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MCKENZIE, STEVEN L.

Steven L. McKenzie is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. His research and teaching interests include: the history of ancient Israel, the literature of the Hebrew Bible, Hebrew language and grammar, the Dead Sea Scrolls, methods of biblical interpretation, and archaeology. He is a past president of the board of governors of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the University of Memphis. He worked for ten years with the Middle East Travel Seminar leading academic tours of Syria, Jordan, the Sinai, Israel, and Greece each summer. He founded (with Richard D. Nelson) the Deuteronomistic History Section at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting and has served on numerous editorial boards, including the Journal of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Quarterly. From 2010-2019 he was associate editor of Vetus Testamentum. He has appeared on the Discovery and History channels and in radio interviews as a consultant on King David and on reading and interpreting the Bible. His current projects include co-writing (with Rhiannon Graybill and John Kaltner) the commentary on the book of Jonah for the Anchor Bible, serving as a main Old Testament/Hebrew Bible editor for The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Brill), HB/OT editor for the Oxford Bible Commentary series, HB/OT editor of the Harper Collins Study Bible, and editor of the Oxford King James Annotated Bible.

Books by STEVEN MCKENZIE
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