Chloe Sun, PhD

Chloe T. Sun, Ph.D. (謝挺)

Professor of Old Testament/Program Director of the Chinese Studies Center

Fuller Theological Seminary

[email protected]

EDUCATION

Fuller Theological Seminary, Ph.D.

Dallas Theological Seminary, S.T.M.

Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, M.Div.

California State University, San Bernardino, B.S.

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

Logos Evangelical Seminary

Assistant Professor of Old Testament (2004–2012)

Associate Professor of Old Testament (2012–2017)

Professor of Old Testament (2017–2023)

Fuller Theological Seminary (2023–present)

Adjunct Faculty

• Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (1/2002 to 5/2003, 1/2012)

• Fuller Theological Seminary (9/2003 to 3/2004; summer 2018)

• Carey Baptist College, Auckland, New Zealand (June, 2017)

• Global Life Theological Seminary, London, UK (May, 2015) Paris, France (May, 2008;

May, 2016)

• Seminario Teologico Servo de Cristo, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Chile (March, 2012, May

2020)

• Carey Theological College, Vancouver, Canada (May 2018, June 2020)

• International Chinese Biblical Seminary in Europe, Barcelona, Spain (May 2019, Dec

2022)

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Forthcoming: Exodus, Asia Bible Commentary. UK: Langham Global Library (English).

Forthcoming: A Textbook on Psalms and Poetic Books (Sheng Jing Shi Du Series). The

Evangelical Free Church of China – Evangel Press, Hong Kong (Chinese).

2023 Chinese translation of Conspicuous in His Absence: Studies on Song of Songs and

Esther. Hong Kong: Tien Dao Book House.

2022 Attempt Great Things for God: Theological Education in Diaspora. Theological

Education between the Times Series. Edited by Ted A. Smith. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Eerdmans (Chinese translation by Edinburgh, UK: Latreia Press).

Chloe T. Sun, Ph.D. (謝挺)

2021a Conspicuous in His Absence: Studies on Song of Songs and Esther. Downers Grove,

Ill.: IVP Academic (English).

2021b Psalms as My Guide: What I learned from the Psalmists. Taiwan: Campus Fellowship

(Chinese).

2020 Attempt Great Things for God: Theological Education in Diaspora. Theological

Education between the Times Series. Edited by Ted A. Smith. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Eerdmans (English).

2019 Praise to God (I). Hong Kong: Tien Dao Publishing House (Chinese).

2016 Love Already but not Yet: A Commentary on the Song of Songs. Hong Kong: Ming

Dao Press (Chinese).

2014 Coming from God: A Daily Devotional based on the Hebrew Text of Exodus. Hong

Kong: Tien Dao Publishing House (Chinese).

2013 Wisdom from God: A Daily Devotional based on the Hebrew Texts of Proverbs, Job,

and Ecclesiastes. Hong Kong: Tien Dao Publishing House (Chinese).

2011 Genesis vol. 2: From Chosenness to Providence. Hong Kong: Ming Dao Press

(Chinese).

2008a The Ethics of Violence in the Story of Aqhat. New Jersey: Gorgias Press (English).

2008b Genesis vol. 1: From Creation to Chosenness. Hong Kong: Ming Dao Press

(Chinese).

2007 Beginning with God: A Daily Devotional based on the Hebrew Text of Genesis. Hong

Kong: Tien Dao Publishing House (Chinese).

Contracted to write:

Lamentations and Song of Songs, The Bible in God’s World. OR: Wipf & Stock, Cascade

imprint (English).

Exodus vol I & II, co-author with Charlie Trimm, NICOT, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans

(English).

Esther, Ming Dao Commentary. Hong Kong (Chinese).

CHAPTERS

Forthcoming: “Reclaiming the Holiness in the Song of Songs: A Journey of Allegory from

Jewish, Christian, to the Chinese.” Edited by Brittany Melton and David Firth.

Lexham Press.

Forthcoming: “Esther,” Chinese Bible Commentary. UK: Langham.

2019 “Reading Job as a Chinese Diasporian.” Pages 295-305 in T & T Clark Handbook of

Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics. Edited by Uriah Y. Kim and Sang Ai Yang.

London: T & T Clark.

2016 “As Strong as Death: The Immortality of Allegory in the Chinese Reception of the

Song of Songs” in Honoring the Past, Looking to the Future: Essays from the 2014

International Congress of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Scholars. Hong Kong: The

Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Edited by Gale A. Yee and John Y.H.Yieh

(Chinese).

2015 “1 Samuel” and “Jeremiah 1” in Devotions on the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Milton

Eng and Lee M. Fields. Mich.: Zondervan.

Chloe T. Sun, Ph.D. (謝挺)

2014 “Eve and I: Spirituality of the Self” in Speaking of the Spirit: Essays Commemorating

Logos Evangelical Seminary 25

Anniversary. Hong Kong: Tien Dao Publishing

House (Chinese).

