St. Vladimir’s Seminary has hired two new faculty members to teach Biblical studies—Dr. George L. Parsenios, Professor of New Testament, and Archpriest Dr. Eugen J. Pentiuc, Professor of Scripture and Semitic Languages. Highly regarded in their fields of study, both are published authors and sought-after lecturers.
“I am thrilled that Professors Parsenios and Pentiuc have joined our faculty,” said Archpriest Dr. John Behr, Dean of the Seminary. “They are amongst the most eminent scriptural scholars working today, have published widely in their fields, with the most respected presses, and bring a great amount of talent and passion to the teaching of this fundamental discipline, which will benefit our students greatly."
Dr. Parsenios is an associate professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his M.A. (Classics) from Duke University; his M.Div. from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA; and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University. His teaching and research explore the interaction of early Christianity with classical literature, as well as the interpretation of the New Testament in the early church. He is the author of two books and several articles, and regularly teaches courses on the Gospel of John, First Corinthians, and Paul the Pastor.
Father Eugen is a tenured Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and holds Ph.D.s from Harvard University and Bucharest University. He is currently engaged in research on the ways the Eastern Orthodox tradition received and interpreted the Old Testament. In 2013, he was invited to work at École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem on an international project, "The Bible in Its Traditions,” for which his major contribution was producing a new translation and authoring notes on the Book of Hosea. He is also one of the editors-in-chief of The Orthodox Study Bible: The Old Testament, published by Thomas Nelson in 2008. His most recent book, The Old Testament in Eastern Orthodox Tradition, was published by Oxford University Press in January 2014.
