Ludwig Beethoven J. Noya

Dr. Ludwig Beethoven J. Noya is a biblical scholar who engages in interdisciplinary readings of biblical texts in their ancient and contemporary contexts. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School. Born and raised in Southeast Asia (Indonesia), Noya completed a Ph.D. in Religion (Hebrew Bible) in the Southeastern U.S. (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN) where he was a fellow with the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice. He has also obtained master’s degrees from Boston University and Vanderbilt University, while doing coursework as a visiting student at Harvard University, Boston College, and Tel Aviv University. For his dissertation research, Ludwig also served as a visiting research associate at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide in the UK.

Noya’s research explores the socioeconomic aspects of the Hebrew Bible in conversation with contemporary socioeconomic issues. Ludwig’s first monograph project, currently under contract with Oxford University Press, reexamines Sabbath transgression narratives in the Hebrew Bible, connecting them with the Sabbath experiences in Antebellum North America and the British Colonial Global South. He is currently co-editing with Matthew J.M. Coomber a book in commemoration of Norman Gottwald’s 1992 SBL Presidential Address as part of CLBSJ’s series with Wipf & Stock. In addition to serving on the CLBSJ Board, Noya is the Bible Editor for the Asian American Theological Forum (AATF). Before joining Brite, he taught at Villanova University, Valparaiso University, and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.