Dr. Luis A. Quiñones-Román

Biography

Dr. Luis A. Quiñones-Roman was educated in San Juan (PR), Princeton (NJ), Jerusalem (IL), and Edinburgh (UK). His first bachelor’s degree is in Biblical Studies from Mizpah Pentecostal University. His second bachelor’s is in History of the Americas from the University of Puerto Rico. Luis obtained a master’s in divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 2017. His second master’s is in the Bible and the Ancient Near East from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2020. Luis has wide-ranging interests in Torah Studies, Akkadian and Biblical Laws, Sexual Crimes, Gender Studies, Ancient Judaism, Rabbinical Literature, and Pentecostal Studies. The two foci of Luis’ research are sexual crimes and biblical sexual laws. Thus, following the successful defence of his PhD thesis on sexual transgressions in the Hebrew Bible, Luis was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by the university in July 2026. He is the Chairman, co-founder, and a key organizational leader of the Society for Caribbean Pentecostal Theology (SCPT).

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming “Let’s Talk About the Uncomfortable: Sexual Transgressions in the Hebrew Bible,” (accepted).
• Forthcoming “Lot and His Daughters: Reframing the Cave Narrative (Gen 19:30–38) As Intrafamilial Sexual Violence,” (in review).
• Forthcoming “Sexual and Gender Based Violence: A Case Study of Genesis 34,” in Stories of Origins, ed. Erik Tonning (accepted).
• 2026. Quiñones-Román, Luis A. “Sexual Transgressions: Reading Law and Narrative Materials in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible.” PhD diss., The University of EdinburghView publication ↗https://doi.org/10.7488/era/7744
• 2026 “Divine Violence in the General Letters of the New Testament: A Case Study of Hebrews 10:26–31.” In The Bible and Violence, eds. Johanna Stiebert, Johnathan Jadamus, Chris Greenough, Mmapula Kebaneilwe. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026. (ISBN: 9780567709165)View publication ↗https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567709103.054
• 2024 Phenomenal Phenomena: Biblical and Multicultural Accounts of Spirits and Exorcism, (Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2023), in Pneuma 46 (2024): 547–549View publication ↗https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-04603016
• 2023 A Pentecostal Commentary on Revelation, By Jon K. Newton, (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2021), in Pneuma, 45, 3–4 (2023): 524–525View publication ↗https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-04503016
• 2023 The Spirit of God: Biblical Pneumatology in its Religious-Historical Context, By Reinhard Feldmeier, (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Schöningh, 2022), in Pneuma, 45, 3–4 (2023): 526–529View publication ↗https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-04503017