Chip Dobbs-Allsopp
Associate Professor of Old Testament
Department of Biblical Studies
324 Lenox House
Phone: 609.497.7924
Fax: 609.279.9485
Email: chip.dobbs-allsopp@ptsem.edu

Chip Dobbs-Allsopp, associate professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, holds an M.Div. from the Seminary and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in Old Testament literature, including the Book of Lamentations, the Song of Songs, Hebrew poetry, and the Prophets. His other fields of interest include literary theory and methods of study, Semitic languages and linguistics, and Northwest Semitic languages and literature. He teaches courses in biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and Ugaritic grammar and translation, and biblical interpretation in a postmodern world. A specialist in the languages and history of the Middle East, he is one of the major project translators on a team of scholars examining and deciphering the inscriptions discovered at Wadi el-Hol in Egypt. He is on the editorial board for the Writings from the Ancient World Series, published by the Society of Biblical Literature.

Lamentations, Interpretation Bible Commentary Series. (Westminster John Knox Press, 2002)
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 Press, 2005)
Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-Hol, with J.C. Darnell, M. Lundberg, P.K. McCarter, and B. Zuckerman. AASOR 59.2. (American Schools of Oriental Research, 2006)