CURRICULUM VITAE
DOUGLAS R. A. HARE
Personal Data
Birth date and place: March 22, 1929, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Marital status: Married to Ruth Jean Mustard; two adult daughters
Education
1951 B.A., Victoria College, University of Toronto
(Honors Philosophy and English)
1954 B.D. (M.Div.), Emmanuel College, Victoria University, Toronto. Awarded Sanford Gold Medal in Divinity, and Travelling Fellowship.
1961 S.T.M., Union Theological Seminary, New York
1965 Th.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York
Academic Positions
1962-63 Teaching Fellow, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
1963-64 Director of Continuing Education, P.T.S.
1964-65 Instructor in New Testament, P.T.S.
1965-68 Assistant Professor of New Testament, P.T.S.
1968-74 Associate Professor of New Testament, P.T.S.
1974-93 Professor of New Testament, P.T.S.
1978 Installed as first incumbent of the William F. Orr Chair in New Testament
1993 Named William F. Orr Professor of New Testament Emeritus
Administrative Experience
Interim Dean of the Faculty, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, January 1979 to May, 1981
Coordinator of the cooperative Ph.D. program offered jointly by the seminary and the University of Pittsburgh (1988-91)
Past chair of most faculty committees
Ecclesiastical Relationship
1954 Ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Canada
1964 Received as a member of Pittsburgh Presbytery, Presbyterian Church U.S.A.
Status of Honorably Retired, May 1993
Professional Memberships
Catholic Biblical Association
Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society (past president; past executive secretary)
Society of Biblical Literature (former member of the Executive Board)
Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (chair, Seminar on Jewish Christianity, 1976-80)
Postgraduate Awards
1971 Grant from the Association of Theological Schools for sabbatical study in Heidelberg, Germany
Publications
1967 The Theme of Jewish Persecution of Christians in the Gospel According to St. Matthew. S.N.T.S. Monograph Series 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
"The Relationship Between Jewish and Gentile Persecution of Christians." Journal of Ecumenical Studies, vol. 4, pp. 446-56.
1969 Jewish Christianity by H. J. Schoeps; translated from the German by Douglas R. A. Hare. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.
1975 "'Make Disciples of All the Gentiles' (Matthew 28:19)," by Douglas R. A. Hare and Daniel J. Harrington. Catholic Biblical Quarterly, vol. 37, pp. 359-69.
1976 Review article: The Roots of Pagan Anti- Semitism by J. N. Sevenster; Antijudaismus im Johannesevangelium? by R. Leistner; Faith and Fratricide by Rosemary Ruether; published in Religious Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 15-22.
1979 "The Rejection of the Jews in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts," Antisemitism and the Foundations of Christianity ed. A. T. Davies, pp. 27-47. New York: Paulist Press.
1984 "The Quest of the Son of Man: A Progress Report." Proceedings published by the Eastern Great Lakes and the Midwest Biblical Societies, pp. 166-80.
1984 "The Gospel of Mark; The Letter of James," Adult Bible Studies and Leader, Cooperative Uniform Series, published jointly by the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and the United Church of Christ.
1985 "The Lives of the Prophets." Introduction, Translation and Notes. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha ed. James H. Charlesworth, vol. 2, pp. 379-99. Garden City: Doubleday.
1987 Chapters in a Life of Paul by John Knox; revised by the author and edited with an introduction by Douglas R. A. Hare. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.
"Studies in Matthew: The Call to Discipleship," Adult Bible Studies and Leader, Cooperative Uniform Series, published jointly by the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and the United Church of Christ.
"Studies in Matthew: The Call to Discipleship," The Presbyterian Outlook, Oct. 1987 to Feb. 1988 (19 articles).
1990 The Son of Man Tradition. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
"The Mountain Where Jesus Laid Down Rules for Them (Matt 28:16)." He Came Here and Loved Us: A Festschrift in Honor of Wm. F. Orr. ed. R. C. Curry, T. J. Kelso, C. S. Mave. Watsontown, PA: W. F. Orr Festschrift Foundation.
1992 "Prophets, Lives of the," Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. D. N. Freedman et al., vol. 5, pp. 502-503. New York: Doubleday.
1993 Matthew, in the series Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching. Louisville: John Knox Press.
"Flesh and Spirit" and "Regeneration," The Oxford Companion to the Bible ed. B. M. Metzger and M. D. Coogan, pp. 231, 645. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1996 Mark. Westminster Bible Companion. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
1998 Exegetical articles on Philemon 1-21, Luke 15:1-10, 1 Timothy 2:1-7, Luke 16:19-31, Lectionary Homiletics, September.
"W. D. Davies," Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters, ed. D. K. McKim, pp. 471-76. InterVarsity Press.
Forthcoming
"Lives of the Prophets," Dictionary of New Testament Background, InterVarsity Press.
"How Jewish Is the Gospel of Matthew?"
Accepted for publication in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly.
"The Separation of Christianity from Judaism up to 135 C.E. as Seen from the Jewish Side," by Steven T. Katz and Douglas R. A. Hare. Cambridge History of Judaism ed. W. D. Davies et al., vol. 3. Cambridge University Press.
Unpublished Papers
1954 "The Holy Spirit in the Primitive Church." B.D. thesis, Emmanuel College, Toronto.
1961 "Grace and Righteousness in the Old Testament." S.T.M. thesis, Union Theological Seminary, NY.
1966 "Were Jewish Christians Persecuted by Excommunication from the Synagogues?" Presented to the Society of Biblical Literature, December 29, in New York.
1968 "Matthew's Reflection of the Failure of the Mission to Israel." Presented to the Middle Atlantic Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, April 21, in New Brunswick NJ.
1971 "Gnosticism, Bultmann, and the Odes of Solomon." Presented to the Christian Origins Seminar, Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society, January 16.
1973 "Can the 'Son of Man' Problem Be Solved?" Presented to the Ph.D. Colloquium, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, October 5.
1974 "The Authority of Scripture and Hermeneutics in the Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament." Presented to the Ph.D. Colloquium, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (not dated).
1975 "What Does 'Son of Man' Mean to Luke?" Presented to the Society of Biblical Literature, October 30.
1976 "Jabneh and Jewish Christianity," by Douglas R. A. Hare and Phillip Sigal. Presented to the Matthew Seminar of the Catholic Biblical Association, August 25, in Pittsburgh.
"The Humanity of the Son of Man in the Fourth Gospel." Presented to the Society of Biblical Literature, October 30.
1978 "Was Islam Influenced by Jewish Christianity?" Presented to the Ph.D. Colloquium, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, May 12.
"Paul and Judaism." Presented at the inauguration of the Wm. F. Orr Chair in New Testament, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, November 29.
1982 "Ethics in Context: Toward an Ethical Hermeneutic of the Teaching of Jesus." Presented to the Seminar on Christian Ethics, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, August 25, in Leuven, Belgium.
1989 "The Function of 'the Son of Man' in Matthew." Presented to the Matthew Seminar, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, July 26, in Dublin, Ireland.
1994 "What Did Jesus Mean By the Phrase 'The Son of Man'?" Throckmorton Lecture, Bangor Theological Seminary, March 23.
1997 "How Jewish is the Gospel of Matthew?" Presented to the New England Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and Catholic Biblical Association, March 21, in Norton, MA.