Choon-Leong Seow
Henry Snyder Gehman Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature
Ph.D., Harvard University
leong.seow@ptsem.edu
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Presbyterian |
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Myth, Drama, and the Politics of David’s Dance |
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spending time with his “favorite little girl in the whole world—Hui- Ling (Wisdom)”; canoeing |
Choon-Leong Seow, the Henry Snyder Gehman Professor of Old
Testament Language and Literature, is a graduate of Princeton Seminary (M.Div.). The Old
Testament’s wisdom literature holds a particular interest for him, in part because he
regards it as distinctive for the complete absence of the main themes found elsewhere in
the Old Testament. He views the wisdom literature as theologically significant because it
contains the Bible’s life-centered theology. His forthcoming works include a book titled The Social World of Ecclesiastes, which he worked on during a sabbatical as a Henry Luce III Fellow in theology and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and commentaries on Daniel and Proverbs. In addition, he is the coeditor of the Hebrew Dictionary Project. He is an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA).