Born 1933
Professor of Old Testament, Eden Theological Seminary
William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary (1986-2002)
Major Works
In Man we Trust: The Neglected Side of Biblical Faith (John Knox, 1972)
The Land: Place as Gift, Promise and Challenge in Biblical Faith (Fortress, 1977, 2nd. 2002)
The Prophetic Imagination (Fortress, 1978, 2nd ed. 2001)
The Creative Word: Canon as a Model for Biblical Education (Fortress, 1982)
Genesis: Interpretation Commentary (WJK, 1982)
The Message of the Psalms: A Theological Commentary (Augsburg, 1984)
David's Truth in Israel's Imagination and Memory (Fortress, 1985, 2nd ed., 2002)
Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile (Fortress, 1986)
Israel's Praise: Doxology Against Idoltary and Ideology (Fortress, 1988)
Jeremiah 1-25: To Pluck Up, To Tear Down (Eerdmanns, 1988)
Finally Comes the poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation (Fortress, 1989)
First and Second Samuel: Interpretation Commentary (WJK, 1990)
Power, Providence & Personality: Biblical Insight into Life and Ministry (WJK, 1990)
Abiding Astonishment: Psalms, Modernity, and the Making of History (WJK, 1991)
Jeremiah 26-52: To Build, To Plant (Eerdmans, 1991)
Interpretation and Obedience: From Faithful Reading to Faithful Living (Fortress, 1991)
Old Testament Theology: Approaches to Structure, Theme and Text (Fortress, 1992)
Texts Under Negotiation: The Bible and Postmodern Imagination (Fortress, 1993)
Biblical Perspectives on Evangelism: Living in a Three-Storied Universe (Abingdon, 1993)
A Social Reading of the Old Testament: Prophetic Approaches to Israel's Communal Life (Fortress, 1994)
The Psalms and the Life of Faith (Fortress, 1995)
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy (Fortress, 1997)
Cadences of Home: Preaching Among Exiles (WJK, 1997)
Isaiah 1-39, Isaiah 40-66. Westminster Bible Companion (WJK, 1998)
A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming (Eerdmans, 1998)
The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant (Fortress, 1999)
1 & 2 Kings. Smyth and Helwys Bible Commentary (Smyth and Helwys, 2000)
Deep Memory, Exuberant Hope: Contested Truth in a Post-Christian World (Forstress, 200o)
Texts that Linger, Words that Explode: Listening to Prophetic Voices (Fortress, 2000)
Testimony to Otherwise: The Witness of Elijah and Elisha (Chalice, 2001)
Deuteronomy. Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries (Abingdon, 2001)
An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination (WJK, 2003)
The Book that Breathes New Life: Scriptural Authority and Biblical Theology (Fortress, 2005)
The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah (CUP, 2006)
The Word that Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship (Fortress, 2006)
Like Fire in the Bones: Listening for the Prophetic Word in Jeremiah (Fortress, 2006)
Mandate to Difference: an Invitation to the Contemporary Church (2007)
Great Prayers of the Old Testament (WJK, 2008)
Divine Presence Amid Violence (Paternoster, 2009)
Redescribing Reality: What we do when we read the Bible (SCM, 2009)
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