Patrick D. Miller, Jr. (24 October 1935 – 1 May 2020) was an American

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scholar who served as Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at

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from 1984 to 2005. He was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Miller studied at

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, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and

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. He taught at Union from 1966 to 1984, and at Princeton from 1984 to 2005. Miller served as editor of '' Theology Today'', and, in 1998, as president of the

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. In 2003, a ''

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'' was published in his honor. ''A God So Near: Essays on Old Testament Theology in Honor of Patrick D. Miller'' () included contributions from

Walter Brueggemann Walter Albert Brueggemann (March 11, 1933 – June 5, 2025) was an American Christian scholar and theologian who is widely considered an influential Old Testament scholar. His work often focused on the Hebrew prophetic tradition and the sociop ...

Frank Moore Cross Frank Moore Cross Jr. (July 13, 1921 – October 16, 2012) was the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, notable for his work in the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, his 1973 '' magnum opus'' ''Ca ...

, and Hugh G. M. Williamson. Miller died on 1 May 2020 after a long illness.

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