David Toshio Tsumura

David Toshio Tsumura (津村 俊夫, Tsumura Toshio^?, born February 4, 1944) is a Japanese linguist, Old Testament scholar, Dean of Faculty and professor of Old Testament professor of Japan Bible Seminary. His degrees are M.Div., M.A., Ph.D.^{[1][Full citation needed][2][unreliable source?]} He is a chairman of the Tokyo Museum of Biblical Archaeology,^[3] and editor of Exegetica: Studies in Biblical Exegesis^[4][5] and chairman of New Japanese Bible（新改訳）Publishing Association. He lives in Tokyo.^{[not verified in body]}

He is well known as world class Ugarit scholar.^{[not verified in body]}

History

He was born in Kobe in 1944. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1966, where he had majored in Commerce. He went to America to study non theological subject. While studying ethics, he became interested in Old Testament study. He applied to Asbury Theological Seminary to study for an M.Div., graduating in 1969. He then applied to Brandeis University for a research masters degree in Mediterranean Studies, which he completed in 1971. Tsumura's doctorate, also in Mediterranean Studies, was also awarded by the same university in 1973, for his work on Ugarit.^{[6][Full citation needed]}

After he graduated from Brandeis University in 1974, he came back to Japan. Then he became a professor of Japan Bible Seminary as a lecturer in Old Testament. He Became an Associate Professor of Semitic Linguistics of University of Tsukuba from 1975 to 1990. He taught Literature and Linguistics. He came back to Japan Bible Seminary in 1990.^{[citation needed]}

He is working as a world wide scholar. he stayed Harvard University, Divinity School as a visiting scholar from 1973 to 1974.He also visited University of Michigan as a visiting scholar in 1979.^{[citation needed]}

He stayed Tyndale House, Cambridge as a research fellow from 1986 to 1988 and Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Studies as a visiting scholar in 1994.^{[citation needed]}

He visits Hong Kong several times to teach Old Testament at the Seminary of China Theological Institute.^[7]

Books

• The First Book of Samuel, New International Commentary on the Old Testament
• The Earth and Waters in Genesis 1 and 2
• Creation and Destruction

References

1. ^ *The First Book of Samuel, New International Commentary on the Old Testament
2. ^ zoominfo
3. ^ http://www.tmba-museum.jp/page/page_03/development/bible_world.html
4. ^ http://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~atake/EXEGETICA/main.html
5. ^ http://www.bookschristian.com/se/product/books/David_Toshio_Tsumura/The_First_Book_of_Samuel/280184/The_First_Book_of_Samuel_Hardcover.html
6. ^ Peter C. Craigie, Ugarit and the Old Testament, Japanese Translation by David Toshio Tsumura, Eerdmand Publishing Campany,1983
7. ^ article of news paper(基督日報)in Chinese

External links

• Personal website
• Who Did the Notes for the Upcoming ESV Study Bible?
• 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies
• Polysemy and Parallelism in Hab 1,8–9
• UGARITIC POETRY AND HABAKKUK 3
• OLAC Record
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