James Barr

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James Barr is affiliated with the following schools: Victoria University of Manchester, Princeton Theological Seminary, University of Oxford, Vanderbilt University, University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester

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Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
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PhD Theology University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, James Barr was a Scottish Old Testament scholar, known for his critique of the notion that the vocabulary and structure of the Hebrew language may reflect a particular theological mindset. At the University of Oxford, he was the Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture from 1976 to 1978, and the Regius Professor of Hebrew from 1978 to 1989.

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James Barr 's Published Works

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The Semantics of Biblical Language (1991) (229)
The Concept of Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspective (1999) (81)
Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament (1968) (74)
Biblical words for time (1962) (68)
The Garden of Eden and the hope of immortality (1993) (65)
Onset of accumulation of PrPres in murine ME7 scrapie in relation to pathological and PrP immunohistochemical changes. (2001) (63)
The Bible in the modern world (1973) (62)
Man and nature--the ecological controversy and the Old Testament. (1972) (56)
Biblical faith and natural theology (1994) (53)
The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible: An Illustrated Encyclopedia in Four Volumes (1963) (51)
Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism (1983) (50)
The image of God in the book of Genesis: a study of terminology (1968) (38)
THE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE (1969) (37)
The typology of literalism in ancient biblical translations (1979) (33)
The scope and authority of the Bible (1980) (33)
Jeremiah 1: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapters 1-25 (Hermeneia) (1987) (31)
Old and New in Interpretation: A Study of the Two Testaments (1982) (26)
THE QUESTION OF RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE: THE CASE OF ZOROASTRIANISM, JUDAISM, AND CHRISTIANITY (1985) (24)
The Text of the Septuagint: Its Corruptions and their Emendation (1973) (22)
II. Revelation Through History in the Old Testament and in Modern Theology (1963) (22)
History and Ideology in the Old Testament: Biblical Studies at the End of a Millennium (2005) (20)
History and Ideology in the Old Testament (2000) (19)
Why the world was created in 4004 B.C.: Archbishop Ussher and Biblical chronology (1985) (18)
The Book of Job and its modern interpreters (1971) (17)
Childs' Introduction To the Old Testament as Scripture (1980) (16)
Allegory and Historicism (1996) (15)
The Meaning of "Mythology" in Relation To the Old Testament (1959) (14)
‘DETERMINATION’ AND THE DEFINITE ARTICLE IN BIBLICAL HEBREW (1989) (14)
The Human Urinary Proteome Fingerprint Database UPdb (2013) (14)
Differential protein profiling as a potential multi-marker approach for TSE diagnosis (2009) (14)
A line in the sand : Britain, France and the struggle for the mastery of the Middle East (2012) (14)
Biblical Faith and Natural Theology: The Gifford Lectures for 1991: Delivered in the University of Edinburgh (1995) (14)
Microdissection: A method developed to investigate mechanisms involved in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy pathogenesis (2004) (14)
Philo of Byblos and his ?Phoenician History? (1974) (13)
Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918 (2006) (12)
Jewish apocalyptic in recent scholarly study (1975) (12)
The Bible as a political document (1980) (12)
A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948 (2012) (11)
The variable spellings of the Hebrew Bible (1989) (11)
The Literal, the Allegorical, and Modern Biblical Scholarship (1989) (11)
THEOPHANY AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM IN THE OLD TESTAMEMT (1960) (10)
ARAMAIC-GREEK NOTES ON THE BOOK OF ENOCH (I) (1978) (10)
Widespread neuronal loss is preceded by PrPSc deposition in murine scrapie (2000) (10)
N‐acetyl aspartate estimation: a potential method for determining neuronal loss in the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (2003) (10)
Words for Love in Biblical Greek (1987) (9)
ST JEROME AND THE SOUNDS OF HEBREW (1967) (9)
‘Abba, Father’ and the Familiarity of Jesus' Speech (1988) (9)
Pre-scientific Chronology: The Bible and the Origin of the World1 (1999) (9)
Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the Hellenistic age (1990) (9)
Story and History in Biblical Theology: The Third Nuveen Lecture (1976) (8)
Language, theology, and the Bible : essays in honour of James Barr (1994) (7)
WHY? IN BIBLICAL HEBREW (1985) (7)
Reading the Bible as literature (1973) (7)
Trends and Prospects in Biblical Theology (1974) (7)
Escaping from Fundamentalism (2012) (6)
Reflections on the Covenant with Noah (2003) (6)
The Concept of Biblical Theology (1999) (6)
Which language did Jesus speak? ? some remarks of a Semitist (1970) (5)
THE ANCIENT SEMITIC LANGUAGES—THE CONFLICT BETWEEN PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS (1968) (5)
Mythical Monarch Unmasked? Mysterious Doings of Debir King of Eglon (1990) (5)
Jowett and the Reading of the Bible (1982) (5)
The Anchor Bible: Genesis, Translated With an Introduction and Notes, by E. A. Speiser. 378 pp. New York, Doubleday, 1964. $6.00 (1965) (4)
The symbolism of names in the Old Testament (1969) (4)
Is God a Liar? (Genesis 2–3)—and Related Matters (2006) (4)
The Bow Group : a history (2001) (4)
A diagram of synoptic relationships (1957) (3)
Language and meaning, studies in Hebrew language and biblical exegesis : papers read at the Joint British-Dutch Old Testament Conference held at London, 1973 (1974) (3)
Jowett and the ‘Original Meaning’ of Scripture (1982) (3)
VOCALIZATION AND THE ANALYSIS OF HEBREW AMONG THE ANCIENT TRANSLATORS (1967) (3)
AFTER FIVE YEARS: A RETROSPECT ON TWO MAJOR TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE (1974) (3)
LIMITATIONS OF ETYMOLOGY AS A LEXICOGRAPHICAL INSTRUMENT IN BIBLICAL HEBREW (1983) (3)
MIGRAŠ IN THE OLD TESTAMENT (1984) (3)
Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar as edited and enlarged by E. Kautzsch. Second English edition by A. E. Cowley. Fifteenth impression. Pp. xvi+616. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. £10. (1981) (3)
HEBREW ORTHOGRAPHY AND THE BOOK OF JOB (1985) (2)
PAUL AND THE LXX: A NOTE ON SOME RECENT WORK (1994) (2)
A concise history of Israel : from the earliest times to the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70 (1965) (2)
Does Biblical Study Still Belong to Theology (1978) (2)
HYPOSTATIZATION OF LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA IN MODERN THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION (1962) (2)
Studies on Semitic lexicography (1973) (2)
Doubts About Homoeophony in the Septuagint (1985) (2)
JAMES BARR, Semantics and Biblical Theology-a Contribution to the Discussion (1972) (2)
Holy scripture : canon, authority, criticism : the Sprunt lectures delivered at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, February 1982 (1983) (2)
Word and Supplement: Speech Acts, Biblical Texts, and the Sufficiency of Scripture By Timothy Ward Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. 332 pp. $74.00 (2004) (2)
St Jerome?s appreciation of Hebrew (1967) (2)
SEEING THE WOOD FOR THE TREES? AN ENIGMATIC ANCIENT TRANSLATION (1968) (2)
Paul on the Areopagus (1994) (2)
Luther and Biblical chronology (1990) (2)
The Bible in the modern world : the Croall lectures given in New College, Edinburgh in November 1970 (1973) (2)
A LINE IN THE SAND: BRITISH-FRENCH RIVALRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST 1915–1948 (2012) (2)
Related current or planned studies in the Caribbean region. (1997) (2)
Comparative philology and the text of the Old Testament : with additions and corrections (1988) (2)
One man or all humanity? A question in the anthropology of Genesis 1 (1967) (1)
Differential protein expression profiling in BSE disease (2010) (1)
SOME NOTES ON BEN “BETWEEN” IN CLASSICAL HEBREW (1978) (1)
THE POSITION OF HEBREW LANGUAGE IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION (1961) (1)
Biblical and Near Eastern Studies. Essays in Honor of William Sanford LaSor. Edited by G. A. Tuttle. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1978. Pp. xii + 300. Price not given. (1980) (1)
Differential protein expression profiling in TSE disease (2010) (1)
Interpretation and theology (2013) (1)
Seen in the Yemen: Travelling with Freya Stark and Others (2012) (1)
Questions disputees d'Ancien Testament. Methode et theologie. [Continuing Questions in Old Testament Method and Theology] (1990) (1)
The Book of Job. A New Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text (1981) (1)
The Old Testament and the New Crisis of Biblical Authority1 (1971) (1)
Book Reviews : Meanings of Old Testament Words (1978) (1)
Recent Biblical Theologies (1962) (1)
When Prophecy Failed. Reactions and responses to failure in the Old Testament prophetic traditions . By Robert P. Carroll. London, S.C.M. Press, 1979. Pp. vi + 250. £7·50. (1983) (1)
