Philip R. Davies

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Philip R. Davies

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According to Wikipedia, Philip R. Davies was a British biblical scholar. He was Professor Emeritus of biblical studies at the University of Sheffield, England. In the late 1990s, he was the Director for the Centre for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was also the publisher and editorial director of Sheffield Academic Press. He was the author of books and articles on ancient Israelite history and religion, including Scribes and Schools in the Library of Ancient Israel. Davies promoted the theory of cultural memory. He and David Clines edited the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament and its Supplement Series.

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The Campbell Collaboration (2001) (207)
In Search of "Ancient Israel" (1992) (67)
Eschatology at Qumran (1985) (48)
Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures (1998) (46)
The Old Testament World (1989) (37)
Hasidim in the Maccabean Period (1977) (36)
Whose Bible Is It Anyway (1995) (35)
The origins of the ancient Israelite states (1996) (28)
The Ideology of the Temple in the Damascus Document (1982) (27)
The So-Called Therapeutae of De Vita Contemplativa: Identity and Character (1998) (26)
Commentary: How Not to Do Archaeology: The Story of Qumran (1988) (25)
What History Can We Get From The Scrolls, And How? (2010) (24)
Eschatology in the Book of Daniel (1980) (23)
Was the Siloam Tunnel Built by Hezekiah? (1996) (21)
The origins of biblical Israel (2007) (21)
Method and Madness: Some Remarks on Doing History with the Bible (1995) (20)
Memories of Ancient Israel: An Introduction to Biblical History--Ancient and Modern (2008) (20)
The Damascus Covenant: An Interpretation of the "Damascus Document" (1984) (19)
The World of Genesis : persons, places, perspectives (1998) (18)
Among the prophets : language, image and structure in the prophetic writings (1993) (17)
Geotechnical design for the Port Botany expansion project, Sydney (2011) (16)
Passover and the Dating of the Aqedah (1979) (14)
The historian and the Bible : essays in honour of Lester L. Grabbe (2010) (13)
Behind the Essenes: History and Ideology in the Dead Sea Scrolls (1987) (13)
The Pesharim and Qumran History: Chaos or Consensus? (2002) (13)
Sociology and policy science: just in time? (2004) (13)
The trouble with Benjamin (2007) (11)
A Tribute to Geza Vermes : essays on Jewish and Christian literature and history (1993) (11)
‘Kalos kagathos’ and Scholarly Perceptions of Spartan Society (2013) (11)
Political parties and the collapse of the old orders (1998) (11)
Second Temple Studies: 1. Persian Period (1993) (10)
American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr (2002) (10)
The Ending of Acts (1983) (9)
A Word in season : essays in honour of William McKane (1987) (8)
Rise again, fair knowledge (2002) (8)
Writing the Bible: Scribes, Scribalism and Script (2014) (8)
Imperialism and Jewish Society 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. (review) (2005) (8)
Sense and sensitivity : essays on reading the Bible in memory of Robert Carroll (2002) (8)
The Politics of Ezra: Sociological Indicators of Postexilic Judaean Society (1991) (7)
Priests, Prophets and Scribes: Essays on the Formation and Heritage of Second Temple Judaism in Honour of Joseph Blenkinsopp (1992) (7)
Iqm the War Scroll from Qumran: Its Structure and History (1977) (7)
Sects and scrolls : essays on Qumran and related topics (1996) (6)
DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND LIFE AFTER DEATH IN THE QUMRAN SCROLLS (2000) (6)
The Bible in human society : essays in honour of John Rogerson (1995) (5)
What separates a minimalist from a maximalist? Not much (2000) (5)
Josiah and the Law Book (2019) (5)
Between Text and Archaeology 1 (2011) (5)
Dualism and Eschatology in the Qumran War Scroll (1978) (5)
James in the Qumran Scrolls (1999) (4)
Empirical tests of asset pricing models (2007) (4)
