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Doug Smith

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Online, Adjunct

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Biblical Studies, Adjunct

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Master of Divinity, Graduate Student

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, ThM, Alumnus

Columbia International University, Columbia Biblical Seminary, Adjunct

Independent Researcher, Bible, Faculty Member

Independent Scholar, Bible, Faculty Member

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PhD in Biblical Studies (Old Testament & Hebrew), Columbia International University. Supervisor/dissertation mentor: Dr. Benjamin J. Noonan; External readers: Dr. Steven W. Boyd and Dr. Peter J. Gentry

Associate Research Scholar, Cataclysm Chronology Research Group, Director, Dr. Steven W. Boyd

Member of Institute for Biblical Research, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Evangelical Theological Society, and Creation Theology Society

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Adjunct Professor, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Adjunct Professor, Graham Bible College, Bristol, Tennessee
Adjunct Professor, Virginia Highlands Community College, Abingdon, Virginia
Bible and Humanities Teacher, Cornerstone Christian Academy, Abingdon, Virginia

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Columbia International University (conferral date: 8/25/2023) -
Dissertation: "A Comparative Discourse Analysis of the Genesis Flood Account in the Hebrew Masoretic Text and the Greek Septuagint." Supervisor/dissertation mentor: Dr. Benjamin J. Noonan; external readers: Dr. Steven W. Boyd, Peter J. Gentry
Master of Theology (ThM), Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (2018) - Thesis: "The Literary Theme of Genesis 1-11." Supervisor: Dr. Trey Bechtold
Master of Divinity, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (2016)
Master of Theological Studies, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (2016)
Master of Church Music, Pensacola Theological Seminary (2003)
BA, History, King College (1999)
Supervisors: Dr. Benjamin J. Noonan

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Book Reviews by Doug Smith

Book Review: Elementary Biblical Hebrew by Chet Roden

Hebrew Higher Education, 2024

Book review of Chet Roden, Elementary Biblical Hebrew: An Introduction to the Language and Its Hi... more

Book Review: The Septuagint: What It Is and Why It Matters

Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal, 2022

Book review of Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross, What the Septuagint Is and Why It Matters (... more

Book Review: The Basics of Hebrew Accents by Mark D. Futato, Sr.

Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies, 2021

Book Review of Mark D. Futato, Sr., The Basics of Hebrew Accents (Zondervan, 2020). Published in... more

Book Review: The Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents by Sung Jin Park

Journal of Language, Culture, and Religion, 2021

Review of Sung Jin Park, The Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents: Divisions and Exegetical Roles beyon... more

Book Review: Basics of Hebrew Discourse

Interdisciplinary Journal on Biblical Authority, 2020

This book review was published in the Interdisciplinary Journal on Biblical Authority 1, no. 1 (S... more This book review was published in the Interdisciplinary Journal on Biblical Authority 1, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 90-92. Copyright 2020 Calvary University Press.

Patton, Matthew H., and Frederick Clarke Putman. Basics of Hebrew Discourse: A Guide to Working with Hebrew Prose and Poetry. Edited by Miles V. Van Pelt. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2019. 288 pp. $29.99. Softcover. ISBN 9780310535768.

Book Review: Learning Biblical Hebrew by Karl Kutz and Rebekah Josberger

Journal of Language, Culture, and Religion, 2020

Book Review: Karl Kutz and Rebekah Josberger, Learning Biblical Hebrew (Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2... more

Book Review: Teaching the World

Midwestern Journal of Theology, 2019

Book review of Cartwright, Etzel, Jackson, and Jones, Teaching the World: Foundations for Online ... more

Book Review: Foundations of the Gospel - A Believer's Commentary on Genesis 1-3

Midwestern Journal of Theology, 2019

Book review of K. S. Gangar, Foundations of the Gospel: A Believer's Commentary on Genesis 1-3 (R... more

Book Review - God's Ambassadors by Chad Van Dixhoorn

Midwestern Journal of Theology, 2018

God's Ambassadors: The Westminster Assembly and the Reformation of the English Pulpit, 1643-1653.... more

Book Review - The Christ-Centered Expositor by Tony Merida

Midwestern Journal of Theology, 2017

The Christ-Centered Expositor by Tony Merida (B&H, 2016). Reviewed by Douglas Smith. Midweste... more

Teaching Documents by Doug Smith

Online Tool for Structuring Biblical Hebrew Text according to the Masoretic Accents Incorporated into Charles Loder's Hebrew Transliteration Site

A tutorial for using the "Structure" function at Charles Loder's Hebrew Transliteration site, heb... more

