Dr. Brickle teaches New Testament studies and Greek at UGST in Wentzville, Missouri. While his research interests are eclectic, he focuses primarily on the confluence of Johannine Literature with Ancient Media Culture (orality/aurality, sound mapping, memory arts, literary and book culture, performance, spatiality, intertextuality). Along with his published dissertation, Aural Design and Coherence in the Prologue of First John (T&T Clark, 2012), he has contributed essays to The Fourth Gospel in First-Century Media Culture (T&T Clark, 2011), Rethinking the Ethics of John (Mohr Siebeck, 2012), Memory and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (SBL Press, 2014), Abiding Words: The Use of Scripture in the Gospel of John (SBL Press, 2015), and Sound Matters: New Testament Studies in Sound Mapping (Cascade, 2018). He also has written and edited for a more general readership: The Apostolic Study Bible (New Testament editor and contributor), Handbook on the Gospels, and Handbook on the General Epistles and Revelation (co-authored).
Dr. Brickle earned degrees from Harvard University (A.L.B. in Religion), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.A. in Urban Ministry), and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (Ph.D. in Biblical Studies). His professional memberships include Society of Biblical Literature, Society for Pentecostal Studies, and Institute for Biblical Research.
In addition to 18 years teaching at UGST, Dr. Brickle has also served as a full-time instructor at Gateway College of Evangelism, assistant pastor, full-time campus minister, lab administrator at Harvard University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and support staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has played the electric bass since 1976, holds an associates degree in music (Finger Lakes Community College), and studied bass at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He grew up on a farm outside the small town of Phelps, New York.
