David Bosworth (PhD, 2003 The Catholic University of America) has taught at Catholic University since 2008. He earned his B.A. in Liberal Studies through the Great Books program at St. John's College, Annapolis in 1994. His research and teaching interests include the Old Testament in its ancient Near Eastern context, biblical conceptualizations of the human being, and emotion in the Bible. He teaches TRS 202 on the human person and the Church, which draws on his interests in biblical anthropology and American Catholic history. He constantly strives to improve his teaching and teaches a course on pedagogy. The is the author of several books including Creation and Emotion in the Old Testament (Fortress, 2023), House of Weeping: The Motif of Tears in Hebrew and Akkadian Prayer (SBL, 2019), and Infant Weeping in Akkadian, Hebrew, and Greek Literature (Eisenbrauns, 2016). He is currently researching biblical conceptualizations of the human being.
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