Curriculum Vitae

David B Levenson

February 02, 2026

General Information

University address:	Religion
College of Arts and Sciences
Dodd Hall 0314
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1520
Phone: 850-212-5099; Fax: 850-644-7225

E-mail address:	dlevenson@fsu.edu

Professional Preparation

1980	PhD, Harvard University. Major: Religion. New Testament and Christian Origins. 

1975	MA, Harvard University. Major: Religion. New Testament and Christian Origins. 

1970	AB, Princeton University. Major: Religion. Religion and Classics. Supervisor: John G. Gager. Summa Cum Laude. 

Nondegree Education and Training

2000–2001	Wabash Center Consultation on Teaching Biblical Hebrew. 

1980	NEH Summer Seminar on "The Greek Encounter with Judaism," with Louis H. Feldman, Yeshiva University. 

1972–1973	Visiting Research Student in Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Professional Experience

2007–present	Courtesy Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Florida State University. 

1993–present	Distinguished Teaching Professor, Florida State University. 

1986–present	Associate Professor, Religion, Florida State University. 

1986–present	Courtesy Associate Professor, Classics, Florida State University. 

1983–1986	Courtesy Assistant Professor, Classics, Florida State University. 

1980–1986	Assistant Professor, Religion, Florida State University. 

1976–1980	Instructor, Religion, Florida State University. 

1974–1975	Administrative Assistant for Research Team, Religion and Culture of the Aegean in Early Christian Times, Harvard University. 

1971–1975	Teaching Fellow, Religion and Classics, Harvard University. 

Language Proficiency

Arabic - rudimentary in speaking and writing; advanced in reading.
Aramaic (Biblical, Judean, Targumic, Babylonian and Palestinian Rabbinic) - none in speaking; fluent in reading; advanced in writing.
Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew - advanced in speaking and writing; fluent in reading.
Classical Greek - none in speaking; fluent in reading; advanced in writing.
Coptic - none in speaking; intermediate in reading; rudimentary in writing.
French - intermediate in speaking and writing; fluent in reading.
German - intermediate in speaking and writing; fluent in reading.
Italian - rudimentary in speaking and writing; intermediate in reading.
Latin - none in speaking; fluent in reading; advanced in writing.
Modern Greek - rudimentary in speaking and writing; intermediate in reading.
Modern Hebrew - advanced in speaking, reading, and writing.
Syriac - none in speaking; fluent in reading; intermediate in writing.

Visiting Professorship(s)

1989	Adjunct Associate Professor, McCormick Theological Seminary. 

1989	Visiting Associate Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame. 

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

University Teaching Award (nominee) (2013). 
Provost's 90% Excellence Recognition, Office of the Provost (2011). 
University Advising Award (nominee), Florida State University (2000). 
Superior Liberal Studies Honors Teaching Award (1997). 
Teaching Incentive Program Award (1997). 
Continuing Education teaching Award (nominee) (1995). 
Teaching Incentive Program Award (1994). 
University Distinguished Teaching Award (1993). 
University Teaching Award (1987). 
Phi Beta Kappa (1970). 
Robinson Prize, Princeton University Religion Department (1970). 
University Scholar, Princeton University (1968). 

