Sunday Matters: Reflections on the Lectionary Readings for Year B (PAPERBACK)

Mark O’Brien OP is a member of the Australian province of the Dominican order, also known as the Order of Preachers (OP). He joined the Order in 1967 and studied theology in Dominican houses of study in Canberra and Dublin. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1973 and completed post-graduate studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, in 1976. He taught Old Testament studies at Yarra Theological Union, Melbourne, from 1977 and completed a doctorate in Theology at the Melbourne College of Divinity in 1987. He is the author of The Deuteronomistic History Hypothesis: A Reassessment and has co-authored several books on the Old Testament with Antony F Campbell SJ. He was Provincial of the Australian Province of the Dominican Order from 1993 to 2000. He is currently Prior of St Dominic’s Priory in Melbourne and lectures in Old Testament studies in the Melbourne College of Divinity. He has also taught at Blackfriars, Oxford and at the National Catholic Institute of Theology in Karachi, Pakistan.