J. Andrew Dearman

J. Andrew Dearman is Senior Professor of Old Testament and Dean Emeritus at Fuller Theological Seminary's Houston campus. He holds a PhD from Emory University and writes on biblical theology, exile, and the Pentateuch.

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2017

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Aug 2023

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Suffering · 2023 Spring EditionMoses, Death, and the Continuation of Ministry

The Pentateuch ends with Moses dying outside the promised land. Dearman reads that anticlimax theologically, finding in it a pattern: ministry passes from one hand to another, the work continues…

August 29, 2023

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Theology · 2017 Spring EditionExile and New Life

Dearman reads the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles as the Old Testament's primary picture of corporate failure, and as the matrix N.T. Wright says shaped Jesus' announcement of the kingdom. The…

May 24, 2017

J. Andrew Dearman

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