Michael Coogan Audio

Michael Coogan is Director of Publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum, Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College, and Lecturer on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Harvard Divinity School. Professor Coogan is the author of A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in Its Context (2009), The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction(2008), and The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures (2006; 2010). He is the editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible (2001; 2007; 2010) and Oxford Biblical Studies Online. He has written and edited many other articles and books, and has appeared on such programs as Nova’s The Bible’s Buried Secrets. Coogan has also taught at Boston College, Wellesley College, Fordham University, and the University of Waterloo (Ontario), and has participated in and directed archaeological excavations in Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, and Egypt. His most recent book is God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says.