Richard Samuel Hess (born 1954) is 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. He is Earl S. Kalland Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at

Denver Seminary Denver Seminary is a private, Evangelical Christian seminary with its main campus in Littleton, Colorado, an online global campus, and an extension campus in Washington, DC. It offers Master of Arts (MA), Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Doctor of M ...

. Hess has degrees from Wheaton College,

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) is an academic divinity school founded in 1897 and located in the northern Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois. It is part of and located on the main campus of Trinity International University. It’s ...

, and

Hebrew Union College Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

. He previously taught at

International Christian College Bible Training Institute, established in 1892, was a bible college which aimed to evangelise the working classes in Scotland. It was closed in 2018 due to financial deficit. History The foundation of the Bible Training Institute, originally lo ...

, Glasgow, and the

University of Roehampton The University of Roehampton, London, formerly Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, is a public university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. Roehampton was formerly an e ...

, London. Hess is editor of the '' Denver Journal''. He was previously editor of the ''

Bulletin for Biblical Research The ''Bulletin for Biblical Research'' is the peer-reviewed journal of the Institute for Biblical Research. It was established in 1991, and is published by Eisenbrauns. ''BBR'' started as an annual journal, becoming a biannual journal in 2000 and a ...

''. He is a member of the

New International Version The New International Version (NIV) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1978 by Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society). The ''NIV'' was created as a modern translation, by Bible scholars using the earliest an ...

's Committee on Bible Translation.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hess, Richard 1954 births Living people American biblical scholars Old Testament scholars Wheaton College (Illinois) alumni Trinity Evangelical Divinity School alumni Hebrew Union College alumni Academics of the University of Roehampton Translators of the Bible into English Academic journal editors