Table of Hebrew Accents: The Twenty-One and The Three

Two Files - click on "2 files" to choose to download each. THE TABULA ACCENTUUM from Biblia Hebra... more

Jonah Hebrew Reader with Colored Masoretic Accents

The Hebrew text of the book of Jonah formatted for reading fluency, with red disjunctive and gree... more

Syllabus: Hebrew II

Further study of the fundamentals of the Hebrew language with particular emphasis on its use in t... more

Syllabus: Hebrew I

Introductory Hebrew I Course Description: A study of the fundamentals of the Hebrew language wit... more

Syllabus: Biblical Interpretation

Spring 2018 Syllabus Course Description Though a variety of interpretive approaches are presente... more

Conference Presentations by Doug Smith

Plants as Instruments of Blessing and Curse in the Primeval History

Journal of Creation Theology and Science Series B: Life Sciences, 2020

Creation Biology Society Annual Conference Abstracts 2020 Journal of Creation Theology and Scien... more

Genesis 1:1 According to the Masoretic Text

Journal of Creation Theology and Science Series B: Life Sciences, 2019

Creation Biology Society Annual Conference Abstracts 2019 Journal of Creation Theology and Scien... more

Papers by Doug Smith

TEACHING WITH THE TE'AMIM: HOW THE MASORETIC ACCENTS CAN FOSTER FLUENCY FOR READING BIBLICAL HEBREW

Hebrew Higher Education, 2023

Engagement with the masoretic accents can improve reading skills in Biblical Hebrew students of a... more Engagement with the masoretic accents can improve reading skills in Biblical Hebrew students of all levels. The accents, also known as cantillation marks or ta'amey ha-mikra, usually fall on stressed syllables and group words together into prosodic units that frequently coincide with syntactic structures. These functions make them particularly useful as helps for pronunciation and phrasing. Although some Hebrew courses present the accents as an advanced topic, if at all, this presentation will encourage early and regular engagement with the te'amim and share practical suggestions for simplifying and applying them, in order to foster fluency and provide a foundation for better comprehension in students. The study of the accents can be simplified in several ways to avoid overwhelming students: providing a basic overview of the accents and their functions in "the Twenty-One" and "the Three" books, requiring mastery of only the most common disjunctive and conjunctive accents, and equipping students with a complete reference for all of the accents. In addition to a basic working knowledge of the accents, students also need to apply that knowledge. First, instructors may mark accents with colors (or other visual cues) to help students see the phrasing and flow of a verse or passage. Second, instructors may follow the accentual structure to produce formatted reading passages for individual or class reading exercises. Third, instructors may require students to indicate their understanding through marking or formatting a passage for themselves and by reading aloud an unformatted, unmarked passage according to their understanding of the accents.

http://naphhebrew.org/publication/hebrew-higher-education
https://naphhebrew.org/hhe-25-2023

Douglas K. Smith, Jr., "Teaching with the Te'amim: How the Masoretic Accents Can Foster Fluency for Reading Biblical Hebrew," Hebrew Higher Education 25: 75-109.

“Genre and Geology: Meaning and Mechanism in Genesis 7:11b” by Steven W. Boyd and Douglas K. Smith, Jr.

Journal of the Creation Theology Society, 2022

ABSTRACT: In keeping with the purpose statement of the Creation Theology Society, to undergird an... more ABSTRACT: In keeping with the purpose statement of the Creation Theology Society, to undergird and initiate research in the hard sciences, and to prosecute such in an interdisciplinary way, data on the relative frequency of paired clause lengths and symmetry in these pairs were amassed to help discern whether Genesis 7:11b is narrative prose or metaphorical poetry—not only by considering biblical Hebrew prosody, but also by employing tools and insights from the fields of mathematics, statistics, linguistics, philosophy, literature, and computer science; not extrapolating data from random samples and on subjective grounds, but pursuing a parametric analysis of the entire Hebrew Bible—and thus furnishing the hermeneutical constraints of this half-verse so that geologists and geophysicists can accurately model the Flood-originating mechanisms—showing that 3-D plots of the relative frequency of paired clause lengths have distinctly different visual signatures, indicating that clause length and symmetry in pairs are significant (although not the sole) determiners of genre. Furthermore, clause lengths in the range [3, 5] for the most part accurately classify books by genre. But the ratio of clause lengths in pairs is a much stronger classifier and locates Genesis 7:11b with the other poetical passages in the Hebrew Bible.

Book Review: Elementary Biblical Hebrew by Chet Roden

Hebrew Higher Education, 2024

Book review of Chet Roden, Elementary Biblical Hebrew: An Introduction to the Language and Its Hi... more

Book Review: The Septuagint: What It Is and Why It Matters

Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal, 2022

Book review of Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross, What the Septuagint Is and Why It Matters (... more

Book Review: The Basics of Hebrew Accents by Mark D. Futato, Sr.

Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies, 2021

Book Review of Mark D. Futato, Sr., The Basics of Hebrew Accents (Zondervan, 2020). Published in... more

Book Review: The Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents by Sung Jin Park

Journal of Language, Culture, and Religion, 2021

Review of Sung Jin Park, The Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents: Divisions and Exegetical Roles beyon... more

Book Review: Basics of Hebrew Discourse

Interdisciplinary Journal on Biblical Authority, 2020

This book review was published in the Interdisciplinary Journal on Biblical Authority 1, no. 1 (S... more This book review was published in the Interdisciplinary Journal on Biblical Authority 1, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 90-92. Copyright 2020 Calvary University Press.

Patton, Matthew H., and Frederick Clarke Putman. Basics of Hebrew Discourse: A Guide to Working with Hebrew Prose and Poetry. Edited by Miles V. Van Pelt. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2019. 288 pp. $29.99. Softcover. ISBN 9780310535768.

Book Review: Learning Biblical Hebrew by Karl Kutz and Rebekah Josberger

Journal of Language, Culture, and Religion, 2020

Book Review: Karl Kutz and Rebekah Josberger, Learning Biblical Hebrew (Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2... more

Book Review: Teaching the World

Midwestern Journal of Theology, 2019

Book review of Cartwright, Etzel, Jackson, and Jones, Teaching the World: Foundations for Online ... more

Book Review: Foundations of the Gospel - A Believer's Commentary on Genesis 1-3

Midwestern Journal of Theology, 2019

Book review of K. S. Gangar, Foundations of the Gospel: A Believer's Commentary on Genesis 1-3 (R... more

Book Review - God's Ambassadors by Chad Van Dixhoorn

Midwestern Journal of Theology, 2018

God's Ambassadors: The Westminster Assembly and the Reformation of the English Pulpit, 1643-1653.... more

Book Review - The Christ-Centered Expositor by Tony Merida

Midwestern Journal of Theology, 2017

The Christ-Centered Expositor by Tony Merida (B&H, 2016). Reviewed by Douglas Smith. Midweste... more

Online Tool for Structuring Biblical Hebrew Text according to the Masoretic Accents Incorporated into Charles Loder's Hebrew Transliteration Site

A tutorial for using the "Structure" function at Charles Loder's Hebrew Transliteration site, heb... more

Table of Hebrew Accents: The Twenty-One and The Three

Two Files - click on "2 files" to choose to download each. THE TABULA ACCENTUUM from Biblia Hebra... more

Jonah Hebrew Reader with Colored Masoretic Accents

The Hebrew text of the book of Jonah formatted for reading fluency, with red disjunctive and gree... more

Syllabus: Hebrew II

Further study of the fundamentals of the Hebrew language with particular emphasis on its use in t... more

Syllabus: Hebrew I

Introductory Hebrew I Course Description: A study of the fundamentals of the Hebrew language wit... more

Syllabus: Biblical Interpretation

Spring 2018 Syllabus Course Description Though a variety of interpretive approaches are presente... more

Plants as Instruments of Blessing and Curse in the Primeval History

Journal of Creation Theology and Science Series B: Life Sciences, 2020

Creation Biology Society Annual Conference Abstracts 2020 Journal of Creation Theology and Scien... more

Genesis 1:1 According to the Masoretic Text

Journal of Creation Theology and Science Series B: Life Sciences, 2019

Creation Biology Society Annual Conference Abstracts 2019 Journal of Creation Theology and Scien... more

TEACHING WITH THE TE'AMIM: HOW THE MASORETIC ACCENTS CAN FOSTER FLUENCY FOR READING BIBLICAL HEBREW

Hebrew Higher Education, 2023

Engagement with the masoretic accents can improve reading skills in Biblical Hebrew students of a... more Engagement with the masoretic accents can improve reading skills in Biblical Hebrew students of all levels. The accents, also known as cantillation marks or ta'amey ha-mikra, usually fall on stressed syllables and group words together into prosodic units that frequently coincide with syntactic structures. These functions make them particularly useful as helps for pronunciation and phrasing. Although some Hebrew courses present the accents as an advanced topic, if at all, this presentation will encourage early and regular engagement with the te'amim and share practical suggestions for simplifying and applying them, in order to foster fluency and provide a foundation for better comprehension in students. The study of the accents can be simplified in several ways to avoid overwhelming students: providing a basic overview of the accents and their functions in "the Twenty-One" and "the Three" books, requiring mastery of only the most common disjunctive and conjunctive accents, and equipping students with a complete reference for all of the accents. In addition to a basic working knowledge of the accents, students also need to apply that knowledge. First, instructors may mark accents with colors (or other visual cues) to help students see the phrasing and flow of a verse or passage. Second, instructors may follow the accentual structure to produce formatted reading passages for individual or class reading exercises. Third, instructors may require students to indicate their understanding through marking or formatting a passage for themselves and by reading aloud an unformatted, unmarked passage according to their understanding of the accents.

