David Miller Gunn is an academic and religious scholar. He is the A. A. Bradford Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University.[1]
David Gunn | |
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| Born | David Miller Gunn |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne University of Otago Newcastle University |
| Academic work | |
| Sub-discipline | Hebrew Bible Old Testament |
| Institutions | Texas Christian University (current) University of Sheffield Columbia Theological Seminary |
Education
editGunn studied at the University of Melbourne, the University of Otago, and Newcastle University.
Career
editHe has served as a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sheffield and at Columbia Theological Seminary.
In collaboration with biblical scholar David J. A. Clines, Gunn made the University of Sheffield a leading institution in literary readings of the final form of the biblical text. Followers of this approach are sometimes referred to as the "Sheffield school".[2] According to Ken Stone, Gunn's 1978 work, The Story of King David: Genre and Interpretation, has become "one of the most influential early attempts at a 'literary' approach to the Hebrew Bible."[3]
Gunn has enjoyed a successful association with Danna Nolan Fewell, with whom he has co-authored several articles and three books: Compromising Redemption: Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth; Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story; and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. Fewell and Gunn represent a postmodern literary approach to biblical literature.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ "David M. Gunn". Texas Christian University. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ David J. A. Clines, Stephen E. Fowl, and Stanley E. Porter, "Preface," in The Bible in Three Dimensions: Essays in Celebration of Forty Years of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield, p. 14.
- ^ Ken Stone, Sex, Honor, and Power in the Deuteronomistic History, p. 16.
- ^ Adele Berlin, "Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: General Observations and a Case Study of Genesis 34," in The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship, p. 57.
- ^ David Penchansky, The Politics of Biblical Theology: A Postmodern Reading, p. 86.