The Scribal School of Daniel (2001) (4)
DANIEL CHAPTER TWO (1976) (4)
Utopias, Multiple Utopias, and Why Utopias at All? The Social Roles of Utopian Visions in Prophetic Books within Their Historical Context (2006) (4)
Copper Scroll Studies (2004) (4)
Cakes — Getting the Right Balance (1999) (4)
Reading the Bible Intelligently (2011) (3)
'Ancient Israel' and History (1997) (3)
On the Testimony of Women in 1QSa (1996) (3)
Ark or Ephod in 1 Sam. XIV. 18 (1975) (3)
Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures (2008) (3)
The Damascus Covenant (1984) (3)
Second temple studies (1991) (3)
THE JUDAISM(S) OF THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT (2000) (3)
Representing and Imagining America (1996) (3)
Biblical Israel in the Ninth Century (2007) (3)
Qumran and Apocalyptic or Obscurum per Obscurius (1990) (3)
On the Origins of Judaism (2014) (2)
What Does Hebrew Mean?1 (2011) (2)
"Old" And "New" Israel In The Bible And The Qumran Scrolls: Identity And Difference (2008) (2)
Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present Realities and Future Prospects. M. Wise , N. Golb , J. J. Collins , D. Pardee (1998) (2)
The History of Ancient Israel and Judah (2007) (2)
Pentateuchal Patterns: An Examination of C. J. Labuschagne's Theory (1984) (2)
Yours Faithfully: Virtual Letters from the Bible (2014) (2)
The intellectual, the archaeologist and the Bible (2001) (2)
History, archaeology and the Bible forty years after “historicity” (Changing perspectives, 6) (2018) (2)
Connecting people with progress: securing future economic development (2018) (2)
A new “biblical archaeology” (2016) (1)
What Makes a Text Historical?: Assumptions behind the Classification of Some Dead Sea Scrolls (2010) (1)
Biblical Studies: Fifty Years of a Multi-Discipline (2014) (1)
What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel (review) (2002) (1)
The prose writer (συγγραφευσ) and the cultures of author and scribes: the examples of galen and the anonymous author of Luke-Acts (2016) (1)
The PEF and the perils of neutrality: or standing in the middle of the road (2017) (1)
Dualism and Eschatology in 1QM: A Rejoinder (1980) (1)
The 'Nationalization' of the Jewish Canon (2010) (1)
Lester L. Grabbe, A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period: Volume 1, Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah (Library of Second Temple Studies 47). (2009) (1)
The Invention of Sacred Tradition: Spurious attribution in the Hebrew Bible (2007) (1)
The woman of their dreams. The image of Rebekah in Genesis 24 (1998) (1)
Equality and Distinction within the Spartiate Community (2017) (1)
Loose Canons: Reflections on the Formation of the Hebrew Bible (1997) (1)
The History of Ancient Israel and Judah (1987) (1)
"Age of Wickedness" or "End of Days"?: Qumran Scholarship in Prospect (1993) (1)
Studies in politics, class and material culture (2002) (1)
Saul, Hero and Villain (2013) (1)
Political Issues in America Today: The 1990s Revisited (1996) (1)
Who can join the 'Damascus Covenant' ? (1995) (1)
The Obama Administration: what can social science offer? (2009) (1)
Teaching the Bible as Philosophy (2014) (1)
EDITORIAL: KING SOLOMON'S MINES: BIRTH OF A LEGEND (2013) (1)
Seismic Design Approach for Large Counterfort Wall Retaining Structures (2011) (1)
Davies' "The Damascus Covenant" (1986) (1)
Potter, Prophet and People: Jeremiah 18 as Parable (1987) (1)
THE TORAH AT QUMRAN (2001) (1)
Rereading Oracles of God: Twenty Years After John Barton, Oracles of God: Perceptions of Prophecy in Israel after the Exile (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1986) (2009) (1)
Age and Ageism in the Hebrew Bible, in an Autobiographical Perspective (2002) (1)
Realia Dei: Essays in Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Edward F. Campbell, Jr at his Retirement (2000) (0)
Book Review (2008) (0)
Zion, City of Our God (2000) (0)
Booklist (1995) (0)
The literary structure of IQM (1973) (0)
Josephus, the Bible, and History. Edited by Louis H. Feldman and Gohei Hata. Pp. 473. Leiden: Brill, 1989. 150 Gld. (1991) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2014) (0)
