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John Goldingay

b. 1942

British biblical scholar

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Born 1942. John Goldingay is a British biblical scholar.

John Edgar Goldingay (born 20 June 1942) is a British Old Testament scholar and translator and Anglican cleric. He is the David Allan Hubbard Professor Emeritus of Old Testament in the School of Theology of Fuller Theological Seminary in California.

Education and career Goldingay obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the University of Oxford and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of Nottingham. He also has a Doctor of Divinity Lambeth degree. He was ordained a deacon in the Church of England in 1966 and a priest in 1967.

Goldingay was a Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at St John's College, Nottingham and served as Principal from 1988 to 1997. He went to Fuller Theological Seminary in 1997.

Writing career Goldingay has published major commentaries on several books of the Old Testament as well as books on Old Testament theology and biblical interpretation. From 2010 to 2016, he issued the Old Testament for Everyone series through Westminster John Knox Press, a study guide for laypeople with original translation and study notes for each book of the Protestant Old Testament canon. In 2018, his complete translation of the Old Testament was released by InterVarsity Press under the title The First Testament.

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University of Nottingham, Keble College
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British biblical scholar

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John Goldingay was born on 20 June 1942 in Birmingham.

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