Gordon Wenham of articles and several books, including commentaries on Genesis, Leviticus, and Numbers, and more recently a study of Old Testament narrative ethics, "Story as Torah" (T & T Clark, 2000), and "Exploring the Old Testament: the Pentateuch" (SPCK: 2003). Gordon Wenham Gordon J. Wenham (; born 1943) is a British Old Testament scholar and writer. He has authored several books about the Bible. Tremper Longman has called him "one of the finest evangelical commentators today." Wenham read theology at Cambridge University, graduating in 1965 with distinction, and completed his PhD on Deuteronomy in 1970. He has been awarded several scholarships
On Weights and Measures translated the Book of Genesis, another two the Book of Exodus, another two the Book of Leviticus, and so forth, until the entire 22 canonical books of the Hebrew Bible had all been translated into the Greek tongue. The seventy-two translators were drawn from the twelve tribes of Israel, six men to each tribe who were skilled in the Greek language. In folios [49a–50a] Epiphanius gives a description of the canonical books of the Hebrew Bible and translations made of the same. In his day, he notes that the Scroll of Ruth and the Book of Judges were joined together,