- Bruce Waltke
Bruce K. Waltke is a Reformed evangelical professor of
Old Testament and Hebrew. He has held professorships in the Old Testament atDallas Theological Seminary ,Regent College inVancouver, British Columbia ,Westminster Theological Seminary inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania , andReformed Theological Seminary inOrlando, Florida .Waltke was born in 1930 in
New Jersey to parents in theMennonite Brethren tradition. He received anA.B. fromHoughton College , aTh.M. andTh.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary, and aPh.D. fromHarvard University . He has served as president of theEvangelical Theological Society and was on the translation committee of theNew American Standard Bible [http://www.lockman.org/nasb/nasbprin.php] and the New International andToday's New International Version of theBible . His books include "Intermediate Hebrew Grammar", "Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax", "Finding the Will of God", "Creation and Chaos", and commentaries on "Proverbs" (New International Commentary on the Old Testament, 2 vols.), "Micah" (Tyndale Commentary Series), and with C. J. Fredricks "Genesis" (Zondervan 2001, ISBN 978-0310224587), which was a winner of "Christianity Today "'s Gold Medallion award. He was co-editor for the "Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament", and he was the Old Testament editor for the "Expositor's Bible Commentary" series, the "New Geneva Study Bible ", and the "Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible". Most recently, he wrote "An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach".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 theMiddle East and the Classical World. He is married and has three grown children.The
festschrift "The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke" (Zondervan, 2000; ISBN 0310227283) was edited byJ. I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund.External links
* [http://www.regentbookstore.com/radio/speaker_info.php?speakerID=bwaltke Lectures by Waltke] from Regent Radio at Regent College
* [http://reformedsermons.org/compile_speaker.asp/speaker/Bruce%20Waltke/site//category/speakers Lectures by Waltke] at ReformedSermons.org
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