V. Philips Long
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| title = Professor of Old Testament at Regent College
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| education = Wheaton College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
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| workplaces = Covenant Theological Seminary (St. Louis, Missouri)
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V. Philips Long, also known as Phil Long, is an American Old Testament scholar.
Long has degrees from Wheaton College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and the University of Cambridge. He taught at Covenant Theological Seminary and the Freie Theologische Akademie in Germany before becoming Professor of Old Testament at Regent College.{{cite web|title=Phil Long|url=http://www.regent-college.edu/faculty/full-time/v-philips-long|publisher=Regent College|access-date=21 February 2016}}
Long served on the translation teams for the ESV{{cite web|title=Translation Review Scholars|url=http://www.esv.org/about/review-scholars/|publisher=English Standard Version|access-date=21 February 2016}} and NLT.{{cite web|title=Bible Translation Team|url=http://www.newlivingtranslation.com/05discoverthenlt/meetthescholars.asp|publisher=New Living Translation|access-date=21 February 2016}} He is an ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.
Long specializes in study relating to the historicity of the Bible. According to C. Hassell Bullock, Long's 1994 book The Art of Biblical History "represents a long stride in the direction of open and honest grappling" with the issues of biblical history.{{cite book|last1=Bullock|first1=C. Hassell|author-link=C. Hassell Bullock|title=Giving the Sense: Understanding and Using Old Testament Historical Texts|chapter=History and Theology: The Tale of Two Histories|date=2003|publisher=Kregel Academic|page=103|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=stMd0QV97IYC&pg=PA103|access-date=21 February 2016}}
Works
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- {{cite book |last=Long |first=V. Philips |title=The Reign and Rejection of King Saul: a case for literary and theological coherence |series=Dissertation series (Society of Biblical Literature) |volume=118 |location=Atlanta, GA |publisher=Scholars Press |date=1989 |isbn=978-1-555-40391-1 |oclc=20093796 }}
- {{cite book |last=Long |first=V. Philips |author-mask=3 |title=Hebrew Power Pills |location=St. Louis, MO |publisher=V. P. Long |date=1992 |oclc=42743673 }}
- {{cite book |last=Long |first=V. Philips |author-mask=3 |title=The Art of Biblical History |series=Foundations of contemporary interpretation |volume=5 |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Zondervan |date=1994 |isbn=978-0-310-43180-0 |oclc=29427793 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/rappinwithjesusg00pkmc }}
- {{cite book |last=Long |first=V. Philips |author-mask=3 |chapter=The Art of Biblical History |editor-last=Silva |editor-first=Moisés |editor-link=Moisés Silva |title=Foundations of contemporary interpretation |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Zondervan |date=1996 |isbn=978-0-310-20828-0 |oclc=34515023 }}
- {{cite book |last=Long |first=V. Philips |author-mask=3 |title=Israel's past in present research : essays on ancient Israelite historiography |series=Sources for biblical and theological study |volume=7 |location=Winona Lake, IN |publisher=Eisenbrauns |date=1999 |isbn=978-1-5750-6028-6 |oclc=42290498 }}
- {{cite book |editor-last=Long |editor-first=V. Philips |editor-mask=3 |editor2-last=Wenham |editor2-first=Gordon J. |editor2-link=Gordon J. Wenham |editor3-last=Baker |editor3-first=David W. |title=Windows into Old Testament History: evidence, argument, and the crisis of "Biblical Israel" |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=2002 |isbn=978-0-802-83962-6 |oclc=49226243 }}
- {{cite book |last=Long |first=V. Philips |author-mask=3 |author2-last=Longman III |author2-first=Tremper |author2-link=Tremper Longman III |author3-last=Provan |author3-first=Iain W. |author3-link=Iain W. Provan |title=A Biblical History of Israel |location=Louisville, KY |publisher=Westminster, John Knox Press |date=2003 |isbn=978-0-6642-2090-7 |oclc=52055642 }}
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Category:American biblical scholars
Category:Old Testament scholars
Category:Translators of the Bible into English
Category:Presbyterian Church in America ministers
Category:Wheaton College (Illinois) alumni
Category:Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary alumni
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:Covenant Theological Seminary faculty