Prof. Heath Thomas

Fellow in Old Testament Studies

Heath Thomas is Assistant Professor of Old Testament & Hebrew at Southeastern Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is married to Jill, who is a nurse, and has three beautiful children called Harrison, Isabelle, and Simon. He has taught at Southeastern since 2007. A graduate of the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham (UK), his research interests lie in biblical lament tradition, the relationship between faith and law, biblical prophecy, and a number of specific book-related research projects (Lamentations, Habakkuk, the Psalter, Job, and Jeremiah). He also has a sustained interest in the relationship between the Hebrew lament tradition and a Christian theology of suffering. Heath enjoys fly-fishing and reading the prose of Umberto Eco and Paulo Coelho (and recently the works of Chinua Achebe).

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