Building a nation: The Jeroboams and the creation of two Israels (2019) (0)
Yours Faithfully: INTRODUCTION: IN PRAISE OF VIRTUAL LETTERS (2004) (0)
Book Reviews : Booklist (1982) (0)
Book Review: A New Bright: Richard D. Nelson, Historical Roots of the Old Testament (1200–63 BCE) (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (1995) (0)
To the End of the Cold War and After, 1956‚Äì95 (2004) (0)
Monotheism, History, and Divination (2012) (0)
Islamic, Rajput, European (1989) (0)
Book Review: The Birthplace of Israel (2007) (0)
The literary structure of 1QM (1973) (0)
To the authors of the bible (2004) (0)
Utopia in the Wilderness (2014) (0)
Book Review: Lo and Behold! (1991) (0)
Yours Faithfully: Letter to Bible Authors [Draft] (2004) (0)
Editorial (2010) (0)
Political Issues in America Today (1988) (0)
Prospects for the New US Administration: What can Social Science Offer? Debate (2010) (0)
Political Issues in America: The 1990s (1991) (0)
What is an editorial? (2017) (0)
Obama’s Electoral Record: The Emerging Democratic Majority? (2017) (0)
Book Review: Philosophical Investigations: Jaco Gericke, The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion (2013) (0)
The grinding reality of realpolitik: current and future directions in the UK, USA and Europe (2006) (0)
Michael L. Satlow, How the Bible Became Holy (2015) (0)
The Bible for the Curious: A Brief Encounter (2018) (0)
Book Review: The Wolf on the Fold Unfolded: Isaac Kalimi & Seth Richardson (eds), Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History and Historiography (2015) (0)
(chap. 4, “Expansions of Scripture”) finds Sanders basically correct if sometimes a bit imprecise—for example, in his use of the term “salvation.” (2013) (0)
The Qumran Texts: A New Study Edition (1988) (0)
Book Review: Reconstructing Old Testament Theology: After the Collapse of History (2008) (0)
Port geotechnics - what failures can teach us (2013) (0)
IF THE LORD'S ANOINTED HAD LIVED (2000) (0)
Violence and the Sacred (2014) (0)
Book Reviews : Esther (1992) (0)
Uncritical Criticism@@@In Search of Ancient Israel (1995) (0)
Book Review: The Lost Prophet (1989) (0)
Book Reviews : Evangelical Study of the Promise (2001) (0)
Booklist (1982) (0)
Shikai Bunsho Daihyakka (Japanese Edition) (2003) (0)
REVIEWS (2015) (0)
Yours Faithfully: Publius Philostratus to an Author (2004) (0)
‘Just the Facts, Ma’am!’: Reflections on the ESHM (2018) (0)
Book Reviews : Recent Books On Daniel (1979) (0)
Book Reviews : Who Wrote 'On the Jews'? (1997) (0)
A history of the squares and palaces of London : in two volumes (2012) (0)
Book Review: Wellhausen Updated: Reinhard G. Kratz, Historical & Biblical Israel: The History, Tradition, and Archives of Israel and Judah (2016) (0)
Out of the Archives: Oxford, the SPSL, and Literae Humaniores Refugee Scholars (2020) (0)
Sukkoth and the Passion Narratives (2017) (0)
Book Reviews: The God of Bethel (2009) (0)
Book Review: The Legacy of Israel: Daniel Fleming, The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible: History, Politics and the Reinscribing of Tradition (2014) (0)
SAWYER, J.F.A., Prophecy and the Biblical Prophets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, rev. edn, 1993), pp. xii + 180. Paper, n.p. ISBN0-19-826209-4 (1994) (0)
The History Atlas Of North America (1998) (0)
Book Reviews (1993) (0)
Book Reviews : Herod the Great (1997) (0)
I. Writing in the ancient world 2. Ilimilku of Ugarit: copyist or creator? (2016) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2015) (0)
Booklist (1985) (0)
Book Reviews : 2 Maccabees (1984) (0)
Book Reviews (1996) (0)
Booklist (1985) (0)
Miqra: Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (1992) (0)
Book Review Living Waters: Myth, History, and Politics of the Dead Sea Barbara Kreiger (1994) (0)
Beginning at the End (2008) (0)
Hypocrisy and the New Testament (2002) (0)
Cultural Memory in Practice: Ezra and Nehemiah (2018) (0)
REVIEWS (2015) (0)
Psalm 42-43 a Response to Ridderbos and Kessler (Jsot 1 (1976), 12-21) (1976) (0)
