David M. Gunn

David Miller Gunn is an Old Testament scholar. He is the A. A. Bradford Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University.[1]

Gunn studied at the University of Melbourne, the University of Otago, and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He previously taught at the University of Sheffield and at Columbia Theological Seminary.

Together with David J. A. Clines, Gunn made the University of Sheffield a pioneer in literary readings of the final form of the biblical text. Followers of this approach are sometimes referred to as the "Sheffield school".[2] According to Ken Stone, Gunn's 1978 work, The Story of King David: Genre and Interpretation, has become "one of the most influential early attempts at a 'literary' approach to the Hebrew Bible."[3]

Gunn has enjoyed a successful association with Danna Nolan Fewell, with whom he has co-authored several articles and three books: Compromising Redemption: Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth; Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story; and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. Fewell and Gunn represent a postmodern literary approach to biblical literature.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "David M. Gunn". Texas Christian University. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  2. ↑ David J. A. Clines, Stephen E. Fowl, and Stanley E. Porter, "Preface," in The Bible in Three Dimensions: Essays in Celebration of Forty Years of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield, p. 14.
  3. ↑ Ken Stone, Sex, Honor, and Power in the Deuteronomistic Histor, p. 16.
  4. ↑ Adele Berlin, "Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: General Observations and a Case Study of Genesis 34," in The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship, p. 57.
  5. ↑ David Penchansky, The Politics of Biblical Theology: A Postmodern Reading, p. 86.