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

American Academy of Religion 
Society of Biblical Literature 

Teaching

Courses Taught

Beginning Hebrew II (HBR1103)
Biblical Hebrew II (RLG5204)
Directed Individual Study: Historical Jesus (REL 4905)
History of Hebrew Language (RLG5906)
Seminar: Gospel of John (REL4290)
Beginning Hebrew I (HBR1102)
Intermediate Hebrew (HBR2222)
Readings in Classical Hebrew Texts: Genesis (REL4203)
Special Topics in Religion: Jerusalem (REL3936)
Syriac Josephus (RLG5292)
Readings for Examination (RLG6904)
Tutorial in Latin Religious Texts (RLG5916)
Early Jewish-Christian Relations (REL4290)
Early Jewish-Christian Relations (RLG 5297)
Seminar: Biblical Studies (RLG5297)
Tutorial in Greek Religious Texts (RLG5328)
Tutorial in Greek Religious Texts: Josephus' Jewish War (REL4324)
Tutorial in Latin Religious Texts (REL4914)
Seminar: Rabbinic Judaism (RLG5297)
Seminar: Rabbinic Judaism (REL 4290)
Tacitus Annals 15 (Latin) (REL 4905)
Judaism in the Graeco-Roman World (REL4215)
Judaism in the Graeco-Roman World (RLG5612)
Undergraduate History of Religions Seminar: Rabbinics (REL4304)
Josephus&2nd Temple Judaism (REL4290)
Josephus&2nd Temple Judaism (RLG5297)
Early Jewish-Xtian Relations (REL4290)
Early Jewish-Xtian Relations (RLG5297)
Ecclesiastical Latin (REL4905)
Latin Texts (RLG5906)
Gospel of John (REL4290)
Latin Grammar (RLG5906)
Tutorial in Latin Religious Texts (RLG5916)
Rabinnic Judaism in Antiquity (RLG5297)
Readings in Latin (RLG5906)
Summer Readings (RLG5906)
Gospel of Matthew (REL4905)
Honors Work (REL4932)
Seminar: Gospel of Matthew (REL4290)
Elementary Modern Hebrew I (HBR1120)
Rdgs: Greek&Roman Religions (RLG5906)
Syriac: Ben Sira (RLG5906)
Elementary Hebrew I (FOW6907)
Modern Hebrew Grammar (RLG5906)
Modern Hebrew Grammar (REL4905)
Rdngs in Second Temple Judaism (RLG5906)
Talmud (RLG5906)
Intermediate Modern Hebrew (HBR2220)
The Jewish Tradition (REL3607)
Biblical Aramaic (REL4905)
Biblical Aramaic (RLG5906)
Greek & Latin Historiography (RLG5906)
Teaching Hebrew (RLG5906)
Readings in Classical Hebrew Texts (REL4203)
Studies in Judaism (RLG5937)
Women in the New Testament (REL4905)
Classical Hebrew Texts: Genesis (REL 4203)
Jews and Judaism in Graeco-Roman World (RLG4215)
Judaism in the Graeco-Roman World (REL4215)
Directed Individual Study: Introduction to Syriac Literature (REL 5906)
Religions of the Graec-Roman World (REL 5906)
Honors Thesis (REL4293)
Introduction to the New Testament (REL2240)
Readings in Classical Hebrew Texts (REL5204)
Seminar: Biblical Studies: Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity (REL5297)
Special Topics in Religion: Syriac (REL 3936)
Tutorial in Greek Religious Texts: Plato's Apology (REL5328)
Tutorial in Latin Religious Texts: Josephus' Jewish War (REL5916)
Tutorial in Latin Religious Texts: Sallust (REL 5916)
Tutorial in Near Eastern Languages and Literature: Syriac (REL 5292)
Graduate Biblical Studies Seminar: Gospel of Matthew (REL 6298)
Readings for Examination (REL6904)
Seminar: Scriptures and Interpretation: New Testament Proseminar (REL6298)
Seminar: Rabbinic Judaism (REL 4290)
Seminar: Rabbinic Judaism (REL 5297)
Directed Individual Study: Biblical Hebrew Grammar II (REL 5204)
Topics in Biblical Studies: Gospel of Mark (REL3293)
Classical Hebrew Texts: Biblical Hebrew Grammar I (REL 5204)
Directed Individual Study: Classical Greek Grammar (REL 4905)
Israeli Culture (REL 4905)
Judaism in the Graeco-Roman World (REL4611)
Judaism in the Graeco-Roman World (REL5612)
Directed Individual Study: Biblical Hebrew Readings (4905)
Topics in Biblical Sudies: Aramaic (REL 3293)
Tutorial in Near Eastern Languages and Literature: Aramaic (REL5292)
Undergraduate Biblical Studies Seminar: Gospel of John (REL 4290)
Classical Hebrew Texts: Joseph Story (REL 5204)
Directed Individual Study: Beginning Classical Greek (REL 4905)
Tutorial in Greek Religious Texts: Josephus (REL 5328)
Undergraduate Biblical Studies Seminar: Gospel of Matthew (REL 4290)
Classical Hebrew Texts: I Kings 17-20 (REL 4203)
Seminar: History of Religions: Rabbinics (REL5305)
Speical Topics in Religion: Syriac (REL 3936)
Directed Individual Study: Syriac (REL 4905)
Seminar: Gospel of Mark (REL 4290)
Classical Hebrew Texts: Hebrew Liturgical Poetry (REL 4203)
Directed Individual Study: Readings in New Testament Scholarship (REL 5906)
Seminar: Religions of the Graeco-Roman World (REL 5305)
Tutorial in Greek Religious Texts: Gospel of Mark (REL 4324)
Directed individual Study: Hebrew Poetry (REL 5906)
Directed Individual Study: Modern Hebrew (REL 4905)
Directed Individual Study: Hebrew Poetry (ENG 5906)
Classical Hebrew Texts: Jonah (REL 5204)
Classical Hebrew Texts: Jonah (REL 4203)
Directed Individual Study: Modern Hebrew (REL 5906)
Special Topics in Religion (REL5937)
Tutorial in Greek Religious Texts: Josephus' Autobiography (REL 5328)
Grad Greek Religious Texts: Gospel of Matthew (REL 5328)
Greek Religious Texts: Gospel of Matthew (REL 4324)
Classical Hebrew Texts: Judges (REL 4203)
Directed Individual Study: Modern Lebanon (REL 4905)
Graduate Classical Hebrew Texts: Judges (REL 5204)
Directed Individual Study: Hamas (REL 4905)
Directed Individual Study: Readings on Jerusalem (REL 5906)
Introduction to the Old Testament (REL2210)
Intermediate Hebrew (HBR2202)

