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Michael Patella, OSB
Rector, Saint John's Seminary, 2007-; Associate Dean, 2007-; Director of Study Abroad Programs, 2002-; Associate Professor of Theology, 1995-; B.A., Iona College, 1977; M.A. Boston College, 1981; M.Div., Saint John's University, 1989; S.S.L., Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1993, S.S.D., École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, Israel, 1995. mpatella@csbsju.edu
Classes taught
Fall 2004, THEO 180 (2 sections); SSNT 400
Spring 2005, HONR 240; CORE 390; 1/6 Saint John’s Bible
University service
Chair, The Committee on Illumination and Text, Saint John’s Bible, 1998-
Saint John’s University Human Rights Board 2004-2006
Graduate Theological Studies Committee 2003-2005
Humanities Division Writing Club 2004-2005
Safe Space 101, a training session with Campus Ministry, September 2004
SOT Rite of Reconciliation. Mary, Mother of the Redeemer Chapel. 6 October 2005.
Host for Dignitas Humana, 18 October 2004.
Prepared Theology Faculty’s Catholic Voting Statement for distribution among the CSB/SJU community, October-November 2005
Co-hosted Humanities Division reception at HMML, February 2005
Appointed to Islamic Studies Taskforce under Dr Noreen Herzfeld and Dr Dallas Kenny, spring 2005
Advisor to Koch Chair in Catholic Thought and Culture, 15 March 2005
Co-hosted Hyman Berman and Mark Massa, “What’s New about Old Hatreds?” 13 April 2005
Opening of “Illuminating the Word” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (=MIA), 8 April 2005
Saint John’s Day, 9 April 2005
Host for the 68th Annual International meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association 6-9 August 2005
Rank and Tenure Committee, Saint John’s University, August- December 2005
Publications
“Die Saint John’s Bible,” Biblos: Beitrage zu Buch, Bibliothek und Schrift. 52/2003; 201-208.
“Paul in the Holy Land,” The Bible Today. July-August 2004 (42/4) 224-229.
“Prayerful Shores,” The Bible Today. September-October 2004 (42/5) 292-297.
“Bethlehem,” The Bible Today. November-December 2004 (42/6) 360-365.
“The Arabah,” The Bible Today. January-February 2005 (43/1) 28-33.
“Embattled Holyland,” The Bible Today. March-April 2005 (43/2) 96-101.
“The Ancient Near East,” The Bible Today. May-June 2005 (43/3) 170-175.
“Saint Peter,” The Bible Today. July-August 2005 (43/4) pending.
“The Saint John’s Bible: Text, Metaphor, and Exegesis.” CSSR Bulletin. March 2005, publication pending.
“Is there Nothing for the Neanderthal?” Headwaters. 22/2005. 56-67.
“Three Monks Entered the Abbey and Stayed Because…,” The Abbey Banner. Spring 2005 (5/1) 14.
“Gospel of Luke.” New Collegeville Bible Commentary. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, September 2005.
Lord of the Cosmos. Edinburgh: T &T Clark, April 2006.
“Magdala: The Town,” Bible Today. (43/5) Sept/Oct 2005, 301-303.
“Isaiah the Prophet: Geography and Imagery,” Bible Today. (43/6) Nov/Dec 2005, 365-370.
“Geology in the Holy Land,” Bible Today. (44/1) Jan/Feb 2006, 30-35.
“Women of Mystery,” Bible Today. (44/2) Mar/April 2006, 94-97.
“Sion, Mother of All Churches,” Bible Today. (44/3) May/June, 170-174.
“Saint John’s Abbey Eyes Completion of Historic Illuminated Manuscript Project,” CMSM Bulletin. March 2006. http://www.cmsm.org/publications.shtml
“The Saint John’s Bible: Text, Metaphor, and Exegesis” CSSR Bulletin (34/1-2) Feb/April 2005, 22-26.
“The Theology of the Saint John’s Bible” ARTS Magazine (17/1) 2005, 20-28.
Book Review
For Catholic Biblical Quarterly: Sartre, Maurice. The Middle East under Rome (trans. Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings with Jeannine Routier-Pucci; Cambridge/London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005). Publication pending.
Presentations
“Lectio Divina and the Saint John’s Bible.” SOT board retreat, 20 September 2005. Ron and Diane Liemont-Reimond.
“Saint John’s Bible.” Saint Bartholomew church staff retreat, 8 October 2005. Emmaus Hall, Saint John’s School of Theology.
Ghosts Goblins and Ghouls: a Monk's Reflection Friday Forum. 29 October 2004. Little Theater, Saint John’s University.
“The Making of the Saint John’s Bible” Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, 18 November 2005
Presentation on The Saint John’s Bible at the Collegeville Ecumenical Institute, 17 January 2006
Festival of Scholarship and Creativity, 26 January 2006
“Sacramental Vision of the World: The Saint John’s Bible and Saint Joseph Cathedral”, a talk in commemorating the Sesquicentennial of Saint Joseph Cathedral, Buffalo, NY, 27 February 2006
Speaker, Annual Campus Ministry Liturgical Ministry Appreciation Banquet, 15 March 2006, talk entitled, “If Everyone is Right, Who is Left?”
Monastic Institute, Saint John’s University, presentation on The Saint John’s Bible, Sunday, 2 July
Participating archaeologist, Hippos Excavation, Israel, 8-13 July 2006
Presentation: “The Theology of the Saint John’s Bible” at College of Saint Thomas Sacred Arts Festival, Tuesday, 7 November 2006.
Interviews
WBZ-AM Boston, MA by Jordan Rich" Thursday, 2 February 2006
WLW-AM ”WLW Morning Show” Russ Jackson, Cincinnati, OH Thursday, 16 February 2006
“Handmade Bible revives a sacred art” for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle by Marketta Gregory, Thursday, 23 February 2006
“Illuminations and inspirations” for The Buffalo News First Sunday by Jay Tokasz, 5 March 2006, 10-12.
“Diocesan Conversations with Kevin Keenan” Daybreak Productions, Diocese of Buffalo, Sunday, 26 February 2006
MPR, “The Book Guys” 14 March 2006
KNSI 1450 am “The Creative Department with Dave Phipps,” Sunday, 19 March 2006.
“Team working on first handwritten Bible since 15th century” for Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel by Judy Morgan, 16 April 2006 http://www.dailysentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/04/16/20060416NDSbible.h
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