ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BIBLE AND ITS RECEPTION
Edited by
Hans-Josef Klauck, Bernard McGinn, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski
in cooperation with
Dale Allison, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Donna Bowman, Brian Britt, Michael Cameron, Mordechai Z. Cohen, Joseph Davis, Jamey Deming, Martin Forward, Peter Gemeinhardt, Haim Goldfus, Ann E. Killebrew, David W. Kling, Volker Leppin, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Martti Nissinen, Dennis T. Olson, Nils Holger Petersen, S. Brent Plate, Christine Roy Yoder, Thomas Römer, Günter Stemberger, Marvin A. Sweeney, Johan C. Thom, David R. Thomas, Samuel Vollenweider, Jan G. van der Watt, Sidnie White Crawford
Name
Prof. Dr. David W. Kling
Function
Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies
Address
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248264
Coral Gables, FL 33124
USA
Telephone +1-305-284-4733
Fax +1-305-284-2772
E-Mail dkling@miami.edu
Biography
David Kling (Ph.D., University of Chicago) has wide-ranging, interdisciplinary teaching and research interests in the history of Christianity and religion in America. He is the author of A Field of Divine Wonders: The New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northwestern Connecticut, 1792-1822 (published by Penn State Press in 1993 and winner of the Kenneth Scott Latourette Prize in Religion and Modern History), The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times (published in 2004 by Oxford University Press and a featured “Editor's Choice” selection of the History Book Club), and co-editor of Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons (published in 2003 by the University of South Carolina Press); and numerous articles in journals, books, and reference works. He is currently working on a fourth book, A History of Christian Conversion (under contract with Oxford University Press). Professor Kling is the recipient of numerous grants and research awards. He has organized two major conferences in Miami, and serves as a scholarly resource to the media.