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Dr. Roy Melugin has received degrees from McMurry University (B.A. [1959]), Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University (B.D. [1962]), and Yale University (M.A. [1965] and Ph.D. [1968]). He has also studied at the University of Toronto (1962-63), the University of Heidelberg (1973-74), and at the Claremont Graduate University (Fall 1980 and 1987-88). He taught at Austin College (1967-99, retiring there after 16 years as the Gould H. and Marie Cloud Professor of Religion). Since 1999 he has been Research Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School. He is known nationally and internationally as a leading Isaiah scholar.
Ph.D., Yale University, 1968
M.A., Yale University, 1965
B.D., Perkins School of Theology at SMU, 1962
B.A., McMurry University, 1959
Presbyterian Church (USA)
books and articles
THE FORMATION OF ISAIAH 40-55. BZAW 141. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1976.
"Recent Form Criticism Revisited in an Age of Reader Response," THE CHANGING FACE OF FORM CRITICISM FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. M. A. Sweeney and E. Ben Zvi, eds. Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge. U. K.: Eerdmans, 2003, pp. 44-64.
"Figurative Speech and the Reading of Isaiah 1 as Scripture," NEW VISIONS OF ISAIAH. R F. Melugin and M.A. Sweeney (eds). JSOT Sup 214. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, pp. 282-305.
Comprehensive Bibliography
Courses
research interests
Isaiah, Amos, Biblical Hermeneutics
suggested reading
Edgar W. Conrad, READING ISAIAH (Fortress, 1991);

Katheryn Pfisterer Darr, ISAIAH'S VISION AND THE FAMILY OF GOD (Westminster John Knox, 1994);

Marvin A. Sweeney, ISAIAH 1-39 (Eerdmans, 1996).