John Emerton
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Adney Emerton, was a British Anglican priest, theologian, and academic. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1995. Early life and education Emerton was born on 5 June 1928. He studied theology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. From 1950 to 1952, he trained for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. His BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree in 1954. The following year, in 1955, the University of Cambridge also granted him MA status.
John Emerton's Published Works
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Published Works
- Genesis 1-15 (1987) (198)
- Lingering over Words: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William L. Moran (1993) (58)
- Psalms 60-150: A Commentary (1990) (58)
- Ezekiel, 1-20 (1983) (55)
- THE ORIGIN OF THE SON OF MAN IMAGERY (1958) (42)
- The Wisdom of Ben Sira (1992) (42)
- DID EZRA GO TO JERUSALEM IN 428 B.C. (1966) (38)
- Paradoxes of Paradise. Identity and Difference in the Song of Songs (1985) (36)
- Ezekiel 20-48 (1990) (32)
- Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis (1988) (32)
- The Bible and the Reader. An Introduction to Literary Criticism (1987) (30)
- The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volume 1: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments (1983) (26)
- Ezekiel 1-19 (1988) (25)
- The Workings of Old Testament Narrative (1985) (25)
- Monotheism and the Prophetic Minority: An Essay in Biblical History and Sociology (1984) (23)
- New Light on Israelite Religion: The Implications of the Inscriptions from Kuntillet ‛Ajrud (1982) (23)
- Art and meaning : rhetoric in Biblical literature (1984) (22)
- The historical background of Isaiah 1:4-9 (1993) (22)
- Biblical and Related Studies Presented to Samuel Iwry (1987) (21)
- Leviathan and Ltn: the Vocalization of the Ugaritic Word for the Dragon (1982) (19)
- Traditional Sayings in the Old Testament: A Contextual Study (1984) (19)
- The JPS Torah Commentary: Numbers. The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPS Translation (1990) (19)
- The Word of the Lord Shall Go Forth. Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration of His Sixtieth Birthday (1987) (16)
- An Exodus Scroll from Qumran: 4QpaleoExodm and the Samaritan Tradition (1987) (16)
- The Cultural Factor in Bible Translation (1988) (15)
- Studies in the historical books of the Old Testament (1979) (15)
- SOME LINGUISTIC AND HISTORICAL PROBLEMS IN ISAIAH VIII. 23 (1969) (14)
- The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha 2 Expansions of the "Old Testament" and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works (1986) (14)
- Genesis 1-3 in the History of Exegesis. Intrigue in the Garden (1992) (13)
- NOTES ON SOME PASSAGES IN THE BOOK OF PROVERBS (1969) (13)
- UNCLEAN BIRDS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE PESHITTA (1962) (13)
- Hebrew Language (2000) (13)
- "YAHWEH AND HIS ASHERAH": THE GODDESS OR HER SYMBOL? (1999) (12)
- Yhwh's Combat with the Sea. A Canaanite Tradition in the Religion of Ancient Israel (1990) (12)
- An Examination of Some Attempts To Defend the Unity of the Flood Narrative in Genesis (1987) (11)
- A Tribute to Geza Vermes : essays on Jewish and Christian literature and history (1993) (11)
- Wisdom and the Book of Proverbs : a Hebrew goddess redefined (1987) (10)
- The Greek text of Ezekiel : an examination of its homogeneity (1987) (10)
- THE PRIESTLY WRITER IN GENESIS (1988) (10)
- Saga, legend, tale, novella, fable : narrative forms in Old Testament literature (1986) (10)
- Isaiah 1-12. A Commentary (1992) (10)
- The Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll (11QpaleoLev) (1986) (10)
- The Early Biblical Period: Historical Studies (1988) (9)
- THE PROBLEM OF VERNACULAR HEBREW IN THE FIRST CENTURY A. D. AND THE LANGUAGE OF JESUS1 (1973) (9)
- Gregory Thaumaturgos' Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes (1993) (9)
