Robert Gordon

Career: lectr in Hebrew and Semitic languages Univ of Glasgow 1970-79 (asst lectr Hebrew and Old Testament 1969-70), regius prof of Hebrew Univ of Cambridge 1995-2012 (lectr in Old Testament 1979-95); fell: St Edmund's Coll Cambridge 1985-89, St Catharine's Coll Cambridge 1995-2012 (emeritus fell 2012-), Univ Preacher 1999; Macbride sermon Oxford 2000, McManis lectures Wheaton ILL 1990, Didsbury lectures Manchester 2001, Biblical Studies Lectrs Samford Univ Birmingham AL 2004; sec Int Orgn for the Study of the Old Testament 2001-04; memb: Soc for Old Testament Study (pres 2003), Br Assoc of Jewish Studies, Soc of Biblical Literature; consltg ed New Int Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis 1997, review ed Vetus Testamentum 1998-2009, ed Hebrew Bible and Its Versions 2001-; memb Editorial Bd: Vetus Testamentum 1995-, New Cambridge Bible Commentary 2003-; FBA 2011

Books and Publications: 1 and 2 Samuel (1984, Chinese edn 2002), 1 and 2 Samuel. A Commentary (1986, reprinted 2004), The Targum of the Minor Prophets (with K J Cathcart, 1989), Studies in the Targum to the Twelve Prophets (1994), Wisdom in Ancient Israel (jt ed, 1995), The Place is too Small for us (ed, 1995), The Old Testament in Syriac According to the Peshitta Version: Chronicles (1998), Hebrews: A New Commentary (2000, 2 edn 2008), Holy Land, Holy City (2004), The Old Testament in its World (jt ed, 2005), Hebrew Bible and Ancient Versions (2006), The God of Israel (ed, 2007)