The primary area of my graduate training and research has been in the language, history and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. My dissertation topic, the Last Words of David in 2 Samuel 23:1-7, focuses on the theological and textual emplotment within the book of Samuel, with comparison of the biblical text to last words and farewell discourses in Ancient Near Eastern, Greco-Roman and early rabbinic literature.
Most philosophical approaches to imagination have focused on perception, creativity, or genius. Paul Ricoeur breaks with the tradition by examining imagination in terms of its function in language, particularly in forms of symbolic language. This move to understand imagination by its role in particular types of discourse such as metaphors and narratives places imagination within the network of questions related to the problem of interpretation.
Bioethics is a young discipline whose formative leaders have come from fields such as theology, philosophy, biology, anthropology, and medicine. Intense internal debate has occurred over the past 30 years regarding the best method to use when engaging bioethical problems. Competing methods of deliberation and decision-making have drawn from various theories and frameworks and have been classified broadly as top-down and bottom-up methods. Those in the former category start with cases, concentrate on the particulars of the case, and draw from previou
