Dale Launderville, OSB

Dean of School, Professor of Theology

B.A., Saint John's University, 1973
M.Div., Saint John's University, 1979
M.A., The Catholic University of America, 1982
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, 1987

Office: Quad 251C
Phone Number: 320-363-3389
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Teaching and Research
  • Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
  • Book of Ezekiel; Book of Numbers; History of Biblical Interpretation
Publications

Full List of Publications Here

Articles
  • “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.
Books
  • 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).
Dissertation
  • 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).
Presentations
  • “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.
Reviews
  • 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.
Other Publications
  • 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.
Special Committees/Organization

Full list of Committees and Organizations Here

  • 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