Douglas A. Knight

Douglas A. Knight is the Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and the Graduate School of Religion and is also Professor of Jewish Studies in Vanderbilt’s College of Arts and Science. He earned his doctorate at the University of Göttingen in Germany and has taught at Vanderbilt, Doshisha University in Kyoto, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research in Jerusalem. He has been active in the Society of Biblical Literature and other academic organizations and is co-founder of the Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives (ETANA). Major awards have come from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Program, the National Science Foundation, and the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Vanderbilt University presented him with the Thomas Jefferson Award in 2005. He has served as chair of Vanderbilt’s Graduate Department of Religion and director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture. His lecturing has taken him across the United States and to Germany, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, Israel, Japan, and China. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, he has edited several publication series, including the Library of Ancient Israel. His most recent book is Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel, and he is currently working on several projects, including a commentary on the book of Joshua.