David J. A. Clines

David John Alfred Clines (born 21 November 1938 Sydney, Australia) is a biblical scholar. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield.

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.^[1] 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.^[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]

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".^[4]

Selected Works

• Clines, David J. A. (1978). The Theme of the Pentateuch. JSOT Supplements. 10. Sheffield: JSOT Press. 
• ——— (1990). What Does Eve Do to Help? - and Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament. JSOT Supplements. 94. Sheffield: JSOT Press. 
• ——— (1995). Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Old Testament. JSOT Supplements. 205. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. 
• ——— (1990). What Does Eve Do to Help? - and Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament. JSOT Supplements. 94. Sheffield: JSOT Press. 
• ——— (1998). On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays, 1967–1998 (2 vols.). JSOT Supplements. 268. Sheffield: JSOT Press. ISBN 1-8507-5901-4. 
• ——— (1989). Job 1-20. Word Biblical Commentary. 17. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. ISBN 978-0-8499-0216-1. 
• ——— (2006). Job 21-37. Word Biblical Commentary. 18a. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. ISBN 978-0-8499-0217-8. 
• ——— (2011). Job 38-42. Word Biblical Commentary. 18b. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. ISBN 978-0-7852-5267-2. 
• ——— (1993–2011). The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, 6 vols. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press. ISBN 978-1-907534-38-6. 
• ——— (2009). The Concise Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press. ISBN 978-1-9060-5579-0. 

sources of bibliography^[5]

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