PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Jamal-Dominique Hopkins is Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, TX. He also is a Christ and Being Human Pedagogical Fellow with the Yale University Center for Faith and Culture. See academic bio here!
BACKGROUND: Jamal-Dominique Hopkins is a native of Southern California. He grew up as an actor, appearing on stage and in film with such notables as Malcolm Jamal Warner of the Cosby Show, Lahmard and Larron Tate of Rocky Balboa, Barbershop and 21 Jump Street, respectively, and Martin Mull of Two and a Half Men and Arrested Development. Prior to attending college, Hopkins was a barber, a badminton coach at his former high school and a co-host personality at a gospel radio station. Aspirations to pursue entertainment took a turn while in college at Howard University, when one of Hopkins' film instructors challenged him to pursue his passion for studying the Bible. He accepted this challenge and entered seminary after graduating from University. In seminary he fell in love with biblical and theological scholarship. It was during this time that he also became involved in ministry.
APPEARANCES:
The only known expert of African Descent on the Dead Sea Scrolls, I have been a guest speaker and panelist at such institutions as:
AUTHOR:
Research explores the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran Studies, Early Judaism and Biblical Literature with Black Religious Thought. Latest publication is entitled Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2022.
BACKGROUND: Jamal-Dominique Hopkins is a native of Southern California. He grew up as an actor, appearing on stage and in film with such notables as Malcolm Jamal Warner of the Cosby Show, Lahmard and Larron Tate of Rocky Balboa, Barbershop and 21 Jump Street, respectively, and Martin Mull of Two and a Half Men and Arrested Development. Prior to attending college, Hopkins was a barber, a badminton coach at his former high school and a co-host personality at a gospel radio station. Aspirations to pursue entertainment took a turn while in college at Howard University, when one of Hopkins' film instructors challenged him to pursue his passion for studying the Bible. He accepted this challenge and entered seminary after graduating from University. In seminary he fell in love with biblical and theological scholarship. It was during this time that he also became involved in ministry.
APPEARANCES:
The only known expert of African Descent on the Dead Sea Scrolls, I have been a guest speaker and panelist at such institutions as:
- Yale University Divinity School (Yale Center for Faith and Culture)
- Princeton Theological Seminary
- Boston University
- The Catholic University of America
- Emory University’s Graduate School of Religion
- Oberlin College
- Harvard University (W.E.B. Du Bois Society)
- University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
- Durham University (England)
- Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
AUTHOR:
Research explores the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran Studies, Early Judaism and Biblical Literature with Black Religious Thought. Latest publication is entitled Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2022.
