PERSONAL WEBSITES
- Google Scholar
- Andrews Academia
- Researchgate
- digitalcommons.andrews
EMAIL
slavisa.jankovic@meu.edu.lb
BIO
Dr. Slaviša Janković is an Associate Professor of Religion at Middle East University (MEU), Lebanon, specializing in Old Testament studies, biblical exegesis, and atonement theology. He joined MEU in 2019 after serving as an Adjunct Professor in the Old Testament Department at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI (USA).
He earned his PhD in Religion from Andrews University, focusing on Old Testament ritual texts and the concept of atonement. His research explores the sacrificial system of ancient Israel, hamartiology, holiness, biblical law, and the theology of the sanctuary. Dr. Janković regularly attends and presents at international academic conferences, including the Adventist Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature, and is a member of the international and multidenominational scholarly group Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch.
At MEU, Dr. Janković combines rigorous research with dedicated teaching, mentoring students in biblical interpretation, theology, and Old Testament scholarship, while contributing to MEU’s mission of transformative education in Lebanon and beyond.
EDUCATION
- PhD in Religion (Old Testament Studies) — Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA
- Master of Divinity Equivalency (Old Testament emphasis) — Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA
- Bachelor of Arts in Theology — Belgrade Theological School, Belgrade, Serbia
PUBLICATIONS
- “Priest, Priesthood,” “Sin, Confession,” “Firepans,” “Freewill Offering,” “Fine Linen,” “Flour,” “Flow, Flow of Blood,” “Foot,” “Fat, fattened,” “Fit, fitting,” “Fade, fade away,” “Veil,” and “Substitution” articles in Seventh-day Adventist International Biblical-Theological Dictionary, Daniel K. Bediako, and Keldie Paroschi, eds., Biblical Research Institute, 2025.
- Expansions on existing drop ins for Exodus in Maranatha Study Bible, Safeliz, Spain, 2024.
- Additional notes for the book of Exodus in Maranatha Study Bible, Safeliz, Spain, 2024.
- Expansions on existing drop ins for Leviticus in Maranatha Study Bible, Safeliz, Spain, 2024.
- Additional notes for the book of Leviticus in Maranatha Study Bible, Safeliz, Maranatha Study Bible, Safeliz, Spain, 2024.
- “Laying on of Hands,” “Hezekiah,” “Samaritans,” “Widows,” “The Sin of Nadab and Abihu,” and “Adultery” articles in Maranatha Study Bible: A Lamp to my Feet, Safeliz, Spain, 2024.
- Slaviša Janković, “A Re-Examination of Pentateuchal Hamartology and Atonement as a Hermeneutical Framework for Interpreting the Laying on of Hands” Adventist Thehological Society Dissertation Series (Berrien Springs, Adventist Theological Society, 2023).
- Book Review, Greenberg, James. A. A New Look at Atonement in Leviticus: The Meaning and Purpose of Kipper Revisited. University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns, 2019. Andrews University Seminary Studies, Fall 2023.
- “The Rationale Behind the Homocide Law in Numbers 35:30-34,” in Searching Scriptures: Andrews University Seminary Emerging Scholars Pay Tribute to Their Professors, Slaviša Janković (Berrien Springs: Departemtn of Old Testament-Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, 2018).
- “Iskre Jevandjelja u Starozavetnom Zakonu (The Glimpses of the Gospel in the Old Testament Law),” Glasnik (Serbian version of Adventist Review) 1 (2014).
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
- “Literary Criticism,” “Guilt, guilty,” “Death,” and “Wrong” articles in Seventh-day Adventist International Biblical-Theological Dictionary, Daniel K. Bediako, and Keldie Paroschi, eds., Biblical Research Institute, 2025. – articles submitted
- Book Review, Feder, Yitzhaq. Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Andrews University Seminary Studies, Spring 2026.
- “Laying on of Hands in Cultic and Legal Contexts in the Old Testament” in DARCOM Supp. Vol. (Biblical Reasearch Institute, xxx), article submitted
- “Aaron (Aron),” in Old and New Testament Characters, Laslo Galus and Dragan Grujicic, vols. 2 (Beograd: Preporod, pending), article submited
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Papers presentations:
- “Leviticus 20:3: Revisiting the Old Crux” (paper presented at the 2023 Annual Metting SBL, San Antonio, TX., November 20, 2023)
- “Holiness in the Pentateuch: Controlled by God or Controlling God” (paper presented at the Annual Adventist Theology Society meeting, Denver, Colorado, Novembar 19, 2022)
- “Do the Allusions Found in Jer 4:23-26 Support Local or Cosmic Scope?” (paper presented at the 2018 Midwest Region Meeting of the SBL, South Bend, Indiana, February 3, 2018)
- “The Textual Evidence of the Omission Found in the LXX Translation of Lev 16:14-15” (paper presented at the 2016 Midwest Region Meeting of the SBL, Bourbonnais, Ilinois., February 7, 2016)
- “Theological Concepts and Principles Related to the Interpretation of Classical Old Testament Prophecies: Jer 4:23-26” (paper presented at the Adventist Theological Society Fall Symposium, Collegedale, Tennessee, April 2014)
- “The Nature of the Omission Found in the LXX Translation of Lev 16:14-15” (paper presented at the 10th Annual Seminary Scholarly Symposium, Berrien Springs, Michigan, February 2014)
- “Re-examination of Jer 4:23-26: Validity of the Connection with the Condition of the Earth during the Millennium” (paper presented at the 8th Annual Seminary Scholarly Symposium, Berrien Springs, Michigan, February 2012)
Poster Presentations:
- “The Nature of the Omission Found in the LXX Translation of Lev 16:14-15” (poster presented at the Adventist Theological Society, Baltimore, Maryland., November 2013)
- “The Nature of the Omission Found in the LXX Translation of Lev 16:14-15” (poster presented at the Adventist Society for Religious Studies, Baltimore, Maryland., November 2013)
- “Do the Allusions Found in Jer 4:23-26 Support Local or Cosmic Scope?” (poster presented at the Adventist Society for Religious Studies, San Francisco, California, 2011)
OTHER
- Reviewer for Andrews University Seminary Student Journal
- Reviewer for Journal of the Adventist Theological Society
- Reviewer for Journal of Asian Adventist Seminary
- Editor of Searching Scriptures: Andrews University Seminary Emerging Scholars Pay Tribute to Their Professor, Slaviša Janković (Berrien Springs: Department of Old Testament-Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, 2018)
- A nucleus member of a multi-denominational and international scholarly research group Exploring Composition of Pentateuch based at Andrews University since 2018-present.
