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Professor Gordon McConville

Position
Professor of Old Testament Theology

Contact
Email: gmcconville@glos.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1242 714776

After studying Modern Languages at Cambridge and Theology at Edinburgh, he did his PhD at Belfast on Cultic Laws in Deuteronomy. He taught Old Testament at Trinity College, Bristol and Wycliffe Hall in Oxford, before joining the staff in 1995. He is the author or co-author of fourteen books and many articles, with special interests in Deuteronomy, the prophets, and Old Testament theology and interpretation. He has successfully supervised 19 PhDs. He is currently working on Old Testament spirituality, and is co-editor of the Two Horizons Commentary (Old Testament) with Craig Bartholomew.

Publications

Books

Law and Theology in Deuteronomy, Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1984

1 and 2 Chronicles (Daily Study Bible), Edinburgh, St. Andrew Press/Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1984

Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (Daily Study Bible), Edinburgh, St. Andrew Press/Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1985

Judgment and Promise: an Interpretation of the Book of Jeremiah, Leicester, Apollos/Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1993

Grace in the End: a Study in Deuteronomic Theology, Carlisle, Paternoster/
Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 1993

Time and Place in Deuteronomy (co-authored with J. G. Millar), Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1994

The Old Testament (Teach Yourself World Faiths), London, Hodder, 1996

Reconsidering Israel and Judah: Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History (Sources for Theological and Biblical Study), Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, 2000 (co-edited with Prof. G. Knoppers, Penn State University)

Deuteronomy (AOTC 5), Leicester Apollos; Downer’s Grove, IVP, 2002

Exploring the Old Testment: The Prophets, SPCK: London; Downer’s Grove: IVP, 2002

God and Earthly Power: an Old Testament Political Theology, London: T&T Clark International, 2006

Reading the Law: Essays in Honour of Gordon J. Wenham, London: T&T Clark International, 2007, co-edited with Karl Möller.

Exploring the Old Testament: The Historical Books, SPCK: London, 2007, co-authored with Philip Satterthwaite.

Joshua, Two Horizons Commentary; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming, co-authored with Stephen Williams.

Selected Articles

'Narrative and Meaning in the Books of Kings', Biblica 70 (1989) 31-49

'Jeremiah: Prophet and Book', Tyndale Bulletin  42.1 (1991) 80-95 

'1 Kings viii 46-53 and the Deuteronomic Hope', Vetus Testamentum  42 (1992) 67-79

'Abraham and Melchizedek: Horizons in Genesis 14', in R. S. Hess et al eds., He Swore an Oath, Cambridge, Tyndale House, 1993, 93-118

'Yahweh and the Gods in the Old Testament', European Journal of Theology 2 (1993) 107-117

'Jerusalem in the Old Testament', in P. W. L. Walker ed., Jerusalem Past and Present in the Purposes of God, Carlisle, Paternoster, 1994 (2nd ed.), 21-51

'Messianic Interpretation of the Old Testament in Modern Context', in Philip E. Satterthwaite et al eds., The LORD's Anointed: Interpretation of Old Testament Messianic Texts, Carlisle, Paternoster, 1995, 1-17

'Faces of Exile in Old Testament Historiography', in After the Exile: Essays in Honour of Rex Mason, Macon GA, Mercer University Press, 1996, 27-44 (repr. in V. P. Long ed., Israel's Past in Present Research: Essays on Ancient Israelite Historiography, Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1999, 519-34)

'King and Messiah in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History', in John Day ed., King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar, (JSOTS 270) Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998,  271-295.

''Priesthood in Joshua to Kings', Vetus Testamentum XLIX (1999) 73-87

The Old Testament and Enjoyment of Wealth', in C. Bartholomew and T. Moritz, eds., Christ and Consumerism,  Carlisle, Paternoster Press, 2000, 34-53

'Deuteronomy: Torah for the Church of Christ', European Journal of Theology, 9 (2000) 33-47

'Deuteronomy's Unification of Passover and Massot - A Response to B. M. Levinson', Journal of Biblical Literature 119 (2000) 47-58

'Restoration in Deuteronomy and Deuteronomic Tradition' in James M. Scott ed., Restoration: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Perspectives, (Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement series, General Editors John J. Collins and Florentino Garcia Martinez; Leiden: Brill), 2001, 11-40

‘Metaphor, Symbol and the Interpretation of Deuteronomy’ in C. Bartholomew et al eds., After Pentecost: Language and Biblical Interpretation (Scripture and Hermeneutics Series vol. II; Carlisle: Paternoster/Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001), pp. 329-351

‘Biblical Theology: Canon, Plurality and Plain Sense’, Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, 19 (2001), pp. 134-57

'Divine Speech and the Book of Jeremiah', in The Trustworthiness of Our God, ed. Paul Helm and Carl Trueman (Leicester: Apollos; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002), pp. 18-38

'Singular Address in the Deuteronomic Law and the Politics of Legal Administration', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 97 (2002), pp. 19-36

‘Law and Monarchy in the Old Testament’, in C. Bartholomew et al eds., A Royal Priesthood: the Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically (Scripture and Hermeneutics Series vol. III); Carlisle: Paternoster/Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002, pp. 69-88

‘A Dialogue with Gordon McConville on Deuteronomy’ (with R. E. Clements and R. W. L. Moberly) SJT 56 (2003), 508-31.

‘Pilgrimage and Place: an Old Testament View’, in C. Bartholomew and F. Hughes eds., Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 17-28.

‘The Judgment of God in the Old Testament’, Ex Auditu 20 (2004), pp. 25-42 

'"How Shall Jacob Stand? He is So Small!” The Prophetic Word and the Re-Imagining of Israel’, in Brad E. Kelle and Megan Bishop Moore eds., Israel's Prophets and Israel's Past: Essays on the Relationship of Prophetic Texts and Israelite History in Honor of John Hayes  (HB/OT Library; London: T&T Clark International, 2006), pp. 131-49.

'Old Testament Laws and Canonical Intentionality', in C. Bartholomew et al. eds., Canon and Biblical Interpretation (SHS, 7; Carlisle: Paternoster/Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006), pp. 259-81.

 ‘“Fellow-Citizens”: Israel and Humanity in Leviticus’, in McConville and Möller eds., Reading the Law (2007), pp. 10-32.