2013 “Response: Reflections on Self and Survival.” Pages 79-82 in Global Readings:

Reading the Bible in the Majority World. Edited by Craig Keener and M. Daniel

Carroll R. Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers.

2012 “Against Overwhelming Odds: Chinese Women in Ministry.” in Voices of the Asian

American and Pacific Islander Experiences. Vol. 1. Greenwood.

2010 “Bathsheba Transformed: From Silence to Voice.” in Mirrored Reflections:

Reframing Biblical Characters. Or.: Wipf & Stock.

2009 “Bridging Past and Future: The In-Between Life of Moses,” in Logos for Life Essays

Commemorating Logos Evangelical Seminary 20

Anniversary. Hong Kong: Tien

Dao Publishing House.

ARTICLES

2019 “Recent Research on Asian and Asian American Hermeneutics Related to the Hebrew

Bible.” Currents in Biblical Research. Vol 17, Issue 3: 238-265.

2018 “Ruth and Esther: Negotiable Space in Christopher Wright’s ‘The Mission of God’?”

Missiology 46 (2):150-161.

2017 “Ecclesiastes among the Megilloth: Death as the Inter-thematic Link.” Bulletin for

Biblical Research 27.2: 33-55.

ENCYCLOPEDIA

2016 “Song of Songs” in Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2013 “Elim” in Encyclopedia of Bible and Its Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2012 “Consolation – HB/OT,” “Corpse – HB/OT,” “Daughters – HB/OT, ANE,” “Debts” –

HB/OT,” “Dew – HB/OT, ANE,” “Dowry and Bride Price – HB/OT, ANE,” “Dance

– HB/OT” in Encyclopedia of Bible and Its Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter.

BOOK REVIEWS

2023 Nina S. Heereman, Behold King Solomon on the Day of His Wedding": A Symbolic-

Diachronic Reading of Song 3,6-11 and 4,12-5,1. Review of Biblical Literature

2022a Young Lee Hertig, The Tao of Asian American Belonging: A Yinist Spirituality.

Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2019. Christianity Next, Winter 2022, 90-92.

2022b Keith Wasserman. Christine D. Pohl: Good Works: Hospitality and Faithful

Discipleship. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2021. Theology Today. June 17, 254-

255.

2020a Cao Jian, Chinese Biblical Anthropology: Persons and Ideas in the OT and in Modern

Chinese Literature. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2019. Review of Biblical

Literature, 10/2020.

2020b Peter H. W. Lau, Esther: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary. Asia Bible

Commentary Series. UK: Langham Global Library, 2018. Themelios Vol 45 Issue 2

August (2020): 401-402.

2020c J. L. Andruska, Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs. Review of Biblical

Literature 01/2020.

Chloe T. Sun, Ph.D. (謝挺)

2016 Brian R. Doak, Consider Leviathan: Narrative of Nature and the Self in Job. Journal

of Evangelical Society of Old Testament 5.1: 71-73.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2022a “Reclaiming the Holiness in the Song of Songs: A Journey of Allegory from Jewish,

Christian, to the Chinese.” Presented in Tyndale Conference (online), June 24.

2022b “My Beloved is Dazzling: Reading Song of Songs 5:10-16 for the Church.” Presented

in the Women and Evangelical session, Evangelical Theological Society, November

2019 “Evoking Sacred Space: The Persian Palace in the Book of Esther.” Presented in the

Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Sacred Space section, San

Diego, November 25

2016a. “Ruth and Esther: A Dialogue on Mission, Diaspora and Gender.” Presented in the

Evangelical Missions Society, North East Regional Meeting, Flushing, New York,

April 2

2016b. “Ruth and Esther: Negotiable Space in the Grand Narrative of God?’ Presented in the

Evangelical Missions Society, National Meeting, Dallas, October 15

(A revised

version of 2016a).

2016c. “Song of Songs: From Eden to New Eden.” Presented in the Bible Conference of the

Global Enrichment Theological Seminary (GETS) on December 2

2015. “The Inter-thematic Link of Death and Survival: Ecclesiastes among the Megilloth.”

Presented in the Megilloth section, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical

Literature, Atlanta, GA. November 24

2014. “The Awaiting Bride Dominates the Literal Wife: Chinese Reception of the Song of

Songs” presented in the International Congress of Ethnic Chinese Biblical

Colloquium (ICECBC), Hong Kong August 20

2013 “As Strong as Death: The Immortality of the Allegorical Interpretation of the Song of

Songs in the Chinese Worship Songs.” History of Interpretation section, Annual

Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore, DC, November 25

2012 “What about the Children of Job? A Jewish Perspective on Theodicy and Hope.”

