Works of David Clines

Published: Mon, 20 Mar 2017

The Academia.edu lazy-loading page can be a pain. So this is the lot, as of 2017-03-20. (It needs refining: this is just a make-text bookmarklet dump.)

Also, 2007 version of his Sheffield articles page

The University of Sheffield, Sheffield Institute of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (SIIBIS), Emeritus |

Address: Dept of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, 45 Victoria Street, Sheffield S3 7QB, England

Papers

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What Do We Really Want to Know about the Pentateuch? Download
How Many Israelites Do We Know by Name? With a Proposal for a Hebrew Prosopography Download
The New Hezekiah Seal: Outstanding Questions Download
Alleged Basic Meanings of the Hebrew Verb qdš ‘be holy’: An Exercise in Comparative Hebrew Lexicography Download
Revising the Hebrew Dictionary (DCH). 6. Reaping, Threshing and Winnowing: Twenty-­Four Agricultural Terms Defined Download
Alleged Female Language about the Deity in the Hebrew Bible Download
A Voyage round my Library Download
Towards a Science of Comparative Hebrew Lexicography Download
The Bible and the Academy (Society for Old Testament Study Panel, 6 January 2010 Download
A Century of SOTS [Society for Old Testament Study] Papers Download
Gendering the Magnificat Download
Revising the Hebrew Dictionary (DCH). 5. Seals of Hezekiah: A New Addition Download
Revising the Hebrew Dictionary (DCH). 4. New Definitions for Aleph Words Download
The Holy and the Clean: An Excursion in Comparative Lexicography Download
Revising the Hebrew Dictionary (DCH). 3. There go the ships (Psa. 104.26) Download
Revising the Hebrew Dictionary (DCH). 2. The Goliath Family Download
Revising the Hebrew Dictionary (DCH). 1. Hezekiah Seals Download
A Very Short Commentary on the Book of Job Download
How Corrupt is the Text of the Hebrew Bible? An Empirical Approach from Ezra 2 // Nehemiah 7 Download
The Most High Male: Divine Masculinity in the Bible Download
Introducing the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew Download

FORTHCOMING [heading]

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The Scandal of a Male Bible Download
The Future of the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew Project Download
Towards a Science of Comparative Classical Hebrew Lexicography Download
Gender and Hermeneutics: A Response to Hanna Stenström, ‘Revelation 14:1-5 and the Necessity and Limitations of Feminist Interpretation of the Bible’ Download
Writing a Job Commentary Download
Misapprehensions, Ancient and Modern, about Lions (Nahum 2.13) Download
One or Two Things You May Not Know about the Universe: The Cosmology of the Divine Speeches in Job Download
The Decalogue as the Prohibition of Theft Download
Made in Sheffield: The First Dictionary of the Ancient Hebrew Language Download
Characteristic Qumran Vocabulary: Empirical Data Download
Varieties of Creation in the Bible Download
The Wisdom of Job’s Conclusion Download
The Recovery of the Ancient Hebrew Language: The Astonishing Wealth of its Unrecognized Vocabulary Download
The Magnificat: A Disenchantment Download
Reconceptualizing Old Testament Theology Download
2015 PAPERS [heading] Download
Contemporary Methods in Hebrew Bible Criticism Download
2014 PAPERS [heading] Download
Does the Pentateuch Exist? Seven Questions We Should Be Asking if It Does Download
A Martian Reads the Psalms, in Particular Psalm 19 Download
How my (Lexicographical) Mind Has Changed, or Else Remained the Same Download

2013 PAPERS [heading]

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Seven Interesting Things about the Epilogue to Job Download
The Flood Story in Middle English: The Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Poem, Cleanness Download
The Worth of Animals in the Divine Speeches of the Book of Job Download
The Decalogue. The Scholarly Tradition Critiqued Download
The KJV Translation of the Old Testament: The Case of Job Download
Aileen Guilding, her Life and her Work Download
Source Criticism. Putting Source Criticism in its Place: The Flood Story as a Test Case Download
Classical Hebrew: 837 Qumran Words with More Occurrences than in Biblical Hebrew Download
Classical Hebrew: 2225 Qumran Words More Frequent than in Biblical Hebrew Download
Classical Hebrew: 2225 Qumran Words More Frequent than in Biblical Hebrew, Arranged by Order of Frequency Download
Classical Hebrew: 580 Qumran Words More Frequent than in Biblical Hebrew, Arranged by Order of Frequency (Excluding Fewer than 10 Qumran Occurrences) Download
Classical Hebrew: All 2114 Personal Names Download
Classical Hebrew: All 2634 Verbs Download

