Leslie J. Hoppe
Leslie J. Hoppe OFM (born 22 September 1944) is an American Franciscan priest and Old Testament scholar with a focus on Deuteronomy and Deuteronomic literature and is an expert in biblical studies. He is Carroll Stuhlmueller Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and the general editor of the refereed theological journal Catholic Biblical Quarterly.
Between 2015-2016, he served as president of the Catholic Biblical Association and has also served as the president of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research and was visiting professor at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. He has served on the editorial board of The Bible Today and Old Testament Abstracts, previously being the general editor of the former.