Samuel Giere, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Homiletics

S.D. Giere, A New Glimpse of Day One: Intertextuality, History of Interpretation, and Genesis 1.1-5 (BZNW 172; de Gruyter, 2009)

A New Glimpse of Day One: An Intertextual History of Genesis 1.1-5 in Hebrew and Greek Texts up to 200 CE. (PhD Thesis)

• Homiletics
• Hermeneutics
• History of the Interpretation of the Old Testament
• Dead Sea Scrolls
• Septuagint Studies
• Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

Samuel D Giere, a '97 alumnus, joined the Wartburg faculty in the summer of 2006. After serving as an associate pastor at Messiah Lutheran Church in Fargo, North Dakota, he studied at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews, completing a PhD in Old Testament in 2006. His postgraduate work was on the history of the interpretation of Day One (Genesis 1.1-5). He has also taught Summer Greek at Wartburg Seminary and as an adjunct member of the Religion Department at Concordia College, Moorhead, and served as interim pastor at Norman and Davenport Lutheran Churches, in southeast North Dakota.