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Stephen J. Andrews
- Professor of Old Testament, Hebrew and Archaeology, Director of Ph.D. Program
- sandrews@mbts.edu
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Andrews teaches Old Testament, Hebrew and archaeology at Midwestern Seminary and serves as director of the Morton-Seats Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology and director of the Ph.D. Program.
He received both a Doctor of Philosophy and a Masters of Philosophy from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and has earned a Th.M. from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a M.Div. from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a B.A. from Carson-Newman College. Andrews taught Old Testament and Hebrew at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary for seven years before coming to Midwestern in 1998 and has pastored churches in Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio.
Andrews co-authored the Holman Old Testament Commentary on I and II Samuel. He has also written Bible Study for Life curriculum for LifeWay and provided articles and book reviews to several scholarly journals. In addition, he has contributed material to LifeWay’s Biblical Illustrator, InterVarsity’s Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, the Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, the Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, and the Mercer Dictionary of the Bible, among others.
Andrews edits and contributes to a blog http://www.hebrewgold.com on biblical Hebrew, the Old Testament , and archaeology. In his teaching, Andrews draws from his experience on digs in Israel and Jordan.