Jeremiah, His Time and His Work . By A. C. Welch. Blackwell. 15s. (1952) (0)
The Jewish People and Jesus Christ. By Jakob Jocz. S.P.C.K., 1949. Pp. 446. 21s.1 (1956) (0)
Revelation and Evangelism. By F. W. Dillistone. Lutterworth Press. 7s. 6d. (1952) (0)
The use of differential protein expression profiling in TSE disease (2008) (0)
The Authority of Scripture . By J. K. S. Reid. Methuen, 1957. Pp. 286. 25s. (1958) (0)
Norman Porteous: Germany and Scotland (2005) (0)
Mediaeval Arabic and Hebrew Thought. By S. M. Stern. Edited by F. W. Zimmermann. (Collected Studies Series, 183.) pp. X, 344. London, Variorum Reprints, 1983. £28.00. (1984) (0)
Ronald J. Williams: Hebrew syntaz: an outline. xii, 122. [Toronto];University of Tornonto Press, [c1967]. $3.50. (Distributed in G.B. by oxford University Press. 33s. 6d). (1969) (0)
God and Man in Early Israel . By J. W. D. Smith. Methuen, 1956. Pp. 122. 5s. 6d. (1956) (0)
Jacob Milgrom: Cult and conscience: the asham and the priestly doctrine of repentance. (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, Vol. 18.) xiii, 173 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Guilders 64. (1978) (0)
Pennsylvania Supreme Court: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same (2007) (0)
Differential protein expression profiling using SELDI-TOF technology for the detection of TSE disease in blood plasma (2012) (0)
The Messianic Idea in Israel . By Joseph Klausner. George Allen and Unwin. London, 1956. Pp. 543. 30s. (1957) (0)
THE DEVELOPMENT IN BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND ITS POLEMICS BETWEEN BREVARD S. CHILDS AND JAMES BARR (2004) (0)
A data-driven diagnostic assay for the detection of TSE research (2009) (0)
Further Thoughts About Baptism (1951) (0)
The Bible Tells Them So: The Discourse of Protestant Fundamentalism By Kathleen C. Boone Albany, State University of New York Press, 1988. 139 pp. $34.50 ($10.95 pb.) (1990) (0)
Using SELDI proteomics to identify potential diagnostic markers for TSEs (2004) (0)
A proteomics (SELDI) approach to disease markers for TSEs (2002) (0)
John Barton. Amos's Oracles against the Nations . Pp. x, 83. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980 - Society for Old Testament Study Monograph Series 6.) £7·50. (1982) (0)
SELDI-assisted identification of biomarkers for TSE diagnosis (2006) (0)
Differential protein expression profiling using SELDI technology as a potential diagnostic for TSE disease (2009) (0)
A multi-marker test for TSE disease (2008) (0)
Exploring the use of differential protein expression profling for the detection of BSE in ovine plasma (2012) (0)
L. Alonso Schökel, S.J. The Inspired Word. Scripture in the Light of Language and Literature . Pp. 418. (London: Burns and Oates, 1967.) 63s. (1970) (0)
The Hebrew Bible. The Law, the Prophets and the Writings . Edited by N. H. Snaith. British and Foreign Bible Society, London, 1958. 17s. 6d. (1960) (0)
Jaf1!es Barr on Fundamentalism (2012) (0)
Teach Yourself Hebrew . By R. K. Harrison. London, 1955. Pp. 215. 10s. 6d. (1957) (0)
Isaiah xxi: A Palimpsest . By A. A. Macintosh, pp. xi, 156. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press, 1980. £15.50. (1981) (0)
Stephen H. TRAVIS, Christian Hope and the Future of Man. Inter-Varsity Press 1980, 143pp. £2.85 (1981) (0)
Christ in Gospel and Creed (1955) (0)
The use of differential protein expression profiling as a diagnostic for TSE research (2008) (0)
Gerhard Ebeling. Introduction to a Theological Theory of Language . Pp. 222. (Collins, London, 1973.) £2·25 (1974) (0)
Modern Hebrew: an introductory course. By D. J. Kamhi. pp. [x], 156. Oxford, etc., Oxford University Press, 1982. £9.50. (1983) (0)
Contributions and Comments (1964) (0)
Within the Old Testament (1994) (0)
Joshua Blau: On pseudo-corrections in some Semitic languages . (Publications of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Section of Humanities.) 153, [2] pp. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1970. (1973) (0)
Walther Zimmerli: Old Testament theology in outline 258 pp. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1978. £5.80. (1981) (0)
Gerhard Hasel, Old Testament Theology: Basic Issues in the Current Debate; Wilfrid Harrington, The Path of Biblical Theology (1974) (0)
The Hebrew letters of Prester John. By Edward Ullendorff and C. F. Beckingham. pp. xiii, 252. Oxford, etc., Oxford University Press, 1982. £12. (1983) (0)
A multi-marker diagnostic for TSE disease (2008) (0)
The desert Bible: Nomadic tribal culture and Old Testament interpretation . By Morris S. Seale. pp. ix, 223. London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1974. £3.95. (1975) (0)
