He earned his M.Div. from the Seminary, and his Ph.D. from Yale University. His academic interests include the rise and development of the idea of scripture in Second Temple Judaism, religious epistemology in ancient Judaism and Christianity, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and papyrology. He teaches courses in introductory and advanced Greek, Greek exegesis of Galatians and Ephesians, and the theology of scripture. A Presbyterian, he is a candidate for ordination to the ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Presbytery of the Northern Plains. He is a member of the American Philological Association, the American Society of Papyrology, the Catholic Biblical Association of America, and the Society of Biblical Literature.