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)
Reverberations of Faith (WJK, 2002)
An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination (WJK, 2003, 2nd Ed., 2012)
The Book that Breathes New Life: Scriptural Authority and Biblical Theology (Fortress, 2005)
Solomon: Israel's Ironic Icon of Human Achievement (University of South Carolina, 2005)
The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah (Cambridge, 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 (WJK, 2007)
Great Prayers of the Old Testament (WJK, 2008)
Redescribing Reality: What we do when we read the Bible (SCM, 2009)
Journey to the Common God (WJK, 2010)
Out of Babylon (Abingdon, 2010)
Disruptive Grace (SCM, 2011)
The Practice of Prophetic Imagination (Fortress, 2012)
with William H. Bellinger, Jr., Psalms. New Cambridge Bible Commentary (Cambridge, 2014)
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