Gordon Wenham
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Gordon Wenham (born 1943) is an Old Testament scholar and author of several books about the Bible.
He read Theology at Cambridge University, graduating in 1965 with distinction, and completed his PhD on Deuteronomy in 1970. He has been awarded several scholarships in connection with Old Testament studies and has studied in Germany, America and Jerusalem. Professor Wenham has written a large number of articles and several books, including commentaries on Genesis, Leviticus and Numbers, and more recently a study of Old Testament narrative ethics, Story as Torah (T & T Clark, 2000), and Exploring the Old Testament: the Pentateuch (SPCK: 2003).
Gordon Wenham was until 2005 senior professor of Old Testament at the University of Gloucestershire (England), a post he held for 10 years. He is currently lecturing at Trinity Theological College, Bristol, UK.