John Edgar Goldingay (born 20 June 1942 in

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) is a British Old Testament scholar and translator and Anglican cleric. He is the David Allan Hubbard Professor Emeritus of Old Testament in the School of Theology of

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Education and Career

Goldingay obtained a

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(BA) at the

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and a

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(PhD) at the

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. He also has a

Doctor of Divinity A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity. In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ran ...

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. He was ordained a

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in the

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in 1966 and a

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

in 1967. Goldingay was a Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at

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and served as Principal from 1988 to 1997. He went to

in 1997. He was also an associate priest at St Barnabas Episcopal Church, Pasadena.

Personal life

Goldingay was married to his first wife, Ann, for 43 years until she died in June 2009. In 2010 he married Kathleen Scott. He has two adult sons from his first marriage and an adult step-daughter from the second. After retiring from Fuller, he moved back to his home country of England in the spring of 2018, living in Oxford.

Writing career

Goldingay has published major commentaries on several books of the Old Testament as well as books on Old Testament theology and biblical interpretation. From 2010 to 2016, he issued the Old Testament for Everyone series through

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, a study guide for laypeople with original translation and study notes for each book of the Protestant Old Testament canon. In 2018, his complete translation of the Old Testament was released by

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under the title ''The First Testament.''

Selected works

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References

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