- Some Problems in Genesis Xxxviii 1) (1975) (9)
- Some False Clues in the Study of Genesis Xiv (1971) (9)
- The Biblical High Place in the Light of Recent Study (1997) (9)
- Joshua, Judges, Ruth (1977) (8)
- Targum Onkelos to Exodus: An English Translation of the Text with Analysis and Commentary (1993) (8)
- The Emergence of Israel in Historical Perspective (1988) (8)
- Congress volume : Vienna, 1980 (1981) (8)
- Congress volume : Leuven, 1989 (1991) (7)
- The Riddle of Genesis XIV 1) (1971) (7)
- Temple Scroll Studies (1990) (7)
- Congress volume : Jerusalem, 1986 (1988) (7)
- The Origin of the Promises To the Patriarchs in the Older Sources of the Book of Genesis 1) (1982) (7)
- Studies in the Pentateuch (1990) (7)
- Studies in the Period of David and Solomon and Other Essays (1984) (7)
- Some Problems in Genesis XIV (1990) (6)
- The Site of Salem, the City of Melchizedek (Genesis XIV 18) (1990) (6)
- "The High Places of the Gates" in 2 Kings Xxiii 81 (1994) (6)
- The Early Alphabet. Reading the past (1991) (6)
- THE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE FISHES IN JOHN XXI. 11 (1958) (6)
- Micah : a commentary (1992) (6)
- GIDEON AND JERUBBAAL1 (1976) (6)
- SOME NEW TESTAMENT NOTES (1960) (5)
- Studies in the Religion of Ancient Israel (1972) (5)
- The Riddle of Genesis XIV (2007) (5)
- Studies in Hebrew Historical Linguistics Based on Origen's Secunda (1984) (5)
- Qedem 30 (1990): Excavations at the City of David 1978-1985 Directed by Yigal Shiloh II (1992) (5)
- The Riddle of Genesis XIV (2007) (5)
- Biblical Archaeology Today. Proceedings of the International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, April 1984 (1986) (5)
- The Book of Enoch or I Enoch. A New English Edition (1986) (5)
- Judah and Tamar 1) (1979) (5)
- BINDING AND LOOSING—FORGIVING AND RETAINING (1962) (5)
- Congress volume : Cambridge, 1995 (1997) (5)
- Studies in Papyrus Amherst 63. Essays on the Aramaic Texts in Aramaic/Demotic Papyrus Amherst 63 (1988) (5)
- New Evidence for the Use of Waw Consecutive in Aramaic1 (1994) (5)
- DID JESUS SPEAK HEBREW (1961) (4)
- SOME PROBLEMS OF TEXT AND LANGUAGE IN THE ODES OF SOLOMON (1967) (4)
- The Samaritan Targum of the Pentateuch: A Critical Edition 3 (1984) (4)
- HOW DOES THE LORD REGARD THE DEATH OF HIS SAINTS IN PSALM Cxvi. 15 (1983) (4)
- Commentaries on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah (1960) (4)
- Congress Volume Göttingen 1977 (1978) (4)
- Lines 25-6 of the Moabite stone and a recently-discovered inscription (2005) (4)
- MELCHIZEDEK AND THE GODS: FRESH EVIDENCE FOR THE JEWISH BACKGROUND OF JOHN X. 34–36 (1966) (4)
- J. A. EMERTON, Spring and Torrent in Psalm lxxiv 15 (1966) (4)
- THE TEXTUAL AND LINGUISTIC PROBLEMS OF HABAKKUK II. 4–5 (1977) (4)
- PRIESTS AND LEVITES IN DEUTERONOMY an examination of Dr. G. E. WRIGHT'S theory (1962) (4)
- An Examination of a Recent Structuralist Interpretation of Genesis Xxxviii (1976) (4)
- Excavations at Tel Lachish 1978-1983. Second Preliminary Report (1986) (4)
- COMPARATIVE SEMITIC PHILOLOGY AND HEBREW LEXICOGRAPHY (1997) (3)
- An Aramaic Bibliography I: Old, Official, and Biblical Aramaic (1993) (3)
- Proverbs: A New Approach. By W. McKane Pp. xxii+670. (The Old Testament Library.) London: S.C.M. Press, 1970. £5 (1975) (3)
- Congress volume : Paris, 1992 (1995) (3)
- Congress volume : Salamanca, 1983 (1985) (3)
- Sheol and the Sons of Belial (1987) (3)
- Water in the wilderness : a biblical motif and its mythological background (1992) (3)
- Published Material from the Cambridge Genizah Collections: A Bibliography 1896-1980 (1990) (3)
- THE SYNTACTICAL PROBLEM OF PSALM XLV. 7 (1968) (3)
- THE PURPOSE OF THE SECOND COLUMN OF THE HEXAPLA (1956) (3)
- Vocalised Talmudic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections 1: Taylor-Schechter Old Series (1990) (3)
- The Translation of Isaiah 5,1 (1992) (3)
- Prophecy : essays presented to Georg Fohrer on his sixty-fifth birthday, 6 September 1980 (1980) (3)
