Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College), M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. Student, Religious Studies, Biblical Field (Early Judaism major)
McMaster University Hamilton, Canada

Ken Penner is a PhD student in the Religious Studies department of McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, majoring in Early Judaism and minoring in Early Christianity. At Regent College in 1998 he completed a Master of Christian Studies degree in Biblical Languages (Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Latin), with a Greek focus. Ken completed his second Master's degree at McMaster in 2000, writing on Second Temple Hebrew poetics using a case study in the Thanksgiving poetry of the Dead Sea Scrolls

(1QHa). He met his wife Linda at Regent College, and they now have two young sons.

Funding for this research was generously provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.