Hugh G. M. Williamson

Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson

Williamson has authored major commentaries on Ezra/Nehemiah in the Word Biblical Commentary series and a multi-volumed commentary of Isaiah 1-27 for the International Critical Commentary series. For the latter, volume 1 was published in 2006 and volume 2 in 2019.^[2]

He has been chairman of the British Academy’s Humanities Group and also chairman of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society.^[3]

He remains secretary to the executive committee of the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database project.^[2]

Williamson remains active in his research interests, which include the Book of Isaiah and the Achaemenid Period history and literature.^[3]

A festschrift was published in 2012 for H. G. M. Williamson on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.^[4]

Honours

He was appointed

• Williamson, Hugh G. M. (1985). Ezra, Nehemiah.
  OCLC 12437788
  .
• ——— (2006). A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 1-27: Isaiah 1-5 (Volume 1).
  OCLC 71298301
  .
• ——— (2008). Holy, Holy, Holy: The Story of a Liturgical Formula. Julius-Wellhausen-Vorlesung. Vol. 1. Berlin ; New York:
  OCLC 316833005
  .
• ——— (2012). He Has Shown You What is Good: Old Testament Justice Then and Now (The Trinity Lectures, Singapore, 2011). Cambridge:
  OCLC 768167987
  .

• ——— (2012). "Scribe and Scroll: Revisiting the Great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran". In
  ISBN 978-1-907-53472-0
  .
• ——— (2013). "The Vindication of Redaction Criticism". In Dell, Katharine J.;
  ISBN 978-0-199-64553-4
  .
• ——— (2013). "Isaiah: Prophet of Weal or Woe?". In
  ISBN 978-1-575-06282-2
  .
• ——— (2013). "Was There an Image of the Deity in the First Temple?". In
  OCLC 863324614
  .

• OCLC 801777561
  .

External links

• Williamson's Oxford faculty page