David Brooks


Senior Professor of Hebrew & Old Testament and Book Reviews Editor of Criswell Theological Review
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Dr. David Brooks, Senior Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament and Book Reviews Editor of Criswell Theological Review
David Brooks 214.818.1324
  • 2000 Ph.D. (Old Testament and Hebrew), Dallas Theological Seminary
    Dissertation: “The Ideological Relationship Between Old Testament Law and Proverbs”
  • 1988 Th.M. (Old Testament), Temple Baptist Seminary
    Thesis: “An Exegetical Theology of Common Work in the Pentateuch”
  • 1983 M.Div. (New Testament), Temple Baptist Seminary
  • 1976  B.A. (History), University of Pennsylvania
  • Editor of Larry Waters, The New Testament Story: Preparing to Tell God’s Story of Redemption-Part 2. Harrisburg, PA: Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, 2007.
  • The Old Testament Story: Preparing to Tell God’s Story of Redemption-Part 1. Harrisburg, PA: Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, 2006.
  • “Numbers,” The Bible Knowledge Key Word Study: Old Testament: Genesis-Deuteronomy, pages 335-440. Edited by Eugene H. Merrill. Colorado Springs, CO: Cook Communications, Victor Books, 2003.
  • Assisted in editing James D. Price, The Syntax of Masoretic Accents in the Hebrew Bible. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellin, 1990.
  • Foreword in James D. Price, Optimal Equivalence: A Theory for Bible Translation. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2007.
  • “The Roots of Faith–Old Testament: Commentary.” Harrisburg, PA: Goodsoil Evangelism and Discipleship, 2012.
  • “The Complementary Relationship Between Proverbs and Moses’ Law,” Criswell Theological Review NS 5, no. 1 (Fall 2007): 3-32.

Undergraduate courses

  • First-year Biblical Hebrew
  • Hebrew Reading
  • Hermeneutics
  • Old Testament Survey
  • Old Testament Exposition
  • O.T. Intensives (individual book studies): Genesis, Deuteronomy, Judges-Ruth, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah

Graduate courses

  • First-year Biblical Hebrew
  • Hebrew Exegetical Method
  • Hebrew Exegesis of individual books: Job, Proverbs
  • Hebrew Reading
  • Old Testament Introduction
  • O.T. Criticism
  • O.T. Intensives on individual books: Genesis, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Judges-Ruth, Job, Proverbs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel
  • O.T. Poetic Books
  • O.T. Prophetic Books
  • New Testament Survey
  • Evangelical Theological Society (Nominating Committee for Southwest Region, 2003)
  • Institute for Biblical Research
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