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Katharine J. Dell, Reader in Old Testament Literature and Theology, University of Cambridge Katharine Dell is Reader in Old Testament Literature and Theology in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. She did her PhD work in Oxford and had a first job there as Old Testament Tutor at Ripon College, Cuddesdon before moving to Cambridge in 1995. She is a world expert on the wisdom literature of the Old Testament and has written extensively on...See more

Katharine J. Dell, Reader in Old Testament Literature and Theology, University of Cambridge Katharine Dell is Reader in Old Testament Literature and Theology in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. She did her PhD work in Oxford and had a first job there as Old Testament Tutor at Ripon College, Cuddesdon before moving to Cambridge in 1995. She is a world expert on the wisdom literature of the Old Testament and has written extensively on Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes. She has also written on prophetic texts in the light of 'wisdom influence', on ecological readings of texts and musical interpretations of Job. She has written an introductory textbook on wisdom and a second on the Old Testament as a whole as well as a book on the worth of the Old Testament in the light of the New Atheist attack on religion and the bible. See less