Personal Information
Name:
David C. Hymes
Ordination:
Assemblies of God, USA (1985)
Status:
Missionary to Japan (1989-2004; 2008 to present); to APTS, Philippines (2004 to 2008)
Post-Secondary Education
Bethany Bible College, Santa Cruz, CA, 1978, B.A.
Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, 1983, M.Div.
Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, 1984, Th.M.
University of Wales, Bangor, UK, 2010, Ph.D.
Non-Teaching Ministry Experience
Assistant Pastor –
Japanese Assembly of God San Jose, CA, U.S.A., 1976-1978
Worker and Youth Director – Evangel Assembly of God, Campbell, CA, U.S.A.,
1978-1980
Staff Member – First Assembly of God Pennington, NJ, U.S.A., 1980-1984
Pastor – Cambridge Christian Center, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1984-1989
Pastor – Sunshine Christian Church, Tokyo, Japan, 1992-1994
Pastor – Asumigaoka Christ Church, Chiba, Japan, 2000-2001
Pastor - Tsukuba International Christian Assembly, 2010-Present
Teaching Experience
Foothill Christian
Academy, Milpitas, CA, U.S.A., 1979-1980 - 7th grade & science
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's CUME, Boston, 1988 - Adjunct Professor
Central Bible College Tokyo, Japan, 1991-2004; 2008-present - Professor
Continental Theological Seminary Brussels, Belgium, 1996, 97, 98 - Guest
instructor
Assemblies of God Bible College in Singapore, Singapore 1994, 2000, 2002,
2003 - Guest instructor
Theological Centre for Asia, Singapore, 2001, 2003 - Guest instructor
Asia Pacific Theological Seminary, Extension Malaysia 1996-2001 - Guest
instructor
Charles Wright Academy, Tacoma, WA, 2004-2005 – Substitute Japanese instructor
Asia Pacific Theological Seminary Baguio, Philippines 1997-2004, - Guest
instructor; Non-Resident Faculty; 2005-2008 - Resident Faculty
Courses Taught
Languages: Biblical Hebrew I & II, III; Biblical Aramaic; Biblical Greek I & II
Old Testament: Pentateuch; Historical Books; Exegesis of Samuel; Exegesis of Samuel and Kings; Exegesis of Isaiah; Exegesis of Job; Exegesis of Jeremiah; Exegesis of Ezekiel; Exegesis of Daniel; Minor Prophets; O.T. Background; Exegesis of Genesis; Exegesis of Exodus; Exegesis of Numbers; Postexilic History and Literature; O.T. Survey; O.T. Theology; O.T. Introduction; O.T. Hermeneutics
Others: N.T. Background; Church History III; Biblical Introduction; Theological Research Methods; Hermeneutics; Biblical Foundations for Missiology; Theological English; Pastoral Care; Biblical Theology
Awards and Recognition
1978 Graduated Bethany
Bible College, Summa Cum Laude
1978 Delta Epsilon Chi Honor Society
1982 Benjamin Stanton Prize for Old Testament Studies, Princeton Theological
Seminary
Publications, Papers, and Responses
1. "The Holy Spirit
in the Old Testament" Kôdan (1992). (re-edited
edition)
2. "Being
Spiritual: Forms of Pentecostal Spirituality" APEO Renewal Manual,
3-1 to 3-14.
3. "Notes on
Joel 3.1-5," Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies 1 (1998).
4. (with M. Suzuki) "Pre-war
Protestant Japanese Revivals from 1859 through the 1890's," Hayama
(1999).
5. "Numbers
12: Of Priests, Prophets, or “None of the Above,” Annual of the
Japanese Biblical Institute 24 (1998), 3-32.
6. "The Pentecostal and Charismatic Movement in Japan" New International
Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, edited by Stanley Burgess.
7. "An
Introduction and Experiment in Pluriform Textual Studies: Numbers 10.1-10ff.,"
presented at the 2005 APTS Lectureship.
8. "Heroic Leadership in
the Wilderness: Leadership in the book of Numbers," a paper read
at the Theological Commission Symposium of APTA, Singapore, September, 2006;
"Heroic Leadership in the Wilderness, Part 1." AJPS 9, no. 2 (2006):
295-318; "Heroic Leadership in the Wilderness, Part 2." AJPS 10,
no. 1 (2007): 3-21.
9. "Critical
Methodologies and the Pentecostal Movement: Some Initial Observations"
- presented at the 2007 APTS Lectureship. This is a first attempt on a longer
study on Pentecostal Old Testament Scholarship.
10. "Blessing
and Cursing in the Book of Numbers: A Corrective to a Magical Understanding
of "words" in Pop-Christianity" - presented at the 2007
ATS Conference, Manila, Philippines.
11. "Quails,
Elders and Prophesying through Compound Eyes: A Pluriform Analysis of Numbers
11," presented at the 2008 APTS Lectureship.
12. "Reflections
on Dr. Mark Hutchinson's “Third Race and Third Culture – Academic Freedom
in Pentecostal Colleges: The View from Australia” - APTA General Assembly,
9-2008
13. "Numbers 11: A Pentecostal Perspective," in Central Bible College: 60th Anniversary Volume, 175-203.
Dissertation
A
Pluriform Analysis of Numbers 10.11-14.45.
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