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Dr. Bruce Waltke

Bio

Dr. Bruce Waltke is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies at Regent College, Vancouver, and also taught for many years at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He received a PhD from Harvard University and a ThD and ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary. Waltke has travelled widely as a Bible expositor, as an Area Supervisor for excavations at Gezer, Israel, and as Director of field study trips to the Middle East and the Classical World. He is the author of many books and commentaries. He has served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society, was on the translation committee of the New American Standard Bible and the New International Version, joining the CBT in 1980.

Education

Houghton College, A.B.
Dallas Theological Seminary, Th.M.
Dallas Theological Seminary, Th.D.
Harvard University, Ph.D.

Publications

Books
Intermediate Hebrew Grammar
Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
Finding the Will of God
Creation and Chaos
Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award in 2008.

Editorial and Translation

Editor for the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Old Testament editor for the Expositor’s Bible Commentary series, Old Testament editor the New Geneva Study Bible, and Old Testament editor the Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible. More recently, he wrote An Editor for the New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis Editor for the Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible

Scholarly reference volumes

An Old Testament Theology
Finding the Will of God
Knowing the Will of God
Genesis: A Commentary
The Book of Proverbs
Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
Commentary on Micah
The Psalms as Christian Worship
The Hermeneutics of Dispensationalism
A Biblical Theology of Origins
Proverbs (New International Commentary on the Old Testament, 2 vols.),

Academic journals published in

Journal of Theological Interpretation
Scottish Journal of Theology
Horizons in Biblical Theology
Westminster Theological Journal

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