http://naphhebrew.org/publication/hebrew-higher-education
https://naphhebrew.org/hhe-25-2023

Douglas K. Smith, Jr., "Teaching with the Te'amim: How the Masoretic Accents Can Foster Fluency for Reading Biblical Hebrew," Hebrew Higher Education 25: 75-109.

“Genre and Geology: Meaning and Mechanism in Genesis 7:11b” by Steven W. Boyd and Douglas K. Smith, Jr.

Journal of the Creation Theology Society, 2022

ABSTRACT: In keeping with the purpose statement of the Creation Theology Society, to undergird an... more ABSTRACT: In keeping with the purpose statement of the Creation Theology Society, to undergird and initiate research in the hard sciences, and to prosecute such in an interdisciplinary way, data on the relative frequency of paired clause lengths and symmetry in these pairs were amassed to help discern whether Genesis 7:11b is narrative prose or metaphorical poetry—not only by considering biblical Hebrew prosody, but also by employing tools and insights from the fields of mathematics, statistics, linguistics, philosophy, literature, and computer science; not extrapolating data from random samples and on subjective grounds, but pursuing a parametric analysis of the entire Hebrew Bible—and thus furnishing the hermeneutical constraints of this half-verse so that geologists and geophysicists can accurately model the Flood-originating mechanisms—showing that 3-D plots of the relative frequency of paired clause lengths have distinctly different visual signatures, indicating that clause length and symmetry in pairs are significant (although not the sole) determiners of genre. Furthermore, clause lengths in the range [3, 5] for the most part accurately classify books by genre. But the ratio of clause lengths in pairs is a much stronger classifier and locates Genesis 7:11b with the other poetical passages in the Hebrew Bible.

TECHNOLOGY IN THE BIBLICAL HEBREW CLASSROOM: AN EVALUATION OF TOOLS FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS

Hebrew Higher Education, 2022

In the last several years, numerous technological resources for learning Biblical Hebrew have eme... more In the last several years, numerous technological resources for learning Biblical Hebrew have emerged. These resources include digital books, audiovisual recordings, computer programs, mobile applications, online video channels, interactive textbooks, and online courses. Among these tools are options for supporting grammar-translation methods, communicative approaches, or blended pedagogy. The sheer number of such resources available calls for careful selection based on their ability to help meet course objectives and student needs without introducing unnecessary complications. This article highlights a sampling of recent technology resources for Biblical Hebrew instruction. The article concludes with suggestions for further research on the effective use of technology for Biblical Hebrew instruction, as well as considerations for expanding or improving digital tools for first-year learners.

All articles in journal: http://naphhebrew.org/hhe-24-2022
Direct link to this article: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxxohsdnksywykp/HHE%2024%20-%20Smith%20-%20Article.pdf?dl=0

Whom, Where, or What Could "All the Earth" Mean? A Case Study in the Implications of Context and Intertextuality for Translating and Interpreting Kol Ha-Aretz (כל הארץ) in the Pentateuch

Interdisciplinary Journal on Biblical Authority, 2020

The Hebrew phrase כל הארץ can refer to physical location or to people. Its referential meaning, i... more The Hebrew phrase כל הארץ can refer to physical location or to people. Its referential meaning, including its extent, can often be readily determined from the immediate context in which it is found as well as through intertextuality. This study focuses on the thirty uses of כל הארץ in the Pentateuch to demonstrate careful reading and hermeneutics based on the primacy and sufficiency of Scripture. The study demonstrates that preceding prepositions and allusions to earlier passages usually suffice to narrow the interpreter’s options.

Interdisciplinary Journal on Biblical Authority 2/2 (Fall 2020) 135–153

Psalm 23 Project for Hebrew Intensive III

Psalm 23 is a beautiful, poetic masterpiece that exhibits regular meter, several instances of cle... more Psalm 23 is a beautiful, poetic masterpiece that exhibits regular meter, several instances of clear parallelism, and iconic enforcement to primarily portray a shepherd-king whose provision, presence, and protection encourage the author.

This is an assignment submitted to Dr. Steven W. Boyd, my Hebrew Intensive III instructor (PhD class).