F.W. “Chip” Dobbs-Allsopp   497-7924 chip.dobbs-allsopp@ptsem.edu

Associate Professor of Old Testament. M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. His research and teaching interests include Hebrew poetry (especially Lamentations and Song of Songs), integration of literary and historical methods of interpretation, postmodern thought and theology, Semitic languages and linguistics, and comparative study of Old Testament literature within its ancient Near Eastern context.  (Presbyterian)

Among Professor Dobbs-Allsopp’s current projects is a book-length study of biblical Hebrew poetry, provisionally entitled “Verse, Properly So Called”: Essays on Biblical (Hebrew) Poetry. His recent publications include Hebrew Inscriptions: Texts from the Biblical Period of the Monarchy, with Concordance (with J. J. M. Roberts, C. L. Seow, and R. Whitaker; Yale University, 2005), Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-Hôl (with J. C. Darnell, M. Lundberg, P. K. McCarter, and B. Zuckerman; AASOR 59.2; 2005), and several articles on the Song of Songs—“The Delight of Beauty and Song 4:1-7," Interpretation 59 (2005) 260-77; “Late Linguistic Features in the Song of Songs” in Perspectives on the Song of Songs—Perspektiven der Hoheliedauslegung (A. C. Hagedorn, ed.; BZAW; de Gruyter, 2005) 27-77; and "I am Black and Beautiful: The Song, Cixous, and écriture féminine" in Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld (eds. C. Pressler and L. Day; WJK, 2006) 128-40.