Victor H. Matthews

Victor Harold Matthews (born 13 November 1950) is an American Old Testament scholar. He is Dean of the College of Humanities and Public Affairs and professor of religious studies at Missouri State University.

Matthews was born in Joplin, Missouri. He obtained a PhD at Brandeis University.^[1] In 2015, the fourth edition of Matthews' book, The Cultural World of the Bible, was published.^[2]

Works

• Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories from the Ancient Near East co-authored with Don C. Benjamin (Paulist Press, 1991)
• Manners and Customs in the Bible: An Illustrated Guide to Daily Life in Bible Times (Hendrickson, 1991)
• Social World of Ancient Israel, 1250-587 BCE co-authored with Don C. Benjamin (Hendrickson Publishers, 1993)
• The Old Testament: Text and Context co-authored with James C. Moyer (Hendrickson Publishers, 1997)
• Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East co-authored with Bernard M. Levinson & Tikva Frymer-Kensky (Sheffield Academic Press, 1998)
• The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament co-authored with John H. Walton & Mark W Chavalas (InterVarsity Press, 2000)
• Social World of the Hebrew Prophets (Hendrickson Publishers, 2001)
• A Brief History of Ancient Israel (Westminster John Knox Press, 2002)
• Judges and Ruth NCBC (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
• Old Testament Turning Points: The Narratives That Shaped a Nation (Baker Academic, 2005)
• Studying the Ancient Israelites: A Guide to Sources and Methods (Apollos, 2007)
• 101 Questions & Answers on The Prophets of Israel (Paulist Press, 2007)
• The Hebrew Prophets and Their Social World: An Introduction (Baker Academic, 2012)
• The Cultural World of the Bible: An Illustrated Guide to Manners and Customs (Baker Academic, 2015)

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