Mark E. Biddle

Mark E. Biddle (born 1957) is the Russell T. Cherry Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. He is editor of the Review & Expositor journal.

Education Biddle, a native of Fort Payne, Alabama, was educated in the public schools of DeKalb County, Alabama and Orange County, Florida. Biddle received a B.A. from Samford University in Homewood, Alabama, an M.Div. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a Th.M. from International Baptist Theological Seminary of the European Baptist Federation in Prague, Czech Republic and a Dr. Theol. from the University of Zurich in Zürich, Switzerland.

Books

A Redaction History of Jeremiah 2:1-4:2, Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments 77. Zürich: TVZ, 1990. Polyphony and Symphony in Prophetic Literature: A Literary Analysis of Jeremiah 7-20, Studies in Old Testament Interpretation 2. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1996. Deuteronomy, Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary 4. Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2003. Missing the Mark: Sin and Its Consequences in Biblical Theology. Nashville: Abingdon, 2005. Judges: Reading the Old Testament. Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2012. A Time to Laugh: Humor in the Bible. Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2013.

Articles in journals and collected works

"The Literary Frame Surrounding Jeremiah 30:1-33:26," Zeitschrift für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 100 (1988): 409–413. "The 'Endangered Ancestress' and Blessing for the Nations," Journal of Biblical Literature (=JBL) 109 (1990): 599–611. "Christian Interpretation of the Old Testament: A Methodological Problem," Faculty Studies (Carson Newman College) 1990: 27–43. "The Figure of Lady Jerusalem: Identification, Deification and Personification of Cities in the Ancient Near East," in The Canon in Comparative Perspective, Scripture in Context IV, B. Batto, W. Hallo, and L. Younger, eds. Lewiston: New York: Mellen Press, 1991. pp. 173–194. "Bible Study Guide: The Book of Micah," Pulpit Digest 73/517 (1992): 77–81. "Lady Zion's Alter Egos: Isaiah 47:1-15 and 57:6-13 as Structural Counterparts," in New Visions of the Book of Isaiah, JSOTSup 214, R. Melugin and M. Sweeney, eds. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1997. pp. 124–139. "The City of Chaos and the New Jerusalem: Isaiah 24-27 in Context," Perspectives in Religious Studies 22 (1995): 5–12. "Amos: Introduction," in Interpreting Amos for Teaching and Preaching. Macon: Smyth and Helwys, 1996. "Laboratory for Learning: Promoting Community Learning Across Curricular and Co-Curricular Functions," (with E. Lee and W. McDonald) in Who Teaches? Who Learns? Authentic Student/Faculty Partners, R. Jenkins and K. Romer, eds. Providence, RI: Ivy Publishers, 1998. pp. 69–76. "Literary Structures in the Book of Joshua," Review & Expositor (=RE) 95 (1998): 189–202. "'Israel' and 'Jacob' in the Book of Micah: Micah in the Context of the Twelve," in Society of Biblical Literature 1998 Seminar Papers Part Two. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1998. pp. 850–871. Sermon ideas/summaries on select texts in Genesis for the 2001 edition of Abingdon's Ministers Manual. "Ancestral Motifs In 1 Samuel 25: Intertextuality and Characterization," JBL 121 (2002): 617–638. "Contingency, God, and the Babylonians: Jeremiah on the Complexity of Repentance," RE 101 (2004): 247–65. "A Word About Separation of Church and State," RE 101 (2004): 583–586. "Genesis 3: Sin, Shame and Self-Esteem," RE 103 (2006): 359–370. "Obadiah-Jonah-Micah in Canonical Context: The Nature of Prophetic Literature and Hermeneutics," Interpretation 61 (2007): 154–166. "Song of Songs: A Brief Annotated Bibliography," RE 105 (2008): 481 – 490. "Teaching Isaiah Today," PRS 36 (2009): 257–272. "The Biblical Prohibition Against Usury," Int 65 (2011): 117–127. "Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25," Lectionary Homiletics 22/6 (October/November 2011): 41–42. "Judges 4:1-7," Lectionary Homiletics 22/6 (October/November 2011): 49–50. "Dominion Returns to Jerusalem: An Examination of Developments in the Kingship and Zion Traditions as Reflected in the Book of the Twelve with Particular Attention to Micah 4-5," in Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve: Methodological Foundations, Redactional Processes, Historical Insights, BZAW 433. R. Albertz, J. Wöhrle, and J. Nogalski, eds.; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012. pp. 253–267.

