Michelle Knight

Professor in Chicagoland

Michelle Knight

Professor in Chicagoland

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Dr. Michelle Knight is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Her book, The Prophet's Anthem: The Song of Deborah and Barak in the Narrative of Judges (BUP) releases in November of 2024.

Michelle has a PhD from Wheaton College with an emphasis in Old Testament and biblical theology. Her canonical specialty is the Former Prophets; her teaching and research focus especially on the books of Joshua and Judges, in which she trains students to read the Hebrew text carefully, with theological attentiveness and literary sophistication.

Michelle is an active member of the Institute for Biblical Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Evangelical Theological Society, where she serves as the Program Unit Chair for the Old Testament Theology section. She serves as a Senior Reviewer on the Bible Translation Committee for the New Living Translation, for which she oversees the translation of the Historical Books. Michelle is currently writing a textbook on the historical books (Baker), a commentary on Joshua (Cascade) and a commentary on Judges (Baker). Her research interests include narrative criticism, theology of the Old Testament, the early historical books, and poetry in biblical narrative

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  • Work
    • TEDS
  • Education
    • Wheaton College (PhD)
    • Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MDiv)
    • Lincoln Christian College (BA)