Matthew P. Anstey
Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Theology
Lecturer, School of Theology
BTh (Canberra College of Theology), MCS (Regent College, Vancouver)
PhD (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
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Bio
Matthew Anstey was born in Sydney in 1971. After finishing high school at Trinity Grammar, Sydney, he did one year of science at Sydney University but then left and joined Fusion as a youth worker for three years, working mainly with disadvantaged young people in Geraldton, Perth and then Canberra. In Fusion Matthew discovered his love of preaching and so decided to do a Bachelor of Theology, graduating in 1997 from Canberra College of Theology, majoring in Biblical Hebrew and exegesis. He subsequently completed a Master of Christian Studies majoring in Biblical languages at Regent College, Vancouver and in March 2006 graduated with a PhD cum laude in Biblical Hebrew linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
For 2006-2009 Matthew is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Theology, where he is writing a typological reference grammar of Biblical Hebrew. He teaches and supervises in Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament. In addition to Hebrew, Matthew is interested in hermeneutics, theology, spirituality, and homiletics.
Matthew is married to Liz and with their three children they attend St George's Anglican Church in Pearce, where they are both very involved.
Teaching
- THL 202 Old Testament History and Narrative
- THL 304 The Pentateuch
- THL 308 The Prophetic Literature
- THL 411 Contemporary Approaches to Old Testament (Honours)
Research
- Biblical Hebrew linguistics (pragmatics, morphophonology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, corpus analysis)
- Functional-typological theories of language (Functional Discourse Grammar, Construction Grammar)
- Old Testament interpretation
Recent publications
- forthcoming, From Functional Grammar to Functional Discourse Grammar, Linguistics
- 2007, Tree tigers and tree elephants: A constructional account of English nominal compounds, in The English Clause: Structure and Function. In Honour J. Lachlan Mackenzie, M. Hannay & G. Steen (eds), Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 227–256.
- 2007, Seeing Hagar the Theologian: The interpretation of Genesis 16, in “Into the world you love”: Finding God in everyday life, G. Garrett (ed), ATF Press
- 2006, The grammatical-lexical cline in Tiberian Hebrew, Journal of Semitic Studies 51(1), 59–84
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