Victor Matthews

Victor Harold Matthews is an Old Testament scholar and Professor in the Religious Studies department at Missouri State University.
== Known work ==
* Jacob the Trickster and Heir of the Covenant: A Literary Interpretation - with Frances Mims
* Entrance Ways and Threshing Floors: Legally Significant Sites in the Ancient Near East
* Manners and Customs in the Bible
* Hospitality and hostility in Judges 4
* Hospitality and hostility in Genesis 19 and Judges 19
* Social world of ancient Israel: 1250-587 BCE - with Don Benjamin
* Social Sciences and Biblical Studies - with Don Benjamin
* The anthropology of slavery in the Covenant Code - with Bernard Levinson
* The anthropology of clothing in the Joseph narrative
* Honor and Shame in the World of the Bible
* The unwanted gift: implications of obligatory gift giving in ancient Israel
* Treading the winepress: actual and metaphorical viticulture in the ancient Near East
* Bible background Commentary: Genesis-Deuteronomy - with John Walton
* A brief history of ancient Israel
* Marriage and family in the Ancient Near East
* Physical space, imagined space, and "lived space" in ancient Israel
* Judges and Ruth
* Old Testament turning points: the narratives that shaped a nation
* Manners & customs in the Bible: an illustrated guide to daily life in Bible times
* The determination of social identity in the story of Ruth
* Studying the ancient Israelites: A guide to sources and methods
* More than meets the ear: Discovering the hidden contexts of Old Testament conversations
* Back to Bethel: Geographical Reiteration in Biblical Narrative
* Conversation and identity: Jesus and the Samaritan woman
* The Old Testament: text and context - with James Moyer
* The Hebrew prophets and their social world: an introduction
* The IVP bible background commentary: Old Testament - with John Walton and Mark Chavalas
* Remembered Space in Biblical Narrative
Category:Scholars
Category:American scholars
Category:Old Testament scholars
Category:Evangelical scholars