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George Ernest Wright (September 5, 1909 – August 29, 1974), was a leading Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist. An expert in Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, he was especially known for his work in the study and dating of pottery. He was associated with the biblical theology movement.
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John Joseph [1] Collins (born 1946, County Tipperary) is an Irish-born American biblical scholar, the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. He is noted for his research in the Hebrew Bible , as well as the apocryphal works of the Second Temple period including the sectarian works found in Dead ...
James L. Crenshaw is the Robert L. Flowers Professor of the Old Testament at Duke University Divinity School. He is one of the world’s leading scholars in Old Testament Wisdom literature. He proposes that much of Proverbs was brought together at a time well after Solomon. He has been described as "a highly respected scholar" and an "excellent ...
Walter Brueggemann (born March 11, 1933) is an American Protestant Old Testament scholar and theologian who is widely considered one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades. [1] His work often focuses on the Hebrew prophetic tradition and sociopolitical imagination of the Church.
One of the leading biblical scholars in the United States, [4] [5] he is the author of The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures; editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible, and Oxford Biblical Studies Online; and a contributor to such standard reference works as The Encyclopedia of Religion ...
William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891– September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics.He is considered "one of the twentieth century's most influential American biblical scholars", [17] having become known to the public in 1948 for his role in the authentication of the Dead Sea Scrolls. [18]
Hermann Gunkel (German:; 23 May 1862 – 11 March 1932), a German Old Testament scholar, founded form criticism. [1] He also became a leading representative of the history of religions school. [2] His major works cover Genesis and the Psalms, and his major interests centered on the oral tradition behind written sources and in folklore.