Faculty Publications

Name: Dr. Mark E. Biddle

Title: Russell T. Cherry Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

Published work(s):

Missing the Mark: Sin and Its Consequences in Biblical Theology. Abingdon Press 2005.

Published article(s):

"Murder," in The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible, Watson E. Mills, ed. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1990.

"Christian Interpretation of the Old Testament: A Methodological Problem," Faculty Studies (Carson Newman College) 1990: 27-43.

"The Figure of Lady Jerusalem: Identification, Deification and Personification of Cities in the Ancient Near East," in The Canon in Comparative Perspective, Scripture in Context IV, B. Batto, W. Hallo, and L. Younger, eds. Lewiston: New York: Mellen Press, 1991. Pp. 173-194.

"Amos: Introduction," in Interpreting Amos for Teaching and Preaching. Macon: Smyth and Helwys, 1996.

Polyphony and Symphony in Prophetic Literature: A Literary Analysis of Jeremiah 7-20, Studies in Old Testament Interpretation 2. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1996.

"Laboratory for Learning: Promoting Community Learning Across Curricular and Co-Curricular Functions," (with E. Lee and W. McDonald) in Who Teaches? Who Learns? Authentic Student/Faculty Partners, R. Jenkins and K. Romer, eds. Providence, RI: Ivy Publishers, 1998. Pp. 69-76.

Sermon ideas/summaries on select texts in Genesis for the 2001 edition of Abingdon's Ministers Manual.

"Deuteronomy," Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary 4. Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2003.

"Jeremiah, Letter of Jeremiah, Baruch," Oxford Annotated Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

"Ancestral Motifs In 1 Samuel 25: Intertextuality And Characterization," JBL 121 (2002): 617-638.

Edited work(s):

W. Brueggemann, 1 and 2 Kings, Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary. Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2000.

T. Fretheim, Jeremiah, Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary. Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2002.

L. Bailey, Leviticus-Numbers, Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary. Macon: Smyth & Helwys, forthcoming