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Benjamin
Giffone, Ph.D.

Affiliate, Associate Professor

From: United States

At LCC Since: 2014

Key Areas

  • Hebrew Bible

Bio

A native of New Jersey, Dr. Benjamin Giffone received his undergraduate and seminary degrees from Cairn University, and his MTh and PhD in Old Testament from Stellenbosch University. Dr. Giffone has served in the Theology Department at LCC since 2014. In addition, he served as the inaugural director of the Center for Faith and Human Flourishing from 2017 to 2021.

In addition to his academic research on the books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles in the Hebrew Bible, his interests include the contributions of private industry and philanthropy to human well-being and flourishing. He particularly enjoys reading history and economics, and applying the tools of social science to the study of the Bible. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister (ECO), and serves as a pastoral associate in the Klaipėda Free Christian Church.

CURRENT RESEARCH:

Monograph: Gathering and Fitting Unhewn Stones: Varying Conceptions of Centralization in Persian-Era Hebrew Literature (est. 2022)
Research article, coauthoring with Hans Leaman: “Indentured Servitude, Legal Revision in Deuteronomy 15:12–18, and Separation of Vulnerable Migrant Families.”
Research article: “Three Kings: The Unfolding of Hezekiah Narratives Within the Books of Kings, First Isaiah, and Chronicles.”

Publications

YouTubing Eudaimoniae? Pachamama, inspiration, and manipulation in platonic and Biblical rhetorics.

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

Other author(s): Radwan, J.

Journal of media and religion, 21(2), p. 89-104. , 2022.

'Anger exhausted' for the sake of YHWH's name in Ezekiel 20: Did YHWH really relent from wrath poured out on Israel?

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

Biblische Zeitschrift, 66(1), p. 1-15., 2022.

Publications

Toward a better ‘Hezekiah’: The literary structuring of Isaiah 1–39.

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

Old Testament Essays, 36(2), 471–489. , 2023.

Storymaking, textual development, and varying cultic centralizations (Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe, 142).

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.

The (Ir)relevance of Biblical Scholarship? A Challenge, and an Opportunity.

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

Scriptura , 2021.

Atonement, Sacred Space and Ritual Time: The Chronicler as Reader of Priestly Pentateuchal Narrative

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

De Gruyter, 2021.

The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Well-Being, chapter "Meaningful Work and Human Flourishing: Communication Lessons from the Judeo-Christian Tradition"

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

Other author(s): Jon P. Radwan

Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020.

Can Theological Interpretation Soften the Protestant Problem of Old Testament Textual Plurality? Jeremiah as a Test Case

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

European Journal of Theology, 2020.

Technologising of Word and Sacrament: Deuteronomy 14:24–26 and Intermediation in Worship

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

European Journal of Theology, 2019.

Israel’s’ Only Son? The Complexity of Benjaminite Identity Between Judah and Joseph.

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

Old Testament Essays, 2019.

According to Which ‘Law of Moses’? Cult Centralization in Samuel, Kings and Chronicles.

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

Brill: Vetus Testamentum vol., vol. 67, pp. 432-447., 2017.

Special Forces’: A Stereotype of Benjaminite Soldiers in the Deuteronomistic History and Chronicles.

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 30 (1): 16–29. , 2016.

Sit at My Right Hand: The Chronicler’s Portrait of the Tribe of Benjamin in the Social Context of Yehud.

LCC author(s): Benjamin Giffone, Ph.D.

New York/London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark., 2016.

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