Email: [email protected]
First Year at Gordon-Conwell: 2024
Expertise: Old Testament Studies, Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Semitic Language, Ancient Religions
Biography:
Dr. Trey (William) Nation is an assistant professor of Old Testament and ancient Near Eastern studies, teaching courses on biblical and related languages, exegesis of biblical text, and electives in ancient Near Eastern studies.
Dr. Nation has an MDiv and MA in Old Testament from Gordon-Conwell and a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, which he earned while also serving as a Fulbright scholar at the Netherlands Institute for the Ancient Near East at Leiden University. His doctoral dissertation was an investigation into the religion of ancient Assyria and the nature of religion in the ancient Near East, and his current projects include a monograph on the religious world of a group of Assyrian merchants from 1895-1865 BC and a study on Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28.
His research interests encompass the cultural and literary context of the Old Testament, the theology of the Pentateuch, the nature and history of polytheism in the ancient Near East, and the ongoing publication of Old Assyrian cuneiform texts.
Dr. Nation has a passion for the classroom, where he aims to help students understand and love the at-times alien world of the Old Testament. He feels a calling to equip future ministers, church leaders, and teachers to read and preach the Old Testament with confidence and clarity.
Dr. Nation is a member of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), and lives in South Hamilton with his wife Hannah, who also studied at Gordon-Conwell (MACH ’17), and their two daughters, Verity and Clemence.
Degrees
- BA (Covenant College, GA)
- MAOT (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)
- MDiv (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)
- PhD (Harvard University)
Select List of Publications
- “Rites for the Dead, Amity for the Living: The Old Assyrian nasbītum rite and its relation to the Old Babylonian kispum,” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions (JANER), Brill. (Forthcoming, 2024)
- “Religion in the Old Assyrian Period,” Database for Religious History (DRH), University of British Columbia, 2022.