David Cohen
Director of Research | Lecturer in Hebrew, Bible and Language

DipT., BEd., BD (Hons), GradDipTh, MA(Th), PhD

David was the Head of the Department of Biblical Studies on the Vose campus from 2004 as well as lecturer in Hebrew Bible and language. At the beginning of 2022, David was appointed Director of Research, which he has taken on in addition to his lecturing. 

David is also the Head of Bible and Languages for the Australian College of Theology which offers him the opportunity to see what is happening in this area of teaching across the consortium.

Recent Publications:

‘Getting to the Heart of the Matter – A Lamentable Situation’ in Michael Parsons (ed.), Text and Task: Scripture and Mission (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2005) 50-63.

‘A Prophet in Motion’ in David J Cohen and Michael Parsons (eds.) On Eagles’ Wings (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2008).

‘Praying the Lament Psalms’ in J. Harold Ellens (ed.), Healing Power of Spirituality and Religion (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2009).

‘Journey to the center of the heart: Psalm 19 as transformance in David J Cohen and Michael Parsons (eds.), In Praise of worship: Text and practice (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2009).

Beyond 400: Exploring Baptist Futures, David J Cohen and Michael Parsons (eds.) (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2010).

“Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law: Psalm 24, the Environment and Human Responsibility.” Torch Trinity Journal 14, no. 1 (May 2011): 23-37.

Why O Lord? Carlisle, U.K.: Paternoster Press, 2013.

“Biblical Studies— Whence and Where?” in Nathan Hobby, John Olley and Michael O’Neil (eds.), Vose Seminary at Fifty, pp. 161-174 (Preston, Victoria: Mosaic Press, 2013).

“At the Edge of the Precipice: Psalm 89 as Liturgical Memory.” Paradosis 2 (2015): 127–144.

Praying Lament Psalms: The Psychodynamics of Distress. Paternoster biblical monographs. Bletchley, Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2016.

“An Encounter with Midbar as Liminal Space and the Enigma of Mosaic Leadership.” In Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires: Moses in Three Traditions and in Literature, edited by John Tracy Greene, 133–150. 1st Unabridged edition. S.l.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

“Why O Lord? Lament as a window to the human experience of suffering” in Finding Lost Words: The Church’s Right to Lament, G. G. Harper and K. Barker (eds.), 176-192. ACT Monograph Series, Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2017.

“Using the Psalms in Ministry,” Crucible: Theology and Ministry 8.2, November (2017).

Co-authored with Erin Martine Sessions “Psalms are the Manna of the Church: Preaching the Psalter to Australians”, Ian Hussey (ed.), 103-124. Sydney: Morling Press, 2019.

———. “The Goldilocks Planet: When it’s just not right.” In Beyond Four Walls: An exploration of being church, edited by Michael D. O’Neil and Peter Elliott 176-192. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock 2020.

Forthcoming publications:

———. “Discovering Jesus in the Psalms: Early Christian reception of the Psalms as messianic texts.” In Afterlives: Jesus in Global Perspectives, edited by Gregory C. Jenks. Westar Studies Series, Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2021.