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Overview
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Hassell Bullock
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Franklin S. Dyrness Chair of Biblical Studies
Professor of Old Testament
On faculty since 1973
Phone: (630) 752-5271
c.h.bullock@wheaton.edu
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PhD
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
(Cincinnati, OH)
BD. Columbia Theological Seminary (Decatur, GA)
B.A. Samford University (Birmingham, AL)
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Professional and Personal Interests
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A
Word about Learning
Occasionally I confess and, at the same time, promise my students
that I am going to get out of the teaching profession should
one or both of two things occur: either I lose my love for students,
or I am no longer excited about learning. Life is learning,
and for me, learning is life. The following statement from the
preface to the second edition of my An Introduction to the
Old Testament Poetic Books (1988) articulates the endless
endeavor of learning, if not the joy of it, for which I thank
God:
"Books are never really finished,
I suppose, and that is a good reason to issue a revised edition.
Those who have studied the Talmud know that every new tractate
begins on page two. An old explanation of this practice is that
it reminds us from the beginning that no one will ever know
it all. If the midrashic method can still be permitted (how
impoverished we would be without it!), I might suggest that
the frequent practice of publishers to bind blank pages at the
end of a book can be a reminder, quite unintended of course,
that there is no end of knowledge. Much yet remains to be learned
and written. I submit this revised edition as another stage
in that process.After thirty-five years in the classroom,
I still sense no diminished zeal for this task and no lessened
excitement about learning. It is God's gift, for which I thank
Him"
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- Old Testament Theology
- Old Testament Literature & Interpretation
- Biblical Hebrew Grammar
- Wisdom Literature
- Prophetic Literature
- Book of Psalms
- Book of Job
- History of Pastoral Care
- Judaism
- Literature of the Holocaust
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- Evangelical Theological Society
- Society of Biblical Literature
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Research |
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Currently my research is in the area of OT theology. I am
writing a theology that moves away from the classical idea
of theological "center," and opts rather for a theological
"paradigm." In my view, this paradigm is found in
Torah, and the other two paradigms of OT theology, prophecy
and wisdom, function in the service of Torah.
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An Old Testament Theology approaching theology under the major rubrics of Torah, Prophecy, and Wisdom.
Encountering the Psalms, to be published by Baker Book House.
The Old Testament, Quick Notes , co-authored with A. J. Hoerth and James K. Hoffmeier
"Old Testament Theology," waiting to be published in Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2nd ed., ed. by Walter A. Elwell (Grand Rapids: Baker).
"Wisdom, in Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, ed. by Walter A. Elwell (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996), pp. 823-824a.
"God," in Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, ed. by Walter A. Elwell (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996), pp. 288b-295a.
"Preaching in the Poetic Books," in Contemporary Handbook on Preaching, ed. by Michael Diduit (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1992):293-305.
"The Priestly Era in the Light of Prophetic Thought," in Israel's Apostasy and Restoration in Prophetic Thought , Festschrift in honor of R. K. Harrison. Ed. by Avraham Gileadi (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1988).
"Abortion and the OT Prophetic and Wisdom Literature," in Abortion: A Christian Understanding and Response, ed. by James K. Hoffmeier (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987):65-71.
Addtional publications
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