Biography
Dr. John J. Pilch was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated in the mid-West (Wisconsin and Illinois)earning his PhD from Marquette University in 1972. Leading study tours to the Middle East provided first hand experience of that culture and its values. He was assistant clinical professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin for fourteen years(1974-1988)focusing on medical anthropology as it helps to appreciate healing in the modern and ancient world. He then taught the Cultural World of the Bible for eighteen years at Georgetown University, Washington DC (1993-2011). He currently lectures in the Odyssey Program at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. All his audiences have appreciated the fresh light that Middle Eastern culture and values shed on ancient literature from that part of the world. His publications on the Middle Eastern cultural world of the Bible and on healing in the ancient world are well known in the US and abroad.
Books by John J. Pilch
Exploring Biblical Kinship
Cultural Life Setting of the Proverbs
Handbook of Biblical Social Values, Third Edition
A Cultural Handbook to the Bible
Cultural Handbook to the Bible
Cultural Handbook to the Bible
Flights of the soul
Flights of the soul
Introducing the Cultural Context of the Old Testament (Hear the Word! (Wipf & Stock))
The Cultural World of the Prophets: The First Reading and Responsorial Psalm
Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles
The cultural world of the apostles
The Cultural World of the Apostles: The Second Reading, Sunday by Sunday Year B (Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday)
The cultural world of the prophets
The Cultural World of the Prophets: The First Reading and Responsorial Psalm, Sunday by Sunday: Year B (Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday)
Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible
Choosing a Bible Translation
Healing in the New Testament
The Triduum and Easter Sunday
The cultural dictionary of the Bible
The Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday, Cycle C. (Bestseller! the Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday)
The Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday, Cycle B (Bestseller! the Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday)
The cultural world of Jesus
Biblical social values and their meaning
Introducing the cultural context of the New Testament
Introducing the cultural context of the Old Testament
Selecting a Bible translation
Wellness spirituality
Wellness, your invitation to full life
What are they saying about the Book of Revelation?
Facts about the International Typographical Union