Marvin A. Sweeney
Marvin Alan Sweeney (born, Springfield, Illinois, July 4, 1953; raised in Decatur, Illinois) is Professor of Hebrew Bible[1] at Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Tanak at the Academy for Jewish Religion (California). Dr. Sweeney was trained under the tutelage of Rolf P. Knierim at Claremont Graduate University. He was a Yad haNadiv/Barecha Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he worked with Moshe Greenberg. Sweeney previously taught at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, and he has served as visiting professor at the W. F. Albright Institute, Jerusalem, Israel; Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA; Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; and Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan. He also serves on the faculty at Claremont Graduate University.
A specialist in Prophetic Literature, Sweeney is known for developing the field of Jewish Biblical Theology.
Education
- A.B. - University of Illinois (Political Science and Religious Studies, with distinction)
- Non-degree student - Princeton Theological Seminary (Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek)
- M.A. - Claremont Graduate University (Religion: Hebrew Bible)
- Ph.D. - Claremont Graduate University (Religion: Hebrew Bible)
- Post-doctoral Fellow - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Targumic Aramaic, Jewish Biblical Exegesis)
Selected Works
- Isaiah 40-66. Forms of the Old Testament Literature, 17 (Eerdmans, forthcoming)
- Reading Prophetic Books. Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 89 (Mohr Siebeck 2014)
- Reading Ezekiel. Reading the Old Testament (Smyth & Helwys, 2013)
- TANAK: A Theological and Critical Introduction to the Jewish Bible (Fortress, 2012)
- Reading the Hebrew Bible after the Shoah: Engaging Holocaust Theology (Fortress, 2008)
- I and II Kings: A Commentary (Westminster John Knox, 2007)
- The Prophetic Literature (Abingdon, 2005)
- Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature (Mohr Siebeck, 2005)
- Zephaniah: A Commentary. Hermeneia. (Fortress, 2003)
- King Josiah of Judah: The Lost Messiah of Israel (Oxford University Press, 2001) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 601 libraries [2]
- The Twelve Prophets. Berit Olam. (2 vols.; Liturgical, 2000)
- Isaiah 1-39. Forms of the Old Testament Literature, 16. (Eerdmans, 1996)
- Isaiah 1-4 and the Post-Exilic Understanding of the Isaianic Tradition. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 171 (Walter de Gruyter, 1988)