Federico A. Roth, PhD

Professor, Department of Biblical and Religious Studies

Phone: (626) 815-5036

Email: froth@apu.edu

Office Location: John and Marilyn Duke Academic Complex, Duke 261

Federico A. Roth, PhD, is a professor of biblical studies. He received his PhD in Hebrew Bible from Fuller Theological Seminary, and his dissertation offered a postcolonial exegesis of identity construction in the opening narratives of Exodus. Roth’s areas of expertise and teaching interests include postcolonial biblical criticism, Third Space theory, contextual/global approaches to biblical interpretation, pedagogy of exegetical methodology, and literary/rhetorical-critical exegesis. His love for the Los Angeles Lakers is eclipsed only by his love for his wife, Jacqueline, and daughters, Evangeline and Liliana.

Education

• PhD, Hebrew Bible, Fuller Theological Seminary
• ThM, Princeton Theological Seminary
• MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary
• BA, Azusa Pacific University

Academic Area

• School of Theology

Expertise

• Hermeneutics
• Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
• Contextual/Global Approaches to Biblical Interpretation

Courses Taught

• UBBL 100 – Exodus/Deuteronomy
• UBBL 310 – Rising of the King: I and II Samuel
• UBBL 317 – Ruth and Esther
• UBBL 320 – Hebrew Poetical and Wisdom Literature
• UBBL 350 – Geographical and Historical Setting of the Bible
• UBBL 483 – Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation
• UBBL 495 - Special Topics in Biblical Studies