Pacific School of Religion
Associate Professor of Old Testament
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1991

Ph.D., Emory University, 1994
M.T.S., Southern Methodist University, 1986
B.Th., Trinity Theological College, Singapore, 1980

Phone: 510/849-8205
E-mail: kjkuan@psr.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Israelite and Judean History in the First Temple Period
• Ancient Near Eastern History in the First Millenium BCE
• History of Biblical Interpretation in Asia
• Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics
• Cultural Hermeneutics
• The Book of Joshua

Selected Publications

• "Reading Amy Tan Reading Job," in Relating to the Text: Interdisciplinary and Form Critical Insights on the Bible in Honour of Martin J. Buss, ed. T. J. Sandoval and C. Mandolfo (forthcoming).
• "Samsi-ilu and the Realpolitik of Israel and Aram-Damascus in the Eighth Century BCE," in The Land that I Will Show You: Essays on the History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honour of J. Maxwell Miller, ed. J. A. Dearman and M. P. Graham (JSOTSup 343; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) 135-­51.
• "Diasporic Reading of a Diasporic Text: Identity Politics and Race Relations and the Book of Esther," in Interpreting Beyond Borders, ed. F. F. Segovia (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000) 161-­73
• "Jehu," "Ahaz," "Tiglath-pileser," "Sennacherib," and "Shalmaneser," Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, ed. David N. Freedman, Astrid B. Beck, and Allen C. Myers (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000).
• "Asian Biblical Interpretation," "Spencer, John," in Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. John H. Hayes (Nashville: Abingdon, 1999).
• Neo-Assyrian Historical Inscriptions and Syria-Palestine: Israelite/Judean-Tyrian-Damascene Political and Commercial Relations in the Ninth­Eighth Centuries BCE (JDDS 1; Hong Kong: Alliance Bible Seminary, 1995).