Dr. L. Daniel Hawk

Daniel Hawk is Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew. He is keenly concerned to expand students’ biblical horizons to empower Christian mission to a world in flux. For him, this means introducing students to an array of critical approaches and exploring insights from other fields of knowledge. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations: Global Awakenings in Theology and Praxis. 

Currently he is developing a series of lectures on settler colonialism which are highly relevant to this program. In The Violence of the Biblical God, for example, he utilizes contemporary narrative criticism to address the complexity of the biblical witness on divine violence. In Joshua in 3-D he engages postcolonial theory to read the book of Joshua as a mirror for Christian conversation on the American master narrative of Manifest Destiny. His commentary on Ruth incorporates ethnic studies to reveal a story that presents an inclusive vision of Israelite identity. An ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, Dr. Hawk’s teaching ministry is grounded in Christian community.