Steed Davidson
Affiliated Faculty
Degrees
Ph.D. Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, 2005
M.Phil. Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, 2004
S.T.M. Boston University, 1999
M.A. University of the West Indies, 1998
Dip. in Ministerial Studies United Theological College of the West Indies, 1991
B.A. University of the West Indies, 1990
Dr. Steed Vernyl Davidson began his tenure as executive director of the Society for Biblical Literature in June 2023. Prior to that, he was most recently on faculty at McCormick Theological Seminary, where he served as professor of Hebrew Bible and held the positions of vice president of academic affairs and dean of the faculty.
He is the author of Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of Selected Texts of the Book of Jeremiah and a co-editor of Prophetic Otherness: Constructions of Otherness in Prophetic Literature. Concentrating his research interests on the consequences of empire on the shape and reading of the Bible, he uses postcolonial and other critical theories to read and teach the Bible in diverse settings.
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Davidson received his undergraduate education at the University of the West Indies, holds a diploma of ministerial studies from the United Theological College of the West Indies, received master’s degrees from the University of the West Indies (MA) and Boston University (STM), and completed his PhD in Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY.
BOOKS
Co-editor, Prophetic Otherness: Constructions of Otherness in Prophetic Literature, T & T Clark, 2021
Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book of Jeremiah, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011
CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES
Co-author, “Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective”, Brill, 2017
“Islands, Islanders, and the Bible: RumInations” in Semeia Studies #77, SBL Press, 2015