Doctoral Committee Chair

Henderson, J. J., graduate. (2023). Defeat and Deliverance: Josephus' Depictions of Foreign Attacks on Jerusalem in the Antiquities. 
Steen, S. J., graduate. (2023). Priests, Presbyters, and Partisans: Daniel, Josephus, John Chrysostom, and the Poltics of Identity. 
Daly, S. N., graduate. (2021). Sources and Redaction in the Account of the Emperor Julain in Book 3 of Theodoret's Historia Ecclesiastica. 
Edwards, D. R., graduate. (2021). Tradition and Innovation in Josephus' Antiquities: The Adaptation of the Joseph and Esther Court-Tales in the Accounts of the Tobiads and Agripp I. 
Binyam, Y., graduate. (2017). Studies In Sefer Yosippon: The Reception Of Josephus In Medieval Hebrew, Arabic, And Ethiopic Literature. 
Heisler, J., graduate. (2006). "Gnat or Apostolic Bee: A Translation and Commentary on Theodoret's Commentary on Jonah". 
Tinklenberg-DeVega, J., graduate. (2006). A Man Who Fears God': Constructions of Masculinity in Hellenistic Jewish Interpretations of the Story of Joseph. 
Lyons, W., graduate. (2003). Between History and Theology: The problem of herem in Modern Evangelical Scholarship. 
Nki, J., graduate. (2001). Traditional and Christian Interpretations of Suffering and Healing Among the Contemporary Meru of Kenya. 
Stilwell, G., graduate. (2000). Conduct and Behavior as Determinants for the Afterlife: A comparison of the Judgments of the Dead in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. 
Donalson, M., graduate. (1991). Jerome's Chronicon: A Translation and Commentary. 

Doctoral Committee Cochair

Bay, C. M., graduate. (2018). THE BIBLE, THE CLASSICS, AND THE JEWS IN PSEUDO-HEGESIPPUS: A LITERARY ANALYSIS OF THE FOURTH-CENTURY DE EXCIDIO HIEROSOLYMITANO 5.2. 

