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Professor Paul Joyce is King's College, London Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Paul Joyce studied Theology at Oxford University before completing doctoral studies in Old Testament at Oxford, where he was Kennicott Hebrew Fellow. His first post was as Lecturer and subsequently Director of Studies at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, a Theological College of the Church of England. He then moved to the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer and subsequently to Oxford University, where he was University Lecturer in Old Testament and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. He served as Chairman of the Oxford Theology Faculty Board 2008-2011. He is an active member of the Society for Old Testament Study (of which he is a former Secretary) and of the Society of Biblical Literature (on whose Program Committee he currently sits). He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biblical Literature, the Scottish Journal of Theology and the Hebrew Bible Monographs series (Sheffield Phoenix Press).

Research interests

The Exilic Age of Ancient Israel, especially the books of Ezekiel and Lamentations The History of the Reception of the Bible in Judaism and Christianity Psychological Interpretation of the Bible Reading the Bible in an Inter-Faith Context Hospitality in Biblical and Intercultural Context The Bible in the Modern World

Publications

Books

Authored

Divine Initiative and Human Response in Ezekiel JSOT Supplement Series, 51 (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989). With J. Rogerson, J. Barton, and D. Clines, Beginning Old Testament Study (second edition; St Louis: Chalice, 1998). Ezekiel: A Commentary Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 482 (New York and London: T&T Clark / Continuum, 2007; paperback, 2009). With D. Lipton, Lamentations through the Centuries Blackwell Bible Commentary (Oxford: Blackwell, 2013).

Edited

With S. E. Porter and D. E. Orton, Crossing the Boundaries: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in honour of Michael D. Goulder (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994). With A. Mein, After Ezekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 535 (New York and London: T&T Clark / Continuum, 2011). With K. J. Dell, Biblical Interpretation and Method: Essays in Honour of Professor John Barton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Articles

‘Lamentations and the Grief Process: A Psychological Reading’, in Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches Vol. 1, No. 3 (November 1993), 304-320. ‘Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Ezekiel’, in J. C. de Moor (Ed.), Synchronic or Diachronic? A Debate on Method in Old Testament Exegesis Oudtestamentische Studiën, 34 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995), 115-128. ‘King and Messiah in Ezekiel’, in J. Day (Ed.), King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar JSOT Supplement Series, 270 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), 323-337. ‘Sitting Loose to History: Reading the Book of Lamentations without Primary Reference to its Original Historical Setting’, in E. Ball (Ed.), In Search of True Wisdom: Essays in Old Testament Interpretation in Honour of Ronald E. Clements JSOT Supplement Series, 300 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), 246-262. ‘Temple and Worship in Ezekiel 40–48’, in J. Day (Ed.), Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar, Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies, 422 (London and New York: T&T Clark / Continuum, 2005), 145-163. ‘Ezekiel 40–42: The Earliest “Heavenly Ascent” Narrative?’, in H. J. de Jonge and J. Tromp (Eds), The Book of Ezekiel and its Influence (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), 17-41. ‘The Prophets and Psychological Interpretation’, in J. Day (Ed.), Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 531 (New York and London: T&T Clark / Continuum, 2010), 133-148. ‘“Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it …” (Ezek 14:14): The case of Job and Ezekiel’, in K. J. Dell and W. Kynes (Eds), Reading Job Intertextually Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies (New York and London: T&T Clark / Continuum, 2012).