History of Interpretation section, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical

Literature, Chicago, November 17

. 2011. “Reading Job from Asian American Eyes.”

Asian and Asian Hermeneutic Group section, Annual Meeting of the Society of

Biblical Literature, San Francisco, CA, November 19

2007. “From Margin to Center: Joseph’s Navigation and Negotiation of His Own

Identity and Its Implications for Asian American Identity.” Asian and Asian

Hermeneutic Group section, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical

Literature, San Diego, CA, November 18

2005. “Ethical Disparity of El and Baal in the Story of Aqhat.” Ugaritic Studies and

Northwest Semitic Epigraphy section, Annual Meeting of the Society of

Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, PA, November, 21

2004a. “How does the Portrayal of Ugaritic Deities Shed Light on the “Dark Side” of

God in the Hebrew Scriptures?” Theology of Hebrew Scripture section, Annual

Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, TX, November, 20

2004b. “How Ethical is Anat and How Do We Know It? A Teleological View of Anat’s

Violence in the Ugaritic Story of Aqhat.” Bible and Archaeology section, Pacific

Chloe T. Sun, Ph.D. (謝挺)

Coast Region meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Whittier, CA, March 22

ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP

Logos Evangelical Seminary

Director of Th.M. Program, 2013–2014

Co-chair of Faculty Search Committee, 2012–2018

Acting Academic Dean, January–June, 2018

Chair of Cultivating Educational Capacity committee, 2019–2021

Chair of Rank Advancement Committee, 2018–2023

Co-Chair of Admission Committee, 2020–2022

Acting Director of ThM/PhD Programs, July 2020–June 2023

Academic Dean, July 2020–December, 2022

Member of President’s Council, July 2020–December 2022

Association of Theological Society

Sub-committee member on diversity, 2019

Steering committee member of Asian Descent Presidents and Deans (ADPD), 2020–2022

Accreditation team member for World Mission University, October, 2022

Academy

• Co-Chair, Asian and Asian American Hermeneutic Group at Society of Biblical

Literature (SBL), 2013–2016

• Secretary of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Colloquium (ECBC), 2016–2018

• Editorial Board member of the Institute for Biblical Research (IBR), 2015–2017

• Theological Education Between the Times (TEBT) fellow, since 2015

• Steering Committee member, War and Violence in the Old Testament, Evangelical

Theological Society (ETS), 2022–2024

• Every Voice, fellow, since 2021

• Board member of the Institute for Biblical Research (IBR), 2022–2024

ACADEMIC AFFLIATIONS

Member of Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

Member of Evangelical Theological Society (ETS)

Member of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Colloquium (ECBC)

Member of Institute for Biblical Research (IBR)

MINISTRY EXPERIENCES

• Regular local and international preacher, conference speaker, retreat and Bible seminar

speaker

• English College and Adult Sunday School Teacher (volunteer)

Evangelical Formosan Church of Los Angeles, El Monte, CA (1/2005 to 12/2010)

• English Sunday School Coordinator/Teacher (volunteer)

Evangelical Formosan Church of Alhambra, Alhambra, CA (7/1999 to 12/2004)

• English Youth Director (part-time)

First Chinese Baptist Church of Dallas, Dallas, TX (9/1997 to 4/1998)

Chloe T. Sun, Ph.D. (謝挺)

• Minister (part-time)

Southbay Chinese Baptist Church, San Jose, CA (9/1994 to 8/1996)

ACCOLADES

• Who’s Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges Award (1995),

awarded by Golden Gate Seminary (Gateway Seminary)

• Baker Book House Award (1995), awarded by Golden Gate Seminary (Gateway

Seminary)

• “Beginning with God” is nominated for the “Best New Author” Award in Hong Kong

(2009)

• “Wisdom from God” is nominated for “Best Devotional Book” in Hong Kong (2015)

• “Love Already but Not Yet: A Commentary on the Song of Songs is nominated for the

“Best Author” award in Hong Kong (2018).

• 30 OT/HB Scholars to Read and Follow by Patheos (2020)

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cruxsola/2020/10/chloe-t-sun-logos-seminary-30-ot-hb-

scholars-to-read-and-follow/

• Conspicuous in His Absence: Studies in the Song of Songs and Esther was selected as

Biblical Foundations Book Awards Runner Up and Finalist (2022)

SOCIAL MEDIA

• Selected Podcasts

Every Voice Now:

https://www.ivpress.com/every-voice-now/podcast/season-2/episode-9?source=evn

Context Matters:

https://contextmatters.simplecast.com/episodes/when-god-is-absent

Alabaster Jar:

https://thealabasterjar.podbean.com/?s=Chloe+Sun

Bridging Theology:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TMMS8b3Mch5MgKrU7iZ8T

• Youtube channel (in Mandarin)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj3h2pxvB3ba04yZzETbwZg