Matthew McAffee

Provost, Dean, Welch Divinity School, Professor of Old Testament at Welch College

Matthew McAffee serves as Provost at Welch College and teaches in the area of Biblical Studies for the School of Theology. His M.A. and Ph.D. are from the University of Chicago in Northwest Semitic Philology. He is also a graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and Welch College (B.A.).

He has published articles and book reviews in such journals as Journal of the American Oriental Society, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, and Bulletin for Biblical Research. He is author of Life and Mortality in Ugaritic: A Lexical and Literary Study (Eisenbrauns, forthcoming) and co-author of Going Deeper with Old Testament Hebrew (B&H Academic, forthcoming).

He has ministered in Free Will Baptist churches in Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois, and Canada.