Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Winter 2014 | Page 19

Jeremiah
cooGan ’13

will prompt both the church and academy to think more carefully
about what we mean when we say ‘Scripture,’” Jeremiah says, “and
about the impact of translation and early transmission.”
Jeremiah began learning Latin in middle school and started
studying German in high school. Once at Wheaton, he added
Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Coptic. He spent a semester
in Tübingen, and also participated in a week of intensive seminars
with one of the best Septuagint scholars in the world, Dr. Jan
Joosten, at the Septuaginta Unternehmen in Göttingen, Germany.
As a junior scholar with The Green Scholars Initiative,
Jeremiah was part of Professor Karen Jobes’ Wheaton College
team identifying, preparing, and publishing a koine papyrus from
the Septuagint for The Green Scholars Initiative: Papyrus Series to
be published by Brill. He spent three weeks in Oxford this past
summer doing further work on this publication. He has been
invited by the general editor to contribute a lexical article to the
Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint, Vol. 2
(Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, forthcoming 2016).
As a Hastert Center Research Scholar, Jeremiah co-authored
an essay with Professor Bryan McGraw, “A Shifting Evangelical
Conversation on Political Economy,” and co-presented it with Dr.
McGraw at Notre Dame. He also delivered an academic paper at
meetings of the Midwest Society of Biblical Literature.
Beginning two years of fully funded graduate study at the
University of Oxford, Jeremiah plans to focus on the Septuagint
and other early versions of the Bible. He aims one day to teach
languages and conduct research in Septuagint and textual criticism.
“I hope to be able to share my love of the languages with students,

opening doors for them to understand Scripture and the ancient
world in which it was written and read,” Jeremiah says.
Jeremiah and Sarah (Carter) Coogan ’13 were married on
September 7. “Not surprisingly,” he says, “we met in the library.”
Sarah also plans to study at Oxford for a one-year master of studies
(MSt) degree starting in the fall of 2014. She then hopes to earn a
Ph.D. and someday teach at the collegiate level.

andrew Thompson ’13
fellOW WITh The ORegON leaDeRshIP DevelOPmeNT INsTITuTe
maJORs: COmmuNICaTION (JOuRNalIsm CeRTIfICaTe) aND sPaNIsh

while a senior at Wheaton, Andrew Thompson attended the

2013 National Prayer Breakfast by invitation from the National
Student Leadership Forum. “The experience was incredible,” he
says, “chiefly because I met individuals from around the world—
including leaders from Norway, Guatemala, and India—and many
from the United States.”
It was there that he also met the director of the Oregon
Leadership Development Institute (OLDI), who encouraged him to
apply to the Fellows Program in Portland, Ore., where he is today.
Andrew sees this program as a fulfillment of a gentle tug that began
as he worked his way through Spanish and journalism classes, and
mentored other students as a resident assistant at Wheaton.
W H E A T O N     17