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February 11, 2020 | Dr. Mark S. Smith’s inaugural lecture, “‘What Have Canaan and Babylon to Do with Israel?’: The Problem of Ancient Near Eastern Divinity in the Biblical Godhead” Lecturer: Dr. Mark S. Smith, Helena Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis, Princeton Theological Seminary
This book offers an accessible discussion of some of the most important issues about God in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. The topics includes the bodies of God in the Bible, God’s body parts, and God’s “gender.”
Mark S. Smith is the Helena Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary. After obtaining master’s degrees from Catholic University of America, Harvard University, and Yale University, he earned his PhD at Yale. Prior to coming to Princeton Seminary, he served as the Skirball Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at New York University, and also taught at Yale and Saint Joseph’s University. A Roman Catholic layman, Smith also served as a visiting professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Smith specializes in Israelite religion and the Hebrew Bible, as well as the literature and religion of Late Bronze Age Ugarit. He is the author of 15 books and more than 100 articles. His current research includes a commentary on the book of Judges co-authored with Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith, which is to appear in the Hermeneia commentary series.
Biblical literature, Israelite religion, Ugaritic literature and religion, Hebrew grammar.
Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World. The Anchor Yale Reference Library. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2016.
The Genesis of Good and Evil: The Fall(out) and Original Sin in the Bible. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2019.
Profiles in Family and Public Leadership: Telling Leaders in the Hebrew Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, in press.
“Psalm 1: Sonant Particles and Parallelism, with Speculation on the Poem’s Scribal Production,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 85 (2023) 402-19.
“Day 26, Letter 26,” in American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 Letters. Volume 2 (edited by Andrea L. Weiss and Lisa M. Weinberger; Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, 2023), 56.
“Truth of the Scriptures: Beyond Parts and (W)holes,” in Guide Me into Your Truth: Essays in Honor of Dennis T. Olson, ed. Rolf A. Jacobsen, Jacqueline E. Lapsley and Kristin Wendland (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2023), 157-66.
“More than Human Expectation: Our God of Mercy and Justice.” Princeton Theological Seminary Fall 2024 Convocation Address. Theology Today 81/4 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1177/0040573624129222, first published online 7 January 2025.
“Faculty Colloquium, 16 October 2024: Response to Mark Taylor.” Theology Today 81/4 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736241298010, first published online 7 January 2025.
Exegesis of Psalms
Exegesis of Genesis
The Book of Judges
God in the Old Testament
Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
Hebrew Historical Grammar
Ugaritic
Co-authored with Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith, Judges 2: 10:6-21:25. Edited by Sidnie White Crawford; Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, under contract.
Co-authored with Wayne T. Pitard, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle: Volume 3. Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of KTU 1.5-1.6, Vetus Testament Supplement series. Leiden: Brill.
Editorial Board, Elements of the Ancient Near Eastern World and the Bible (Cambridge University Press)
Editorial Board, Ancient Literature for Old Testament Studies (Zondervan)
Co-editor, Forschungen zum Alten Testament Series (Mohr Siebeck)
Current engagement with Jewish communities, including member of the board for the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at Saint Joseph’s University
September 1, 2021
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