2012 PAPERS [heading]

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The Failure of the Flood Download
The Many Voices of Isaiah 40 Download

2011 PAPERS [heading]

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What Remains of the Hebrew Bible: The Accuracy of the Text of the Hebrew Bible in the Light of the Qumran Samuel (4QSama) Download
Reading the Song of Songs as a Classic Download

2010 PAPERS [heading]

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Psalm 23 and Method: Reading a David Psalm Download
Learning, Teaching, and Researching Biblical Studies, Today and Tomorrow Download
Dancing and Shining at Sinai: Playing the Man in Exodus 32—34 Download
Coming to a Theological Conclusion: The Case of the Book of Job Download
Final Reflections on Men and Masculinity Download
Teaching the Biblical Languages: Time for a Rethink? Download

2009

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The Challenge of Hebrew Lexicography Today Download
Historical Criticism: Are its Days Numbered? Download
Response to Rolf Rendtorff’s “What Happened to the Yahwist? Reflections after Thirty Years” Download
Review of Ellen van Wolde, Reframing Biblical Studies: When Language and Text Meet Culture, Cognition, and Context (2009) Download

2007

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Legally Male: Being a Man in the Book of the Covenant Download
Was There a brḥ II “vex” or brḥ III “wound, bruise, pierce” or brḥ IV “bar” in Classical Hebrew? Download
A Hebraist Reads the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Download

