Frank Chan began teaching at Nyack in 1999 and became Department Head in 2005. He has a B.A. from Wheaton College, an M.A. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a Ph.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary. He is an active member of the Evangelical Theological Society and serves on the steering committee for the Northeast Regional chapter. He is working on a book on apostleship in the NT period. Dr. Chan teaches New Testament Literature, Hermeneutics, Theology Seminar and other electives. He enjoys spending time with his wife and his four young children. He is a licensed worker with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and the head elder at Risen King Alliance Church in New City, NY.
Dr. Elio Cuccaro
Professor of Bible
Phone: 4514 |
B.S. Cornell University; M.Div., S.T.M. Biblical School of Theology; M.Phil., Ph.D. Drew University
Elio Cuccaro is an ordained minister of the C&MA, has been teaching at Nyack since 1977. He has a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.Div. and S.T.M from The Biblical School of Theology, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Drew University. He served the Alliance as a bi-vocational pastor for a decade and as Editor of the Alliance Academic Review for seven years. Since 1990, he has taught and modeled preaching at the Salvation Army School for Officer Training in Suffern, NY. Elio teaches Bible Doctrines, Christian Worldview. Romans, Latin, Science and the Bible, many of our systematic theology electives, the Department Honors Courses and the four-course sequence in the history of theology. Avocationally, he enjoys gardening and landscaping. He is an Elder of Living Christ Church in Nyack, NY and is married with two grown children and one grandson.
Miss Amy Davis
Asst. Professor of Bible
Phone: 4515 |
B.A. Grove City College; M.Div. Alliance Theological Seminary
Amy Davis has been teaching at Nyack since 2002. She has a B.A. from Grove City College, an M.Div. from Alliance Theological Seminary, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in liturgical studies at Drew University. She served for several years as a teacher in Paraguay and is fluent in Spanish. Amy teaches Old Testament Literature, New Testament Literature and Christian Thought. She also teaches Genesis, Jeremiah & Ezekiel, Acts, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Historical Theology, Worship: Ancient and Future, and Classic Christian Spirituality. Amy also co-leads Global-Service Learning trips, with destinations that have included Israel, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria. She enjoys travel and outdoor adventures, cooking and baking, and attends Risen King Alliance Church in New City, NY.
Manhattan Faculty
Dr. Thomas Donworth
Assoc. Professor of Bible
Phone: 6147 |
B.A. University of Texas; Th.M. Dallas Theological Seminary; D.Min. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Tom has been teaching at Nyack since 1989. He has a B.A. from the University of Texas, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a D.Min. from Gordon-Conwell Seminary. Upon graduation from college, he worked with Campus Crusade for Christ for four years. In addition to being an Associate Professor of Bible, he is also the part-time pastor of Dunwoodie Baptist Church in Yonkers, New York.
Dr. Dongsu Kim
Professor of Bible
Phone: 6149 |
B.A., M.A. Seoul National University; M.A. University of Pennsylvania; M.Div., Ph.D. Westminster Theological Seminary
Dongsu Kim has been teaching at Nyack College since 1999. He earned B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University. After studying for four years in a Ph.D. program of UPenn, he transferred to Westminster Theological Seminary and earned M.Div., and Ph.D. in Biblical Hermeneutics. He regularly teaches New Testament Literature, Old Testament Literature, Reading NT Greek, and Exegesis. He also teaches and publishes on Romans, John, Hebrews, and Corinthian Correspondences. He currently serves as chairperson of Asian/Asian-American Theology Consultation Group of the Evangelical Theological Society. A member of the PCA, he also serves as part-time pastor in Chodae Community Church in Norwood, New Jersey. He has been married to You-Me since 1987 and is a father of three sons.
Dr. Richard Notley
Professor of Bible
Phone: 6148 |
B.A., M.A. Oral Roberts University; Ph.D. Hebrew University
Dr. R. Steven Notley lives in New York with his wife, Sunya, and their children. They lived in Jerusalem for 16 years where Notley earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Religions at the Hebrew University (1993). He studied under the direction of the late professor David Flusser, writing his dissertation on "The Concept of the Holy Spirit in Jewish Literature of the Second Commonwealth and Pre-Pauline Christianity." With Flusser he collaborated on the historical biography Jesus (Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 1997, 1998, 2001). He completed his English translation of Eusebius' Onomasticon that was published together with Ze'ev Safrai's (Bar Ilan University) topographical commentary by Brill Academic Publishers. Also published was a collaborative work in Historical Geography with Dr. Anson F. Rainey (Tel Aviv University) called The Sacred Bridge. During his years in Israel Notley was extensively involved in directing travel and field study for students and laity in Israel, Greece and Turkey. He continues to direct study trips through Emmaus Educational Services. He served as the chairman of the department for New Testament studies at the Jerusalem University College from 1996 to 2001. He regularly presents papers at the annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literature and is presently working on three writing projects: A collection and translation of the earliest Rabbinical parables; an atlas of the New Testament; contributing to and editing a collection of articles by Jewish and Christian scholars addressing the language environment of First Century Judea. Currently he is a professor of Biblical Studies at the New York City campus of Nyack College.
Frequently Contributing Adjuncts
Linda Warren
M.Div. Alliance Theological Seminary
B.A. University of Michigan
Christopher Dost
Ph.D. candidate in Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages Jewish Theological Seminary of America M.A. Old Testament Alliance Theological Seminary M.A. Biblical and Ancient Semitic Languages Jewish Thological Seminary of America
Jeff Garcia
Ph.D. Candidate Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins
New York University
Academic Interests: the New Testament, the Historical Jesus, the Gospels, History of the First Century, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity, Intertestamental Literature, and Rabbinic Literature
Hans Tokke, Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies
Ph.D. Student, The New School for Social Research
Academic interest: "The influence of western consumerism and cosmopolitanism on immigrant urban ethnic cultures and religious practice." Topics of study: consumerism, social justice, community development, culture Major Fields: Urban Sociology, Sociology of Religion MA, The New School for Social Research MDiv., MPS Alliance Theological Seminary
Frank DeLalla
M.A.Theological Studies
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Kevin Gillen
M.Div. Alliance Theological Seminary
Joseph E. Torres
M.A. Christian Thought
Reformed Theological Seminary
B.A. Biblical and Theological Studies
Nyack College
Research interests: Apologetics, Worldview Philosophy, ancient Near Eastern backgrounds to the Bible, Old Testament, Biblical and Systematic Theology.
Tim Binkele
M.Div. Alliance Theological Seminary, 2010
B.A. History, Nyack College
Brendon Benz
Ph.D. Candidate in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, New York University
M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary
B.A. Taylor University
Current Research Interests: The socio-political context and background of ancient Israel; Israelite Religion; Ugaritic epic poetry.