Paul R. Williamson
Academic background and interests
Present Position
2001– |
Lecturer in Old Testament, Moore College |
Qualifications
1989 |
Diploma in Theological and Pastoral Studies ( Irish Baptist College ) |
1990 |
B.D. (Honours in Biblical Studies) (The Queen’s University of Belfast ) |
1999 |
Ph.D. (The Queen’s University of Belfast ) |
Previous Experience
1979–1985 |
Secular Employment |
1985–1989 |
Ministerial Training |
1989–1993 |
Baptist Pastoral Ministry |
1990–1993 |
Part-time Lecturer in Old Testament, Irish Baptist College |
1993–2000 |
Full-time Lecturer in Old Testament, Irish Baptist College |
1994– |
Member of Tyndale Fellowship |
1997 |
Teaching Assistant, Department of Semitic Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast |
1999–2000 |
Senior Adviser of Studies ( Institute of Theology , QUB) |
2000– |
Fellow of the Institute of Biblical Research |
Recent Postgraduate Teaching Experience
Jointly supervised M.Th. (Queen’s University Belfast)
Supervised two M.Th. candidates (Queen’s University Belfast)
Joint supervisor of M.Phil. candidate (Queen’s University Belfast)
Supervisor of Ph.D. candidate (Queen’s University Belfast)
Internal examiner of Ph.D. thesis (Queen’s University Belfast)
Supervisor of Ph.D. candidate (MTC/UWS)
Examiner of Ph.D thesis (University of Sydney)
Publications
Books
Abraham, Israel and the Nations : The Patriarchial Promise and Its Covenantal Development in Genesis. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
Sealed with an Oath: A Biblical Theology of Covenant. New Studies in Biblical Theology series. Edited by D. A. Carson. IVP: Apollos (forthcoming 2007).
Articles
‘Abraham, Israel and the Church’. Evangelical Quarterly 72 (2000): 99–118.
‘Covenant’. Pages 419–29 in New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Edited by T. D. Alexander and B. Rosner. Leicester/Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
‘Promise and Fulfilment: The Territorial Inheritance’. Pages 15–34 in The Land of Promise: Biblical, Theological and Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by P. S. Johnson and P. W. L. Walker. Leicester/Downers Grove: Apollos/InterVarsity Press, 2000.
‘Abraham’. Pages 8-17 in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch. Edited by T. D. Alexander and D. W. Baker. Downers Grove/Leicester: InterVarsity Press, 2003.
‘Circumcision’. Pages 122-125 in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch. Edited by T. D. Alexander and D. W. Baker. Downers Grove/Leicester: InterVarsity Press, 2003.
‘Covenant’. Pages 139-155 in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch. Edited by T.D. Alexander and D.W. Baker. Downers Grove/Leicester: InterVarsity Press, 2003.
‘Land’. Pages 638-643 in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books. Edited by B. T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson. Downers Grove/Leicester: InterVarsity Press, 2005.
‘Covenant: the Beginning of a Biblical Idea’. Reformed Theological Review 65/1 (2006): 1-14.
‘Historical Roots of the Gospel: the Promise behind the Promise’. Paper for the Summer School of Theology, Moore Theological College, September, 2003. (To be published in a forthcoming Explorations volume edited by B. Rosner.)
Research
'Promises and Covenants: A Synchronic Analysis of the Relationship between Genesis 15 and 17'. Ph.D. thesis. The Queen's University of Belfast, 1998.
Current Research
The Book of Exodus (for a commentary in the ‘Reading the Bible Today Series’, Aquila Press).
Exodus (for a commentary in the Tyndale Old Testament Commentary series, InterVarsity Press).
OT Canon (for an article in the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Poetry and Wisdom, InterVarsity Press).