| Tim graduated from Cedarville University in 1973 (B.A.), Northwest Baptist Seminary in 1976 (M.Div, magna cum laude) and in 1980 (Th.M., magna cum laude). He is one of the overseers at Beit Hallel, a synagogue community in Tacoma, WA. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, and the Society of Biblical Literature, and has contributed papers at the annual meetings of both societies. He has taught as an adjunct professor at several local seminaries in Tacoma, WA and was a regular contributor to messiah magazine (First Fruits of Zion). He is the author of The Letter Writer: Paul's Background and Torah Perspective (FFOZ, 2002), FellowHeirs (FFOZ, 2003), the Four Part Series It is Often Said (FFOZ 2002-2006), and Paul's Epistle to the Romans, vol. 1 (TR, 2005) and Vol 2 (TR, 2007), and editor of Tehillot HaMashiach, a Messianic Erev Shabbat and Shabbat Morning Service Siddur (TR, 2008). He is married to Paulette, and has four children and three grandchildren. | |
 Rob Vanhoff |
Rob graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington in 2003 with a B.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and a minor in Music. In addition to concentrating on the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation in Jewish and Christian traditions, he studied the Hebrew (Biblical, Rabbinic, Modern), Aramaic (Biblical, Targumic, Syriac), Greek, and Akkadian languages. Rob received of a number of scholarships, including the Sandler/Shurman Scholarship in Jewish Studies and a Mary Gates Fellowship which funded a year of research on inscriptions from ancient Israel. In 2005 he completed a M.A. in Comparative Religion, for which he held several Teaching Assistantships for Introduction to the New Testament, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, and Biblical Hebrew. He has taught many courses for a large Reform Jewish community, including Rabbinic Hebrew, Stories of the Rabbis, Women in the Bible, and World Religions. Rob was invited to UCLA to deliver a paper highlighting aspects of his work on the rabbinic exegesis of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). He is also a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and delivered a paper on the Hebrew text of Leviticus at the Pacific Northwest regional SBL conference in April, 2009. He and his wife Jenny have two children. |