Dictionary articles

"Murder," in The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible, Watson E. Mills, ed. Macon: MercerUniversity Press, 1990. "Redaction Criticism: Hebrew Bible," in Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, John H. Hayes, ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999. pp. 373–376. "Jeremiah, Letter of Jeremiah, Baruch," Oxford Annotated Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. "Execration," "Flesh in the OT," "Humor" and "Perish" in New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, 5 vols., K. D. Sakenfeld, et al., eds. Nashville: Abingdon 2006–2009. "Sin," in Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic (2009). "Deposit and Pledge," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Bible and Law (forthcoming).

Translations

Ernst Jenni and Claus Westermann, eds. Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament. 3 vols. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1997. (= Theologisches Handwörterbuch zum Alten Testament. 2 vols. Munich: Kaiser, 1984). Hermann Gunkel. Genesis. Mercer Library of Biblical Studies. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997. Martin Hengel. The Septuagint as Christian Scripture: Its Prehistory and the Problem of Its Canon. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2002. (= Die Septuaginta: Zwischen Judentum und Christentum. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 1994). Julius Wellhausen. The Pharisees and the Sadducees: An Examination of Internal Jewish History. Mercer Library of Biblical Studies. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001 (= Die Pharisäer und die Sadducäer: Eine Untersuchung zur inneren jüdischen Geschichte. 3rd ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967). Otto Kaiser. The Old Testament Apocrypha: An Introduction to the Fundamentals. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004 (= Die alttestamentlichen Apokryphen: Eine Einleitung in Grundzügen. Gütersloh: Kaiser, 2000). Contributing translator to Religion, Past and Present (= Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Leiden: Brill) Leiden: Brill, 2007ff. M. Hauger, "'But We Were in the Wilderness, and There God Speaks Quite Differently': On the Significance of Preaching in the Theology and Work of Gerhard von Rad" in Int 62 (2008): 278–292. Gerhard von Rad, "Sermon on Luke 24:13-35" in Int 52 (2008): 294–303. Reinhard Feldmeier and Hermann Spieckermann, God of the Living. Waco: Baylor, 2011. (= Der Gott der Lebendigen: Eine biblische Gotteslehre. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2011.) Sigmund Mowinckel, Psalm Studies. 2 vols. SBL History of Biblical Studies 2, 3. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2014. (= Psalmenstudien. 6 vols. Kristiania: Dybwad, 1921–1924). Andreas Schüle, Die Urgeschichte (forthcoming).