Doctoral Committee Member

Woodward, T. L., graduate. (2025). Laughing Matters in Hellenistic Judaism. 
Collins, J. A., graduate. (2022). "Bespattered with the Mud of Another's Lust": Rape and Physical Embodiment in Christian Literature of the 4th-6th Centuries CE. 
Angulo, G. P., graduate. (2021). Pockets Full of Piety: A Socio-Economic Analysis of Sectarianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls. 
Jurgens, B. A., graduate. (2021). Beyond Good and Evil: Rethinking the Dynamics of Early Jewish Demonic Discourse. 
Matson, J. M., graduate. (2021). Revivivng the Bones of the Prophets: R-Evaluating the Status of the Hebrew Bible Collection of Samller Prophetic Writings in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Late Second-Temple Period. 
Baldrick-Morrone, T. A., graduate. (2020).
Lollar, J. A., graduate. (2018).
Furiasse, A., graduate. (2018).
Skelton, D. A., graduate. (2017).
Short, H. L., graduate. (2017).
Watson, J. E., graduate. (2016).
Del Vecchio, J. M. B., graduate. (2016).
Whitley, T. J., graduate. (2016).
Bledsoe, S. A., graduate. (2015).
Essary, K. A., graduate. (2014).
Naizer, E. R., graduate. (2013).
Miller, S. T., graduate. (2012).
Simpson, T. F., graduate. (2011).
Smith, J., graduate. (2008).
Vaccarella, K., graduate. (2007).
Olsen, E. T., doctoral candidate. 

Doctoral Committee University Representative

Tilley, J. L., graduate. (2025). Dying in a Globalized Empire: Connectivity and Funerary Landscapes of Roman Greece. 
Lupu, M. S., graduate. (2024). Roman Philosoper Kings: The Idea of the Political Ruler in Cassius Dio's Roman History. 
Malmquist, K. S., graduate. (2022). Bricks and Mortar: The Military Consequences of the Destruction of Cultural, Religious, and Historical Monuments in Armed Conflict. 
Choi, Kyoung-Jun, graduate. (2022).
Fine, C., graduate. (2021). New Investigations into Prehistoric Corinth: The Neolithic Rhyton and Continuity of Socail Practice in Southeast Europe circa 6000-4200 BCE. 
McCleery, R. C., graduate. (2019).
Habib, R. R., graduate. (2017).
Celotto, G., graduate. (2017). Si Tantus Amor Belli Tibi, Roma, Nefandi. Love and Strife in Lucan's Bellum Civile.  Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2017SP_Celotto_fsu_0071E_13677
Oliver, K. M., graduate. (2016).
Youngblood, D. S., graduate. (2016).
Elliott, S. A., graduate. (2014).
Watkins, S. E., graduate. (2012).
Kirby, J. S., graduate. (2005).

Master's Committee Chair

Mohrland, M., graduate. (2006). "Hope Deferred: Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East Peace Process". 

Master's Committee Member

Malmquist, K. S., graduate. (2018).
Carr, J., graduate. (2007).

Bachelor's Committee Chair

Witherington, A., graduate. (2023). A Critical Edition and Textual and Stylistic Commentary for the Latin Translation of Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, Book 13.301-313. 
Friedman, M., graduate. (2017). "Turning Towards Zion: An Analysis of the Development of Attitudes Towards Israel of American Reform Jews in the Wake of Israel's War of 1967 Through Examination of the Yearbooks of the Central Conference of American Rabbis". 
Leach, C., graduate. (2013). A Transcription and Preliminary Analysis of the Latin Text of Book Six of Josephus' Jewish War in St. Gallen Latin Ms 627. 

Bachelor's Committee Member

Peters, G., graduate. (2021). St. Thomas Aquinas on Predestination: A Philosophical Examination. 
Ramos, A., graduate. (2021). Medieval Theories of Divine Knowledge. 
Hoffman, D., graduate. (2020).
Kitchen, T., graduate. (2019). Plight of the Palestinian Refugees. 
Sandler, S., graduate. (2019). The Rise Down-Under: The Rise of anti-Semitism in Australia. 
Sharff, J. R., graduate. (2019). Questioning the Hero in Daniel Botarin's Unheroic Conduct. 
O'Neill, C., graduate. (2016).
Woodward, T., graduate. (2016).
Lentner, E., graduate. (2015).
Marks, M., graduate. (2013).
Flashenburg, M., graduate. (2012).
Cushing, A., graduate. (2011).
Thomas, I., graduate. (2011).
Hosler, J., graduate. (2008).
Mendez Arango, S., student.  Religious Law in the Roman Republic: The Introduction of New Religious Practices and Its Effects on Roman Law in the Mid-to-Late Republic. 
Jeffre, E., student.  From Joshua to Judas: The Deuteronomistic Imprint on 1 Maccabees. 
Nicholson, S., student.  Divine Intervention and the Will of the Fates. 
Ongkiko, M., student.  Mors Voluntaria: Death and Suicide in Antiquity. 

