David J. A. Clines

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

Career

He served as president of the Society for Old Testament Study, as well as president of the

Clines served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2009.^[2] 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".^[3]

Clines died on 8 December 2022.^[4][5]

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".^[6]

Selected works

Books

• Clines, David J. A. (1978). The Theme of the Pentateuch. JSOT Supplements. Vol. 10. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
• ——— (1984). The Esther Scroll: the story of the story. Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series. Vol. 30. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
  OCLC 276358541
  .
• ——— (1984). Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther: based on the Revised Standard Version. New Century Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI & London: Eerdmans & Marshall, Morgan & Scott.
  OCLC 11113882
  .
• ——— (1989). Job 1-20.
  ISBN 978-0-8499-0216-1
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• ——— (1990). What Does Eve Do to Help? - and Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament. JSOT Supplements. Vol. 94. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
• ——— (1993–2016). The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, 9 vols. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
• ——— (1995). Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Old Testament. JSOT Supplements. Vol. 205. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
• ——— (1998). On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays, 1967–1998 (2 vols.). JSOT Supplements. Vol. 268. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
  ISBN 1-8507-5901-4
  .
• ——— (2006). Job 21-37.
  ISBN 978-0-8499-0217-8
  .
• ——— (2009). The Concise Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
  ISBN 978-1-9060-5579-0
  .
• ——— (2011). Job 38-42.
  ISBN 978-0-7852-5267-2
  .

sources of bibliography[7]

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  OCLC 276307111
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  OCLC 276783694
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  OCLC 276307035
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• ——— (1982). "The Arguments of Job's Three Friends". In ———;
  OCLC 276307111
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• ——— (1989). "The Wisdom Books". In
  ISBN 0631162496
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• ——— (2015). "Predestination in the Old Testament". In Pinnock, Clark H. (ed.). Grace for all : the Arminian dynamics of salvation. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications.

• ——— (1972). "Regnal Year Reckoning in the Last Year of the Kingdom of Judah". American Journal of Biblical Archaeology. 2: 9–34.
• ——— (1972–1973). "The Theology of the Flood Narrative".
  Faith and Thought
  . 100 (2): 128–142.
• ——— (March 1974). "Evidence for an autumnal new year in pre-exilic Israel reconsidered".
  JSTOR 3263863
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• ——— (1976). "New Directions in Pooh Studies: Überlieferungs- und religionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Pu-Buch". Theolog Review. 12: 2–10. Reprinted in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays, 1967–1998 (Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), Vol. 2, pp. 830–839.
• ——— (1979). "The Significance of the 'Sons of God' (Gen. 6,1-4) in the Context of Primeval History (Gen 1-11)". Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. 13: 33–46.
• ——— (1981). "Job 5:1-8: A New Exegesis". Biblica. 62: 185–94.