Won Lee
- Dr. Won Lee
- Department Chair, Professor
- Religion, Asian Studies
- Hekman Library 381 (Map)
- (616) 526-6323
- won.lee@calvin.edu
Education
- Yonsei University, Korea, BA
- Princeton Theological Seminary, MDiv
- Claremont Graduate School, PhD
Research and scholarship
- Exegesis, theology and hermeneutics
- Currently working on a commentary on the book of Amos
Publications
"Translatability and Identity: A Korean Diasporic Exegesis on Jacob's Name Change" in Interconnectivity, Subversion, and Healing in World Christianity: Essays in Honor of Joel Carpenter, eds. Afe Adogame & Aminta Arrington (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 43-54.
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Korea (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Exploring the Mysteries of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Calvin Press, 2013)
“Korean Biblical Interpretation,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation, ed. Steven L. McKenzie (Oxford University Press, 2013), Vol. 1, 473-82
“Numbers” in The CEB Bible Study with Apocrypha (Nashville; Abingdon, 2013), 201-58
The Bible: A Library of Holy Writings (Seoul, Korea: Sallim, 2005)
Punishment and Forgiveness in Israel’s Migratory Campaign: The Macrostructure of Numbers 10:11-36:13 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003)
"The Conceptual Coherence in Numbers 5,1-10,10,” in The Books of Leviticus and Numbers, ed. Thomas Römer, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium CCXV (Leuven: Peeters, 2008) 473-89
"The Concept of the Wilderness in the Pentateuch,” in Israel in the Wilderness: Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions, ed. Kenneth E. Pomykala, (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008) 1-16
Professional associations
- Society of Biblical Literature
- The Society for Old Testament Study
- Korean Biblical Colloquium
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