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147 Richard Hess Dr. Richard Hess, distinguished 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 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 ten books, most recently The Old Testament: A Historical, Theological, and Critical Introduction. In addition, volumes on religion (Israelite Religions), 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 have appeared. He has edited thirty-three books, including co-editing with D. 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 some 18 volumes in the Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplements Series and various volumes in the Septuagint Commentary Series. 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, onomastics in the early biblical world, and the study of ancient Near Eastern texts related to the Old Testament. Email: rick.hess@denverseminary.edu Phone: 303-762-6921