Gary N. Knoppers

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Gerald "Gary" Neil Knoppers (November 14, 1956 – December 22, 2018) was a professor in the Department of Theology at

Knoppers first taught at Andover Newton Theological School for a term in spring 1986.

In the fall of 1987 he began his career at Pennsylvania State University as an instructor in Religious Studies, and then was Assistant Professor in Religious Studies from 1988 to 1994. In 1994 he became Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies. From 2002 to 2014 he was Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, where was the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Religious Studies, and Jewish Studies.^[4] Knoppers also served as the head of that department from 1996 to 2006.

His scholarly concentrations are: Ancient Israelite and Near Eastern History; Ancient Historiography; Biblical Theology; The Books of Kings and Chronicles; Comparative Ancient Near Eastern Religions; Inner Biblical Exegesis; and Northwest Semitic Epigraphy.

In the fall of 2014 he left Penn State to take up an endowed professorship in Biblical Studies in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.^[6][7]

As of 2007, Knoppers had served on the following theological boards and committees:

• Steering Committee, Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah Section, Society of Biblical Literature
• Steering Committee, First Esdras Consultation of the Society of Biblical Literature
• Steering Committee,
  Hebrew Bible, History and Archaeology Section, Society of Biblical Literature
• Steering Committee, Literature of the
  Persian Period Group, Society of Biblical Literature
• Editorial Board, Vetus Testamentum^[8]
• Editorial Board, Internationaler Exegetischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament (IEKAT) / International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament (IECOT)^[9]
• Board of Trustees,
  American Schools of Oriental Research, Jerusalem

Knoppers died of pancreatic cancer, and was survived by his wife Laura Knoppers,the George N. Shuster Professor of English Literature in Notre Dame’s Department of English, and their two children, Theresa and David.^[10]

Books

• The Reign of
  Harvard Semitic Monographs No. 52) (Atlanta: Scholars Press
  , 1993), 302 pages.
• The Reign of Jeroboam, the Fall of Israel, and the Reign of Josiah which is Vol. 2 of Two Nations under God: The Deuteronomistic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchies (Harvard Semitic Monographs No. 53) (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994), 349 pages.
• Reconsidering
  Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns
  , 2000), 650 pages.
• The Chronicler as Theologian: Festschrift,
  T. & T. Clark
  Continuum, 2003), 288 pages.
• Anchor Bible Volume 12) (New York: Doubleday
  , 2003), 514 pages.
• I Chronicles 10 – 29 (Anchor Bible Volume 12A) (New York: Doubleday, 2004), 531 pages [the two Anchor volumes combine to a total of 1045 pages, the page nos. continue from the first vol. into the second vol].
• Jews and Samaritans: The Origins and History of Their Early Relations (Oxford University Press, 2013), 326 pages.