Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley: Jean-François Racine, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of New Testament
B.Th., M. A. Universite Laval; Ph.D in Theological/Biblical Studies - New Testament, University of St. Michael's College

Phone: (510) 549-5030
Email:
Office hours: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Download a syllabus for the following courses:
NT 2523: Paul's Letters-Context & Theology
NT 2530: Methods: Study Of The Synoptics
BS 2008: Intermediate Greek I
NT 2247: Contextual Reading of Luke
NT 4494: Luke-Acts

From 1996 to 2002, Dr. Racine taught at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi where he has been on the faculty of the Religion and Ethics Department.

As Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Jesuit School, Dr. Racine teaches courses such as Paul's Letters - Context and Theology, and Luke - Acts, Synoptic Gospels, and the Apostolic Fathers.

Dr Racine's area of research is New Testament - textual criticism. He is also interested in narrative criticism, postcolonialism, cinema and hermeneutics.

Sample Publications

"L'hybridité des personnages: une stratégie d'inclusion des gentils dans les Actes des Apôtres," in La Bible en récits 2. Eds. André Wénin and Camille Focant. Bibliotheca Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, no. 191. Leuven: Peeters - University Press, 2005, 559-566. Forthcoming.
The Text of Matthew in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea. The New Testament in the Greek Fathers, no. 5; Atlanta/Boston: Society of Biblical Literature/Brill Academic Publishers, 2004.