David J.A. Clines
      Articles

    (List of Books here)

     
    • 1 Esdras (NRSV)
    • 725 New Words Beginning Mem or Nun [pdf format]
    • 725 New Words Beginning Mem or Nun (handout) [pdf format]
     
    • Accordance: A Basic Guide for Students of the English Bible [pdf format]
    • Accordance: A Basic Guide for Students of Greek [pdf format]
    • Accordance: A Basic Guide for Students of Hebrew [pdf format]
    • Adam, the Hebrew for 'Human, Humanity': A Response to James Barr
    • Adam, the Hebrew for 'Human, Humanity': A Response to James Barr [pdf format]
    • All 2194 Words Beginning Mem and Nun
    • All 2194 Words Beginning Mem and Nun, by Frequency
    • All 2052 Words in Dead Sea Scrolls (Aleph-Nun) [pdf format]
    • All 1343 Common Nouns Beginning Mem and Nun
    • All 1343 Common Nouns Beginning Mem and Nun, by Gender
    • All 1451 Words Beginning Mem and Nun, in BDB
    • All 1985 Words Beginning Mem and Nun in Biblical Hebrew
    • All 725 New Words Beginning with Mem or Nun, by Corpus
    • All 725 New Words in Classical Hebrew Beginning Mem and Nun
      by their First Proposer
    • All 534 New Words in Biblical Hebrew Beginning Mem and Nun, with their First Proposer
    • All 534 New Words in Biblical Hebrew Beginning Mem and Nun,
      with the Cognate Language They Depend On
    • All 534 New Words in Biblical Hebrew Beginning Mem and Nun,
      with the Date They Were First Proposed
    • All 534 New Words in Biblical Hebrew Beginning Mem and Nun,
      with the Place of Publication and School of the Author
    • All 318 Words in Dead Sea Scrolls not in Biblical Hebrew (Aleph-Nun) [pdf format]
    • All 51 New Words in Classical Hebrew Inscriptions Beginning Mem and Nun
    • All 56 New Words in Classical Hebrew Beginning Mem and Nun
      Noted by Koehler­Baumgartner
    • All 91 New Words in Classical Hebrew Beginning Mem and Nun
      Noted by D. Winton Thomas
    • Ancestor in Danger, The: But Not the Same Danger
    • Arguments of Job's Three Friends, The
    • Auguries: The Jubilee Volume of the Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies, Preface
     
    • [Barr, James] James Barr: An Introduction
    • Before We All Get Too Excited about Electronic Publishing ...
    • Belief, Desire and Wish in Job 19.23-27: Clues for the Identity of Job's 'Redeemer'
    • Beyond Synchronic/Diachronic
    • Bible and Masculinity, The
    • Bible and the Body, The
    • Bible and the Emotions, The
    • Biblia Hebraica Quinta: Notes on the Preliminary Edition
    • Book of Job, Reading from Left To Right, The
    • Book of Psalms, Where Men Are Men, The: On the Gender of Hebrew Piety
    • Books on the Net: A Publisher's View
    • [Bruce, F.F.]
               Frederick Fyvie Bruce, 1910­1990. In Memoriam
     
    • Confessions of an Autodidact: Comments on Carol Newsom's Response to The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible (ed. J. Cheryl Exum and David J.A. Clines)
    • Control of the Emotions in Hebrew Thought
     
    • Dancing and Shining at Sinai: Playing the Man in Exodus 32-34
    • David the Man: The Construction of Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible
    • David the Man: The Construction of Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible [pdf format]
    • Deconstructing the Book of Job
    • Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, The
    • Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, The: Addenda and Corrigenda, Version 1 (December 2002) [pdf format]
    • The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, Vol. 5 Mem-Nun: Bibliography to Mem [pdf format]
    • The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, Vol. 5 Mem-Nun: Bibliography to Nun [pdf format]
    • Disjoined Body, The: The Body and the Self in Hebrew Rhetoric [pdf format]
    • Does 'adam Mean 'Humanity'? A Response to James Barr, 'Words and Meanings, This Century and Next'
    • Does the Book of Job Suggest that Suffering is Not a Problem?
     
