Marvin A. Sweeney

Marvin Alan Sweeney (born, 1953; raised in Decatur, Illinois) is Professor of Hebrew Bible^[1] at Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Tanak at the Academy for Jewish Religion (California). Dr. Sweeney was trained under the tutelage of Rolf P. Knierim at Claremont Graduate University. He was a Yad ha-Nadiv/Barecha Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he worked with Moshe Greenberg. Sweeney previously taught in the Religious Studies Department and Judaic Studies Program at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, and he has served as Dorot Research Professor at the W. F. Albright Institute in Jerusalem, Israel; Visiting Professor of Bible at the Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA; Underwood Professor of Divinity at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea; and Visiting Scholar at Chang Jung Christian University in Tainan, Taiwan. He also serves on the faculty of Religion at Claremont Graduate University.

A specialist in Prophetic Literature, Sweeney is especially well-known for developing the field of Jewish Biblical Theology. He currently serves as President of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.

Education

• A.B. - University of Illinois (Political Science and Religious Studies, with distinction)
• Non-degree student - Princeton Theological Seminary (Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek)
• M.A. - Claremont Graduate University (Religion: Hebrew Bible)
• Ph.D. - Claremont Graduate University (Religion: Hebrew Bible)
• Yad ha-Nadiv/Barechah Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Targumic Aramaic, Jewish Biblical Exegesis)
• Fellow. Summer Institute of Israel Studies. Brandeis University and the American Jewish Committee

Selected works

• The Pentateuch. Core Biblical Studies (Abingdon, 2017)
• Isaiah 40-66. Forms of the Old Testament Literature. (Eerdmans, 2016)
• Reading Prophetic Books. Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 89. (Mohr Siebeck 2014)
• Reading Ezekiel. Reading the Old Testament. (Smyth & Helwys, 2013)
• TANAK: A Theological and Critical Introduction to the Jewish Bible. (Fortress, 2012)
• Reading the Hebrew Bible after the Shoah: Engaging Holocaust Theology (Fortress, 2008)
• I and II Kings: A Commentary. Old Testament Library. (Westminster John Knox, 2007)
• The Prophetic Literature. Interpreting Biblical Texts. (Abingdon, 2005)
• Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature. Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 45 (Mohr Siebeck, 2005)
• Zephaniah: A Commentary. Hermeneia. (Fortress, 2003)
• King Josiah of Judah: The Lost Messiah of Israel (Oxford University Press, 2001) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 601 libraries ^[2]
• The Twelve Prophets. Berit Olam. (2 vols.; Liturgical, 2000)
• Isaiah 1-39. Forms of the Old Testament Literature, 16. (Eerdmans, 1996)
• Isaiah 1-4 and the Post-Exilic Understanding of the Isaianic Tradition. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 171 (Walter de Gruyter, 1988)

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