{"id":1135,"date":"2025-10-19T16:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/?page_id=1135"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:11:56","slug":"baruch-kvasnica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/baruch-kvasnica\/","title":{"rendered":"baruch-kvasnica"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1135\" class=\"elementor elementor-1135\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-84201e5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"84201e5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7effdbf\" data-id=\"7effdbf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efee2c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"efee2c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 800; text-transform: none;\">DR.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 30px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 800; text-transform: none;\">\u00a0<\/span>Baruch Brian Kvasnica<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-210e66b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"210e66b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-88c7f47\" data-id=\"88c7f47\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7de685a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7de685a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Founder, President and Associate Professor of Bible<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-18fcd22 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"18fcd22\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9b2dcde\" data-id=\"9b2dcde\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c1c5d9 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"4c1c5d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"882\" src=\"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/baruch.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-1137\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/baruch.png 600w, https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/baruch-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Dr. Baruch Brian Kvasnica<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Founder, President and Associate Professor of Bible<br><br><\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1e86959\" data-id=\"1e86959\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90010f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"90010f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<b>STUDIES:<\/b><br>\nPh.D. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\n<br>M.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\n<br>B.A. Houghton College, New York.<\/span>\n<br><br>\n<b>PROFILE<\/b>\n<br>Since the age of 16, Baruch has felt called to discipleship and living out the Good News in community and faith.\u00a0More recently, after fifteen years of teaching with the <b><i>Jerusalem Center for Bible Translators<\/i><\/b> and founding the <b<i>Jerusalem Biblical Studies Society<\/i><\/b> in 2006, Baruch rejoices with God\u2019s work in establishing Jerusalem Seminary. He has a passion for transformative theological and experiential education in the Land of the Bible.<\/span>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He loves to bring people together and allow the Bible to come alive through engagement with the context of the Bible. For many summers he has taught Biblical Hebrew with the <b><i>Biblical Language Center<\/i><\/b> and has led dozens of Biblical study-tour groups throughout Israel, Jordan, Greece, Turkey, Germany and the UK.\n<br><br>\n\nAs a youth he spent two years in the Philippines and graduated from high school in Papua New Guinea where his parents were Wycliffe personnel.\u00a0He served as pastor of a country church in upstate NY before moving to Jerusalem in 1995 where he was part of the leadership team at <b><i>Narkis Street Congregation<\/i><\/b> for about 15 years.\u00a0It was in Jerusalem he met his wife Shoshanna and they have seven children. When not writing, teaching, or spending time with his wonderful wife and seven children, Baruch loves reading, basketball and with God\u2019s help, trying to create community.\n<br><br>\n<b>PUBLICATIONS:<\/b>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Kvasnica, B., <i>&#8220;Shifts in Israelite War Ethics and Early Jewish Historiography of Plundering&#8221;<\/i> in Writing and Reading War: Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts, ed. B. Kelle and F. Ames (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008): 175-196.<\/li>\n \t<li>Buth, R. and B. Kvasnica,\u00a0<i>&#8220;Temple Authorities and Tithe-Evasion: The Linguistic Background and Impact of the Parable of the Vineyard Tenants and the Son,&#8221;<\/i> in Jesus&#8217; Last Week: Jerusalem Studies on the Synoptic Gospels, Volume 1, ed. R. S. Notley et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2006): pages 53-80,\u00a0 259-317.<\/li>\n \t<li>Kvasnica, B., <i>&#8220;New Testament Texts in Light of Contemporary Halachic Disputes: Two Test Cases in The Vineyard Tenants and Son and the Temple Demonstration,&#8221;<\/i> M.A. Thesis, Rothberg International School and the Department of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR.\u00a0Baruch Brian Kvasnica Founder, President and Associate Professor of Bible Dr. Baruch Brian Kvasnica Founder, President and Associate Professor of Bible STUDIES: Ph.D. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem M.A., The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1135\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalemseminary.org\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}