Faculty
Gregory Mobley
Professor of Christian Bible
B.A., Campbellsville College
M.Div., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Th.M., Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D., Harvard University
Phone: Ext. 2363
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Biography:
Gregory Mobley came to Andover Newton in 1997. He previously taught at Union Theological Seminary (NY), Harvard Divinity School, and, for two years following college, at a high school in Jos, Nigeria.
He is the author of The Stories Behind the Story: A Narrative Companion to the Hebrew Bible (2011), The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel (2005), Samson and the Liminal Hero in the Ancient Near East (2006), and with T. J. Wray, The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil’s Biblical Roots (2005), and numerous articles.
Mobley has done archaeological fieldwork in Israel and editorial work on the Dead Sea Scrolls. In 2000 he received the Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar award. He is an ordained American Baptist mininster.
Mobley is active in Jewish-Christian relations in the Boston area and, especially, on our campus through Andover Newton’s partnership with Hebrew College.
Courses:
CMPR 685W: Preaching Boot Camp
OLDT 509F: Introduction to Scripture I
OLDT 512S: The River: Introduction to the Prophets and Writings in the Hebrew Bible
OLDT 695S [IF]: The Book of Job and the Problem of Evil: Jewish and Christian Perspectives
OLDT/WREL 652F [IF]: People of the Book: An Introduction to Judaism
