Marvin Alan Sweeney (born 1953; raised in Decatur, Illinois) is Professor of Hebrew Bible[1] at Claremont School of Theology (1994–present).
He was a Yad ha-Nadiv/Barecha Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he worked with Moshe Greenberg (1989-1990); a Lilly Theological Research Grant Recipient (1997-1998); and a Fellow of the Summer Institute for Modern Israel Studies, sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and Brandeis University (2004).
In 2019, Sweeney relocated to Salem, Oregon, due to the attempted transfer of Claremont School of Theology to Willamette University.
A specialist in Prophetic Literature, Historical Narrative, and Pentateuchal Studies, Sweeney is especially well known for developing the field of Jewish Biblical Theology and for critical studies on the synchronic, final literary form of the prophetic and narrative books of the Hebrew Bible and the diachronic history of their composition.
In addition to Sweeney's translation, this work was intended to include documentation of responses to Isaiah by Latter-day Saint scholars and creative writers.