Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Professor of Sacred Scripture (Old Testament)
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1982

M.A., Ph.D. (1982), Vanderbilt University
M.Div. (1977), Weston School of Theology
A.B. (1964), College of the Holy Cross

Phone: 510/549-5024 or 510/841-8804
E-mail: jendres@jstb.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Book of Chronicles
• Dead Sea Scrolls
• Book of Jubilees
• Psalms and Spirituality

Selected Publications

• Biblical Interpretation in the Book of Jubilees; CBQMS 18 (Washington, D.C.: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1987).
• Chronicles and Its Synoptic Parallels in Samuel, Kings and Related Biblical Texts, editor, (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1998).
• A Retreat with the Psalms: Resources for Personal and Communal Prayer, with Elizabeth Liebert, (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2001).
• "Prayer of Noah: Jubilees 10:3-6," pp. 53-58 in: Mark Kiley, ed., Prayer from Alexander to Constantine: A Critical Anthology (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). Includes new translation of the prayer.
• "Joyful Worship in Second Temple Judaism," pp. 155-188 in: Lamontte M. Luker, ed., Passion, Vitality, and Foment: The Dynamics of Second Temple Judaism (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001).
• "Psalms and Spirituality in the 21st Century," Interpretation 56:2(April 2002): 143-154.