Steven R. Scott

Steven R. Scott is a part-time professor in the Theology Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A major part of his doctoral dissertation was a chiastic analysis of the Gospel of Mark in order to provide insight into Mark’s understanding of Jesus’ miracles of raising the dead. In doing so, he developed a new approach to chiastic analysis based on probability analysis of the number of parallels between compositional units. Scott has a keen interest in chiastic studies and has devoted a large part of his career in researching and presenting on chiastic structures in ancient texts at meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature in America and Europe and the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies through the Congress of the Humanities in Canada.