Paul K. Hooker

Paul Hooker (1953 - ) is a native Southerner, raised in Tennessee and Alabama. He is a Presbyterian minister, a scholar of Hebrew Scripture, and a member of the faculty at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, TX. He is the author of a commentary on 1 and 2 Chronlcles (Westminster John Knox Press) and co-author of a book on the chronology of the kings of ancient Israel and Judah. He is also a poet, and his first collection, Days and Times, is available through Resource Publications (an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishing). His poetry explores the edges between faith and uncertainty, life lived to rhythms of the liturgical calendar even as other rhythms complicate the beat. He is a husband, father, and grandfather; enjoys playing jazz bass guitar; and has been seen standing in trout streams holding a fly rod.