Donald E. Gowan -
Shalom:  A Study of the Biblical Concept of Peace and
Exodus:  Gateway to the Bible.

Donald E, Gowan is retired from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, where he taught for 35 years and was Robert Cleveland Holland Professor of Old Testament.  He is a minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and served churches in the Midwest as well as teaching at the college level at North Texas State University.  He graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in mathematics, and worked for the General Electric Company at the Hanford Atomic Products Operation (Richland, WA) for three years before going to seminary.  He is a graduate of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary and received his Ph.D. from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Gowan has published nine books on Old Testament studies, the most recent of which are Theology in Exodus: Biblical Theology in the Form of a Commentary and Theology of the Prophetic Books:  The Death and Resurrection of Israel. He is the author of the commentary on Amos in The New Interpreter's Bible, and has written two studies for the Kerygma Program:  Shalom:  A Study of the Biblical Concept of Peace and Exodus:  Gateway to the Bible.