EARLIER PAPERS

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The Significance of the “Sons of God” Episode (Genesis 6:1-4) in the Context of the “Primeval History” (Genesis 1—11) Download
New Directions in Pooh Studies: Überlieferungs- und traditionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Pu-Buch Download
The History of Bo Peep: An Agricultural Employee’s Tragedy in Contemporary Literary Perspective Download
Hosea 2: Structure and Interpretation Download
God in the Pentateuch: Reading against the Grain Download
Job and the Spirituality of the Reformation Download
Metacommentating Amos Download
The Book of Psalms, Where Men Are Men … On the Gender of Hebrew Piety Download
Loingirding and Other Male Activities in the Book of Job Download
Dancing and Shining at Sinai: Playing the Man in Exodus 32—34 Download
The Nehemiah Memoir: The Perils of Autobiography Download
Deconstructing the Book of Job Download
The Old Testament Histories: A Reader’s Guide Download
The Ancestor in Danger: But Not the Same Danger Download
What Happens in Genesis Download
What Does Eve Do to Help? and Other Irredeemably Androcentric Orientations in Genesis 1—3 Download
Psalm 2 and the MLF (Moabite Liberation Front) Download
David the Man: The Construction of Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible Download
A World Founded on Water (Psalm 24): Reader Response, Deconstruction and Bespoke Interpretation Download
Why Is There a Book of Job, and What Does It Do to You If You Read It? Download
Why Is There a Song of Songs, and What Does It Do to You If You Read It? Download
Haggai’s Temple, Constructed, Deconstructed and Reconstructed Download
The Ten Commandments, Reading from Left to Right Download
The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible Download
False Naivety in the Prologue to Job Download
In Search of the Indian Job Download
Verb Modality and the Interpretation of Job iv 20-21 Download
Job 4.13: A Byronic Suggestion Download
The Arguments of Job’s Three Friends Download
The Tree of Knowledge and the Law of Yahweh (Psalm xix) Download
Squares and Streets: The Distinction of reḥôt ‘Square’ and reḥõbôt ‘Streets’ Download
Krt 111-114 (I iii 7-10): Gatherers of Wood and Drawers of Water Download
The Etymology of Hebrew Selem Download
Was There an ‘bl II ‘be dry’ in Classical Hebrew? Download
Job 5,1-8: A New Exegesis Download
Universal Dominion in Psalm 2? Download
Those Golden Days: Job and the Perils of Nostalgia Download
The Psalms and the King Download
Psalm Research since 1955: II. The Literary Genres Download
Psalm Research since 1955: I. The Psalms and the Cult Download
Philology and Power Download
Michal Observed: An Introduction to Reading her Story Download
Humanity as the Image of God Download
Belief, Desire and Wish in Job 19:23-27. Clues for the Identity of Job’s “Redeemer” Download
Classical Hebrew: All 545 Place Names Download
The Parallelism of Greater Precision. Notes from Isaiah 40 for a Theory of Hebrew Poetry Download
The Quest for the Historical Mordecai Download
Regnal Year Reckoning in the Last Years of the Kingdom of Judah Download
“You tried to persuade me” and “Violence! Outrage!” in Jeremiah xx 7-8 [with David M. Gunn] Download
Form, Occasion and Redaction in Jeremiah 20 [with David M. Gunn] Download
X, X ben Y, ben Y: Personal Names in Hebrew Narrative Style Download
Ethics as Deconstruction, and, The Ethics of Deconstruction Download
The Pyramid and the Net: The Postmodern Adventure in Biblical Studies Download
Possibilities and Priorities of Biblical Interpretation in an International Perspective Download
Methods in Old Testament Study Download
Varieties of Indeterminacy Download
Writing a Program for Alphabetizing Hebrew Download
The Story of Michal, Wife of David, in its Sequential Unfolding Download
Story and Poem: The Old Testament as Literature and as Scripture Download
The Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in Pre-Exilic Israel Reconsidered Download
The Force of the Text: A Response to Tamara C. Eskenazi’s “Ezra-Nehemiah: From Text to Actuality” Download
The Significance of the “Sons of God” Episode (Genesis 6:1-4) in the Context of the “Primeval History” (Genesis 1—11) Download
Hosea 2: Structure and Interpretation Download
Nehemiah 10 as an Example of Early Jewish Biblical Exegesis Download
Reading Esther from Left to Right: Contemporary Strategies for Reading a Biblical Text Download
Quarter Days Gone: Job 24 and the Absence of God Download
“Ecce vir”, or, Gendering the Son of Man Download
The Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies: An Intellectual Biography Download
Beyond Synchronic/Diachronic Download
The Postmodern Adventure in Biblical Studies Download
The Disjoined Body: The Body and the Self in Hebrew Rhetoric Download
He-Prophets: Masculinity as a Problem for the Hebrew Prophets and their Interpreters Download
Paul, the Invisible Man Download
On the Poetic Achievement of the Book of Job Download
Esther and the Future of the Commentary Download
Adam, the Hebrew for “Human, Humanity”: A Response to James Barr Download
Does the Book of Job Suggest That Suffering is Not a Problem? Download
‘The fear of the Lord is wisdom’ (Job 28.28)’: A Semantic and Contextual Study Download
Making Waves Gently: The Contribution of Norman Whybray to British Old Testament Study Download
Job’s God: A Surfeit of Theologies? Download
Job’s Fifth Friend: An Ethical Critique of the Book of Job Download
Putting Elihu in his Place: A Proposal for the Relocation of Job 32—37 Download
The Practical and the Political in Hebrew Lexicography Download
The PhD in Theory and Practice: Personal Reflections Download
Being a Man in the Book of the Covenant Download
Translating Psalm 23 Download
The Lord is my Shepherd in East and South-East Asia Download
What Remains of the Hebrew Bible? Its Text and Language in a Postmodern Age Download
The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible Download
The Future of the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew Project Download

Books

Title Link
The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, Vol. IX. English—Hebrew Index; Word Frequency Table [sample pages] Download
The Reception of the Hebrew Bible in the Septuagint and the New Testament: Essays in Memory of Aileen Guilding Download
• The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. VII. Sade—Qoph [pp. 1-12, 59-70] Download
• The Centre and the Periphery: A European Tribute to Walter Brueggemann [Table of Contents] Download
• A Critical Engagement: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of J. Cheryl Exum [Table of Contents] Download
• The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. VIII. Sin—Taw [pp. 1-12, 105-15] Download
• Job 38—42 [pp. 1039-1119] Download

• Biblical Reception 1 (2012) [Table of Contents]

• Making a Difference: Essays on the Hebrew Bible and Judaism in Honor of Tamara Cohn Eskenazi [Table of Contents]