Dr. Rindge joined the Religious Studies faculty in 2008, after teaching at Emory University, Candler School of Theology, and Columbia Theological Seminary. He has also taught in Chile, Argentina, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Italy.
He has twice been honored with a 91³Ô¹ÏÍø University Exemplary Faculty Award (2012, 2018).
Dr. Rindge is the author of Bible and Film: The Basics (Routledge, 2021), Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream (Baylor University Press, 2016), and Jesus’ Parable of the Rich Fool: Luke 12:13-34 among Ancient Conversations on Death and Possessions (SBL, 2011).
He has published over twenty-five articles, chapters, and essays on issues related to Bible and Film, New Testament, and the Hebrew Bible. His articles on religion, culture, and race have appeared in outlets such as The Washington Post.
Dr. Rindge received the Society of Biblical Literature’s Paul J. Achtemeier Award in New Testament Scholarship (2011), awarded to a scholar only once in their career. For six years he chaired SBL’s Bible and Film section, and he now serves on its steering committee.
For several years Dr. Rindge served on 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Sexual Assault Response Team.
Books
Bible and Film: The Basics. London: Routledge, 2021.
Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2016.
Reviews:
- The Journal of Popular Culture 50:4 (2017)
- The Bible & Critical Theory 13:1 (2017). http://novaojs.newcastle.edu.au/ojsbct/index.php/bct/article/view/683
- Review of Biblical Literature (February 16, 2017). https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11236
- Journal of Religion & Film 20:3 (2016). http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol20/iss3/34/
- Choice 54:1 (2016).
- Journal for Religion, Film, and Media 2:1 (2016): 121-23.
Jesus’ Parable of the Rich Fool: Luke 12:13–34 among Ancient Conversations on Death and Possessions. Early Christianity and Its Literature 6. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.
Reviews:
- Journal of Theological Studies 65:2 (2014): 686-89.
- Biblical Theological Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture 44:1 (2014): 57-58.
- Catholic Biblical Quarterly 75:4 (2013): 818-19.
- Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 89:4 (2013): 470-71.
- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 56:3 (2013): 624-28.
- Biblica 94:2 (2013): 309-312.
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Jan 27, 2013) http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013-01-56.html
- Review of Biblical Literature (Dec 21, 2012) http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/8342_9123.pdf
- Religious Studies Review 38:3 (Sep, 2012): 167.
- Review of Biblical Literature (Aug 2012) http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/8342_9122.pdf
- Journal for the Study of the New Testament 34.5 (2012): 53.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Failing (into) Meaning: Everything Everywhere All At Once and Qoheleth.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 78:3 (2024): 207-20.
“Redeeming Mary, Redeeming Jesus: Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ.” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 20 (2022): 1-9.
“The Rhetorical Power of Death and Possessions in Luke’s Gospel.” Review and Expositor 112:4 (2015): 555-72.
“Luke’s Artistic Parables: Narratives of Subversion, Imagination, and Transformation.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 68:4 (2014): 403-15.
“Reconfiguring the Akedah and Recasting God: Lament and Divine Abandonment in Mark.” Journal of Biblical Literature 131:4 (2012): 755-74.
“Mortality and Enjoyment: The Interplay of Death and Possessions in Qoheleth.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 73:2 (2011): 265-80.
“Jewish Identity under Foreign Rule: Daniel 2 as a Reconfiguration of Genesis 41.” Journal of Biblical Literature 129:1 (2010): 85-104.
“Teaching the Bible and Film: Pedagogical Promises, Pitfalls, and Proposals.” Teaching Theology and Religion 13:2 (2010): 140-55. With responses by Erin Runions and Richard S. Ascough.
Invited Journal Articles
“Mark’s Gospel, Social Outcasts, and Modern Slavery.” Journal of Lutheran Ethics 10:6 (June, 2010). http://downloads.elca.org/html/jle/www.elca.org/what-we-believe/social-issues/marks-gospel-social-outcasts-and-modern9f2341c0.htm
Chapters in Edited Books
“Protestant Pacifist: War and Pacifism in Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge.” Pages 306-18 in Protestants on Screen: Religion, Politics, and Aesthetics in European and American Movies. Edited by G. Espinosa, et al. Oxford University Press, 2023.
