Entering the Hell and Heartbreak of the Grotesque Book of Judges (Daniel Stulac)

Dr. Daniel J. D. Stulac grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he graduated from Westminster Christian Academy in 1997. He attended Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, graduating in 2001 with a BA focused on English and Creative Writing. For several years thereafter, he served as a campus minister and also got involved with the Dartmouth Organic Farm, where he was trained in organic vegetable farming. From 2007–2009 he launched an agriculture assistance program in Rwinkwavu, Rwanda, aiming to improve nutrition amongst the local hospital’s HIV+ patients. Stulac subsequently earned his MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary and then a doctorate in Old Testament from Duke University.

He has served Duke Divinity School as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Old Testament, teaching a variety of Hebrew language and upper-level exegesis courses, as well as publishing two additional monographs, titled Life, Land, and Elijah in the Book of Kings (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Gift of the Grotesque: A Christological Companion to the Book of Judges (Cascade, 2022). Beginning in the fall of 2022, Stulac transitions into a new role as Assistant Professor of the Old Testament at Briercrest College and Seminary in Caronport, Saskatchewan. He and his wife, Danielle, have two daughters, Abigail and Susannah.