A. K. M. Adam

Adam in 2007 in New York, United States

A. K. M. Adam (born September 10, 1957, Boston, Massachusetts) is a Biblical scholar, theologian, author, priest, technologist and blogger. He is Tutor in New Testament and Greek at St. Stephen's House at Oxford University. He is a writer, speaker, voice-over artist, and activist who simultaneously engages the worlds of theology and technology on topics including postmodern philosophy, hermeneutics, education, and collaborative discovery of truth and meaning. He is married to Dr. Margaret B. Adam.

Biography

Adam received a bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College (1979) majoring in philosophy. He earned an M.Div. (1986) and S.T.M. (1987) from Yale Divinity School and was ordained as an Episcopal priest. He received a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University in 1991, where he developed his thesis, "New Testament Theology and the Problem of Modernity" under Dan O. Via. After receiving his doctorate from Duke, he went to become Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College from 1991 to 1994. He was appointed Assistant Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he taught for 5 years (1994–1999). From 1999-2008, Adam was Professor of New Testament at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.

At the end of his time at Seabury Adam completed a one-year appointment as Visiting Professor at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In 2009 he moved to Glasgow, Scotland, joining the staff of the University of Glasgow as lecturer in New Testament Studies in September 2009;^[1] beginning in Michaelmas 2013, he joined the staff of St Stephen's House, Oxford, as Tutor in New Testament.^[2]

Throughout his academic career, Adam has also served the Episcopal Church as a priest, including the Parish of St. Luke's in Evanston, Illinois, and St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow.^[3]

Projects and presentations

Adam in 2008 in Linz, Austria

He has also invested much energy into technology and web based projects including co-founding the Disseminary, and stirring up many discussions on his personal blog. At the Conference on Theology and Pedagogy, hosted at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in 2001, he presented “The Disseminary: What Theological Educators Need to Learn from Napster.”^[4] In October 2003, he presented at BloggerCon on the topics of “Weblogs and Education,” and “Weblogs and Spirituality,”^[5] In an interesting exploration of shared text, he encouraged the blogosphere to demonstrate the power of Creative Commons licences by recording chapters of Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture". At Ars Electronica 2008 he presented "The Obscure Convergence of Theological Publishing and Technological Innovation".^[6]

Published works

Adam is a widely published author whose books, articles, sermons and multi-media projects have contributed to the fields of theology, hermeneutics, technology, philosophy, truth and meaning, Biblical interpretation, community, digital identity, digital rights, and collaborative spaces in education. His books to date have primarily been concerned with the postmodern implications of understanding and processing the text and meaning of the New Testament. They include:

• Making Sense of New Testament Theology (Mercer Univ. Press, 1995). ISBN 978-1-59752-041-6
• What Is Postmodern Biblical Criticism? (Fortress Press, 1995). ISBN 978-0-8006-2879-6
• Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation, ed. (Chalice Press, 2000). ISBN 978-0-8272-2971-6
• Flesh and Bones: Sermons (Wipf and Stock, 2001). ISBN 978-1-57910-767-3
• Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible (Chalice Press, 2001). ISBN 978-0-8272-2970-9
• Faithful Interpretation (Fortress, 2006). ISBN 978-0-8006-3787-3
• Reading Scripture With the Church, ed. with Stephen Fowl, Francis Watson, and Kevin Vanhoozer (Baker Academic, 2006). ISBN 978-0-8010-3173-1
• James: A Handbook on the Greek Text. (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013). ISBN 978-1602587595.
• Looking Through a Glass Bible: Postdisciplinary Biblical Interpretations from the Glasgow School, ed. with Samuel Tongue. (Leiden: Brill, 2014). ISBN 978-9004259072

His articles include:

• “Of the Jews, To the Gentiles: A New Generation in Pauline Studies,” Anglican Theological Review 77 (1995), 232-238.
• “Practicing the Disseminary: Technology Lessons from Napster,” Teaching Theology and Religion 5/1 (2002) 10-16.
• “Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and Theological Education: What Has Vincennes to Do With Athens or Jerusalem?”, in To Teach, To Delight, and to Move: Integrating Theological Education, ed. David S. Cunningham (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2005), 61-82.
• “Integral and Differential Hermeneutics,” The Meanings We Choose, ed. Charles Cosgrove (New York: T & T Clark, 2004), 24-38.
• "The Way Out of No Way: Modern Impediments to Postmodern Discipleship," Word & World 27/3 (2007) 257-264.
• "Should We Be Teaching the Historical-Critical Method?" Teaching Theology & Religion 12/2 (2009) 162-187.
• "'What These Cryptic Symbols Mean': Quotation, Allusion, and John Darnielle's Biblical Interpretation," Biblical Interpretation 19/2 (2011) 109-128.
• "Information Technology," Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, Joel Green, Jacqueline Lapsley, Rebekah Miles, and Allen Verhey, eds. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012) 407-409.
• "The Question Concerning Technology and Religion," Journal of Lutheran Ethics, November 2012 <http://www.elca.org/JLE/Articles/121?_ga=1.40088034.1533533016.1428953932>
• "Metanarrative," "Discipleship" (with Margaret B. Adam) and "Sexuality" (with Margaret B. Adam), in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics, ed. Robert Brawley et al. Oxford University Press, 2015.

References

1. "Glasgow University :: Theology & Religious Studies :: Dr Adam". Retrieved 30 January 2010.
2. "St Stephen's House, Oxford > About Us > Tutorial Fellows". Retrieved 17 May 2015.
3. "St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow - Preaching".
4. Disseminary: About
5. Heath Row's Media Diet
6. Ars Electronica 2008: A New Cultural Economy

External links

• http://beautifultheology.blogspot.com/
• http://disseminary.org/
• http://akma.disseminary.org/
• https://secure.flickr.com/photos/akma/
• http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/theology/staff/dradam/#d.en.132055
• http://www.thewitness.org/printArticle.php?id=101
• http://ecole.evansville.edu/contrib.html#AKMAdam
• http://h3athrow.blogspot.com/2003/10/bloggercon-2003-viii.html