Ian D. Wilson

Ian D. Wilson (Ph.D., University of Alberta) is a scholar of religion, specializing in the Hebrew Bible and the histories and cultures of ancient Israel and the Near East. He teaches courses on the religions of the world, theories of religion, biblical studies, the ancient Near East, and related topics. His work, in writing and in the classroom, has focused mainly on how communities remember and imagine themselves, and how different social memories and imaginaries interrelate with one another. His first book, Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah (Oxford University Press, 2017), explores these processes in the context of the Hebrew Bible, revealing how ancient Judeans balanced and navigated various and even competing understandings of their monarchic past, with their literature. Wilson’s research has appeared in peer-reviewed publications such as Harvard Theological Review, Vetus Testamentum, and Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; and he recently co-edited the volume History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures: A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi (Eisenbrauns, 2015).