Dr. Matthew McAffee

Provost | Dean, Welch Divinity School | Professor of Old Testament

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 ministered in Free Will Baptist churches in Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois, and Canada. He is married to Anna, with whom he has five children (Abigail, Lydia, Samuel, Marianne, and Jonathan Isaac).

Education

• Ph.D., University of Chicago
• M.A., University of Chicago
• M.Div., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
• B.A., Welch College

Areas of Interest

• Old Testament 
• Hebrew
• Ugaritic

Recent Publications

• Life and Mortality in Ugaritic, A Lexical and Literary Study (Eisenbraums)
• Going Deeper with Biblical Hebrew (B&H Academic)
• “The Sale of Joseph in Genesis 37:18-26: Narrative Cohesion and Coherence,” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2024 

Courses

• Old Testament Survey: Law and History
• Old Testament Survey: Poetry and Prophecy
• Biblical Hebrew
• Biblical Hermeneutics
• Issues in Old Testament Studies