSilva (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2000), in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 45 (June, 2002): 354-356. Review of Polycarp and the New Testament: The Occasion, Rhetoric, Theme, and Unity of the Epistle to the Philippians and its Allusions to New Testament Literature, by Paul Hartog, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament: Reihe 2; 134 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002), in Westminster Theological Journal 64 (2002): 415-417. Review of Thanksgiving: An Investigation of a Pauline Theme, by David W. Pao, New Studies in Biblical Theology 13 (Leicester: Apollos and Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2002), in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 46 (June, 2003): 352-353. Review of Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The “Lutheran” Paul and His Critics, by Stephen Westerholm (Grand Rapids and Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004) in Trinity Journal 25 (Fall, 2004): 262-264. Review of Paul and First-Century Letter Writing: Secretaries, Composition and Collection, by E. Randolph Richards (Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 2004) in Westminster Theological Journal 67 (Spring, 2005): 170-172. Review of Knocking on Heaven’s Door: A New Testament Theology of Petitionary Prayer, by David Crump (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006) in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 50 (June, 2007): 408-410.

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Review of From the Lost Teaching of Polycarp: Identifying Irenaeus’ Apostolic Presbyter and the Author of Ad Diognetum, by Charles E. Hill, WUNT (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006) in Trinity Journal 28 (Fall, 2007): 309-311. Review of Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters and Theology, by David B. Capes, Rodney Reeves and E. Randolph Richards (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic and Nottingham, England: Apollos, 2007) in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 51 (June, 2008): 411-412. Review of Reading Romans in Pompeii: Paul’s Letter at Ground Level, by Peter Oakes (Minneapolis: Fortress Press and London: SPCK, 2009) in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. (Forthcoming) PROFESSIONAL PAPERS “Polycarp of Smyrna and the Pauline Authorship of 1 and 2 Timothy.” Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November, 1998. “Understanding the Hermeneutical Framework of Social-Scientific Criticism: How much can Evangelicals get involved?” Evangelical Theological Society Eastern Regional Meeting, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, April, 1998. “John P. Meier as Biblical Interpreter: An Analysis of his Hermeneutical Principles—Beyond the Quest.” Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 2002. “Historical connections to John but literary connections to Paul: Can we resolve a dilemma in our understanding of Polycarp of Smyrna?” First International Symposium on Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey, July, 2003 and Asia Minor Study Group at Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, November, 2005. “John the Baptist’s Clear Witness to Jesus as the Coming One in the Fourth Gospel and the Problem of Doubt in Relation to Matthew and Luke.” Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2003. Response to Paul Hartog, “Polycarp, ‘Scripture,’ and Ephesians.” Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, Valley Forge, Pennnsylvania, November, 2005. “Rethinking the Conventional View of Spiritual Gifts.” Provost’s Faculty Research Luncheon, Biola University, La Mirada, California, October, 2006. “‘Spiritual Gifts’ as Ministries: Rethinking the Exegetical Foundations of ‘Spiritual Gifts’.” Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., November, 2006. Moderator for Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (with Jon Lunde, Walt Kaiser, Darrell Bock, and Pete Enns). Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, November 2008. “The Spirit as the Searcher and Knower of the Believer’s Spirit-focused Mindset in Romans 8:27.” New Testament Colloquium, Biola University, February 2009. Same Paper, New Title: “Who Searches Hearts and What Does He Know in Romans 8:27?” Evangelical Theological Society Far West Regional Conference, San Diego, California, April, 2009. MISCELLANEOUS Historical consultant for The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp, Music: J.A.C. Redford, Libretto: Scott Cairns, 2004. Biblical consultant for the Jesus Film Project, Campus Crusade for Christ, 2005. Radio Interviews on What Are Spiritual Gifts? Rethinking the Conventional View WMUZ, Detroit, MI, “The Bob Dutko Show,” Dec. 8, 2006. He’s Alive Radio, “Listener’s Café,” Jan. 15, 2007. KNEO, Neosho, MO, “Author’s Corner,” Feb. 20, 2007.

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WCTS, Plymouth, MN, “Christianity in a Changing Culture,” Feb 27, 2007. Television interview about the Apostle Paul, Associated Television International, Unlocking Ancient Secrets of the Bible, hosted by Roger Moore, 2007. DVD Series Interview on the person and work of the Apostle Paul, Deepening Curriculum, Baker Publishing Group, May 2008. Consultant for What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Their Writings, ed. Jason DeRouchie (Grand Rapids: Kregel, forthcoming). Elder at Whittier Hills Baptist Church, 2009 to present. Difficult Forms of Common Greek Verbs Flashcards (Biola University Bookstore, 2009). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

The Evangelical Theological Society Institute for Biblical Research The Society of Biblical Literature AWARDS / HONORS / GRANTS

New Testament Greek Award, Multnomah University, 1986 Valedictorian and Baccalaureate Speaker, Multnomah University, 1986 Phi Beta Kappa, 1986 Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges, 1986 Award in New Testament, Talbot School of Theology/ Biola University, 1996 Grant in Pedagogy, Biola University, 2002-2003 Seventh Semester Research Leave, Talbot School of Theology/ Biola University, Fall 2005 Research and Development Grant, Biola University, Fall 2005 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 8th ed. (2004) and 9th ed. (2005) Faculty Excellence Award and Speaker for December Graduates’ Dinner, Biola University, 2006 Research and Development Grant, Biola University, Summer 2007 Award of Excellence in Mentoring Students, Biola University, 2008 Tenured, Biola University, 2008 Dedicatee of Biola University’s Student Yearbook (along with wife Trudi), 2008 Research and Development Grant, Biola University, Summer 2009 Who’s Who in America, 2010 COURSES TAUGHT Talbot School of Theology / Biola University Biblical Interpretation & Spiritual Formation New Testament History and Literature Life and Letters of Paul Pauline Theology: Romans The Apostolic Fathers Biblical Greek 1 Biblical Greek 2 Nyack College (Rockland Campus and Manhattan Campus) Hermeneutics Christian Foundations New Testament Literature Old Testament Literature Beginning Greek 1 and 2 Intermediate Greek 1 and 2 Greek Exegesis Alliance Theological Seminary (Manhattan Campus and Kiev, Ukraine) Hermeneutics Introduction to Biblical Languages

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Alliance Evangelical Divinity School (Anaheim) Hermeneutics Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) Biblical Greek 1, 2, and 3

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