Nationality Australian Role Scholar Name David A. | Notable works Job (WBC) Discipline Biblical studies | |
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Born 21 November 1938 (age 86) ( 1938-11-21 ) Sydney, Australia Known for foundation of the Sheffield Academic Press Board member of President of the Society for Old Testament Study, President of the Society of Biblical Literature Education St John's College, Cambridge Books The Theme of the Pentateuch, Interested Parties: The Ideol, What does Eve do to help?, On the way to the postmodern, I - He - We and They: A Literary Edited works The Concise Dictionar, The New Literary Criticism, Of Prophets' Visions a | ||
David John Alfred Clines (born 21 November 1938 Sydney, Australia) is a biblical scholar. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield.
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Clines studied at the University of Sydney and St John’s College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the Society for Old Testament Study, as well as President of the Society of Biblical Literature. In 2003, a Festschrift was published in his honour. Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of David J.A. Clines (ISBN 0826466869) included contributions by James Barr, John Barton, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Walter Brueggemann, Brevard Childs, Patrick D. Miller, Rolf Rendtorff, Hugh Williamson, and Ellen van Wolde. In 2013, he was honoured with another Festschrift, Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J. A. Clines, which included contributions from Marc Zvi Brettler, Norman C. Habel, and Athalya Brenner.
Clines served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2009. 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".
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".