The RHC Institute is hosting a Timothy Lecture with Dr. Michelle Knight from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She will join us on April 17 to discuss: “Horrifying, Harrowing, and Holy: Meeting God in the Grittiest Parts of the Old Testament.”  RSVP for the lecture HERE.

Old Testament narratives of conquest, egregious violence, and even sexual assault present immense challenges for those reading the Bible. Our task in this lecture is to face some of those texts head on, exploring their meaning and significance for Christians, their purpose in Scripture, and the urgency of giving such difficult stories the attention they warrant, for the sake of a world that faces the harrowing and the horrifying on a daily basis.

Dr. Michelle Knight

Michelle Knight is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She has a PhD from Wheaton College with an emphasis in Old Testament and biblical theology. Her canonical specialty is the Former Prophets; her teaching and research focus especially on the books of Joshua and Judges, in which she trains students to read the Hebrew text carefully, with theological attentiveness and literary sophistication. Michelle is the author of The Prophet’s Anthem: The Song of Deborah and Barak in the Narrative of Judges (BUP, 2024). She also serves as Senior Reviewer for the Historical Books for the New Living Translation. She has an affinity for cats, coffee, and unexpected literary heroines.