Richard D. Nelson
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| Church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
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Union Theological Seminary in Virginia | |
| Thesis | The Redactional Duality of the Deuteronomistic History (1973) |
| Academic advisors | Patrick D. Miller, John Bright |
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| Discipline | Biblical studies |
| Sub-discipline | Old Testament studies |
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| Notable students | K. L. Noll |
Richard Donald Nelson (born 1945) is an American Old Testament scholar. He is W. J. A. Power Professor of Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.
Nelson studied at
Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. Before coming to Perkins, he served as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and then as Assistant Professor of Religion at Ferrum College and Kraft Professor of Biblical Studies at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg.[1]
Nelson has written commentaries on
Kurt Noll, and Ralph W. Klein
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In 2014 he published Historical Roots of the Old Testament (1200–63 BCE) (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press) in which he listed some of the most important extra-biblical sources relevant for a scholarly study of the Old Testament.
Nelson was a student of historian John Bright (1908–1995), and was influenced by him in his methodological approach to Old Testament study.
References
- ^ "Richard D. Nelson". Southern Methodist University. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
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