Book reviews

W. Werner, Studien zur alttestamentlichen Vorstellung vom Plan Jahwes, in JBL 109 (1990): 512–514. G. Fleischer, Von Menschenverkäufern, Baschankühen, und Rechtsverkehren and S. Rosenbaum, Amos of Israel (cluster review), in Critical Review of Books in Religion, E. J. Epp, ed. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991. pp. 133–136. W. Dever, Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research, in Interpretation 46 (1992): 197–198. R. Ginn, The Present and the Past, J. Wilcox, The Bitterness of Job, and W. Farley, Tragic Vision and Divine Compassion (cluster review), in Perspectives in Religious Studies 18 (1991): 261–264. J. Sasson, Jonah, in Horizons in Biblical Theology 13 (1991): 77–78. H. Niehr, Der höchste Gott: Alttestamentlicher JHWH-Glaube im Kontext syrisch-kanaanäischer Religion des 1. Jahrtausends v. Chr., in Catholic Biblical Quarterly (= CBQ) 54 (1992): 120–121. J. van Ruiten, Een Begin Zonder Einde: De doorwerking van Jesaja 65:17 in de intertestamentaire literatuur en het Nieuwe Testament, in CBQ 54 (1992): 549–550. D. H. Bak, Klagender Gott – Klagende Menschen, in CBQ 55 (1993): 108–109. B. Bozak, Life 'Anew': A Literary-Theological Study of Jer. 30-31, in CBQ 55 (1993): 324–325. Y. Goldman, Prophétie et royauté au retour de l'exil, in CBQ 55 (1993): 758–759. R. Albertz, Religionsgeschichte Israels in alttestamentlicher Zeit, in CBQ 56 (1994): 312–314. T. Lescow, Das Stufenschema: Untersuchungen zur Struktur alttestamentlicher Texte, in CBQ 56 (1994): 767–768. H. Nobel, Gods gedachten tellen: Numerike structuuranalyse en de elf gedachten Gods in Genesis – 2 Koningen, in CBQ 56 (1994): 774–776. J. Lundbom, The Early Career of the Prophet Jeremiah, in CBQ 57 (1995): 150–151. B. Lang, Eugen Drewermann, interprète de la Bible: Le paradis. Le naissance du Christ, in CBQ 57 (1995): 560–561. G. Fischer, Das Trostbüchlein: Text, Komposition un Theologie von Jer 30-31, in Religious Studies Review (= RSR) 21 (1995): 224. J. Jeremias, Der Prophet Amos, in JBL 116 (1997): 548-550 (=http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/2644_1586.pdf). R. Bergen, ed., Biblical Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics, in CBQ 58 (1996): 370–372. K. Pfisterer Darr, Isaiah's Vision and the Family of God, in RSR 22 (1996): 60. Jun-Hee Cha, Micha und Jeremia, in CBQ 59 (1997): 339–340. D. Penchansky, The Politics of Biblical Theology, in CBQ 59 (1997): 133–135. K. Schmid, Buchgestalten des Jeremiabuches: Untersuchungen zur Redaktions- und Rezeptionsgeschichte von Jer 30-33 im Kontext des Buches, in CBQ 60 (1998): 344–345. D. Rotzoll, Studien zur Redaktion und Komposition des Amosbuches, in Review of Biblical Literature, M. Sweeney, el al, eds. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1999. pp. 158–159 (=http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/2534_1756.pdf). B. Zapff, Redaktionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Michabuch im Kontext des Dodekapropheton, in CBQ 61 (1999): 569–570. J. P. Fokkelman, Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible, Volume I: Ex. 15, Deut 32, and Job 3: At the Interface of Hermeneutics and Structural Analysis, in RSR 25 (1999): 285. C. Seitz and K. Greene-McCreight, eds., Theological Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Brevard S. Childs, in CBQ 62 (2000): 190–91. B. Janowski, Stellvertretung: Alttestamentlich Studien zu einem theologischen Grundbegriff, in RSR 24 (1998): 289. W. Harrelson, The Ten Commandments and Human Rights, in RevExp 95 (1998): 288–289. P. Kelley, Journey to the Land of Promise: Genesis – Deuteronomy, in RevExp 95 (1998): 292. K. King, ed., Women and Goddess Traditions: In Antiquity and Today, in RevExp 95 (1998): 296. R. Ulmer, trans., Maaserot – Zehnte, Maaser Sheni – Zweiter Zehnt, in RevExp 95 (1998): 293–294. G. Ashby, God Out and Meet God: A Commentary on the Book of Exodus, in RevExp 95 (1998): 449. F. Gorman Jr. Divine Presence and Community: A Commentary on the Book of Leviticus, in RevExp 95 (1998): 453. T. Longman, III. The Book of Ecclesiastes, in RevExp 95 (1998): 454. J. Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 40-66, in RevExp 95 (1998): 456. E. Tiffany, The Image of God in Creation, in RevExp 95 (1998): 456–457. G. Fackre, The Doctrine of Revelation: A Narrative Interpretation, in RevExp 95 (1998): 458. R. Farmer, Beyond the Impasse: The Promise of a Process Hermeneutic, in RevExp 95 (1998): 459. A. Porterfield, The Power of Religion: A Comparative Introduction, in RevExp 95 (1998): 461–462. H. Utzschneider, Michas Reise in die Zeit, in CBQ 62 (2000): 739–740. J. Watts, Reading Law: The Rhetorical Shaping of the Pentateuch, in RevExp 97 (2000): 107–08. J. Eaton, Mysterious Messengers: A Course on Hebrew Prophecy From Amos Onwards, in RevExp 97 (2000): 514. F. Holmgren, The Old Testament and the Significance of Jesus: Embracing Change – Maintaining Christian Identity, in RevExp 97 (2000): 514–515. G. Fee, Listening to the Spirit in the Text, in RevExp 97 (2000): 516–517. J. G. Millar, Now Choose Life: Theology and Ethics in Deuteronomy, in RevExp 97 (2000): 513–514.