Faculty

Daniel Miller is Associate Professor, teaching courses in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, comparative world religions and Biblical Hebrew. He received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan. His research areas are Canaanite-Israelite cultic practices, and ancient West Semitic magic.

Robert Chadwick teaches the history and archaeology of the ancient Near East. He has been excavating in Jordan since 1994. Since 1998 he has been field supervisor and assistant director of the Wadi Ath-Thamad Project. He is the author of First Civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (1996; second revised edition, 2005), plus a number of articles that have appeared in specialized journals. He has founded and is a leading member of a number of societies devoted to the study of the ancient Near East.

Michele Murray is Professor in the William and Nancy Turner Chair in Christianity. She teaches courses in Christian origins, women in religion, and religion and film.  She obtained her M.A. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Second Temple period Jewish history, and her Ph.D. in Religion from the University of Toronto. Her research areas are Jewish-Christian relations in the ancient world, and interaction among Eastern Mediterranean religions in late antiquity.

Laurence Nixon teaches at Dawson College in Montreal, where he is chair of the Religion Department. He has taught summer courses at Bishop's for a number of years, and prior to that he taught during the Fall and Winter semesters. His areas of expertise are the social-scientific study of religion, world religions, and religion and the arts.

Harvey White obtained his doctorate at McGill University. He is an expert in the philosophy of religion. He has also written extensively on Kant, Plato and (more recently) early Greek thought. In 2005, he published What is What-is?-a book on Parmenides' poem. Well schooled in analytic philosophy, Dr. White is also a keen reader of Medieval philosophy. He is currently working on a book-length study of Thomas Aquinas.