Robert P. Gordon
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Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Patterson Gordon is a British scholar who was the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to 2012. Early life Gordon was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied at Methodist College Belfast and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where as an undergraduate, Gordon placed in the first class of the Oriental Studies Tripos. In 1973 he earned a PhD at the University of Cambridge with a thesis entitled A Study of Targum Jonathan to the Minor Prophets from Nahum to Malachi, under the supervision of Professor J.A. Emerton. In 2001 he was awarded the University of Cambridge’s Litt.D.
Robert P. Gordon's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Economic Problem in Biblical and Patristic Thought (1989) (36)
- The Targum of the Minor Prophets (1989) (33)
- "The place is too small for us" : the Israelite prophets in recent scholarship (1995) (28)
- 1 & 2 Samuel: A Commentary (1989) (27)
- On Humour and the Comic in the Hebrew Bible (1990) (27)
- Wisdom in ancient Israel : essays in honour of J.A. Emerton (1995) (24)
- The Tiqqune Sopherim and Other Theological Corrections in the Masoretic Text of the Old Testament (1982) (21)
- 1 and 2 Samuel. An Introduction and Commentary (1991) (19)
- Women Recounted, Narrative Thinking and the God of Israel (1984) (16)
- The First Book of Samuel: A Literary Study of Comparative Structures, Analogies and Parallels (in Hebrew) (1984) (16)
- Wisdom in ancient Israel (1995) (15)
- The God of Israel (2007) (11)
- Amos and wisdom (1995) (10)
- Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela. Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period. (2013) (9)
- Amos of Israel. A New Interpretation (1992) (8)
- Wisdom in ancient Israel: Wisdom at Qumran (1995) (7)
- Studies in the Targum to the Twelve Prophets (1996) (6)
- psychiatry under siege: ATTACKS FROM WITHOUT (1973) (6)
- Wisdom in ancient Israel: A house divided: wisdom in Old Testament narrative traditions (1995) (5)
- Targumic Parallels To Acts Xii 18 and Didache Xiv 3 (1974) (5)
- I & II Samuel: A Commentary (1999) (5)
- The Second Septuagint Account of Jeroboam: History or Midrash? 1) (1975) (5)
- Gibeonite Ruse and Israelite Curse in Joshua 9 (2003) (4)
- Saul's Meningitis According To Targum 1 Samuel Xix 24 (1987) (4)
- The Targum of the Minor Prophets. Translated with a Critical Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes (1989) (4)
- A Guide to Isaiah 1-39 (1986) (3)
- Holy Land, Holy City: Sacred Geography and the Interpretation of the Bible (2004) (3)
- The Books of Amos and Hosea (1994) (3)
- Pastoral Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible and in its Ancient Near Eastern Context (2005) (3)
- 1 and 2 Samuel (1984) (3)
- 1 and 2 Samuel (1984) (3)
- Loricate Locusts in the Targum To Nahum Iii 17 and Revelation Ix 9 (1983) (3)
- Targum Onkelos to Genesis 49:4 and a Common Semitic Idiom (1976) (2)
- The variable wisdom of Abel: the MT and versions at 2 Samuel XX 18-19 (1993) (2)
- Genesis 1-11: Studies in Structure and Theme. By Patrick D. Miller, Jr. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 8. (University of Sheffield. 1978. 50 pp. £1.25.) (1979) (2)
- Compositeness, Conflation and the Pentateuch (1991) (2)
- The Books of Ruth, Esther, Ecclesiastes, The Song of Songs, Lamentations . By Wesley J. Fuerst. (The Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible.) Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. x + 267. £6.90. (1977) (2)
- Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah : an introduction and commentary (1991) (2)
- Hearing and Speaking the Word. Selections from the Works of James Muilenburg (1986) (2)
- The Gods Must Die: A Theme In Isaiah And Beyond (2010) (2)
- Micah, Nahum, Obadiah (1991) (2)
- Inscribed Pots and Zechariah Xiv 20-1 (1992) (2)
- An Inner-Targum Corruption (Zech. I 8) (1975) (2)
