Thomas H. Tobin, SJ, Ph.D.
| Thomas H. Tobin, SJ, Ph.D. | ||
|---|---|---|
 | Title: | Professor |
| Office: | Crown Center 305 | |
| Phone: | 773.508.2343 | |
| E-mail: | ttobin@luc.edu | |
Personal Information
Thomas H. Tobin, S.J. has a Litt.B. (classical languages and English literature) (1967) from Xavier University; a M.A. (theology)(1973) from Loyola University of Chicago; and a Ph.D.(New Testament and Christian Origins)(1980) from Harvard University. He also studied rabbinic literature for a year (1976-77) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He has been teaching at Loyola University of Chicago since 1980. He is the author of four books: The Creation of Man: Philo and the History of Interpretation; Timaios of Locri, On the Nature of the World and the Soul; The Spirituality of Paul; Paul's Rhetoric in Its Contexts: The Argument of Romans; and the editor of a fifth: Of Scribes and Scrolls: Essays in Honor of the Sixtieth Birthday of John Strugnell. He has also written a number of scholarly articles. His areas of interest are the letters of Paul, Hellenistic Judaism, Hellenistic philosophy, and Gnosticism. At present he is writing a two-volume commentary on Philo's treatises Legum Allegoriae 1-3. He has been a member of the editorial boards of The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, the Journal of Biblical Literature, and New Testament Studies. He was recently elected to the American Theological Society.
Specialties:
Paul, Philo, Hellenistic Judaism
Research Interests:
Letters of Paul, Hellenistic Judaism: Philo of Alexandria, Hellenistic Philosophy, Middle Platonism, Gnosticism
Recent Publications:
- "What Shall We Say That Abraham Found? The Controversy behind Romans 4," Harvard Theological Review 88:4 (1995) 437-52.
- "Philosophy," "Providence," in Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period, eds. Jacob Neusner and William Scott Green (New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996) 482-83, 506.
- "Philo and the Sibyl: Interpreting Philo's Eschatology" The Studia Philonica Annual 9 (1997) 84-103.
- "The Beginning of Philo's Legum Allegoriae," The Studia Philonica Annual 12 (2000) 29-43.
- "The Jewish Context of Rom 5:12-14," The Studia Philonica Annual 13 (2001), 159-75.
- Paul's Rhetoric in Its Contexts: The Argument of Romans (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2004).
- "The World of Thought in the Philippians Hymn (Philippians 2:6–11)" in The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune, ed. John Fotopoulos (Supplements to Novum Textamentum 122; Leiden: Brill, 2006) 91–104.
- "Wisdom of Solomon" and "4 Maccabees", revised introductions and commentaries for The HarperCollins Study Bible (revised edition; San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006), 1348-77, 1629-49.