Rachelle Gilmour is Bromby Associate Professor of Old Testament at Trinity College. She completed her studies in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the University of Sydney (PhD), before undertaking postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Edinburgh. She currently serves on the editorial boards for Journal for the Study of the Old Testament and the Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Series for T&T Clark, and is the Hebrew Bible editor for Australian Biblical Review. She has formerly been an editor for the Review of Biblical Literature; and was founder and co-chair of the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting programme unit, Book of Samuel: Narrative, Theology and Interpretation.  She has published three monographs, Divine Violence in the Book of Samuel (Oxford University Press, 2021), Juxtaposition and the Elisha Cycle (T&T Clark, 2014) and Representing the Past: A Literary Study of Narrative Historiography in the Book of Samuel (Brill, 2011); and over 20 peer-reviewed articles on different aspects of narrative art, memory and history in the narrative books and prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Her current projects include a commentary on 1 Samuel 1-15 for the IECOT/IEKAT commentary series (Kohlhammer). Rachelle teaches a range of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and Hebrew language units at Trinity College, including Introduction to the Old Testament, Psalms, Genesis, and Isaiah; and supervises HDR students on aspects of theology, literature, history and language of the Hebrew Bible.

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