David Jobling (born 1941) is a Canadian Old Testament scholar.
He was professor of Old Testament language and literature at St. Andrew's College, Saskatoon.
[2] Norman K. Gottwald notes that Jobling "has been a leader of literary analysis of the Hebrew Bible", and has "made a great impact in his use of ideological criticism and his engagement with feminist criticism.
"[3] Jobling wrote two volumes of The Sense of Biblical Narrative: Structural Analyses in the Hebrew Bible (1978 and 1986).
Voyages in Uncharted Waters: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation in Honor of David Jobling included contributions from Norman K. Gottwald, David M. Gunn, and Norman Habel.