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Louis Stulman

American biblical scholar

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Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6688227
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Louis Stulman (born 1953 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a professor of religious studies and chair of the Religious Studies and Philosophy Department at the University of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio. He earned an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from Drew University and has done post-doctoral work at the University of Michigan. He has served as an instructor in Hebrew at Drew University, the Gale and Harriette Ritz Professor of Old Testament at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, as well as the positions noted above at The University of Findlay.

Stulman has served on the SBL Award Committee, A. R. Pete Diamond Award for Integrative Scholarship, Society of Biblical Literature, 2019–2021; general editor (Old Testament), Core Biblical Studies Series, Abingdon Press, 2012–20; Writing/Reading Jeremiah Steering Committee, Society of Biblical Literature, 2018–21; associate editor, Journal of Biblical Literature, 2007–2009, 2010–2012; president, Eastern Great Lakes, Society of Biblical Literature, 2013–14; vice president, Eastern Great Lakes, Society of Biblical Literature, 2012–13; steering committee, Writing/Reading Jeremiah Group, Society of Biblical Literature, 2010–17; co-chairperson, Writing/Reading Jeremiah Group, Society of Biblical Literature, 2007–2009; founding co-chairperson with Kathleen M. O'Connor: The Book of Jeremiah Consultation/Group, Society of Biblical Literature, 1992–1999.

Stulman’s awards for teaching include the “Outstanding Educator, the “Founder’s Academic Excellence Award for Faculty,” and "Excellence in Education."

Stulman's recent work on the Hebrew Bible is influenced by art criticism, trauma studies, and postcolonialism. He has written/edited numerous books and articles. His scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Biblical Literature, among others, and he has been a contributor to the New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon), Feasting on the Word (WJK), Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, and the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 5th Edition. He served as a translator and author of study notes on the book of Jeremiah in the Common English Bible (CEB). He is also general editor (Old Testament) of the Abingdon Press series Core Biblical Studies.

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