Book Review: Continuing the Search for ‘Ancient Israel’: Lester L. Grabbe (ed.), The Land of Canaan in the Bronze Age (2017) (0)
Writing the Bible: Contents (2013) (0)
Articles Noted (2002) (0)
A NOTE ON I MACC. III. 46 (1972) (0)
Behind the Essenes (2020) (0)
A New Kind of War, 1946‚Äì56 (2004) (0)
Origins and the First World War 1903‚Äì18 (2004) (0)
Book Reviews : The Pharisees Remembered (1986) (0)
Book List (1984) (0)
Book Reviews : The Use of Scripture in Cd (1995) (0)
Book Reviews : The Older Testament (1988) (0)
Dissonance and the Drama of Divine Sovereignty in the Book of Daniel. By Amy C. Merrill Willis. (2011) (0)
Fiona C. Black, The Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture, and the Space Between (Semeia Studies 51). (2010) (0)
The Bible: Utopian, Dystopian, or Neither? Or: Northrop Frye Meets Monty Python (2012) (0)
War Without and Within, 1939‚Äì45 (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (1994) (0)
The Textual Growth of the Damascus Document Revisited (2017) (0)
THE PREHISTORY OF THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY (1992) (0)
Book Reviews : 1 Enoch (1986) (0)
Dualism and Eschatology in 1Qm (1979) (0)
The End of Biblical Studies. By Hector Avalos. (2008) (0)
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State. By Hanan Eshel. (2009) (0)
Rethinking Biblical Scholarship: Changing Perspectives 4 (2013) (0)
The Inter-war Years, 1919‚Äì39 (2004) (0)
Writing the Bible: Introduction (2013) (0)
Book Review: Short, But To the Point? (2010) (0)
Book Review: Shifting Sands: The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology (2006) (0)
Ifor ap Glyn (2014) (0)
Book Reviews : B.E. THIERING, Redating the Teacher of Righteousness. Australian and New Zealand Studies in Theology and Religion, 1; Theological Explorations, Sydney. 1979. Pp.iii + 234. $ Aust. 8.20 (1980) (0)
From Moses to Abraham: Jewish Identities in the Second Temple Period (2011) (0)
The Lost Libraries of Early Judaism: Eva Mroczek, The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity (2017) (0)
CHARLESWORTH, J.H. (ed.), The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. I: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, Garden City: Doubleday, 1983. Pp. 1 + 995. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-385-09630-5 (1984) (0)
Redaction and Sect Arianism in the Qumran Scrolls (1992) (0)
CHAPTER 7 ORIGIN OF THE ISRAELITE NATION : SYNOPTIC SURVEY (2011) (0)
Book Review: Israel in Egypt (2000) (0)
Writing the Bible: Author index (2013) (0)
Booklist (1983) (0)
The History of Ancient Israel: A Guide for the Perplexed (2015) (0)
13 Passover and the Date of the Crucifixion (2016) (0)
Archie T. Wright, The Origin of Evil Spirits (WUNT 2 Reihe 198). (2010) (0)
Book Review: More from Mousaieff: Meir Lubetski & Edith Lubetski (eds), New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the Biblical World (2015) (0)
MIXED MARRIAGES Intermarriage and Group Identity in the Second Temple Period (2011) (0)
Holy Land as Homeland? Models for Constructing the Historic Landscapes of Jesus (2016) (0)
Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible. By Karel van der Toorn. (2009) (0)
Writing the Bible: Abbreviations (2013) (0)
Judaism When Christianity Began (2004) (0)
Book Reviews : Form, Sociology and Apocalyptic (1990) (0)
Historical Israel? (2009) (0)
The history and evolution of the constitution of the U.S.A. (1989) (0)
From Where Did Deuteronomy Originate? (2021) (0)
The Biblical Roots of Secularism (2016) (0)
Writing the Bible: Frontmatter (2013) (0)
Book Review: Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998) (0)
Book review: L’Écrit de Damas: Le manifeste essénien, written by David Hamidović (2014) (0)
Book Review: Messianism (2005) (0)
Booklist (1983) (0)
Canon and Politics (2015) (0)
The Ancient World (2007) (0)
Yours Faithfully: Jephthah's Daughter to her Father (2004) (0)
The "Prophets" as scriptural collection and scriptural prophecy during the second temple period (2016) (0)

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