Faculty Profile

Dr. Joel S. Allen

Assistant Professor of Religion and Bible

Joel Allen is Assistant Professor of Religion and Bible at Lambuth University. He is also an elder in the Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church. Joel began his graduate studies at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati Ohio in 1997 and completed his studies there in 2006. He served for two years as Teaching Fellow of Biblical Languages at Asbury Theological Seminary. He has also taught at Union College (Barbourville, Ky.), Moscow Evangelical Theological Seminary and for the Appalachian Local Pastor's School. Along with several articles, he is author of The Despoliation of Egypt: in Pre-Rabbinic, Rabbinic and Patristic Traditions (Brill, 2008). Joel has been married to Kitty Allen for 20 years, and they have two children (Johanna, 13, and Emma, 9).