Safwat Marzouk
Associate Professor of Old Testament
Email: smarzouk@upsem.edu
Location: Richmond
Department: Bible
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Email: smarzouk@upsem.edu
Location: Richmond
Department: Bible
Princeton Theological Seminary, Ph.D.
Union Theological Seminary in New York, S.T.M.
Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, M.A.T.S.
Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, B.Th.
Safwat Marzouk is an Egyptian Presbyterian whose research interests include thinking theologically about monsters in the Bible, Ancient Near East, and popular culture; Constructing the Other in the Old Testament; Middle Eastern Christian Hermeneutics; and Immigration and the Bible. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, he is the author of three books: Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel; Exodus, Joshua, Ezekiel in the Arabic Contemporary Commentary; and Intercultural Church: A Biblical Vision for an Age of Migration. He is currently working on a commentary for the New Interpretation Series of Westminster John Knox Press: Exodus: A Commentary.
Dr. Marzouk was ordained as a pastor in 2002 by the Delta Presbytery of the Synod of the Nile (the governing body of the Presbyterian Church in Egypt), and in May 2021 he joined the Wabash Valley Presbytery of PC(USA). As a Christian Egyptian and migrant to the U.S., he interprets the Bible in ways that are interreligiously and interculturally sensitive seeking God’s shalom and justice for the vulnerable and the marginalized.
Author, Intercultural Church: A Biblical Vision for an Age of Migration (Word & World)
Author, Exodus, Joshua, Ezekiel in the Arabic Contemporary Commentary (Langham)
Author, Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel (Mohr Siebeck)