- Interpreting the Hebrew Bible : essays in honour of E.I.J. Rosenthal ... (1982) (2)
- A CONSIDERATION OF SOME ALLEGED MEANINGS OF IN HEBREW (1970) (2)
- NOTES ON SOME PASSAGES IN THE ODES OF SOLOMON (1977) (2)
- A NOTE ON PROVERBS II. 18 (1979) (2)
- «Had God Not Been on My Side»: An Examination of the Narrative Technique of the Story of Jacob and Laban Genesis, 29,1 - 32,2 (1990) (2)
- The First Targum to Esther According to the MS Paris Hebrew 110 of the Bibliotheque [sic] Nationale (1985) (2)
- Alexander Geddes 1737-1802: A Pioneer of Biblical Criticism (1985) (2)
- The Old Testament in Syriac According to the Peshitta Version III. 3: Ezekiel (1987) (2)
- The “Mountain of God” in Psalm 68:16 (1993) (2)
- A Textual Problem in Isaiah 25 2 (1977) (2)
- Cults of the Dead in Ancient Israel (1991) (2)
- THE PROBLEM OF PSALM LXXXVII (2000) (2)
- A FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THE PURPOSE OF THE SECOND COLUMN OF THE HEXAPLA (1971) (1)
- A NOTE ON THE HEBREW TEXT OF PROVERBS i. 22–3 (1968) (1)
- A Note On Isaiah Xxxv 9-10 (1977) (1)
- The Meaning of sena' in Psalm CXXVII (1974) (1)
- The Interpretation of Proverbs 21,28 (1988) (1)
- Studies on Prophecy (1974) (1)
- The Meaning of Šēnă¸in Psalm Cxxvii 21) (1974) (1)
- TREADING THE BOW (2003) (1)
- Old Testament Scholarship and the Church—A Century After Colenso (1962) (1)
- Notes On the Text and Translation of Isaiah XXII 8-11 and LXV 5 (1980) (1)
- A PROBLEM IN THE HEBREW TEXT OF JEREMIAH VI. 23 AND L. 42 (1972) (1)
- THE TRANSLATION OF PSALM LXIV. 4 (1976) (1)
- Anejo a la edicion facsimile de la Biblia Poliglota Complutense (1988) (1)
- THE TRANSLATION OF THE VERBS IN THE IMPERFECT IN PSALM II. 9 (1978) (1)
- Book Review: Jesus and the Zealots (1967) (1)
- The Goddess Anath: Canaanite Epics of the Patriarchal Age. Texts, Hebrew Translation, Commentary and Introduction. By U. Cassuto Translated by I. Abrahams Pp. xii+194; 9 plates. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1971. £4.20 (1975) (1)
- A Neglected Solution of a Problem in Psalm Lxxvi 11 (1974) (1)
- Were the Lachish Letters Sent to or from Lachish? (2001) (1)
- Notes on two verses in Isaiah (2616 and 6617) (1980) (1)
- How Many Months are Mentioned in the Gezer Calendar (1999) (1)
- The Source Analysis of Genesis Xi 27-32 (1992) (1)
- The Writings-Kethubim (1984) (1)
- The Quest for the Kingdom of God: Studies in Honor of George E. Mendenhall (1984) (1)
- The meaning of the verb ḥāmas in Jeremiah 13,22 (1989) (1)
- TO AIMA MOγ THΣ ΔIAΘHKHΣ: THE EVIDENCE OF THE SYRIAC VERSIONS (1962) (0)
- Congress Volume Vienne 1980 (1981) (0)
- MARANATHA AND EPHPHATHA (1967) (0)
- A note on two words in 4Q393 (1996) (0)
- A DIFFICULT PART OF MOT'S MESSAGE TO BAAL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS (2010) (0)
- Gods and Heroes: Canaanite Epics from Ugarit (Including Some Epics Never before Published in Hebrew) (1988) (0)
- Flavius Josephe I: Les Antiquites Juives Livres I a III. Introduction et texte, II: Traduction et notes (1991) (0)
- A letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.B., &c., &c., on the defects of the public schools, and the remedy (0)
- List of Professor Georg Fohrer’s Publications (1980) (0)
- Hebrew Union College Annual 55 (1984) (1986) (0)
- Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic)@@@Dictionary of Old South Arabic: Sabaean Dialect (1984) (0)
- A TEXTUAL PROBLEM IN ISAIAH XXX. 5 (1981) (0)
- Ministerium Verbi Divini (1954) (0)
- Book Review: Genesis (1961) (0)
- Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute 8 (1982), and 9 (1983) (1984) (0)
- Book Review: Where Judaism Differed (1957) (0)
- Index Of Biblical References (1974) (0)
- The Contribution by Graham Davies to Old Testament Studies (2011) (0)
- Biblia Polyglotta Matritensia IV: Targum Palaestinense in Pentateuchum 1: Genesis (1989) (0)
- An Anthology of Religious Texts from Ugarit@@@A Cuneiform Anthology of Religious Texts from Ugarit. Autographed Texts and Glossaries (1991) (0)
