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Craig Vondergeest, Ph.D.

Ruby K. Phillips Professor of Religion
Religion

Education

Ph.D., Old Testament, Union Presbyterian Seminary
M. Div., Princeton Theological Seminary
B.A., English, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN

Research or Areas of Specialty

My areas of research specialization are prophecy and divination in the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East, as well as the book of Deuteronomy and the historical books of the Old Testament.

Classes at PC

  • Religion and Human Experience
  • The Old Testament
  • The New Testament
  • The Prophets
  • World Religions
  • Introduction to Leadership, Service and Ministry
  • New Testament Greek

Organizations

  • Society of Biblical Literature

Publications

“Obadiah,” “Jonah,” “Micah,” in The Wesley One-Volume Commentary on the Bible,” ed. Kenneth J. Collins and Robert Wall (Nashville: Abingdon, 2020).

Review of Reading Deuteronomy: A Literary and Theological Commentary, by Stephen L. Cook, in Interpretation 71 (2017): 213-215.

“1-2 Kings,” in Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, ed. Joel B. Green and Allen Verhey (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011). Rpt. in The Old Testament and Ethics: A Book-by-Book Survey, ed. Joel B. Green and Jacqueline Lapsley (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013).

Numerous short exegetical articles in Lectionary Homiletics, 2008-2017.