Stephen L. Cook

Stephen L. Cook (b.1962) is an American scholar.

Biography

Stephen L. Cook earned his PhD in Old Testament at Yale University after having completing the M.Div. degree at Yale’s Divinity School, where he also served as an instructor and fellow. His undergraduate work was at Trinity College, Connecticut, where he graduated with honors as a religion major in 1984.

Prior to joining the faculty of Virginia Theological Seminary in 1996, Cook served on the faculty of Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University in New York City for four years. He is now the Catherine N. McBurney Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Virginia Theological Seminary.

Works on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Origins

Books

• Prophecy & Apocalypticism: The Postexilic Social Setting (1995 Cook), book

• The Apocalyptic Literature (2003 Cook), book

• The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism (2004 Cook), book

External links

• [ Wikipedia]