Dale Launderville, OSB

Faculty

Office: Quad 251C, SJU

Education

“The Tower of Babel: Hybristic Resistance to the Diversification of Culture,” in The Bible Today 54 (2016) 173-79.
“The Threat of Syncretism to Ezekiel’s Exilic Audience in the Dry Bones Passage” in Die Welt des Orient 45,1 (2015) 38-49.
“Translating Biblical Texts Within an Ecclesial Context,” in God’s Word and the Church’s Council: Vatican II and Divine Revelation (ed. Mark O’Brien OP and Christopher Monaghan CP; Adelaide: ATF Theology, 2014) 149-62.

Preparing two-volume commentary on the Book of Ezekiel for the Illuminations Series of Eerdmans (ed. by C. L. Seow).
Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece (Liturgical Press, 2010).
Spirit and Reason: The Embodied Character of Ezekiel’s Symbolic Thinking (Waco, TX: Baylor U. Press, 2007).

A Comparative Study of Kingship in Biblical Israel, Homeric Greece, and Mesopotamia of the Old Babylonian Period (2000‑1500 BC), (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1987).
Spirit and Reason: The Embodied Character of Ezekiel’s Symbolic Thinking (Waco, TX: Baylor U. Press, 2007).
Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece (Liturgical Press, 2010).

“Text, Translations, and Reception History,” presented as a research report at the international meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association at Santa Clara U, Santa Clara, CA, August, 2016.
SOT Theology Day presentation on “The Afterlife: Is There a Heaven? Is There a Hell,” Oct 1, Nov. 1, 7, Dec. 6, 2013; Jan 23, 2014.
“Prophetic Versus Apocalyptic Ezekiel: A Commentary on a Pluriform Text,” presented as a research report at the international meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association at Gonzaga U., Spokane, WA, August, 2013.

Naphtali S. Meshel, The ‘Grammar of Sacrifice’: A Generativist Study of the Israelite Sacrificial System in the Priestly Writings with a ‘Grammar’ of Σ (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014). In CBQ 77 (2015).
Christopher G. Frechette, Mesopotamian Ritual-prayers of Hand-lifting” (Akkadian Šuillas): An Investigation in Light of the Idiomatic Meaning of the Rubric. AOAT 379; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2012. In CBQ 75 (2013) 119-21.
Lieve Watteeuw and Jan der Stock (eds), The Anjou Bible: A Royal Manuscript Revealed, Naples 1340 (Documenta Libraria 39; Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts 18; Low Countries Series 13; Leuven: Leuven University/Peeters, 2010). In CBQ 74 (2012) 847-48.

SOT Theology Day presentation on “The Afterlife: Is There a Heaven? Is There a Hell,” Oct 1, Nov. 1, 7, Dec. 6, 2013; Jan 23, 2014.
Workshop on the Psalms to the Permanent Deacons of the Diocese of Superior, July 13-14, 2013.
Presentations for the Episcopal Church’s Benedictine Experience at the Episcopal House of Prayer, September, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.

SOT/SEM Board Enrollment and Marketing Committee, 2011-present
Director of the Monastic Institute, 2010-present
Member of the Chaplain’s Team for St. Benedict’s Monastery, 2002-present
Catholic Biblical Association (1983 to present); Society of Biblical Literature (1990‑92, 2004–); Biblical Colloquium (a group of 12 Old Testament scholars who meet annually to discuss their research — 1986 to present)
As SOT Dean, director of the SOT summer school – 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998