My work experience includes:
Bioinformatics Systems Specialist, Telethon Kids Institute (WA), 2017-2018
Data Analyst, Department of Health (WA), 2015-2017
Scientific Officer, Department of Health (WA), 2013-2015
XML Programmer and Analyst, University of Virginia Press, 2011-2013
XML Programmer and Analyst, Documents Compass, 2010
XML Programmer and Analyst, University of Virginia Press, 2005-2009
Health Physicist, Department of Health (WA), 2003-2005
Digital Library Consultant, Oxford University, 2002-2005
Text Encoding Specialist, Religion and Technology Center, 2000-2003
Bachelor of Computer Studies, Murdoch University
Postgraduate degree including C++, Java, assembly, object-oriented design, data structures and abstractions, computer networks, relational databases (SQL), systems analysis, and image processing components.
Doctor of Philosophy, Murdoch University
Dissertation on the text of the Epistle to the Hebrews in the Greek New Testament involving palaeography of Greek manuscripts, text encoding and markup, Perl programs to process and collate manuscript texts, multivariate analysis of the collation data, and interpretation of the results in the light of known textual history.
Bachelor of Divinity (honours), Murdoch University
Postgraduate degree including theology, church history, languages (Greek, Hebrew), pastoral care, missiology, homiletics, religious education. I wrote a thesis on the collation of three Greek manuscripts of the Epistle to the Hebrews for the honours component.
Bachelor of Science (physics major), University of Western Australia
Degree including classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, relativity, optics, electronics, solid state physics, nuclear physics, high energy physics, calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, vector algebra, complex analysis, statistics, physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and zoology.
Lead programmer for this digital archive of Founding Era presidential correspondence. I worked under contract to the University of Virginia Press who were commissioned to do the work by the United States National Archives. This site receives thousands of visitors and hundreds of thousands of hits per day.
Lead programmer for the American Founding Era Collection, The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, The Journal of Emily Shore, and “Typee”: A Fluid-Text Edition.
Makes available a number of collections of ancient documents including the Oxyrhynchus papyri. I did the original system design and implementation, installing the servers it first ran on.
TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
Technical editor of this online journal from 2001 until 2018; responsible for web publication.
What Does the Text Actually Say?
Edited this Festschrift in honour of my New Testament teacher.
Downloadable copy of my PhD dissertation.
More examples of my work are available here.
I was lecturer for these tertiary courses:
Romans, Vose Seminary
John’s Apocalypse, Vose Seminary
General Letters, Vose Seminary
Letter to the Hebrews, Baptist Theological College (WA)
Australian Society of Archivists, Perth
Presented a paper titled “Applying Markup.”
Digital Humanities, Sydney
Organized the inaugural Digital New Testament workshop and presented a paper titled “Manuscript Copying Simulation.”
Marklogic Users, San Francisco (USA)
David Sewell presented Planning for Growth with and without Performance Metering. He kindly listed me as co-author.
Digital Humanities Australasia, Perth
Presented a paper titled “How To Discover Textual Groups.”
Association Internationale Bible et Informatique, Stellenbosch (South Africa)
Presented a paper titled “Computer-oriented Transcription, Collation and Analysis of the New Testament Manuscript Tradition (Starting with Hebrews).”
Digital Resources in the Humanities, Oxford (UK)
Presented a paper titled “Transcribing New Testament manuscripts.”
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Bergen (Norway)
Presented a paper titled “Computer-assisted Collation of New Testament Manuscripts”
Unsealed Radio-Isotopes, UWA
Safe use and handling of unsealed radio-isotopes.
MarkLogic Server Training, Mark Logic Corporation
Introduction to use of the MarkLogic XQuery server presented by Jason Hunter.
XQuery Training, Datypic
Introduction to XQuery presented by Priscilla Walmsley.
Non-Radiologist Fluoroscopy, Medical and Scientific Services
Radiation safety for fluoroscopic x-ray machines.
TeraText XML Database, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
XML database design and implementation.
Tutoring in Social Sciences, Murdoch University
Lesson preparation, learning paradigms.
Papyrology Summer School, Oxford University
Palaeography, papyrology, Greco-Roman history.
Latin for Beginners, UWA
Basic Latin.
German 1 and 2, TAFE (WA)
Basic German.
Abseiling Instructor Certificate, Ministry of Sport and Recreation
Rope skills, safety procedures, rescue techniques.
Senior First Aid, St John Ambulance Association (not current)
CPR, management of cuts, burns, sprains and broken bones.
Finney, Timothy J. 1994. “A Proposed Reconstruction of Hebrews 7.28a in P46.” New Testament Studies 40.
———. 1996. “Transcribing New Testament Manuscripts for Computer Collation.” Religious Studies News 11 (1).
———. 1997. “Mapping the Textual History of Hebrews.” Revue Informatique et Statistique Dans Les Sciences Humaines 33.
———. 1999. “Acts of the Apostles XXVI 31-32; XXVII 6-7.” In The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 66. London: Egypt Exploration Society.
———. 2002a. “Computer-Oriented Transcription, Collation and Analysis of the New Testament Manuscript Tradition (Starting with Hebrews).” In Bible and Computer: The Stellenbosch AIBI-6 Conference. Leiden: Brill.
———. 2002b. “What Agreement Is Not.” In What Does the Text Actually Say? http://www.halotype.com/RKM/.
———. 2006. “Manuscript Markup.” In The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of an American Treasure Trove. SBLTCS 6. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.
———. 2010. “Mapping Textual Space.” TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 15. http://purl.org/TC/v15/Mapping/.
———. 2014. “Varieties of New Testament Text.” In Digging for the Truth: Collected Essays Regarding the Byzantine Text of the Greek New Testament, edited by Mark Billington and Peter Streitenberger. Norden: FYM.
———. 2018. “How to Discover Textual Groups.” Digital Studies / Le Champ Numérique 8 (1): 7. doi:10.16995/dscn.291.