Rate My Professor Anton Deik

Anton Deik serves as Assistant Professor in Biblical Studies and Associate Director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice at Bethlehem Bible College. A Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem, Palestine, he committed himself to Christ in 2010 and has ministered in various capacities in East Asia, England, Palestine, and Bolivia. Deik holds a Bachelor of Information Technology in Computer Systems Engineering from Birzeit University, Palestine. He earned an MA with Merit in Transformation: Scripture, Church and World from London School of Theology with Middlesex University, UK. He is pursuing a PhD in Divinity (New Testament Studies) at University of Aberdeen with Trinity College, Bristol, UK. Previously, Deik was Director of Online Education at Bethlehem Bible College and served with Operation Mobilization onboard MV Logos Hope from 2012 to 2013. Before transitioning to theology and ministry, he worked on large-scale computer science research projects with Birzeit University and the Palestinian government.

Deik's research specializations include Biblical Studies and Theology, addressing topics such as justice in Ecclesiastes, Paul in Athens, and Christian Zionism and mission. Key publications in this field are 'Justice in Ecclesiastes (3:16–4:3 and 8:10–17): A Missional Reading from and for Palestine,' in Jione Havea and Peter Lau (eds.), Reading Ecclesiastes from Asia and Pasifika, SBL Press, 2020; 'Paul in Athens (Acts 17:16–34): A Babbler or an Evangelistic Scholar of Religion?' and 'Christian Zionism and Mission: How Does our Understanding of Christianity Impact our Witness in the World?,' both in Martin Accad and Jonathan Andrews (eds.), The Religious Other – A Biblical Understanding of Islam, the Qur’an and Muhammad, Langham, 2020. In computer science, his contributions include 'Usability Evaluation of Lexicographic e-Services,' Proceedings of the 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, 2019; and 'The Graph Signature: A Scalable Query Optimization Index for RDF Graph Databases Using Bisimulation and Trace Equivalence Summarization,' International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, 2015. Deik has received PhD fellowships including the LeaderStudies Scholarship from ScholarLeaders International and the Michael Prior Memorial Scholarship from Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust since 2020.