ALISON LO

Lecturer in Old Testament

BTh (Evangel Seminary Hong Kong) MDiv (Trinity International University, Illinois) PhD (Glos)

Areas of Special Interest: Wisdom Literature, Prophetic Literature, and Psalms

Alison was born and brought up in Hong Kong. She earned her PhD degree in Old Testament from the University of Gloucestershire (2002). Alison was Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003-2004), undertaking her post-doctoral research on Medieval Jewish Perspective on Job 1-2. Before joining the faculty at LST, she taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2004-2007).

Her publications include: Job 28 As Rhetoric (Brill, 2003; SBL, 2005); Review of Robert S. Fyall's 'Now My Eyes Have Seen You' EuroJTh 12 (2003); 'Device of Progression in the Prologue to Job', BN 130 (2006); 'Death in Qohelet', JANES 31 (2009), ‘Preaching the Minor Prophets’ in G. Kent, P. Kissling & L. Turner (eds), 'He began with Moses...', Preaching the Old Testament Today (IVP, 2010), ‘Oracles Against Babylon in Jeremiah’ in N. Tan & Z. Ying (eds), Crossing Textual Boundaries (DSCCC, 2010) and 'Remnant Motif in Amos, Micah and Zephaniah' (2010, forthcoming). She is currently writing a book on Minor Prophets.

Alison enjoys walking and jogging.

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