Gerald Henry Wilson (1945 – 11 November 2005[1]) was an American Old Testament scholar.
He served as professor of Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew at Azusa Pacific University.
[3] At Yale, he studied under Brevard S. Childs, and was influenced by him to adopt a canonical approach to the biblical text.
He focused on the way the Psalter was divided into five books, and argued that the Psalms around the divisions – what he called the "seams" of the Psalter – concerned the Davidic dynasty and covenant.
[4][5] Yee Von Koh suggests that Wilson was "the first to apply canonical criticism to the study of the Psalter in the clearest and most comprehensive way,"[6] while Harry P. Nasuti says that Wilson's "groundbreaking work on the shape of the Psalter has been particularly influential for later scholarship on the subject.