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152 Clusters in the Book of Proverbs. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 273 (Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001); Poetic Imagination in Proverbs: Variant Repetitions and the Nature of Poetry. Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement Series, 4 (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2013); Lady Wisdom: A Portrait Through Time (forthcoming). One of his recent publications, on Psalm 23, appeared in the January 2016 volume of Christianity Today. Richard Hess Dr. Richard Hess, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages, joined the faculty in 1997. He is the founder and editor of Denver Journal, Denver Seminary's online theological review journal, and the Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement Series. He is a member of more than a dozen scholarly societies. Dr. Hess earned a PhD from Hebrew Union College, an MDiv and a ThM from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a BA from Wheaton College. He has done postdoctoral research at universities in Chicago, Jerusalem, Cambridge, Sheffield, and Münster, and has held National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, and Tyndale House (Cambridge) postdoctoral fellowships and grants. He was lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew at International Christian College, Scotland, and Reader in Old Testament at Roehampton University, London. Having lectured at more than one hundred scholarly societies, universities, and colleges, he has given invited lectures at Oregon State University; SAIACS, Bangladore; Min Zu University, Beijing; Lancaster Bible College Graduate School; Faraday Institute, Cambridge University; New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati; and Whitely College, Melbourne. Dr. Hess is a member of the Committee on Biblical Translation for the New International Version. He also serves as Old Testament and archaeology editor for the forthcoming NIV Zondervan Study Bible. He has also worked for the New International Version, the New American Bible, the Holman Standard Christian Bible, the English Standard Version, and the Common English Bible translations of the Old Testament. He is an editor of a series of commentaries on the Septuagint and has translated books of the Septuagint for Logos Bible Software. Dr. Hess has authored nine books, including volumes on religion (Israelite Religions: A Biblical and Archaeological Survey), ancient Near Eastern subjects (Amarna Personal Names and Names in the Study of Biblical History), Genesis (Studies in the Personal Names of Genesis 1–11), and commentaries on Leviticus, Joshua and the Song of Songs. He has edited twenty-seven books, most recently co-editing withD. Carson and three others New International Version Zondervan Study Bible; co-editing with B. T. Arnold, Ancient Israel's History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources; as well as editing Bryan C. Babcock's Sacred Ritual: A Study of the West Semitic Ritual Calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian Text Emar 445; and commentaries on Septuagint texts, such as Exodus: A Commentary on the Greek Text of Codex Vaticanus and 1 Esdras: Introduction and Commentary on the Greek Text in Codex Vaticanus. In addition to several hundred book reviews and dictionary articles, Dr. Hess has published more than one hundred scholarly articles in collected essays and journals such as Biblica, Biblical Archaeologist, Bulletin for Biblical Research, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Themelios, Tyndale Bulletin, Vetus Testamentum, and Zeitschrift fuer die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Current research projects include a commentary on the book of Kings, the study of ancient Near Eastern texts related to the Old Testament, and The Old Testament: A Historical, Theological and Critical Introduction, due to be published with Baker at the end of 2016. Email: rick.hess@denverseminary.edu Phone: 303-762-6921