Willem A. VanGemeren (born 7 April 1943) is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

[1][2] He was a senior editor of the five-volume work The New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis in which ten essays have been compiled to thoroughly explain proper hermeneutics and Biblical interpretation.

VanGemeren was born to Jacobus Johannes Van Gemeren and Sarah Cornelia Langeveld in Boskoop, Netherlands, during World War II, and moved to the United States in 1962.

[4] VanGemeren studied at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and earned a BA from University of Illinois.

He earned MA and PhD degrees in the field of Old Testament at the University of Wisconsin.

In: J. Feinberg, ed., Continuity and Discontinuity: Perspectives on the Relationship between the Old and New Testaments in Honor of S. Lewis Johnson, Jr.. Westchester: Crossway, pp. 37–62.

In Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock eds., Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church.

(1993) The Law is the Perfection of Righteousness in Jesus Christ - a Reformed Perspective.

(2011) Our Missional God: Redemptive Historical Preaching and the Missio Dei.

In David G. Firth and Paul D. Wegner eds., Presence, Power, and Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testament.

In Andrew J. Schmutzer and David M. Howard eds., The Psalms: Language for all Seasons of the Soul.

(2015) God’s Faithfulness, Human Suffering, and the Concluding Hallel Psalms (146-150): A Canonical Study.

In Gregg R. Allison and Stephen J. Wellum, eds., Building on the Foundations of Evangelical Theology: Essays in Honor of John S. Feinberg.

[8] "Psalm CXXXI: Keg~mûl: The Problem of Meaning and Metaphor," Hebrew Studies, 23 (1982), 51‑57.

Link to JSTOR Preview "Israel as the Hermeneutical Crux in the Interpretation of Prophecy: Part I."

[9] "Israel as the Hermeneutical Crux in the Interpretation of Prophecy: Part II."

PDF "Prophets, the Freedom of God, and Hermeneutics," Westminster Theological Journal 52 (1990), 79-99.

”Kenosis, The Beauty of the Cross, and the Challenge of Social Justice in a Secular Age."

“Christocentricity and Appropriation in Calvin’s Exposition of Daniel,” Torch Trinity Journal 19:2016, 223-54.