Gordon McConville grew up in Northern Ireland, and studied Modern Languages at Cambridge and Theology in Edinburgh, before doing a PhD in Old Testament with Prof Gordon Wenham at Queen’s University, He has taught at Trinity College, Bristol and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Gloucestershire. His Old Testament work has focused mainly on Deuteronomy and the Prophetic books, but his leading interests are in Old Testament interpretation, theology, ethics, and spirituality. He recently completed a major commentary on Isaiah.