Dr. John A. Cook
- Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages
- Director of Hebrew Instruction
John A. Cook has taught at 国产视频 since 2007. Over the past 30 years he has taught courses in Bible and biblical languages at the undergraduate and graduate level at a variety of institutions including Asian Theological Seminary in the Philippines, where he served full time from 1993 to 1996, the University of Wisconsin (Madison and Milwaukee campuses), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Wheaton College, and Grace College, Moscow Evangelical Seminary, Asia Graduate school of Theology, and Baptist Theological Seminary, Singapore. He also briefly worked as acquisitions editor at Eisenbrauns, an academic publisher specializing in the ancient Near East and biblical studies.
Professor Cook鈥檚 research goal is to bring insights from the field of linguistics to the disciplines of Biblical Hebrew philology and exegesis. He publishes regularly on topics in Biblical Hebrew linguistics, particularly related to the verbal system. Over the two decades he has been co-authoring a sequence of beginning, intermediate, and advanced Biblical Hebrew textbooks with Robert Holmstedt (Learning Biblical Hebrew, Baker Academic, 2013, 2020, forthcoming). In 2024 he published The Biblical Hebrew Verb (Baker Academic)听 an intermediate-advanced reference grammar in the same series. He is a frequent contributor to the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible series, including the volumes on Qoheleth (2017; co-authored with Robert D. Holmstedt and Phillip S. Marshall), Aramaic Ezra and Daniel (2019), Song of Songs (in preparation); and Isaiah 40-55 (in preparation; co-authored with Robert D. Holmstedt). Offprints of some of Professor Cook鈥檚 articles and book chapters are available at the Ancient Hebrew Grammar website he shares with Robert D. Holmstedt, his ongoing Valency Dictionary of Classical Hebrew is also available online.
Professor Cook is passionate about teaching students how to read God鈥檚 Word and to strive after wisdom and holiness by seeing how the world of the text interprets the world outside the text and then by living out that interpretation. Professor Cook regularly teaches Introduction to Old Testament, advanced exegesis courses on a variety of books (most recently Isaiah 40-55, the Song of Songs, and the book of Job), intermediate and advanced Hebrew grammar, Aramaic, and other Semitic languages (e.g., Northwest Semitic epigraphs, Syriac, Ugaritic).
He and his wife, Kathy, live in Wilmore and have four grown sons.
