Robert P. Gordon
Robert Patterson Gordon was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to 2012.
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Gordon was educated at the Methodist College Belfast. As an undergraduate member of St Catharine’s College, Gordon was placed in the first class of the Oriental Studies Tripos. In 1973 he earned the PhD at the University of Cambridge with a thesis entitled A Study of Targum Jonathan to the Minor Prophets from Nahum to Malachi, written under the supervision of Professor J.A. Emerton. In 2001 he was awarded the University of Cambridge’s Litt.D. on the basis of his published body of work.
While pursuing doctoral studies, Gordon was appointed as Assistant Lecturer in Hebrew and Semitic Languages at the University of Glasgow. Teaching Ancient Near Eastern History at Glasgow had a formative influence on Gordon’s subsequent research on the Old Testament. He returned to Cambridge as a Lecturer in Old Testament and Intertestamental Studies in the Faculty of Divinity in 1979. Upon his election as the Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1995, a post he held until his retirement in 2012, Gordon moved to the Faculty of Oriental Studies.
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Gordon was educated at the Methodist College Belfast. As an undergraduate member of St Catharine’s College, Gordon was placed in the first class of the Oriental Studies Tripos. In 1973 he earned the PhD at the University of Cambridge with a thesis entitled A Study of Targum Jonathan to the Minor Prophets from Nahum to Malachi, written under the supervision of Professor J.A. Emerton. In 2001 he was awarded the University of Cambridge’s Litt.D. on the basis of his published body of work.
While pursuing doctoral studies, Gordon was appointed as Assistant Lecturer in Hebrew and Semitic Languages at the University of Glasgow. Teaching Ancient Near Eastern History at Glasgow had a formative influence on Gordon’s subsequent research on the Old Testament. He returned to Cambridge as a Lecturer in Old Testament and Intertestamental Studies in the Faculty of Divinity in 1979. Upon his election as the Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1995, a post he held until his retirement in 2012, Gordon moved to the Faculty of Oriental Studies.
