Steven Craig Miller
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Sports or Recreation |
| Occupation | Househusband & High School Chess Coach |
| Location | New Lenox (South of Chicago), IL, United States |
| Introduction | I’ve played tournament chess off and on for some 30 years. My peak USCF rating was 2149 (although, that was some time ago). During 2001-2005 I was head coach at Governor French Academy (Belleville, IL; a K-12 private school); during 2005-2007 I was assistant coach at Lincoln-Way Central H.S. (New Lenox, IL); and during 2007-2009 I was assistant coach at Lincoln-Way East H.S. (Frankfort, IL). |
| Interests | Chess, ancient Greek, biblical studies, history, reading, sitting at my computer, watching movies |
| Favorite Movies | Duck Soup (1933), Thin Man (1934), After the Thin Man (1936), Modern Times (1936), Libeled Lady (1936), Double Wedding (1937), Another Thin Man (1939), I love You Again (1940), Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), Maltese Falcon (1941), Citizen Kane (1941), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), Passage to Marselle (1944), Thin Man Goes Home (1945), Big Sleep (1946), Song of the Thin Man (1947), African Queen (1951), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Flight of the Phoenix (1965), Star Wars (1977), Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), V.I. Warshawski (1991), Point of No Return (1993), Brother Cadfael (1994-98), Braveheart (1995), Supercop (1996), Contact (1997), Peacemaker (1997), Zero Effect (1998), Dead Husbands (1998), Montana (1998), Patriot (2000), Get Carter (2000), Bourne Identity (2002). |
| Favorite Music | I've Got a Reason by Richie Furay, Gospel by Moby, Sail Away by Randy Newman, A Mighty Fortress is Our God by Martin Luther, Eric Clapton, the Reverend Al Green, Jimi Hendrix, U2, Canon in D Minor by Johann Pachelbel, Gravedigger by Dave Matthews, CCR, I'm Wrong About Everything by John Wesley Harding, Natalie Merchant, Leon Russell, Beethoven, Guess Who, Santana, Queen, Mozart, Hymns: "Gather Us In, " "Lift High the Cross". |
| Favorite Books | "Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose" by Addison Hogue (1891), "Novum Testamentum Graece" edited by Nestle & Aland, "A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research" by A. T. Robertson (1934), "Greek Grammar" by Herbert Weir Smyth (1956), "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolken, "Systematic Theology" by Paul Tillich, "The History of the Synoptic Tradition" by Rudolf Bultmann, "Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum" edited by Aland, "The Four Gospels" by Burnett Hillman Streeter (1956), "Alexander of Macedon: A Historical Biography" by Peter Green (1991), "Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word" by Father Ong (1982), "The God We Never Knew" by Marcus J. Borg (1997), "Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army" by Donald W. Engels (1978), "Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge" by Sir Karl Popper, "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature" revised and edited by Frederick William Danker (2000), Navajo murder mysteries by Tony Hillerman, Dashiell Hammett, "My Great Predecessors" (five volumes) by Garry Kasparov, "A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament" by Zerwick & Grosvenor (1996), "A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament" by Bruce M. Metzger (1994), "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst (1996), "Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death" by Richard Marius (1999), "Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagination" by Robert Bruce Mullin (1996), "Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher" by Gregory Vlastos (1991), "Socrates on Trial" by Brickhouse and Smith (1989), "Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture" by Peter Green (1989), "Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary" by Ramsay MacMullen (1990), "The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture" by Jean Leclercq (1982), and many others. |