- Studies on the Language and Literature of the Bible: Selected Works of J.A. Emerton (2014) (0)
- DAVID WINTON THOMAS (1970) (0)
- Studies in the Patriarchal Narratives . By William McKane. Pp. x + 262. Handsel Press, 1979. £5.50. (1981) (0)
- Congress Volume, Jerusalem 1986 (1991) (0)
- Indexes: Authors Cited (1990) (0)
- THE MEANING OF THE ROOT “MZL” IN UGARITIC (1969) (0)
- The Work of David Winton Thomas as a Hebrew Scholar1 (1991) (0)
- Hebrew Union College Annual 59 (1988) (1991) (0)
- The Printed Editions of the Song of Songs in the Peshitta Version (1967) (0)
- Proverbs . Wisdom of Solomon . Qoheleth . Song of Songs (1979) (0)
- Book Reviews (1981) (0)
- Empirical Modes of Biblical Criticism (1987) (0)
- A Further Consideration of D. W. Thomas's Theories About Yāda (1991) (0)
- Abraham and Damascus in Some Greek and Latin Texts of the Hellenistic Period (2008) (0)
- A List of G. R. Driver's Publications Since 1962 (1980) (0)
- WERE GREEK TRANSLITERATIONS OF THE HEBREW OLD TESTAMENT USED BY JEWS BEFORE THE TIME OF ORIGEN (1970) (0)
- A QUESTIONABLE THEORY OF EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE ON A GENRE OF HEBREW LITERATURE (2005) (0)
- MARK XIV. 24 AND THE TARGUM TO THE PSALTER (1964) (0)
- THE MEANING OF PROVERBS XIII. 2 (1984) (0)
- Prize essay, on the great impportance of an improved system of education for the upper and middle classes (0)
- The Scholarship of W. F. Albright: An Appraisal (1992) (0)
- Book Review: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Originality of Christ. By Geoffrey Graystone. Sheed and Ward. 8s. 6d; Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls. H. J. Schonfield. Vallentine, Mitchell. 21s (1957) (0)
- Commentaries on the Wisdom of Solomon (1965) (0)
- Commentaries on Exodus (1963) (0)
- Amos, a Classified Bibliography (1986) (0)
- A Problem in the Odes of Solomon XXIII. 20 (1981) (0)
- Numeri II and III (1991) (0)
- Nahum Habakuk Zephanja (1992) (0)
- Avant Abraham (Genese I-XI) (1987) (0)
- Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute 10 (1985) (0)
- William McKane (1921–2004) in memoriam (2007) (0)
- The Text of Psalm LXXVII111 (1994) (0)
- Was there an epicene pronoun HU' in early Hebrew? (2000) (0)
- The Textual Problems of Isaiah V 14 (1967) (0)
- Hebrew Union College Annual 53 (1982) (1984) (0)
- Profeten en profetische geschriften (1989) (0)
- Hebrew Union College Annual 60 (1989) (1991) (0)
- Book Review: A Commentary on I Maccabees. By J. C. Dancy. Basil Blackwell. 18s; An Introduction to the old Testament. By E. J. Young. Tyndale Press. 18s. 6d (1954) (0)
- Old Testament Studies in Honour of (1980) (0)
- The World of Qumran from within. Collected Papers (1992) (0)
- NOTES ON THREE PASSAGES IN PSALMS BOOK III (1963) (0)
- Godfrey Rolles Driver (1975) (0)
- Old Testament Studies Dedicated To G. W. Anderson (1982) (0)
- Isaiah 1-33 and Isaiah 33-66 (1988) (0)
- A FURTHER NOTE ON ISAIAH XXX. 51 (1982) (0)
- Hebrew Union College Annual 54 (1983) (1985) (0)
- Book Review: Jewish Ethics. By Israel Mattuck. Hutchinson's University Library. 8s.6d; The Book of Job. By Anthony and Miriam Hanson. S.C.M. Press. 7s. 6d (1953) (0)
- Book Review: The Scrolls and the New Testament. Edited by Krister Stendahl. S.C.M. Press. 35s; The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament. By H. H. Rowley. S.P.C.K. 2s. (1958) (0)
- Notes on Jeremiah 12 9 and on some suggestions of J. D. Michaelis about the Hebrew words naḥā, ‘abrā, and ja jadă‘ (1969) (0)
- The Traditional Prayer in the Psalms / Literarische Studien zur Josephsgeschichte (1986) (0)
- Essays in Honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (2012) (0)
- Le Livre des Proverbes: Notes philologiques. By W. A. van der Weiden. Pp. 178. (Biblica et Orientalia, 23.) Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1970. $4.00; L. 2,400 (1974) (0)
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