James R. Adair, Jr. B.S., Hons.-B.A., M.Div., M.A., Ph.D. Senior Lecturer Department of Philosophy & Classics Phone: 210-363-8230 E-mail: james.adair@utsa.edu

Courses

• HUM 2093: World Religions
• HUM 3023: The Medieval World
• HUM 3143: Topics in Religious Studies
• HUM 3213: Christian Classics/Classics of Religious Literature
• HUM 3223: The Bible as Literature
• HUM 4953: Unorthodox Christianity

Publications

• "Life Under a Fickle Sun: Solar Images in the Hebrew Bible." Chapter in The Quiet Born from Talk: Festschrift for Wendy Barker, ed. Catherine Kasper. San Antonio: Creative Writing Program UTSA, 2015.
• "Fundamentals of the Faith," "Butterfly Collection," "Retirement," and other poems, short prose, and book and museum reviews published in Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine (2010-present).
• Introducing Christianity (London: Routledge, 2008).
• "Technology and the Transmission of the Biblical Text," SBL Forum (April 2004) [Also available in an extended version].
• "Creating and Maintaining a Premier Electronic Journal," Bible and Computer: The Stellenbosch AIBI-6 Conference. Proceedings of the Association Internationale Bible et Informatique "From Alpha to Byte." University of Stellenbosch 17-21 July, 2000. Leiden: Brill, 2002.
• "In Memoriam Dominique Barthélemy," Bulletin of the International Organization of Septuagint and Cognate Studies 34 (2001): 34-36.
• An Inductive Method for Reconstructing the Biblical Text Illustrated by an Analysis of 1 Samuel 3. Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages Supplement Series. (Stellenbosch: Department of Ancient Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2000).
• "Abdon," "Alalakh," "Codex Sinaiticus," "Hexapla," "Jesse," "Man of God," "Muratorian Fragment," "Nash Papyrus," "Oracle," "Sackcloth," "Uncial," Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000).
• "Light from Below: Canonical and Theological Implications of Textual Criticism," Old Testament Essays 11 (1998): 9-23.
• "TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism: A Model for Successful Electronic Publishing," Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 23 (1997): 235-242.
• "'Literal' and 'Free' Translations: A Proposal for a More Descriptive Terminology," Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 23 (1997): 143-171.
• "TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism: A Modern Experiment in Studying the Ancients," Journal of Electronic Publishing 3 (1997).
• "Old and New in Textual Criticism: Similarities, Differences, and Prospects for Cooperation," TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 1 (1996).
• "A Methodology for Using the Versions in the Textual Criticism of the Old Testament," Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 20 (1994): 111-142.

• Review of Latin@ Rising, by Matthew David Goodwin, ed., (San Antonio: Wings, 2017) Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature & Arts Magazine 10.1, 40.
• Review of Words on the Move, by John McWhorter (New York: Henry Holt, 2016) and Word by Word, by Kory Stamper (New York: Pantheon, 2017), Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature & Arts Magazine 10.1 (November 2017), 40.
• Review of Holy Literary License, by Robert Flynn (San Antonio: Wings, 2016), Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature & Arts Magazine 9.4 (August 2017), 40.
• Review of Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, by Edward O. Wilson (New York: Liveright, 2016), Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 9.2 (February 2017), 10.
• Review of Outcasts: A Novel of Mary Shelley, by Sarah Stegall (San Antonio: Wings, 2016), Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 9.1 (November 2016), 10.
• Review of The High Mountains of Portugal, by Yann Martel (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2016), Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 8.4 (August 2016), 11.
• Review of Thomas Jefferson’s Qurʾan: Islam and the Founders, by Denise A. Spellberg (New York: Random House, 2013), Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 8.3 (May 2016), 11.
• Review of The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution, by Ian Tattersall (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015), Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 8.2 (February 2016), 12.
• Review of Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee (New York: HarperCollins, 2015), Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 8.1 (October 2015), 11.
• Review of The Marchers: A Novel, by Mo H Saidi (San Antonio: Word Design Press, 2015), in Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 7.4 (July 2015), 10.
• Review of The Quiet Born from Talk: Festschrift for Wendy Barker, ed. Catherine Kasper (San Antonio: Creative Writing Program UTSA, 201, 10.
• Review of Death of a Texas Ranger: A True Story of Murder and Vengeance on the Texas Frontier, by Cynthia Leal Massey (Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2014), in Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 7.3 (April 2015), 10.
• Review of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan (New York: Random House, 2013), in Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 6.3 (April 2014), 13.
• Review of Inferno, by Dan Brown (New York: Doubleday, 2013), in Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 5.4 (July 2013).
• Review of Body & Bread, by Nan Cuba (Indianapolis: Engine Books, 2013), in Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 5.3 (April 2013).
• Review of 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism, by Ha-Joon Chang (New York: Bloomsbury, 2010), in Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 4.4 (October 2012).
• Review of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011), in Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 4.3 (April 2012): 11.
• "Lucy, Ardi, and the Rest of Our Family Tree," Review of Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction, by Bernard Wood (London: Oxford University Press, 2005); The First Human, by Ann Gibbons (New York: Doubleday, 2006); The Last Human, by G. J. Sawyer and Victor Deak, et al. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007); and From Lucy to Language, by Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar, rev. ed. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006); in Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 4.1 (October 2011): 8.
• Review of The Leningrad Codex: A Facsimile Edition, by David Noel Freedman, ed., et al., (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998; Leiden: Brill, 1998), in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 3 (1998).
• Review of A Text-Critical Study of the Epistle of Jude, by Charles Landon, JSNTS 135 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996), in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 2 (1997).
• Review of Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts, by Harry Y. Gamble (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995), in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 2 (1997).
• Review of New Testament Textual Criticism, Exegesis and Church History, ed. by B. Aland and J. Delobel (Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1994), in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 1 (1996).
• Review of Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, by Emanuel Tov (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992; Assen/Maastricht: Van Gorcum, 1992), in Critical Review of Books in Religion 8 (1995): 107-108.
• Review of Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions, by G. I. Davies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), in Biblical Archaeologist 57 (1994): 247.

• Executive Editor, Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine, 2012-present.
• Technical Editor, Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine, 2010-2012.
• Founder and Editor of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 1996-present.
• Editor of the Society of Biblical Literature Text-Critical Studies monograph series, 1997-2004.
• Co-Editor of "Offline" column, Religious Studies News, 1995-2000.
• Technical Editor of SELA Electronic Journals Project, 1995-1998.
• Managing Editor of TELA: The Scholars Press World Wide Web Site, 1994-1998.