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Stephen B. Chapman

Professor of Old Testament
Divinity School
Duke Box 90967, Durham, NC 27708-0967
051 Langford, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


General Editors’ Preface

Chapter · March 31, 2024 Full text Cite

PENTATEUCH AND BLESSING

Chapter · January 1, 2024 Full text Cite

The Pentateuch as Canon

Chapter · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Psalm 115 and the Logic of Blessing

Journal Article Horizons in Biblical Theology · January 1, 2022 Although not a well-known biblical psalm, Psalm 115 offers significant insights into the character of blessing in Second Temple piety. The psalm's structure and catchword technique highlight a fundamental contrast between Israel's God and the idols of the ... Full text Cite

Who Prays the Psalms? Bonhoeffer's Christological Concentration

Journal Article Toronto Journal of Theology · December 1, 2021 For Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the voice of the Psalms is theologically identical to the voice of Christ. Bonhoeffer's primary warrant for this conviction came from the New Testament's pattern of discourse. Yet, as Rein Bos has demonstrated, the New Testament em ... Full text Cite

Between Text and Sermon: Daniel 7

Journal Article Interpretation United Kingdom · April 1, 2017 Full text Cite

The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

Book · July 21, 2016 This Companion offers a concise and engaging introduction to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Providing an up-to-date 'snapshot' of scholarship, it includes essays, specially commissioned for this volume, by twenty-three leading scholars. ... Cite

1 Samuel as Christian Scripture A Theological Commentary

Book · March 9, 2016 This work by Stephen Chapman offers a robustly theological and explicitly Christian reading of 1 Samuel. ... Cite

The Old Testament and the Church after Christendom

Journal Article Journal of Theological Interpretation · 2015 Cite

Studying the Word of God

Journal Article Christian Reflection · 2014 Cite

The canon debate: what it is and why it matters

Journal Article Journal of Theological Interpretation · September 1, 2010 Link to item Cite

What are we reading? Canonicity and the Old Testament

Journal Article Word & World · January 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

Jonah and the imitation of God: rethinking evangelism and the Old Testament

Journal Article Journal of Theological Interpretation · March 1, 2008 Link to item Cite

Childs, Brevard Springs, 1923-2007

Journal Article Christian Century · September 4, 2007 Link to item Cite

How scripture speaks

Journal Article The Christian Century · 2007 Canonical interpretation, in Childs's vision, does not amount to the arbitrary valorizing of the received biblical text but rather locates the interpreter within the community of the faithful, those who read scripture theologically not as one more exegetic ... Link to item Cite

Sons of entitlement

Journal Article Christian Century · October 17, 2006 Link to item Cite

Upside down world

Journal Article Christian Century · October 17, 2006 Link to item Cite

Haunting voices: the Old Testament in contemporary consciousness

Journal Article Perspectives in Religious Studies · June 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Reading the Bible as witness: divine retribution in the Old Testament

Journal Article Perspectives in Religious Studies · June 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

A brazen faith

Journal Article Ex auditu · January 1, 2000 Link to item Cite

Response to Knierim

Journal Article Ex auditu · January 1, 2000 Link to item Cite