Emeritus Professor Philip Davies

Qualifications: Oxford and St Andrews
Email: p.davies@sheffield.ac.uk

Professor Davies taught in Ghana before he was appointed at Sheffield. He is an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and has written four books on the subject.

Research interests

• Intertestamental and rabbinic literature
• Persian and Hellenistic periods

Selected publications

• 1QM: The War Scroll from Qumran
• Qumran
• The Damascus Covenant
• Behind the Essenes
• In Search of 'Ancient Israel'
• The Old Testament World, co-authored with John Rogerson

Other professional activities

• Joint founder with Professor Clines of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
• Board member of the Supplement Series of monographs
• Executive Officer of the European Association of Biblical Studies
• Editor of Equinox Publishing