Supervision of Student Research Not Related to Thesis or Dissertation

Lupu, M. (2018). 

Reeder, J. (2014–15). 

Ard, A. (2013). 

Leach, C. (2012). 

Additional Teaching Not Reported Elsewhere

Levenson, D. (2011). Guest Lecture on Jerusalem for Introduction to Middle East Studies. 

Levenson, D. (2010). Guest Lecture on Jews and Judaism for Introduction to Middle East Studies. 

Levenson, D. (2008). Co-Taught REL 6293, "Early Judaism," with Eibert Tigchelaar. 

Levenson, D. (2007). Co-Taught GRW 5215, "Josephus," with John Marincola. 

Levenson, D. (2006). Guest Lecture for "Christianity in Late Antiquity". 

Levenson, D. (2006). Guest Lecture for Honors Introduction to New Testament. 

Levenson, D. B. (2006). Advised and Supervised Religions of Western Antiquity MA Students. 

Guest Lecture

Levenson, D. (2024–2011). Guest lecture to First-Year Experience Class. 

Research and Original Creative Work

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Levenson, D. B., & Martin, T. R. (2021). A Revised Classification of Manuscript Groups for the  Early Books of the Latin Translation of Josephus's Antiquities  Based on Textual Variants in AJ 6.356–360 and 6.362b. Medievalia et Humanistica, 46, 71-148.

Levenson, D. B., & Martin, T. R. (2014). The Latin Josephus on Jesus, John the Baptist, and James: Criticial Texts of the Latin Translation of the Antiquities and Rufinus' Translation of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History Based on Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions. Journal for the Study of Judaism, 45, 1-79.

Levenson, D. B. (2013). "The Report of the Palestinian Earthquake of May (Iyyar) 363 in the Syriac Chronicon Miscellaneum and the Letter attributed to Cyril on the Rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple". Journal of Late Antiquity, 6, 60-83.

Levenson, D. B., & Martin, T. R. (2009). "Akairos or Eukairos? The Nickname of the Seleucid King Demetrius III in the Transmission of the Texts of Josephus' War and Antiquities,". Journal for the Study of Judaism, 40, 307-341.

Levenson, D. B. (2004). "The Ancient and Medieval Sources for the Emperor Julian's Attempt to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple". Journal for the Study of Judaism, 35, 409-460.

Invited Book Chapters

Levenson, D. B., & Martin, T. R. (contract). "Jewish War 6," Oxford Critical Guide to Josephus, ed. David Edwards. Manuscript under contract for publication, New York: Oxford University Press. 

Levenson, D. B. (1990). Julian's Attempt to Rebuild the Temple: An Inventory of Ancient and Medieval Sources. In Harold W. Attridge, John J. Collins, & Thomas H. Tobin (Eds.), Of Scribes and Scrolls: Studies on the Hebrew Bible, Intertestamental Judaism, and Christian Origins (pp. 261-279). New York: University Press of America. 

Refereed Book Chapters

Levenson, D. B. (in press). "Messianic Movements". In Amy-Jill Levine, & Marc Z. Brettler (Eds.), The Jewish Annotated New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Levenson, D. B. (2024). "Beyond Flusser: The Text of Latin Antiquities 13 and Sefer Yosippon,". In Carson M. Bay, Michael Avioz, & Jan Willem van Henten (Eds.), From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond – Texts -Re-interpretations – Afterlives (pp. 211-323). Leiden: Brill. 

Levenson, D. B. (2017). "Messianic Movements". In Amy-Jill Levine, & Marc Z. Brettler (Eds.), The Jewish Annotated New Testament, 2nd edition (pp. 622-628). New York: Oxford University Press. 

Levenson, D. B., & Martin, T. R. (2017). The Place of the Early Printed Editions of Josephus' Antiquities and War (1470-1534) in the Latin Textual Tradition. In Joel Baden, Hindy Najman, & Eibert Tigchelaar (Eds.), Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy (pp. 765-825). Leiden/Boston; Brill. 

