David J. A. Clines
{{Short description|Australian biblical scholar (1938–2022)}}
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David John Alfred Clines (21 November 1938 – 8 December 2022) was a biblical scholar. He served as professor at the University of Sheffield.
Education
Clines was born in Sydney, Australia, and studied at the University of Sydney and St John’s College, Cambridge.
Career
He served as president of the Society for Old Testament Study, as well as president of the Society of Biblical Literature.{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor David J. A. Clines|url=http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/theology/people/1.30260|publisher=University of Sheffield|access-date=2 August 2015}} In 2003, a Festschrift was published in his honour. Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of David J.A. Clines ({{ISBN|0826466869}}) included contributions by James Barr, John Barton, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Walter Brueggemann, Brevard Childs, Patrick D. Miller, Rolf Rendtorff, Hugh Williamson, and Ellen van Wolde. In 2013, he was honoured with another Festschrift, Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J. A. Clines, which included contributions from Marc Zvi Brettler, Norman C. Habel, and Athalya Brenner.
Clines served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2009.{{cite web|title=Past Presidents List|url=https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pastpresidents.pdf|publisher=Society of Biblical Literature|access-date=25 December 2014}} Together with David M. Gunn, Clines made the University of Sheffield a pioneer in literary readings of the final form of the biblical text. Followers of this approach are sometimes referred to as the "Sheffield school".David J. A. Clines, Stephen E. Fowl, and Stanley E. Porter, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=xvyLkaeQIG0C&pg=PA14 Preface]," in The Bible in Three Dimensions: Essays in Celebration of Forty Years of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield, p. 14.
Clines died on 8 December 2022.{{Cite tweet |user=ShefPhoenix |number=1600998247535095808 |title=David J.A. Clines (1938–2022)|author=Sheffield Phoenix |author-link=Sheffield Phoenix Press}}{{cite web |title=A short academic obituary |url=https://davidjaclines.org/a-short-academic-obituary/ |website=davidjaclines.org |date=16 December 2022 |access-date=26 December 2022}}
Honours
In 2015, Clines was awarded the Burkitt Medal by the British Academy "in recognition of his significant contribution to the study of the Hebrew Bible and Hebrew lexicography".{{cite web|title=Burkitt Medal 2015|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/medals/Burkitt_Medal_2015.cfm|website=British Academy|access-date=9 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310014346/http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/medals/Burkitt_Medal_2015.cfm|archive-date=10 March 2016}}
Selected works
=Books=
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |title=The Theme of the Pentateuch |series=JSOT Supplements |volume= 10 |location=Sheffield |publisher= JSOT Press |date=1978 }}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Esther Scroll: the story of the story |series=Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series |volume=30 |location=Sheffield |publisher=JSOT Press |date=1984 |isbn=9780567157133 |oclc=276358541 }}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther: based on the Revised Standard Version |series=New Century Bible Commentary |location=Grand Rapids, MI & London |publisher=Eerdmans & Marshall, Morgan & Scott |date=1984 |isbn=9780802800176 |oclc=11113882 }}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Job 1-20|series=Word Biblical Commentary |volume= 17 |location=Nashville, TN|publisher= Thomas Nelson |date=1989 |isbn=978-0-8499-0216-1}}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=What Does Eve Do to Help? - and Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament |series=JSOT Supplements |volume= 94 |location=Sheffield |publisher= JSOT Press |date=1990 }}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, 9 vols |location=Sheffield |publisher=Sheffield Phoenix Press |date=1993–2016}}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Old Testament |series=JSOT Supplements |volume= 205 |location=Sheffield |publisher=Sheffield Academic Press |date=1995 }}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays, 1967–1998 (2 vols.) |series=JSOT Supplements |volume= 268 |location=Sheffield |publisher= JSOT Press |date=1998 |isbn=1-8507-5901-4}}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Job 21-37|series=Word Biblical Commentary |volume= 18a |location=Nashville, TN|publisher= Thomas Nelson |date=2006 |isbn=978-0-8499-0217-8}}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Concise Dictionary of Classical Hebrew |location=Sheffield |publisher=Sheffield Phoenix Press |date=2009 |isbn=978-1-9060-5579-0 }}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Job 38-42|series=Word Biblical Commentary |volume= 18b |location=Nashville, TN |publisher= Thomas Nelson |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-7852-5267-2}}
=Edited by=
