Theology Department Faculty
David Vanderhooft
Associate Professor
David Vanderhooft
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall 441N
Telephone: 617-552-4240
Email: david.vanderhooft@bc.edu
Education
- A.B., University of Winnipeg
- M.A., York University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests
Professor Vanderhooft's research interests revolve around the Hebrew Scriptures, especially the Former and Latter Prophets. Historical, cultural, theological, and comparative analyses of ancient Israel's literature dominate his scholarship. The relationship between Israel and the ancient empires of Assyria and Babylonia forms another focus of research.
Office Hours
Tu 10:30-11:30 a.m., W 1-2 p.m.
Selected Publications
“ˀAhăbāh: Philological Observations on ˀāhēb/ ˀahăbāh in the Hebrew Bible.” Pp. 41-56 in Ahavah. Die “Liebe Gottes” im Alten Testament: Ursprünge, Transformationen und Wirkungen. Manfred Oeming, ed. Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte. Leipzig: Evangelischer Verlagsanstalt, 2018.
“Depictions of כשדים ‘Chaldeans’ in Judean Prophecy and Historiography.” Pp. 171-82 in“Now It Happened in Those Days”: Studies in Biblical, Assyrian and Other Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Presented to Mordechai Cogan on His 75th Birthday. S. Aḥituv, A. Baruchi-Unna, I. Ephʿal, T. Forti, and J. H. Tigay, eds. Eisenbrauns, 2017.
“The Final Phase of the Common ‘Proto-Semitic’ Alphabet in the Southern Levant: A Rejoinder to Sass and Finkelstein.” Pp. 441-450 in Rethinking Israel: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel in Honor of Israel Finkelstein. Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot, and Matthew Adams, eds. Eisenbrauns, 2017.
“The Name of the Prophet ḥăbaqqûq.” Pp. 116-24 in Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World. A Periplos. Baruch Halpern and Kenneth Sacks, eds. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 86. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
“Babylonia and the Babylonians,” Pp. 107-137 in The World Around the Old Testament. Bill Arnold and Brent Strawn, eds. Baker Academic, 2016.
“Ezekiel in and on Babylon.” Transeuphratène 46 (2014): 99-119.
“Iron Age Moabite, Hebrew, and Edomite Monumental Scripts.” Pp. 107-26 in “An Eye for Form”: Epigraphic Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross. Jo Ann Hackett and Walter E. Aufrecht, eds. Eisenbrauns, 2014.
“Wadi el-Ḥôl Inscription 2 and The Early Alphabetic Graph *ǵ, *ǵull-, ‘yoke’.” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 2.2 (2013): 125-35.