Robert J. V. Hiebert, Ph.D.

Professor of Old Testament Studies

Email: robh@twu.ca

Curriculum vitae

Robert J. V. Hiebert was born in in Vancouver, BC, and grew up Abbotsford. He pursued undergraduate studies at Columbia Bible Institute (Abbotsford), Trinity Western College (Langley), and the Institute for Holy Land Studies (Jerusalem) before completing a B.A. (Honours) degree at the University of Toronto (1978). In graduate school at the same university he majored in Septuagint Studies and earned an M.A. (1979) and Ph.D. (1986) with a dissertation on the so-called Syrohexapla of Psalms.

From 1986 to 1997, Hiebert taught biblical studies at Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto. In 1997-98 he was a research associate in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. In 1998 he was appointed Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies at Trinity Western Seminary / ACTS where he continues to teach. He was awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of Professor in 2003.

Prof. Hiebert has received several research grants from various funding agencies, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, the Skirball Foundation, the Lilly Foundation, and the Priscilla and Stanford Reid Trust. He is the author and editor of books and articles on a range of subjects in the areas of Septuagint, textual criticism, semantics, exegesis, and the history of biblical interpretation.

His translation of the Septuagint of Genesis was published in A New English Translation of the Septuagint (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Prof. Hiebert is currently preparing the critical edition of IV Maccabees for the Göttingen Septuaginta series and a commentary on Genesis for the Society of Biblical Literature Commentary on the Septuagint. He also serves as Joint-Editor-in-Chief for this commentary series, and on the Steering Committee for the The Greek Bible program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature.