Brevard Childs
Sterling Professor of Divinity (Emeritus)
A.B., M.A., University
of Michigan;
Th.D., University of Basel
Brevard Childs was Sterling Professor of Divinity until 1999. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow. In 1988, a Festschrift, entitled Canon, Theology, and Old Testament Interpretation, was published in his honor. He has taught numerous courses at Yale, including, most recently, exegetical courses on the Psalms, Isaiah, and the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. He has also taught seminars on the history of biblical interpretation and biblical theology. He is the author of Myth and Reality; Memory and Tradition; Isaiah and the Assyrian Crisis; Biblical Theology in Crisis; The Book of Exodus: A Commentary (recently translated into Japanese); Old Testament Books for Pastor and Teacher; Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture; The New Testament as Canon; Old Testament Theology in Canonical Context; and Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments. He is, at present, working on a critical commentary on Isaiah in relation to the history of interpretation, both Jewish and Christian. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Interpretation and the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.
