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J. J. M. Roberts is Princeton Theological Seminary's W. H. Green Professor
of Old Testament Literature Emeritus, retired after 25 years in that
position. Prior to that, he taught in the Near Eastern Departments at the
University of Toronto and the Johns Hopkins University, and in the Department
of Religion at Dartmouth College. He is an internationally known scholar who
has lectured abroad at universities in Israel, France, Austria, England, and
Sweden, and in numerous universities in this country. Dr. Roberts has
published and co-edited five books: Unity and Diversity: Essays in the
History, Literature, and Religion of the Ancient Near East (The Johns
Hopkins Press, 1975); The Hand of the Lord: A Reappraisal of the "Ark
Narrative" of 1 Samuel (The Johns Hopkins Press, 1977); Commentary on
Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (Old Testament Library Series;
Westminster Press, 1990); The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected
Essays (Eisenbrauns, 2002); Hebrew Inscriptions: Texts From the
Biblical Period of the Monarchy with Concordance (Yale Press, 2005). He
has also published well over 100 articles and reviews on a wide variety of
topics in the area of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern backgrounds to
the Old Testament. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal
of Biblical Literature, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, the
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Horizons in
Biblical Theology, Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages, and
Restoration Quarterly, and he served two terms as editor of the Society
of Biblical Literature's Old Testament dissertation series. He was also a
long-time member of the translation committee that produced the New Revised
Standard Version. He is a graduate of Abilene Christian University, Harvard
Divinity School, and Harvard University. He is a member of the Church of
Christ where he has served churches both as an ordained minister and as an
elder.
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