Dr. Richard Liantonio
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Assistant Director of Library
Title油IX油Coordinator/Equity油Compliance油Officer
Phone: 913-253-5036
Email:
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Denomination
The Episcopal Church
Discipline or Specialty
Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew Language
Disciplinary/Research Interests
- Biblical Hebrew Poetry
- Book of Psalms
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Metaphor Theory
- Emotion
- Happiness/Unhappiness in the Hebrew Bible
What do you hope your students come away with when they leave your classroom?
What is your teaching style?
I understand teaching as a holistic vocation that nurtures intellectual curiosity, emotional authenticity, cultural competency, spiritual vitality, and embodied love, while laying foundations for ministry praxis, justice work, and human flourishing. I design scaffolded, skill-focused assignments that cultivate students critical awareness of the Hebrew Bible as a site of engagement across cultural and religious difference with ongoing relevance to contemporary questions and contexts. My pedagogy incorporates innovative methodsincluding gamification, creative assignment options, immersive audiovisual materials, multimodal reinforcement, and flexible completion schedulesto foster learning with minimal anxiety among a diverse student body.
Representative Courses Taught
HBS310 Engaging the Hebrew Bible and its Cultures
HSB320/321 Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Language
Recent Publications
Review of油The JPS Bible Commentary: Psalms 120150, by Adele Berlin (invited review).油Journal of Jewish Studies油75.2 (October 2025).
