Patrick D. Miller, Jr. (24 October 1935 – 1 May 2020) was an American
Old Testament
The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...
scholar who served as Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at
Princeton Theological Seminary from 1984 to 2005. He was an ordained minister in the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Miller studied at
Davidson College
Davidson College is a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina. It was established in 1837 by the Concord Presbytery and named after Revolutionary War general William Lee Davidson, who was killed at the nearby Battle of Cowan†...
,
Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and
Harvard University. He taught at Union from 1966 to 1984, and at Princeton from 1984 to 2005.
Miller served as editor of ''
Theology Today
''Theology Today'' is an academic journal published by SAGE Publications for the Princeton Theological Seminary; it was formerly published by Westminster John Knox. It appears four times a year.
The first issue of Theology Today appeared in April ...
'', and, in 1998, as president of the
Society of Biblical Literature
The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), founded in 1880 as the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, is an American-based learned society dedicated to the academic study of the Bible and related ancient literature. Its current stated mis ...
.
In 2003, a ''
Festschrift'' was published in his honor. ''A God So Near: Essays on Old Testament Theology in Honor of Patrick D. Miller'' () included contributions from
Walter Brueggemann,
Frank Moore Cross, and
Hugh G. M. Williamson
Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson (born 15 July 1947) is a theologian and academic. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew (Oxford), Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2014, a position he now holds as Emeritus.
Career
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Miller died on 1 May 2020 after a long illness.
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1935 births
2020 deaths
Princeton Theological Seminary faculty
Academic journal editors
Old Testament scholars
American Presbyterian ministers
American biblical scholars
Davidson College alumni
Union Presbyterian Seminary alumni
Union Presbyterian Seminary faculty
Harvard University alumni
Bible commentators