“Guillermo del Toro’s El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth): Subverting the Cinematic Jesus/Christ Figure.” Pages 237-47 in The T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film. Edited by Richard Walsh. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
“Cinematic Wisdom: Film and Biblical Wisdom Literature.” Pages 479-95 in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature. Edited by Sam Adams and Matthew Goff. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
“Lars von Trier’s Dogville as a Cinematic Parable.” Pages 260-69 in T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film. Edited by Richard Walsh. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
“Lusting after Lester’s Lolita: Perpetuating and Resisting the Male Gaze in American Beauty.” Pages 251-67 in Close Encounters between Bible and Film: An Interdisciplinary Engagement. Edited by Caroline Vander Stichele and Laura Copier. Semeia Studies 87. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2016.
“Revelatory Film: Apocalyptic Themes in Film and Cinematic Apocalypses.” Pages 337-58 in Apocalypses in Context: Apocalyptic Currents throughout History. Edited by Justin P. Jeffcoat Schedtler and Kelly J. Murphy. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016.
“Lament in Film and Film as Lament.” Pages 379-90 in The Bible in Motion: Biblical Reception in Film. Vol. 1. Edited by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
“Intertextual Wisdom: Luke 12:13-34 and the Sapiential Conversation on Death and Possessions.” Pages 148-70 in Searching the Scriptures: Studies in Context and Intertextuality. Edited by C. A. Evans and J. Johnston. Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity 19; Library of New Testament Studies 543. London: T & T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2015.
“Dead Man Walking (1995).” Pages 84-89 in Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films. Edited by Adele Reinhartz. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Essays in Edited Volumes/Reference Works
“Lament, Lamentation in Film.” Pages 712-14 in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 15: Kalam - Lectio Divina. Edited by Christine Helmer, et al. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.
“Hero/Heroes in Film.” Pages 910-13 in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 11: Halah-Hizquni. Edited by Hans-Josef Klauck, et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015.
“Hiddenness of God in Film.” Ibid. Pages 1036-38.
“The ‘Good’ Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37).” Bible Odyssey (Society of Biblical Literature). July 3, 2014. http://bibleodyssey/passages/main-articles/good-samaritan
“Mark 5:21-24a, 35-43 (Exegetical Perspective).” Pages 153-57 in Feasting on the Gospels: Mark. Edited by Cynthia A. Jarvis and E. Elizabeth Johnson. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014.
“Mark 5:24b-34 (Exegetical Perspective).” Ibid, 159-63.
“Romans 8:12-17 (Exegetical Perspective).” Pages 39-43 in Feasting on the Word. Lectionary Commentary Series, Year B, Volume III. Edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009.
“Romans 8:22-27 (Exegetical Perspective).” Ibid, 15-19.
“2 Corinthians 3:1-6 (Exegetical Perspective).” Ibid, 63-67.
Book Reviews
Review of Wisdom Commentary on Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), edited by Lisa Michele Wolfe. Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society 48:2 (2021): 547-49.
Review of John Kampen, Matthew within Sectarian Judaism (Yale University Press, 2019). Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society 47:2 (2020): 387-89.
Review of David B. Gowler, The Parables After Jesus: Their Imaginative Receptions across Two Millennia (Baker Academic). Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 73:1 (2019): 77-78.
Review of Maurice Casey, Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? (Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2014). Religious Studies Review 44:4 (2018): 469-70.
Review of Samuel Byrskog and Tobias Hägerland, The Mission of Jesus (WUNT 2.391; Mohr Siebeck, 2014). Religious Studies Review 44:2 (2018): 223.
Review of Timothy C. Gray, The Temple in the Gospel of Mark: A Study in Its Narrative Role (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2010). Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture 43:2 (2013): 110-11.
Review of François Bovon, L'évangile selon Saint Luc (19,28 - 24,53) (Commentaires du Nouveau Testament IIId. Genève: Labor et Fides, 2009). Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2010). http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-09-30.html 1,900 words.
