Anthony Raymond Ceresko

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| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age |2005|08|13|1942|08|20}}

| death_place = Tagaytay, Philippines

| church = Roman Catholic Church
Oblates of St. Francis de Sales

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| ordained =12 September 1970

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| offices_held =Professor of Old Testament

| title = Reverend Doctor

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| parents = Mother: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Tyrie Ceresko

Father: Dr. Anthony

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Anthony Raymond Ceresko (1942–2005) was an Old Testament scholar.

History

Ceresko was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on 20 August 1942.{{cite web|url=http://www.oblates.us/bondings_fall05.pdf |title=Deaths in Province|work=Bondings |volume=18|issue=4|date=Fall 2005|page=6-7 |publisher=Oblates of St. Francis de Sales |access-date=30 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812132530/http://www.oblates.us/bondings_fall05.pdf |archive-date=12 August 2007 }} After completing studies at the local Salesian High School in Detroit, Ceresko entered the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales in Childs, Maryland and was professed on 21 August 1962.

Studies

He studied at the Niagara University, Lewiston, New York, and graduated in 1967. Ceresko was later sent to The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., in 1970 where he studied Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) and Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL).

Ceresko obtained a doctorate from the Pontifical Biblical Institute. His thesis was Job 29:31 in the light of Northwest Semitic - A Translation and Philological Commentary.Anthony Raymond Ceresko, [https://books.google.com/books?id=UCYlbxp_FTUC&dq=anthony+raymond+ceresko&pg=PA10 Job 29:31 in the light of Northwest Semitic - A Translation and Philological Commentary], Biblical Institute Press, Rome, 1980.

Writings

Job 29:31 in the light of Northwest Semitic - A Translation and Philological Commentary
Introduction to the Old Testament: a Liberation PerspectiveAnthony Raymond Ceresko, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zG5-AAAAMAAJ&q=anthony+raymond+ceresko Introduction to the Old Testament: a Liberation Perspective], Orbis Books, 2001.
Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom - A Spirituality for LiberationAnthony Raymond Ceresko, [http://www.wellsprings.com.sg/nzc/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=13290 Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom - A Spirituality for Liberation], Orbis Books, 1999.

Teacher

Ceresko first taught at the SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan. He later moved to Canada and was Professor of Scripture at University of St. Michael's College in Toronto.

In 1991, Ceresko moved to India and was Professor of Old Testament at St. Peter's Pontifical Seminary in Bengaluru. In 1999, Ceresko volunteered to teach in the Divine Word Seminary in Tagaytay, Philippines.

Scholarship

Along with Thomas P. Wahl, Ceresko co-edited the notes on Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk in the second edition of the New Jerome Biblical Commentary, and wrote the notes on Jonah.Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Roland E. Murphy (Ed.), New Jerome Biblical Commentary, second edition, Chapman, London, 1990.

Ceresko's other journal articles include:

"The Function of 'Order' (Sedeq) and 'Creation' in the Book of Proverbs with Some Implications for Today".{{Cite web |url=http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_Hildebrandt/OTeSources/20-Proverbs/Text/Bibliography/Proverbs-Bibliography.htm |title=Ted Hildebrandt, Proverbs: Rough and working Bibliography, 2005 |access-date=2009-03-30 |archive-date=2013-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319054509/http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/OTeSources/20-Proverbs/Text/Bibliography/Proverbs-Bibliography.htm |url-status=dead }}
"The Rhetorical Strategy of the Fourth Servant Song (Isaiah 52:13-53:12): Poetry and the Exodus-New Exodus"[http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/isaiah.php Catholic Biblical Quarterly 56.1 (1994): 42-55]
"The Abcs of Wisdom in Psalm xxxiv"[http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_Hildebrandt/OTeSources/19-Psalms/Text/Bibliography/PsalmsBibliiography.htm Ted Hildebrandt, Psalms Bibliography, 2005]
"A Note on Psalm 63: A Psalm of Vigil"
"A Poetic Analysis of Ps 105, with Attention to Its Use of Irony"
"Prayers for Times of Distress"
"Psalm 121: A Prayer of a Warrior?"
"Psalm 149: Poetry, Themes (Exodus and Conquest), and Social Function"
"The Sage in the Psalms." The Sage in Israel and the Ancient near East"
"The Function of Chiasmus in Hebrew Poetry"
"St. Francis de Sales - Spiritual Directory for a New Century: Re-interpreting the Direction of Intention"Anthony Raymond Ceresko, To reward them afterwards - Eschatology and St. Francis de Sales - Direction of Intention or Right Intending of Deeds, Indian Journal of Spirituality, Volume 16/3, 2003, pp.316-335.[http://www4.desales.edu/SCFC/Studies/Ceresko-Eschatology.pdf]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
"To reward them afterwards - Eschatology and St. Francis de Sales - Direction of Intention or Right Intending of Deeds"

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Divine Word Seminary, Tagaytay|after=| years=1999-2005'''}}

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St. Peter's Pontifical Seminary, Bengaluru|after=| years=1991-1999'''}}

References

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{{cite journal|author1=Raymond E. |author2=Brown, S.S |author3=Joseph A. Fitzmyer |author4=Roland E. Murphy |title=New Jerome Biblical Commentary |year=1990 |issue=Second Edition |url=http://www.stpetersseminary.ca/library/new%20jerome%20biblical%20commentary.html }}{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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