Born and raised in Singapore, Bernon Lee read history and classics at the University of Calgary, dreaming of postgraduate pursuits in medieval studies. A semester of Biblical Hebrew, however, fired in him an appreciation for the Hebrew Bible, prompting a fresh direction for further studies.<\/p>\n
The transcultural migrations of Bernon’s journey to North America have left in him something of a cultural ambivalence, and thus the torn (and often tortured) perspectives of readers pique his interest. His last book, Marginal(ized) Prospects through Biblical Ritual and Law: Lections from the Threshold<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan), looks at the Torah’s conception of prized and pristine entities (men’s heads, women’s wombs, esteemed ethnicities) through the lens of postcolonial, feminist and Asian-American hermeneutics. His current project brings to the fore the subversive and yet complicit gestures of nineteenth-century interpreters’ entanglements with imperial discourse in wrestling with biblical prescription.<\/p>\n A member of the Society of Biblical Literature, Bernon is a co-convenor of the Multicultural Perspectives on Theology, Religion and Biblical Interpretation section (Upper Mid-West Region), and a member of the steering committee for the Recovering Female Bible Interpreters section for the national conference.<\/p>\n PhD, Theology (Hebrew Scriptures), University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, 2003.<\/p>\n MA, Religious Studies (Hebrew Bible), University of Calgary, 1997.<\/p>\n BA, History, University of Calgary, 1995.<\/p>\n The Hebrew Bible in reception, postcolonial hermeneutics, nineteenth-century biblical interpretation. <\/p>\n Victorian Perversions: Sundered Suasions on Scripture in a Time of Empire<\/em> (in preparation).<\/p>\n Marginal(ized) Prospects through Biblical Ritual and Law: Lections from the Threshold<\/em>. Postcolonialism and Religions Series; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (paperback in 2019).<\/p>\n Between Law and Narrative: The Method and Function of Abstraction.<\/em> Gorgias Biblical Studies 51; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2010 (paperback in 2014).<\/p>\n “Finding ‘Happy’: ‘Law’ and Propriety in Florence Nightingale’s Biblical Notations,” (article in preparation).<\/p>\n “Viragoes, Spermatophagy, and Racial Degeneration: Cultural Contraventions in Josephine Butler’s Meditations on the Levite’s Woman,” Journal of the Bible and Its Reception<\/em> (forthcoming).<\/p>\n “Grace Aguilar, the Jealous Man, and Imperialism’s ‘Pleasure’,” Biblical Interpretation<\/em> 29 (2021), 25-48.<\/p>\n “Grace Aguilar’s Double-Vision to a Feminized Religiosity through the Torah’s Laws on Inheritance and Vows,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament<\/em> 43.4 (2019), 539-55.<\/p>\n “Unity in Diversity: The Literary Function of the Formula of Retaliation in Leviticus 24.15-22,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament<\/em> 38.3 (2014), 297-313.<\/p>\n “‘Face to Face’: Moses as Prophet in Exodus 11:1-12:28,” in Mark Boda and Lissa Wray-Beal (eds.), Prophets and Prophecy in the Historiography of the Old Testament.<\/em> Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013, 3-21.<\/p>\n “Eliza Smith’s The Battles of the Bible<\/em>: Biblical Interpretation in Service of a Christian Social Agenda in Nineteenth-Century Urban Scotland,” in Nancy Calvert-Koyzis and Heather Weir (eds.), Breaking Boundaries: Female Interpreters who Challenged the Status Quo<\/em>. New York\/London: T & T Clark International\/Continuum, 2010, 69-84.<\/p>\n “Conversations on the Bible with a Lady of Philadelphia,” in C. de Groot and M. A. Taylor (eds.), Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible.<\/em> SBL Symposium Series 38; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007, 45-62.<\/p>\n “Victorian Viragoes: The Tale of the Levite’s Woman (Judges 19) in Josephine Butler’s Contentions with Late Victorian Sexual Mores” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Recovering Female Bible Interpreters Section); November, 2020.<\/p>\n “Contesting Culture: Science and Theological Discourse in Josephine Butler’s Scriptural Meditations”; A Science and Religion Christmas (A Forum of the Reconciliation Studies Program at Bethel University Sponsored by The Scholarship and Christianity Project of Oxford University); December 2019.<\/p>\n “Grace Aguilar on the Law of the Jealous Man (Numbers 5:11-31): A Nineteenth-Century Engagement with England’s ‘Others’”; National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Recovering Female Bible Interpreters Section); November, 2018.<\/p>\n “Speaking to Power: Grace Aguilar’s Reading of the Tale of Zelophehad’s Daughters”; National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Recovering Female Bible Interpreters Section); November, 2016.<\/p>\n “The Assembly, the People, the Uterus, and the Land: A Feminist and Postcolonial Deconstruction of the ‘Israelite’ Subject in Conceiving the Sacred Spaces of Deuteronomy 22:13-24:4”; National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Postcolonial Studies and Biblical Studies Section); November, 2014.<\/p>\n “Asian American Ruminations between Judges and Exodus in the Shadow of Cultural Hegemony”; Meeting of the Upper Mid-West Region of the Society of Biblical Literature (Asian Perspectives in Biblical Studies, Theology, and Religious Studies Section); April, 2014.<\/p>\n “A Response to Victor Ilfeanyi Ezigbo’s ‘God in Human Context: Reflection on Theology’s Contextuality and Contextual Theology’”; Bethel University, St. Paul, MN; October, 2013.<\/p>\n “A Clergyman’s Daughter’s Battles for the Bible”; National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible Section); November, 2007.<\/p>\n “Teaching the Bible in Nineteenth-Century America: The Example of a Catechistic Text from Philadelphia”; Doing Theology Together: Theological Networking in the Mid-West (A Conference Jointly Sponsored by the Korea Institute for Advanced Theological Studies and the Kuyer Institute of Calvin College); 26 February, 2006.<\/p>\n “Sarah Hall’s Conversations on the Bible<\/em>: A Window on Nineteenth-Century Biblical Interpretation from the Fringes of Church and Academy”; Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (Canadian Society of Biblical Studies); 29 May, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":984,"template":"","type_profile":[15],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/college_faculty\/990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/college_faculty"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/college_faculty"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"type_profile","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_profile?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Education<\/h3>\n
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