David Gunn | |
|---|---|
| Born | David Miller Gunn |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne University of Otago Newcastle University |
| Academic work | |
| Sub-discipline | Hebrew Bible Old Testament |
| Institutions | Texas Christian University (current) University of Sheffield Columbia Theological Seminary |
David Miller Gunn is an academic and religious scholar. He is the A. A. Bradford Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University. [1]
Gunn studied at the University of Melbourne,the University of Otago,and Newcastle University.
He has served as a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sheffield and at Columbia Theological Seminary.
In collaboration with biblical scholar David J. A. Clines,Gunn made the University of Sheffield a leading institution in literary readings of the final form of the biblical text. Followers of this approach are sometimes referred to as the "Sheffield school". [2] According to Ken Stone,Gunn's 1978 work,The Story of King David:Genre and Interpretation,has become "one of the most influential early attempts at a 'literary' approach to the Hebrew Bible." [3]
Gunn has enjoyed a successful association with Danna Nolan Fewell,with whom he has co-authored several articles and three books:Compromising Redemption:Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth;Gender,Power,and Promise:The Subject of the Bible's First Story;and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. Fewell and Gunn represent a postmodern literary approach to biblical literature. [4] [5]