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Ludwig Beethoven J. Noya

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible

Biography

Dr. Ludwig Beethoven J. Noya is a biblical scholar who engages in interdisciplinary readings of biblical texts in their ancient and contemporary contexts. Born and raised in Southeast Asia (Indonesia), he completed a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible in the Southeastern U.S. (Vanderbilt University, Nashville). He has also obtained master’s degrees from Boston University and Vanderbilt University, while doing coursework as a visiting student at Harvard University, Boston College, and Tel Aviv University. For his dissertation research, Ludwig also served as a visiting research associate at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide in the UK.

Ludwig’s first monograph project reexamines Sabbath transgression narratives in the Hebrew Bible, connecting them with the Sabbath experiences in Antebellum North America and the British Colonial Global South. This monograph is under contract with Oxford University Press. Additionally, Ludwig serves as a board member of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice (CLBSJ) and is the Bible Editor for the Asian American Theological Forum (AATF). Before joining Brite, he taught at Villanova University, Valparaiso University, and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

  • M.A., Vanderbilt University

  • M.T.S., Boston University

Course Taught & Projection

  • Work Hard, “Prey” Hard:  Hebrew Bible, Labor, & Intersectionality

  • Readers on the Margins:  Exploring Marginalized and Underrepresented Hebrew Bible Readers

  • The “Table” of Nations:  Foreigners in the Hebrew Bible and United States Immigration History

  • Worshipping with Neighbors:  Introduction to the Ancient Near Eastern Religions

  • Preaching with Neighbors’ Scriptures:  Introduction to the Ancient Near Eastern Literatures

Professional Affiliations

  • American Academy of Religion (AAR)

  • European Association for Biblical Studies (EABS)

  • Renewed Philology Network at Yale Divinity School

  • Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

  • Society of Asian Biblical Studies (SABS)

Selected Publications

Volumes:

  • Rest as a Site of Struggle: Reconsidering Sabbath Transgression Narratives in the Hebrew Bible. New York: Oxford University Press (Forthcoming)

  • Class, Hebrew Bible, and Intersectionality: Engaged Biblical Studies in the Academy, the Boardroom, and on the Street, co-edited with Matthew J.M. Coomber. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2026.

  • Bequests of Rest: Exploring “Rest” in Ancient Jewish and Christian Contexts, co-edited with Seth A. Bledsoe. (in Contractual Talks)

Articles:

  • “Labor Relations, Extractions, & Sabbath-Related Passages,” in Oxford Handbook for Wealth and Poverty in the Biblical World. Edited by Roger S. Nam and Samuel L. Adams. New York: Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming)

  • “A Reexamination of the Sabbath ‘Rest’ in Exodus 20,” Biblische Notizen 209 (2026): 3–10.

  • “Biblical Studies and Indonesian Contexts,” Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies. Edited by Christopher Matthews. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026.

  • “Happy Sabbath? Overemphasized Liberative Sabbath & White Ignorance” in Advancing Biblical Studies: Decentering Whiteness in Biblical Studies. Edited by Wongi Park. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2026. 224–244.

  • “Put an End to Things that Offend: שׁבת-verbs in the Book of Ezekiel,” Biblica 106, no. 4 (2025): 535–566.

  • “To Do the Sabbath: Reassessing the Sabbath Laws in Exodus 31:12–17 & 35:1–3,” Revue Biblique 132, no. 2 (2025): 207–218.

  • “Temporal and Spatial Colonization: Revisiting the Liberative Aspect of ‘Rest’,” Horizons in Biblical Theology 47, no. 2 (2025): 149–167.

  • “Offerings Matter: Reconsidering the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-called Sabbath Reform.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 47, no. 4 (2023): 408–430.

  • “‘Who Gives You the Power to Get Wealth’: Economics and the Hebrew Bible in the Past Decade,” Currents in Biblical Research 23, no. 1 (2024): 37–79.

  • “The Flexibility of Sabbath: Another Pauline Ethnopolitical Device,” in Biblical Theology Bulletin 54, no. 4 (2024): 273–284.

  • “Judean Skin, Babylonian Masks: Reconsidering Ezekiel’s Anti-Imperial Stance,” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 38, no. 1 (2024): 109–124.

  • “I Am Onan: Rereading the Transgression of the So-Called Wasting Seed,” Biblical Interpretation 31, no. 2 (2023): 135–157.