Dr. Earl Kellett

Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Research, Professor of Christian Studies, and SACSCOC Liaison

706-233-7472
ekellett@shorter.edu ST 208-B

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Education

• Ph.D. 2007 New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
• Th.M. 2003 New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
• Non-degree 1999-2000 University of Georgia
• M.Div. 1999 New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
• B.A. 1995 New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

Work Experience

• Shorter University (2006-Present)
  • Associate Professor (2015 -Present)
  • Chair Christian Studies Department (2012-Present)
  • Chair QEP Taskforce (2013-Present)
  • Chair Curriculum Committee (2015-)
  • Assistant Professor Christian Studies (2011-2015)
  • Adjunct 2006-2011 Maintained full-time teaching load during Academic Years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011
• New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (1999-2011)
  • Adjunct Instructor (2001-2011)
  • Project Coordinator and Research Assistant at the H. Milton Haggard Center for New Testament Textual Studies (1999-2009)
  • Ph.D. Assistant to Dr. William F. Warren (1999-2002)
• Georgia Highlands College Tutorial Center (2009-2011)

Publications

• 2000, 2004, 2010
  Project Coordinator and contributor, The Center for New Testament Textual Studies: New Testament Critical Apparatus. Accordance Bible Software.
• 2009
  Co-Authored with Richard Bray, Religious Studies: Canon Internet Course (Spring 2009).

Articles

• 2014
  Articles submitted for publication in the Lexham Bible Dictionary
  • Herod’s Temple
  • Pottery
  • Textiles
  • Semitic Ostraca
  • Flora
  • Khirbet Susiya

Book Reviews

• Allen Verhey and Joseph S. Harvard, Ephesians in the Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible series (Jan 2013).
• Blomberg, Craig L. Christians in an Age of Wealth: A Biblical Theology of Stewardship. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. (pending publication)
• Francisco Lozada, Jr. and Greg Carey, eds. Soundings in Cultural Criticism: Perspectives and Methods in Culture, Power, and Identity in the New Testament (May 2014)
• Leland Ryken, The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence In Bible Translation. Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry (Spr 2004): 135-36.

Research Experience

• International Greek New Testament Project the Gospel of John
  (1997-2002)
• Project Coordinator and Research Assistant Center for the H. Milton Haggard Center for New Testament Textual Studies
  (1999-2009)

Teaching Experience

• Adjunct New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; and Birmingham, Alabama (2003-2011)
• Project Coordinator and Research Assistant Center for the H. Milton Haggard Center for New Testament Textual Studies (1999-2009)
• Shorter University – adjunct 2006-2011, full-time 2011-present (2006-Present)
• Georgia Highlands Tutorial Center 2009-2011

Presentations

• “When the Church Read the Bible: Liturgical and Lectionary Influences on the Text of the New Testament” presented at the national meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta, Georgia
  Nov. 2003
• “Lectionary Influences on the Text of the New Testament” presented at the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Toronto Canada
  Nov. 2002
• “Let the Scribe Understand: The Influence of the Lectionary Cycle on the Text of the Gospels” at the Southwest regional meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Dallas
  March 2000

Affiliations/Memberships

• Theta Alpha Kappa Honors Society (2013-Present)
• Society of Biblical Literature (1999-Present)
• Evangelical Theological Society (1999-Present)
• American Academy of Religion (2002)