Michelle Knight, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Michelle Knight joins the Divinity School faculty at Wheaton College after serving as Assistant and Associate Professor of Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She completed an M.Div. at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where she focused her study on biblical languages and exegesis, then went on to pursue a Ph.D in Old Testament with a focus on biblical theology. Dr. Knight is the author of The Prophet’s Anthem: The Song of Deborah and Barak in the Narrative of Judges (BUP, 2024). She also serves as Senior Reviewer for the Historical Books for the New Living Translation. 

Education

Ph.D., Wheaton College

M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

B.A., Lincoln Christian University

Publications

The Prophet's Anthem: The Song of Deborah and Barak in the Narrative of Judges
Drawing on over a century’s worth of concentrated critical research on the song, Dr. Michelle Knight's The Prophet’s Anthem combines poetic analysis and narrative criticism to yield fresh thematic and structural insights for reading the entire Judges narrative. With their attention keenly trained on Deborah’s words, readers will be better equipped to hear the book of Judges in a new register. 
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Current Research Interests

• Narrative criticism
• Theology of the Old Testament
• The Former Prophets (esp. Joshua and Judges)
• Poetry in biblical narrative