San Francisco Theological Seminary
Professor of Old Testament
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1975

Ph.D., Harvard, 1972
B.D. (M.Div.), Harvard, 1969
A.B., Harvard, 1966

Phone: 415/451-2871
E-mail: rbcoote@sfts.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• The formation of the Prophetic corpus in the Old Testament
• Third Isaiah and the Persian-period shaping of the book of Isaiah
• The use of the Scriptures in the New Testament
• Modernist biblical introduction
• The absence of biblical criticism in the ministries of the church

Selected Publications

• "Psalm 19: Heavenly Law and Order," forthcoming.
• "Homer and Scripture in the Gospel of Mark," forthcoming.
• "Proximity to the Central Davidic Citadel and the Greater and Lesser Prophets," in Prophecy and the City in Ancient Israel, ed. Lester Grabbe and Robert Haak (Hammond, IN: Sheffield, 2001), pp. 62-70.
• "Hapiru/Apiru" and "Conquest," in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, ed. David Noel Freedman (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), pp. 549-51.
• San Francisco Theological Seminary: The Shaping of a Western School of the Church (San Anselmo: First Presbyterian Church, 1999).
• "The Book of Joshua: Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections," in The New Interpreter's Bible, Vol. 2, ed. Leander E. Keck (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998).