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Emeritus Professor David Clines
Professor David J A Clines, having studied classical languages in Sydney and Semitic Languages in Cambridge, now concentrates on Hebrew lexicography and contemporary literary approaches to the Hebrew Bible.
His numerous publications include The Theme of the Pentateuch (1978), What Does Eve Do to Help? (1990) and Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Old Testament (1995) as well as a major three-volume commentary on Job in the Word Biblical Commentary series (1989–2009), and a collection of his papers in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays, 1967–1998, 2 vols. (1998). He is editor of The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, the sixth volume of which was published in 2007.
Professor Clines was Head of Department 1994–2001, and he was a Publisher and Director of Sheffield Academic Press 1976–2001. He has been a Publisher and Director of Sheffield Phoenix Press since 2003. In 2001 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Amsterdam. In 2003 he was presented with a Festschrift entitled Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of David J.A. Clines (ed. J. Cheryl Exum and H.G.M. Williamson). He was President of the Society for Old Testament Study in 1996, and is currently President of the Society of Biblical Literature for 2009.
For details of his publications, see the list (arranged by date) at www.shef.ac.uk/bibs/DJACcurrres/ClinesPubs.html or the list of articles (arranged alphabetically) at www.shef.ac.uk/bibs/DJACcurrres/Articles.html, with links to many online pdf versions of them.
email : d.clines@sheffield.ac.uk
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