    • Ecce Vir, or, Gendering the Son of Man
    • Esther and Callirhoe: The Biblical and Hellenistic Texts as Intertexts
    • Esther and the Future of the Commentary [pdf format]
    • Esther: A PolyCommentary Sample (on Esth 7:4)
    • Esther in the Nineteenth Century
    • Ethics as Deconstruction, and, The Ethics of Deconstruction
    • Etymology of Hebrew Selem, The
    • Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in Pre-exilic Israel Reconsidered, The
    • Ezra--Nehemiah (NRSV)
     
    • False Naivety in the Prologue to Job
    • 'Fear of the Lord is wisdom (Job 28.28)': A Semantic and Contextual Study, The [pdf format]
    • Force of the Text, The: A Response to Tamara C. Eskenazi's 'Ezra-Nehemiah: From Text to Actuality'
    • Form, Occasion and Redaction in Jeremiah 20 (with David M. Gunn)
    • Frederick Fyvie Bruce, 1910­1990. In Memoriam
    • From Copenhagen to Oslo: What Has (and Has Not) Happened at Congresses of the IOSOT
    • From Salamanca to Cracow: What Has (and Has Not) Happened at SBL International Meetings
    • Future of Biblical Studies, The
     
    • Gender and Hermeneutics: A Response to Hanna Stenström, 'Revelation 14:1-5 and the Necessity and Limitations of Feminist Interpretation of the Bible'
    • God in the Pentateuch: Reading against the Grain [pdf format]
    • Guide for (Somewhat) Advanced Users of Office 2001, Especially Word 2001 (includes suggested keyboard shortcuts, special characters) [pdf format]
     
    • Haggai's Temple, Constructed, Deconstructed and Reconstructed [pdf format]
    • He-Prophets: Masculinity as a Problem for the Hebrew Prophets and their Interpreters[pdf format]
    • History of Bo-Peep, The: An Agricultural Worker's Tragedy in Contemporary Literary Perspective
    • Hosea 2: Structure and Interpretation
    • Humanity as the Image of God
     
    • Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible, The [pdf format]
    • Image of God (Dictionary of Pauline Theology)
    • Image of God in Man, The
    • In Quest of the Historical Mordecai
    • In Search of the Indian Job
     
    • James Barr: An Introduction
    • Job (New Bible Commentary Revised)
    • Job 4.13: A Byronic Suggestion
    • Job 5.1-8: A New Exegesis
    • Job 21 (Job) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job 22 (Eliphaz) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job 23-24 (Job) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job 24 and the Absence of God
    • Job 25-26 (Bildad) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job 27a (Job) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job 27b (Zophar) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job 28 (Elihu) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job 29-31 (Job) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job 34 (Elihu) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job 35 (Elihu) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job 36-37 (Elihu) Explanation [pdf format]
    • Job and the Perils of Nostalgia
    • Job and the Spirituality of the Reformation [pdf format]
    • Job: A Workshop
    • Job: Beyond All Proportion
    • Job: Happily Ever After?
    • Job: When Denial Sounds like Acceptance
    • Job's Fifth Friend: An Ethical Critique of the Book of Job [pdf format]
     
    • Krt 111-114 (I iii 7-10): Gatherers of Wood and Drawers of Water
     
    • Lamentations
    • Loingirding and Other Male Activities in the Book of Job
     
    • Making Waves Gently
         The Contribution of Norman Whybray to British Old Testament Study
    • Masculinity's Debt to Feminist Biblical Criticism (PowerPoint presentation)
    • Metacommentating Amos [pdf format]
    • Methods in Old Testament Study
     
    • Nehemiah 10 as an Example of Early Jewish Biblical Exegesis
    • Nehemiah Memoir, The : The Perils of Autobiography
    • New Directions in Pooh Studies: Überlieferungs- und    traditionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Pu-Buch
    • New Methods in Biblical Criticism
    • New Year
     
    • Old Testament Histories, The: A Reader's Guide
    • On the Poetic Achievement of the Book of Job
    • Of Viking and Parking
     
