Mark S. Gignilliat


Associate Professor of Divinity 
Old Testament

Email: msgignil@samford.edu
Phone: (205)726-4123

 

Education

B.A., Bob Jones University
M.Div., Reformed Theological Seminary

Ph.D., University of St. Andrews, Scotland

 


Mark Gignilliat has taught Hebrew, Old Testament Exegesis, and Biblical Theology at Beeson Divinity School since 2005. His research interests include the relationship between the testaments and between exegesis and Christian dogmatics. Before coming to Beeson Divinity School, he taught at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford. Gignilliat published Paul and Isaiah’s Servants in 2007,  Karl Barth and the Fifth Gospel: Barth’s Theological Exegesis of Isaiah in 2009 and contributed to Evangelicals and the Nicene Faith (Baker 2011) .  He is author of A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism, scheduled to be released by Zondervan in summer 2012. He has published articles in Scottish Journal of Theology, Horizons in Biblical Theology, Westminster Theological Journal, Biblica, The Journal for Theological Interpretation, Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, and International Journal of Systematic Theology. Before doctoral studies, he was youth director at North Hills Community Church in Greenville, South Carolina. Gignilliat is married to Naomi and they have three sons.