RICHARD M. DAVIDSON
Biography
Richard M. Davidson is J. N. Andrews Professor of Old Testament Interpretation and chairperson of the Old Testament Department at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan. He has been with the Andrews faculty since 1979.
Born in California, Davidson attended Loma Linda University, Riverside, California, graduating in 1968 with a bachelor of arts degree in theology. Two years later he earned his master of divinity degree summa cum laude from the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University. He also received his doctorate in Biblical Studies at Andrews in 1981. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Typological Structures in the Old and New Testaments." It is now published under the title Typology in Scripture.
Before coming to Andrews Davidson served as an associate pastor of a Seventh-day Adventist church in Phoenix, Arizona, and as pastor of the Flagstaff Seventh-day Adventist Church for more than five years. He was ordained as a minister in Prescott, Arizona, in 1974.
Davidson is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Evangelical Theological Society, and the Adventist Theological Society. He has presented over seventy scholarly papers at professional meetings of these societies and other venues.
Davidson has written numerous articles for refereed journals and Adventist denominational papers, as well as various chapters in scholarly books. These may be viewed on his website (www.andrews.edu/~davidson). Additional publications include the following books: A Love Song for the Sabbath (Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1988), In the Footsteps of Joshua (Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1995), Biblical Hermeneutics (in Romanian; Editura CARD, 2003), and Flame of Yahweh: Sexuality in the Old Testament (Hendrickson Publishers, 2007).
He is married to Jo Ann Mazat Davidson who also teaches at the Theological Seminary. They have a daughter, Rahel, and a son, Jonathan. Davidson enjoys backpacking, mountaineering, mountain biking, cross-country skiing, and tennis.
March 2008