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Clines |editor1-first=David J. A. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Gunn |editor2-first=D. M. |editor2-link=D. M. Gunn |editor3-last=Hauser |editor3-first=Alan J. |editor3-link=Alan J. Hauser |title=Art and meaning: rhetoric in Biblical literature |series=Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series |volume=19 |location=Sheffield |publisher=JSOT Press |date=1982 |isbn=9780567405241 |oclc=276307111 }}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Clines |editor1-first=David J. A. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Sawyer |editor2-first=John F. A. |editor2-link=John F. A. Sawyer |title=Midian, Moab, and Edom: the history and archaeology of late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and north-west Arabia |series=Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series |volume=24 |location=Sheffield |publisher= JSOT Press |date=1983 |isbn=9780567174451 |oclc=276783694 }}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Clines |editor1-first=David J. A. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Fowl |editor2-first=Stephen E. |editor2-link=Stephen E. Fowl |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=Stanley E. |editor3-link=Stanley E. Porter |title=The Bible in Three Dimensions: essays in celebration of forty years of biblical studies in the University of Sheffield |series=Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series |volume=87 |location=Sheffield |publisher= JSOT Press |date=1990 |isbn=9780567540379 |oclc=276307035 }}
=Chapters=
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |chapter=The Arguments of Job's Three Friends|editor1-last=Clines |editor1-first=David J. A. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Gunn |editor2-first=D. M. |editor2-link=D. M. Gunn |editor3-last=Hauser |editor3-first=Alan J. |editor3-link=Alan J. Hauser |title=Art and meaning: rhetoric in Biblical literature |series=Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series |volume=19 |location=Sheffield |publisher=JSOT Press |date=1982 |isbn=9780567405241 |oclc=276307111 |pages=266– }}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |chapter=The Wisdom Books |editor1-last=Biggar |editor1-first=Stephen |editor1-link=Stephen Biggar |title=Creating The Old Testament: The Emergence of the Hebrew Bible |location=Oxford |publisher=Basil Blackwell |date=1989 |isbn=0631162496 |pages=384– }}
- {{cite book |language=en |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |chapter=Predestination in the Old Testament |editor1-last=Pinnock |editor1-first=Clark H. |title=Grace for all : the Arminian dynamics of salvation |location=Eugene, OR |publisher=Resource Publications |date=2015 }}
=Journal articles=
- {{cite journal |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Regnal Year Reckoning in the Last Year of the Kingdom of Judah |journal=American Journal of Biblical Archaeology |volume=2 |date=1972 |pages=9–34 }}
- {{cite journal |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Theology of the Flood Narrative |journal=Faith and Thought |volume=100 |issue=2 |date=1972–1973 |pages=128–142 }}
- {{cite journal |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Evidence for an autumnal new year in pre-exilic Israel reconsidered |journal=Journal of Biblical Literature |volume=93 |issue=1 |date=March 1974 |pages=22–40 |doi=10.2307/3263863 |jstor=3263863}}
- {{cite journal |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=New Directions in Pooh Studies: Überlieferungs- und religionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Pu-Buch |journal=Theolog Review |volume=12 |year=1976 |pages=2–10 |url=https://www.uniontheology.org/resources/bible/biblical-theology/new-directions-in-pooh-studies}} Reprinted in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays, 1967–1998 (Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), Vol. 2, pp. 830–839.
- {{cite journal |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Significance of the 'Sons of God' (Gen. 6,1-4) in the Context of Primeval History (Gen 1-11) |journal=Journal for the Study of the Old Testament |volume=13 |date=1979 |pages=33–46 }}
- {{cite journal |author1-last=Clines |author1-first=David J. A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Job 5:1-8: A New Exegesis |journal=Biblica |volume=62 |date=1981 |pages=185–94 }}
Festschriften
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Exum |editor1-first=J. Cheryl |editor1-link=J. Cheryl Exum |editor2-last=Williamson |editor2-first=Hugh G. M. |editor2-link=Hugh G. M. Williamson |title=Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of David J. A. Clines |series=Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement series |volume=373 |location=London & New York |publisher=Sheffield Academic Press |date=2003 |isbn=9780567459992 |oclc=276841809 }}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Aitken |editor1-first=James K.|editor2-last=Clines |editor2-first=Jeremy M.S. |editor3-last=Maier |editor3-first=Christl M.|title=Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J. A. Clines |location=Atlanta |publisher=SBL Press |date=2013 |isbn=9781589839243 |oclc=864141377 }}
References
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- {{cite book |language=en |last1=Lightner |first1=Robert Paul |title=Handbook of Evangelical Theology: A historical, Biblical, and contemporary survey and review |place=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Kregel Publications |year=1995}}
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