Lee Roy Martin, DTh

Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament 1992 - Present

B. A., Lee College, 1977
M. Div., Church of God School of Theology, 1983
Post-Graduate study in biblical languages (3 years), Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary
D. Th., University of South Africa, 2007

Lee Roy Martin has taught at the Seminary since 1992.  He has served as a Church of God pastor in seven different states (1977-2004) and was ordain
ed in 1983.  He has also served as a District Overseer,  State Youth and CE Board member, State Council member, State Director of Ministerial Development, and State Ordination Board member.  He has preached in Church of God State Conventions, Prayer Conferences, youth camps, and pastors' conferences. He has taught Bible Institutes, Ministerial Development Institutes, and Ministerial Internship Seminars, as well as classes at Lee University, the Korean Bible Seminary, and the Puerto Rico extension of the Church of God Theological Seminary.  He also presented several lectures for the Church of God School of Ministry video series.

His writings include the following books: The Unheard Voice of God: A Pentecostal Hearing of the Book of Judges. JPTSup Series (Blandford Forum, UK: Deo Publishers, forthcoming); An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (with CD-ROM); and Hebrew Heritage: An Introduction To the Language and Traditions of Judaism, with a Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic (with CD-ROM).

He has published the following articles in academic journals: ‘God At Risk: Divine Vulnerability in Judges 10:6-16’; Old Testament Essays 18, vol. 3 (2005), pp. 722-40;  ‘Purity, Power, and the Passions of God: A Pentecostal Hearing of the Book of Judges’; Ekkesiastikos Pharos 87 (2005), pp. 274-300; ‘Pre-critical Exegesis of the Book of Judges and the Construction of a Post-critical Hermeneutic’; Ekkesiastikos Pharos 89 (2007);  ‘From Gilgal to Bochim: The Narrative Significance of the Angel of Yahweh in Judg. 2.1’; Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament (forthcoming); and ‘The Intrusive Prophet: The Narrative Significance of the Nameless Prophet of Judg. 6.7-10’; Journal for Semitics (forthcoming). He has presented numerous papers at conferences, and he has written several chapters in multi-authored books, including: ‘Where Are the Descendants of Abraham? Finding the Source of a Missing Link in Genesis’, in Terry L. Cross and Emerson B. Powery (eds.) The Spirit and the Mind: Essays in Informed Pentecostalism (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000); and seven chapters in Homer G. Rhea (ed.) Rightly Dividing the Word (Cleveland, TN: Church of God School of Ministry, 2003); and ‘Tongues of Angels, Words of Prophets: Means of Divine Communication in the Book of Judges’, in Passover, Pentecost & Parousia: Studies in Honor of the Life and Ministry of R. Hollis Gause (forthcoming). He has written encyclopedia articles entitled "Psalms" and "Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann" in Roth, John K. (ed.) Masterplots II: Christian Literature; and he has contributed to the Church of God Evangel and the Evangelical Sunday School Commentary.

He is a member of The Society of Biblical Literature, The Society for Pentecostal Studies (where he serves as Biblical Studies Interest Group Leader), The American Schools of Oriental Research, and The Wesleyan Theological Society. He serves on the Editorial Board of the online Journal The Journal of Biblical Studies and on the Board of Advisors of the Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship. He is a Research Associate of the University of South Africa.

He is married to the former Karen Arlene Luke, and they have two sons, one daughter and two grandchildren.