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Present	Associate Professor of Biblical Studies, Cedarville University ‐ School of Biblical and Theological Studies
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Religion and Biblical Studies

Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Language and Exegesis

Southeastern Theological Fellowship Recognition for Outstanding Academic Achievement - 2015
R.T. Daniel Award in Old Testament, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary - 2004
Scholarship, Outstanding Performance and Dedication Award, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education - 2019

Exposition of Old Testament Books
Book of Daniel
Elementary Hebrew I
Spiritual Formation
Biblical Research Methods

School of Biblical and Theological Studies
Cedarville University
BTS

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A Commentary on Jeremiah (Michael B. Shepherd) Faculty Books (2023)

The book that bears the prophet Jeremiah’s name does not merely document the past but looks forward to God’s future and final work in Christ. Perhaps more than any book of the Old Testament, Jeremiah ...

A Commentary on the Book of the Twelve: The Minor Prophets (Michael B. Shepherd) Faculty Books (2018)

The books of the twelve Minor Prophets are some of the least studied by Christians today, but they contain some of the great themes of Scripture, such as God's mercy and judgment, His covenant with ...

Textuality and the Bible (Michael B. Shepherd) Faculty Books (2016)

Textuality and the Bible represents a concerted effort to clarify the object of study in biblical scholarship and in the church by bringing together the disciplines of hermeneutics, compositional analysis, canon studies, and textual criticism. ...

The Text in the Middle (Michael B. Shepherd) Faculty Books (2014)

Analysis of inner-biblical exegesis ordinarily involves examination of the intertextual relationship between two texts within the biblical corpus. But in many cases there is an often overlooked intertext that serves as a bridge between the ...

The Textual World of the Bible (Michael B. Shepherd) Faculty Books (2013)

The world of the Bible is a textual world. Its composition and intertextuality are what make it a representation of reality. To understand biblical world making, it is important to understand how biblical books are ...

The Twelve Prophets in the New Testament (Michael B. Shepherd) Faculty Books (2011)

It has been widely recognized that the Book of the Twelve, Hosea to Malachi, was considered a single composition in antiquity. Recent articles and monographs have discussed the internal clues to this composition, but there ...

Daniel in the Context of the Hebrew Bible (Michael B. Shepherd) Faculty Books (2009)

Commentators have long set the book of Daniel within the context of world history and the genre of apocalyptic literature. The present volume argues that the primary context for the book is the composition of ...

The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach (Michael B. Shepherd) Faculty Books (2008)

Grammarians have been unable to provide a sufficient explanation for the verbal system of Biblical Aramaic by means of the standard categories of tense and aspect. Michael B. Shepherd exposes this situation and suggests a ...

Journal Articles (12)

Targums As Guides to Hebrew Syntax (Michael B. Shepherd) Themelios (2022)

Is the Septuagint the Christian Bible? (Michael B. Shepherd) Trinity Journal (2020)

Haggai and Zechariah in Greek Psalm Superscriptions (Michael B. Shepherd) Textus (2019)

Hebrew Exegesis Worksheets (Michael B. Shepherd) Hebrew Higher Education (2015)

It is normally not enough for students to prepare translations of passages for biblical Hebrew exegesis courses. This does not necessarily give them a sense of what kinds of questions they should be asking of ...

Is It "To Him" or Is It "Not"? Intentional Variation between lo and lo' (Michael B. Shepherd) Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (2014)

So-called Emphasis and the Lack Thereof in Biblical Hebrew (Michael B. Shepherd) Maarav (2012)

The Compound Subject in Biblical Hebrew (Michael B. Shepherd) Hebrew Studies (2011)

Hebrew Acrostic Poems and Their Vocabulary Stock (Michael B. Shepherd) Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages (2010)

The present article offers a survey and exposition of the acrostic poems in the Hebrew Bible. It also draws attention to the limited vocabulary stock within these poems for the representation of the letters of ...

Compositional Analysis of the Twelve (Michael B. Shepherd) Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (2008)

Targums, the New Testament, and Biblical Theology of the Messiah (Michael B. Shepherd) Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (2008)

The Targums and the NT exegete Scripture messianically. That is, they both tend to 'disambiguate' messianic texts. The Targums most often do this through the use of the title 'the messiah,' while the NT applies ...

The Distribution of Verbal Forms in Biblical Aramaic (Michael B. Shepherd) Journal of Semitic Studies (2007)

The standard grammars for Biblical Aramaic treat the verb primarily in terms of tense and Aktionsart. The theory of H.B. Rosen, which is based on a distinction between point aspect verbs and linear aspect verbs, ...

Daniel 7:13 and the New Testament Son of Man (Michael B. Shepherd) Westminster Theological Journal (2006)

The article investigates the origin of the phrase, son of man, in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 7, Verse 13. The problems posed by the messianic interpretation of the phrase for understanding the relationship between ...

Targums (Michael B. Shepherd) Biblical and Theological Studies Faculty Publications (2013)

Book Review: Reading Hosea-Micah (Michael B. Shepherd) Themelios (2014)

Book Review: The Cultic Motif in the Book of Daniel (Michael B. Shepherd) Catholic Biblical Quarterly (2011)

Book Review: Prophecy and Hermeneutics (Michael B. Shepherd) Bookreviews.org (2008)

Book Review: Fundamental Biblical Hebrew/Fundamental Biblical Aramaic (Michael B. Shepherd) Faith and Mission (2004)