Levenson, D. B., & Martin, T. R. (2016). The Ancient Latin Translations of Josephus. In Honora H. Chapman, & Zuleika Rodgers (Eds.), A Companion to Josephus (pp. 322-344). Wiley-Blackwell. 

Levenson, D. B. (2011). "Messianic Movements". In Amy-Jill Levine, & Marc Z. Brettler (Eds.), The Jewish Annotated New Testament (pp. 530-535). New York: Oxford University Press. 

Levenson, D. B. (1990). Different Texts or Different Quests: The Contexts of Biblical Studies. In Roger Brooks, & John J. Collins (Eds.), Hebrew Bible or Old Testament? (pp. 153-164). South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press. 

Invited Newsletter Articles

Levenson, D. B. (2002, March). University Religion Departments and Teaching About the Bible in Public High Schools: A Report from Florida. Religious Studies News, AAR Edition, 17, 3, 7, 10.

Nonrefereed Journal Articles

Levenson, D. B., & Kelsay, J. (1988). Double Talk or Dialogue? Presbyterians Encounter Judaism. The Christian Century, 638-640.

Presentations

Invited Papers at Conferences

Levenson, D. (presented 2017, November). Oral/Aural Methods for Teaching Biblical Hebrew. Paper presented at Annual Meeting, National Association of Professors of Hebrew/Society of Biblical Literature, Boston. (International)

Levenson, D., & Martin, T. (presented 2016, September). "The Latin Manuscripts of Josephus' Wars and Antiquities (with Thomas Martin),". Paper presented at Latinus Josephus Project, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. (International)

Levenson, D. B. (presented 2008, November). "Communicative Language Learning for Biblical Hebrew". Paper presented at Annual Meeting, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Boston. (National)

Refereed Papers at Conferences

Levenson, D. B. (presented 2023, March). New Discoveries in the Study of the Latin Josephus Texts Used by Sefer Yosippon. Paper presented at The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism in Wetsern Europe, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. (International)

Levenson, D., & Martin, T. (presented 2016, November). "Consulting and Evaluating the Latin Translations of Josephus' Antiquities and War: A Report on the Manuscript Tradition". Paper presented at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta. (International)

Levenson, D., & Martin, T. (presented 2009, November). "Evaluating the Available Resources for the Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions of the Latin Translation of the Jewish War". Paper presented at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Society of biblical Literature, Atlanta. (International)

Invited Keynote and Plenary Presentations at Conferences

Levenson, D. B. (presented 2001, October). "Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of Matthew". Plenary presentation at at International Symposium on the Interpretation of the Bible as a Force for Social Change, Evangelische Akademie Arnodlshain and Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Arnoldhain, Germany. (International)

Invited Presentations at Conferences

Levenson, D. B., & Carson Bay. (presented 2021, August). Sefer Yosippon & the Latin Josephus Manuscript Tradition: Exploring Flusser's Suggestion. Presentation at From Josephus to Josippon and Beyond: An International Conference, European Association of Jewish Studies, University of Bern, Bar-Ilan University, Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, Online. (International) Retrieved from https://www.fromjosephustojosippon.com/news

Levenson, D. B. (presented 2021, August). The Manuscript Tradition of the Latin Antiquities. Presentation at From Josephus to Josippon and Beyond: An International Conference, European Assoiation of Jewish Studies, University of Bern, Bar-Ilan University, Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, online. (International)

Levenson, D. B. (presented 2009, February). Response to Papers on Zionism. Presentation at FSU Religion Dept. Graduate Student Sympsium, FSU Religion Department, Tallahassee. (National)

Levenson, D. B. (presented 2007, March). Response to papers on Amos Oz and Left Behind series. Presentation at FSU Religion Department Graduate Symposium, FSU Religion Department, Tallahassee. (National)

Levenson, D. B. (presented 2006, March). Response to Papers on Zionism. Presentation at FSU Religion Department Graduate Symposium, FSu Religion Department. (National)

Invited Workshops

Levenson, D. B. (2022, May). Seeking Sefer Yosippon: The Hebrew Text and the Latin Josephus Tradition. Workshop delivered at University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. (International)

Levenson, D. B. (2020, September). Glossing Josephus in the Middle Ages: Comparative Perspectives. Workshop delivered at Lege Josephum Project: University of Bern, Universität Bern. (International)

Levenson, D. B., & Martin, T. R. (2019, September). Latin Josephus Workshop. Workshop delivered at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. (International)

Levenson, D. B., & Martin, T. R. (2013, March). Historiography Commentaries Workshop. Workshop delivered at FSU Classics Department, Tallahassee, Flordia. (International)

Contracts and Grants

Resource Grant

Levenson, D. (2018). A grant of $646.30. Bradley Library Resource Grant: Purchase of four-volume Katalogue der festlaendischen Handschriften des neinten Jahrhunderts edited by Bernhard Bischoff. Sponsored by Florda State University. 

Levenson, D. (2015). A grant of $3,183.76. Bradley Library Resource Grant: Josephus Manuscripts. Sponsored by Florida State University. 

Levenson, D. (2012–2013). A grant of $3,836. Faculty Research Library Materials Grant: Josephus. Sponsored by Florida State University. 

Levenson, D. (2011). A grant of $3455. Faculty research Library Material Grant: Josephus. Sponsored by Flordia State University. 

Levenson, D. (2008). A grant of $1,884. Faculty Research Library Materials Grant: Early Christian Apocrypha. Sponsored by Florida State University. 

Levenson, D. (2007). A grant of $1,133. Faculty Research Library Materials Grant: Josephus. Sponsored by Florida State University. 

Service

Florida State University

FSU University Service

Coordinator, Hebrew Language Division of Department of Modern Langauges (2006–present).

Member, Middle East Center Executive Committee (2005–present).

Member, Calendar Committee (2000–present).

Member, Honors Committee (2005–2017).

Reviewer, Summer COFRS Proposals (2010–2016).

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Conflict of Interest and Outside Activities (2009–2013).

Member, Spiritual Life Project (2009–2011).

Member, Sabbatical Committee (2008–2009).

Member, MLKjr Day Planning Committee (2000–2007).

Chair, GPC Subcommittee reviewing MA in German, Slavic, and Italian (2005–2006).

Member, GPC Subcommittee reviewing English graduate programs (2005).

FSU College Service

Member, Chapman Lecture Committee (2015–present).

Reviewer, Undergraduate Study Abroad Applications (2013–2016).

Reviewer, NEH Grant Proposals from Arts and Sciences (2006).

FSU Department Service

Advisor, Religion Major and Minor (2017–present).

Member, Undergraduate Policy (2017–present).

Coordinator, Dodd Hall Library Committee (2009–present).

Member, John F. Priest Lecture Committee (2007–present).

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Recruitment (2005–present).

Advisor, Religion and Classics Major (2004–present).

Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Religions of Western Antiquity Area (2021–2022).

Member, Search Committee for Post-Doc in Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy Area (2021).

Member, Executive Committee (2006–2013).

Editor, Religion Department Newsletter (2010–2012).

Member, Technology Committee (2010–2012).

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Certificate in the Religious Book (2010).

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Named Professorships (2009).

Chair, Chair Selection Committee (2008).

Chair, Search Committee (2008).

The Profession

Reviewer or Panelist for Grant Applications

North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences (2020–2021).

National Endowment for the Humanities: Albright Institute of Archaeological Research Summer Fellows (2006).

Service to Professional Associations

Seminar Chair, Josephus Seminar, Society of Biblical Literature Josephus Seminar (2020–2025).

Steering Committee, Society of Biblical Literature Josephus Seminar (2018–2019).

Member, Society of Biblical Literature Resource and Review (2015–2019).

Task Force on Teaching the Bible in Public Schools, Society of Biblical Literature (2006–2014).

Service to Other Universities

Promotion and Tenure Reviewer, University of Tennessee (2008). 

The Community

Lecturer, "Judaism and Abortion", Westminster Oakes Retirement Community (2025).

Judge, State Forum, Florida Junior Classical League (2022–2023).

Lecturer, Lecture on "Reconciliation in the Gospel of Matthew", First Presbyterian Church (2022).

Member, FSU Hillel Board (1993–2018).