W. D. Davies
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W. D. Davies | |
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Born | William David Davies 1911 Glanamman, Wales |
Died | 12 June 2001 Durham, North Carolina, US | (aged 89–90)
Nationality | Welsh |
Spouse |
Eurwen Llewelyn (m. 1941) |
Children | Rachel M. Davies |
Ecclesiastical career | |
Religion | Christianity ( Congregationalist ) |
Ordained | 1941 |
Academic background | |
Doctoral students | E. P. Sanders |
Influenced | Halvor Moxnes |
William David Davies
Life
Davies was born in 1911 in
Davies was then appointed Professor of New Testament Studies at
He then became Edward Robinson Professor of Biblical Theology at
Davies died on 12 June 2001 in Durham, North Carolina. He and his wife are buried in the graveyard at Hen Fethel (Old Bethel) church of Glanamman.
Work
Davies's period of study and research in Cambridge and his participation in Dodd's seminar led to his editing, together with Daube, of the volume of essays presented to C. H. Dodd in 1956, The Background of the New Testament and Its Eschatology. In his own published works, Davies's double interests – in the Jewish background of the New Testament and in the theological implications of this background – are especially exhibited. His books on Paul's writings and on the Sermon on the Mount (in Matthew) explore Pharisaic understandings of the Law (or Torah) in the "age to come" or messianic era – against the backdrop of developments and thought in Judaism not only during the time of Jesus but also in the closing decades of the first century (especially the
Theologically, then, by reorienting views on Paul, and by bringing
The Dodd-Daube-Davies troika led, in many ways, to the so-called New Perspective on Paul – probably what Davies meant when he eulogized Daube by saying that, when Daube called Christianity "a New Testament Judaism", he ushered in a "near-revolution" in New Testament studies.[1] The leading light of the new/originalist Paul movement, E. P. Sanders, was a student of Daube and Davies, and Sanders's first book, Paul and Palestinian Judaism, is very much in dialogue with Davies's earlier Paul and Rabbinic Judaism. By no means are the two in agreement on all things, but Davies's work in de-Hellenizing Paul allowed for Sanders to approach the apostle dusted, scrubbed, and ready for fresh analysis.
Selected works
Books
- Davies, W. D. (1948). Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology. London: SCM Press. OCLC 179912998.
- ——— (1952). Torah in the Messianic Age And/or the Age to Come. Journal of Biblical Literature – Monograph series. Vol. 7. Philadelphia, PA: Society of Biblical Literature. OCLC 480736.
- ——— (1962). Christian Origins and Judaism. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press. OCLC 759621.
- ——— (1964). The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 336409.
- ——— (1966). Invitation to the New Testament: a guide to its main witnesses. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. OCLC 376848.
- ——— (1974). The Gospel and the Land: Early Christianity and Jewish Territorial Doctrine. Pantyfedwen Trust lectures, 1968. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- ——— (1982). The Territorial Dimension of Judaism. Quantum book. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- ———; OCLC 19460321.
- ———; OCLC 19460321.
- ———; OCLC 19460321.
- ——— (1999). Christian Engagements with Judaism. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity. OCLC 237358305.
Edited by
- ———; OCLC 440799715.
- ———; OCLC 872998103.
- ———; OCLC 1023882413.
References
- ^ Davies, W.D. (April 2000). "David Daube Tribute". University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
- ISBN 9781555404765. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ISBN 9780520043312. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
Further reading
- Preliminary Inventory of the W.D. Davies (William David Davies) Papers, University Archives, Duke University]