Stephen B. Chapman is Associate Professor of Old Testament in the Divinity School and Director of Graduate Studies for the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University, North Carolina. He is also an affiliate faculty member in Duke's Center for Jewish Studies. He has published numerous essays and is author of The Law and the Prophets (2000) and 1 Samuel as Christian Scripture (forthcoming). He also coedited Biblischer Text und theologische Theoriebildung (2001).