Prof. Phil Yoo
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies
Office: BUCH C 214
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Email: philip.yoo@ubc.ca
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A native of Mississauga, Ontario, he is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.Comm. in Commerce and Finance; M.Div. from Knox College), Yale University (S.T.M.), and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.). Before his arrival at UBC in 2021, he was first Postdoctoral Fellow and then Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on Pentateuchal theory, Ezra-Nehemiah, Second Temple Judaism, and biblical interpretation. He is the author of Ezra and the Second Wilderness (Oxford, 2017), co-editor of To Gaul, to Greece and into Noah’s Ark: Essays in Honour of Kevin J. Cathcart on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday (with Laura Quick, Ekaterina K. Kozlova, and Sonja Noll; Oxford, 2019), and several articles. His current book project, From Egypt to Canaan: The Israelite Wilderness and its Mythmakers examines the exodus and wilderness accounts and the reception of this tradition by the earliest Jewish and Christian interpreters.
Prof. Evan Thompson
Professor of Philosophy
Associate Member of the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Psychology (Cognitive Science Group)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Office: BUCH E 377
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Prof. Edward Slingerland
Distinguished University Scholar Professor of Asian Studies Associate Member, Depts. of Philosophy and Psychology Director, Database of Religious History
Office: BUCH E 163
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Email: edward.slingerland@ubc.ca
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I received a B.A. from Stanford in Asian Languages (Chinese), an M.A. from UC Berkeley in East Asian Languages (classical Chinese), and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University.
My research specialties and teaching interests include Warring States (5th-3rd c. B.C.E.) Chinese thought, religious studies (comparative religion, cognitive science and evolution of religion), cognitive linguistics (blending and conceptual metaphor theory), ethics (virtue ethics, moral psychology), evolutionary psychology, the relationship between the humanities and the natural sciences, and the classical Chinese language.
Prof. Thomas Schneider
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My research interests focus on interconnections between ancient Egypt and other civilizations of the ancient Near East, the Levant and Northeast Africa, including questions of migration and ethnic identity, cultural contact, as well as linguistic, literary and religious transfer. I am also interested in how these concepts have been shaped and/or appropriated by modern ideologies, such as National Socialism. Some relevant recent work includes:
– Hermann Grapow’s position in Egyptology and National Socialist Initiatives for the Humanities, 1938-1945.In: B.M. Levinson and R. Ericksen (ed.): Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich. Studies in Antisemitism. Indiana University Press (forthcoming)
– Language Contact of Ancient Egyptian with Semitic and other Near Eastern Languages. In: R. Hasselbach-Andee (ed.): A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. 2020, 421-437.
– J.C. Moreno García and T. Schneider (eds.): Ethnic Identities in Ancient Egypt and the Identity of Egyptology. Journal of Egyptian History, Special Volume. 2018.
– Finding the Beyond: Exploration. In: P.P. Creasman and R.H. Wilkinson (eds.): Pharaoh’s Land and Beyond: Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors. Oxford: OUP, 2017, 5-17.
– T.E. Levy, T. Schneider and W.H.C. Propp (eds.): Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective – Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience. Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer: 2015.