The Old Testament, 5e: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures

About Cynthia ChapmanMichael Coogan

Michael D. Coogan is Lecturer on the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the Harvard Divinity School and Director of Publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum. He is the author of A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament Third Edition (2015) A Reader of Ancient Near Eastern Texts (2012) and The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction (2008) all published by Oxford University Press. Cynthia R. Chapman is the Adelia A.F. Johnston and Harry Thomas Frank Associate Professor of Religion at Oberlin College where she has taught biblical studies for twelve years. She is the author of The House of the Mother: The Social Function of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry (2016) and The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter (2004)