    • Parallelism of Greater Precision, The:
         Notes from Isaiah 40 for a Theory of Hebrew Poetry
    • Paul, the Invisible Man [pdf format]
    • Philology and Power
    • Poetic Achievement of the Book of Job, The [pdf format]
    • Possibilities and Priorities of Biblical Interpretation in an International    Perspective
    • Postmodern Adventure in Biblical Studies, The
    • Predestination in the Old Testament
    • Prophetic Assessment Exercise (PAE), The
    • Psalm 2 and the MLF (Moabite Liberation Front) [pdf format]
    • Psalm Research since 1955: I. The Psalms and the Cult
    • Psalm Research since 1955: II. The Literary Genres
    • Psalms, The: A Module in Biblical Studies (website for a course)
    • Psalms and the King, The
    • Publishers: Who Needs Them?
    • Putting Elihu in his Place: A Proposal for the Relocation of Job 32-37 [pdf format]
    • Pyramid and the Net, The: The Postmodern Adventure in Biblical Studies
     
    • Quarter Days Gone: Job 24 and the Absence of God
     
    • Reading Esther from Left to Right: Contemporary Strategies for Reading a Biblical Text
    • Reading the Song of Songs as a Classic
    • Regnal Year Reckoning in the Last Years of the Kingdom of Judah
    • Research, Teaching and Learning in Sheffield: The Material Conditions of their Production
     
    • Sacred Space, Holy Places and Suchlike
    • Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies, The: An Intellectual Biography [pdf format]
    • Significance of the 'Sons of God' Episode (Genesis 6.1-4) in the Context of the 'Primaeval History' (Genesis 1-11), The
    • Sin and Maturity
    • Squares and Streets: The Distinction of rehov 'Square' and rehovot 'Streets'
    • Story and Poem: The Old Testament as Literature and as Scripture
    • Sycophants to the Almighty
     
     
    • Teaching and Learning the Psalms, Inductively, or, Keeping Gunkel and Friends out of the Classroom
    • Ten Commandments, Reading from Left to Right, The [pdf format]
    • Theology and Literary Study
    • Theology of the Flood Narrative, The
    • Those Golden Days: Job and the Perils of Nostalgia
    • Tree of Knowledge and the Law of Yahweh (Psalm 19), The
     
    • Universal Dominion in Psalm 2?
     
    • Varieties of Indeterminacy
    • Verb Modality and the Interpretation of Job 4.20-21
     
    • Was There an 'bl II 'be dry' in Classical Hebrew?
    • What Does Eve Do to Help? Introduction [pdf format]
    • What Does Eve Do to Help? and Other Irredeemably Androcentric Orientations in Genesis 1-3
    • What Happens in Genesis
    • What Remains of the Old Testament? Its Text and Language in a Postmodern Age [full version] [pdf format]
    • What Remains of the Old Testament? Its Text and Language in a Postmodern Age [published version] [pdf format]
    • What Remains of the Old Testament?, Appendix A (Textual Variants between 2 Samuel 22 and Psalm 18) [pdf format]
    • What Remains of the Old Testament?, Appendix B (Versional Variations from 2 Sam 22 and Psalm 18) [pdf format]
    • What Remains of the Old Testament?, Appendix C (Emendations in Job 29) [pdf format]
    • What Remains of the Old Testament (PowerPoint presentation)
    • Why Is There a Book of Job, and What Does It Do to You If You Read It? [pdf format]
    • Why Is There a Song of Songs, and What Does It Do to You If You Read It? [pdf format]
    • [Whybray, R.N.]
         Making Waves Gently
        The Contribution of Norman Whybray to British Old Testament Study
    • Wisdom Books, The
    • World Established on Water (Psalm 24), A: Reader Response, Deconstruction and Bespoke Interpretation [pdf format]
    • Writing a Program for Alphabetizing Hebrew [pdf format]
     
    • X, X ben Y, ben Y: Personal Names in Hebrew Narrative Style
     
    • Yahweh and the God of Christian Theology
    • 'You tried to persuade me' and 'Violence! Outrage!' in Jeremiah 20.7-8 (with David M. Gunn)
       

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