J. J. M. Roberts | |
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Born | May 28, 1939 |
Occupation(s) | Biblical commentator, professor |
Title | William Henry Green Professor of Old Testament Literature (Emeritus) at Princeton Theological Seminary |
Academic background | |
Education | Abilene Christian University, Harvard University |
Thesis | The Early Akkadian Pantheon: a study of the Semitic deities attested in Mesopotamia before UR III (1969) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Biblical studies |
Institutions | Princeton Theological Seminary |
Jimmy Jack McBee Roberts (born May 28,1939),known as J. J. M. Roberts,is William Henry Green Professor of Old Testament Literature (Emeritus) at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton,New Jersey. [1] A member of the Churches of Christ,Roberts attended Abilene Christian University before pursuing doctoral work at Harvard University. [2] [3]
His teaching and research interests laid in comparative studies involving Mesopotamian and Israelite religion,Old Testament prophecy,Semitic languages,and Hebrew lexicography. Recent publications include Nahum,Habakkuk,and Zephaniah (OTL) and a forthcoming collection of essays. Roberts is currently working on a commentary on Isaiah 1–39 . He served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biblical Literature , Catholic Biblical Quarterly ,the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research ,and Restoration Quarterly ,and was editor of the SBL OT dissertation series and a member of the New Revised Standard Version translation committee. He was the coeditor of the Princeton Classical Hebrew Lexicon Project. [4]