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 Dr. Joshua Garroway Appointed Assistant Professor of Early Christianity and Second Commonwealth at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Dr. Joshua Garroway has been appointed Assistant Professor of Early Christianity and Second Commonwealth at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Los Angeles, as of July 1, 2008. In announcing this appointment, Rabbi David Ellenson, HUC-JIR President, noted, "Dr. Garroway brings excellence in scholarship as well as first-hand experience in the rabbinical seminary as an environment for educating leaders for the Jewish people. We look forward to his contributions to our learning community as a gifted scholar, as an academic colleague to our faculty, and as a teacher and mentor to the rabbinical, education, and Jewish communal service students at our Los Angeles campus." An alumnus of HUC-JIR, where he was ordained in Cincinnati in 2003 and received the M.A. in Hebrew Letters in 2002, Dr. Garroway received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Yale University in 2008 and A.B. in Religion at Duke University in 1997. His Ph.D. dissertation was titled "Neither Jew nor Gentile, but Both: Paul's 'Christians' as Gentile-Jews." Dr. Garroway has served as an Instructor at Yale University, where he taught "Introduction to New Testament History and Literature" and as an Instructor and Teaching Fellow at Yale Divinity School, where he has taught "Introduction to New Testament Interpretation" and "Introduction to Biblical Greek." His conference presentations and lectures relating to Judaism and Early Christianity have been presented at Yale Divinity School, Sacred Heart University, and the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference, and he participated in studies at the Center for Dialogue and Prayer at Auschwitz, Poland. He has conducted High Holy Days services at the Rochester Area Colleges Hillel, and during his rabbinical school years served as a student rabbi at congregations in Ohio, New Jersey, and Kentucky and as a chaplain intern at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati. Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal service professionals, and offers graduate and post-graduate programs to scholars of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives, biblical archaeology excavations, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of cultural and educational programs which illuminate Jewish history, identity, and contemporary creativity and which foster interfaith and multiethnic understanding. Visit us at www.huc.edu |
