Blanchard Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School
Blanchard Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School
While preparing for overseas ministry at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, a course entitled “Hebrew Exegesis of the Prophets” got Richard Schultz excited about the Old Testament, and it has been his academic passion ever since! In God’s providence, his German major in college helped equip him for a decade of teaching at the Freie Theologische Hochschule in Giessen, Germany, where he experienced the dramatic political changes in Eastern Europe firsthand.
As the first holder of the Armerding Chair from 1995–2012, his stated mission was to foster a love for the Bible and to articulate and defend Wheaton College’s doctrinal affirmation of the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture, giving direction to his course offerings, academic papers, and publications. Serving as department chair from 2002–2005 gave him a new appreciation for the significant and complex role that the Biblical and Theological Studies Department plays within the college as a whole. He was named the Blanchard Professor of Old Testament in the Graduate School in 2012 and considers it a privilege to teach advanced major courses to both undergraduate and graduate students, in addition to serving as a Ph.D. mentor and second reader.