Dr. Raymond F. Person Jr. is Professor of Religion at Ohio Northern University. He holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Semitic Studies from Duke University and is widely known for his interdisciplinary work at the intersection of biblical studies, oral tradition, and conversation analysis.Dr. Person’s research explores how oral culture and cognitive-linguistic processes shaped the transmission of biblical texts in ancient Israel. His writing has helped many rethink how we understand the formation of Scripture—especially in communities where spoken tradition played a central role.Some of his key publications include The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles: Scribal Works in an Oral World, From Conversation to Oral Tradition, and most recently, Scribal Memory and Word Selection: The Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. He’s also co-edited volumes like Empirical Models Challenging Biblical Criticism and Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch, Hexateuch, and the Deuteronomistic History.