J. Andrew KIRK, Theology Encounters Revolution. Inter-Varsity Press, 1980, 188pp. £2.95 (1981) (0)
Divine Revelation and the Limits of Historical Criticism . By W. J. Abraham. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Pp. 222. £13·50. (1983) (0)
ja~es Barr on Fundamentalism (2012) (0)
An overview of differential protein expression profiling as an alternative approach to diagnosis of TSE disease (2008) (0)
Joshua Blau: A grammar of Biblical Hebrew . (Porta Linguarum Orientalium, Neue Serie, XII.) xi, 209 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1976. DM 68. (1978) (0)
A. E. Cowley: Gesenius' Hebrew grammar; as edited and enlarged by the late E. Kautzsch. Second English edition . (Fifteenth impression.) xvi, 616 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1980. £10. (1981) (0)
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy - the search for potential biomarkers using SELDI-MS-TOF technology (2006) (0)
Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross. Edited By Patrick D. Miller, Jr., Paul D. Hanson And S. Dean McBride. Philadelphia, Fortress, 1987. 672 Pp. $44.95 (1988) (0)
Carleton T. Hodge (ed.): Afroasiatic: a survey. (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 163.) 130 pp. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1971. Guilders 25. (1973) (0)
THE MEANING OF EПAKOYΩ AND COGNATES IN THE LXX (1980) (0)
UNUSUAL OVERDOSE. (2015) (0)
Book Review: A Century of Old Testament Study (1977) (0)
Tradition and Expectation in Ancient Israel (1957) (0)
Review: The Concept of Time in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls (2004) (0)
Natural Theology in This Century: Concepts and Approaches (1994) (0)
EPIZω AND EPEIΔω IN THE SEPTUAGINT: A NOTE PRINCIPALLY ON GEN. XLIX. 6 (1974) (0)
Book Review: Understanding the Old Testament (1979) (0)
The Image of God and Natural Theology (1994) (0)
Religion, Tradition, and Natural Theology (1994) (0)
Book Review: Introduction to the Psalms (1969) (0)
The upper paleolithic of Germany; a new perspective (1968) (0)
The New Profile of Discussion About the Bible (2000) (0)
Natural Theology and the Future of Biblical Theology (1994) (0)
Postmodernism and Theology (2000) (0)
James D. SMART, The Past, Present and Future of Biblical Theology. Westminster Press 1979, (associated with T. and T. Clark) 162pp. $7.95 (1981) (0)
Fingerprints and criminal conviction (1973) (0)
The Language of Religion (1979) (0)
Book Review: Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology (1998) (0)
UGARITIC AND HEBREW “ŠBM”?1 (1973) (0)
Book Review: The Bible (1984) (0)
Book Review: The Living Word of the Bible (1980) (0)
Linguistics and translation (2014) (0)
The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible: The Schweich Lectures 1986 (1991) (0)
St Paul and the Hebrew Background (1994) (0)
Book Reviews : Job in Greek (1983) (0)
Harold Henry Rowley (1970) (0)
Predictions and Surprises: a Response To Walter Brueggemann's Review1 (2000) (0)
James Barr: Biblical Words For Time, 1962 (1965) (0)
The Book of Job. Commentary, New Translation, Special Studies (1980) (0)
Notice of the Special Meeting of the Hanover Township Mental Health Board (2013) (0)
A Return to the Modern Discussion (1994) (0)
Book Review: The Nature and Purpose of a Theological Dictionary (1976) (0)
HEBREW AT JOB I. 18 AND NEH. VII. 3 (1982) (0)
The Word Became Flesh (1956) (0)
Weinberg's "Hebrew Plene Spelling" (1986) (0)
Book Review: Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, Vol. II (1979) (0)
Book Reviews : Philo of Byblos (1982) (0)
Biblical Translation and the Church (1968) (0)
Book Review: Essays on Biblical Interpretation (1981) (0)
The Bible, History, and Apologetics (2000) (0)
Book Review: Taking the Cue from Bultmann (1965) (0)
THE ETYMOLOGY OF 'ΆNΘPΩΠOΣ A SUGGESTION (2005) (0)
Book Reviews : Göttingen Numbers (1982) (0)
Jewish Religious Polemic . By Oliver S. Rankin. Edinburgh University Press, 1956. Pp. 256. 18s. (1956) (0)
Book Review: New Testament Interpretation (1978) (0)
Science; Language; Parable; Scripture (1994) (0)
Book Reviews : The Greek Tobit (1985) (0)
Natural Theology in the Jewish Tradition (1994) (0)
Exploring the diagnostic potential of differential protein profiling in TSE disease (2009) (0)
The History of Israel (2000) (0)
Book Review: What About the New Testament? (1975) (0)
Mowinckel, the old testament, and the question of natural theology: The second Mowinckel lecture ‐ Oslo, 27 November 1987 (1988) (0)
A data driven methodology for the determination of novel protein biomarkers in BSE (2010) (0)

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