Dr Catherine McDowell is Professor of Old Testament at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Prior to this, she was at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte, NC) where she was an Associate Professor of Old Testament. Before teaching at GCTS-Charlotte, Dr McDowell was an assistant professor of Old Testament at GCTS-Boston (2002–2004) and Wheaton College (2010–2011) and served as a graduate teaching fellow at Harvard University (1999–2001). She regularly teaches courses in Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew exegesis, and the ancient Near East and has spent many summers in Israel working at archaeological excavations. She also serves part-time as a Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at Séminaire Théologique Mondelus in Milot, Haiti.
Dr. McDowell is the author of The Image of God in the Garden of Eden: The Creation of Humankind in Gen 2:5–3:24 in Light of the mis pi/pit pi and wpt-r Rituals of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (Eisenbrauns), the study notes for 1–2 Samuel, 1–2 Kings, and 1–2 Chronicles in the ESV Archaeological Study Bible (Crossway), as well as several articles in publications such as the Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar textbook, the NIV Archaeological Study Bible, the Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary, and the Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research. Her latest book, co-authored with Philip Towner, The Rewards of Learning Greek and Hebrew: Discovering the Richness of the Bible in Its Original Languages (Hendrickson), was published in 2021. She is currently writing a book on idolatry for the ‘Essential Studies in Biblical Theology’ series (IVP) and has additional writing projects underway.