- SIMPLICITY OF THE HIGHEST CUNNING : NARRATIVE ART IN THE OLD TESTAMENT * The Finlayson Lecture for 1986 (2012) (2)
- Wisdom in ancient Israel: Contents (1995) (1)
- Hebrew Bible and Ancient Versions: Selected Essays of Robert P. Gordon (2006) (1)
- God's People in Crisis. Amos and Lamentations (1987) (1)
- Announcement of Plot in Genesis (1992) (1)
- Sperber's Edition of the Targum to the Prophets: A Critique (1974) (1)
- Concordance of the First Targum to the Book of Esther (1984) (1)
- SCARCITY, FAITH AND WISDOM (1989) (1)
- 'Converse Translation' in the Targums and Beyond (1999) (1)
- Isaiah 1-33 by John D. W. Watts (Word Biblical Commentary 24. Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1985. lviii, 450 pp. £10.50/Isaiah 34-66 by John D. W. Watts (Word Biblical Commentary 25. Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1987. xxxiii, 386 pp. (1988) (1)
- OBSERVANCE OF THE LAW (1989) (1)
- 1 & 2 Samuel (1986) (1)
- Where Have All the Prophets Gone? The "Disappearing" Israelite Prophet Against the Background of Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (1995) (1)
- A reading in 4QSama and the murder of Abner (1998) (1)
- History of the Bible in English (formerly The English Bible). By F. F. Bruce (Guildford and London: Lutterworth Press 1979. xiii, 274 pp. £2•95 paperback.) (1980) (0)
- “We Do not See our Signs” (Psalm 74:9): Signs, Prophets, Oracles, and the Asaphite Psalter (2015) (0)
- I and II Samuel: A Commentary (1986) (0)
- Wisdom in ancient Israel: Introduction (1995) (0)
- ON PILGRIMAGE WITH AUGUSTINE (1989) (0)
- Wisdom in ancient Israel: Bibliography of the works of John Adney Emerton (1995) (0)
- Theme of the Pentateuch David. A. Clines Journal for the Study of the Old statement Applement Series, 10. University of Sheffield. 1978. 152 pp. papper. £5·95; cloth, £10·70.) (1980) (0)
- Chapter Five: Tg Habakkuk and the Habakkuk Pesher (1994) (0)
- Book Reviews : P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., I Samuel: A New Translation with Introduction, Notes and Commentary the Anchor Bible, 8). New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. Pp.xxii + 476. Cloth, $14.00 (1982) (0)
- Chapter Two: Historical Allusions in Tg Twelve Prophets (1994) (0)
- SCEPTICISM AND APOCALYPTIC (1989) (0)
- Review: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2002) (0)
- Chapter One: The Targum to the Latter Prophets in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1994) (0)
- Prophetic interpretation in the Septuagint (1979) (0)
- A Battle of Wits and Words: Hushai, Ahithophel and the Absalom Rebellion (2 Samuel 16–17) (2014) (0)
- Chapter Six: Sperber’s ‘Addmonal Targum’ to Zechariah 2:14-15: Studying a Targumic Cento (1994) (0)
- Israel in the Books of Chronicles . By H. G. M. Williamson. Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 170. £7.50. (1979) (0)
- Chapter Three: The Hebrew VORLAGE of Tg Twelve Prophets (1994) (0)
- A Word in Season. Essays in Honour of William McKane Edited by James D. Martin and Philip R. Davies (JSOTS 42. University of Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1986. xii, 266 pp. £25.00) (1988) (0)
- Leviticus: An Introduction and Commentary By R. K. Harrison Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1980. 253pp. £4.50 (hardback); £3.95 (paperback)) (1982) (0)
- The Citation of the Targums in Recent English Bible Translations (RSV, JB, NEB) (1975) (0)
- CHARITY AND COMMUNISM (1989) (0)
- The gladius hispaniensis and Aramaic 'ispaniqe (1985) (0)
- INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSLATION (2019) (0)
- FOURTH CENTURY WATERSHEDS (1989) (0)
- Targumic Dy (Zechariah Xiv 6) and the Not So Common "Cold" (1989) (0)
- Wisdom in ancient Israel: Biographical note: John Adney Emerton (1995) (0)
- The Book of Leviticus. By G. J. Wenham. (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans. 1979. xiii, 362pp. $9.95.) (1981) (0)
- Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School (1974) (0)
- INNER-SYRIAC CORRUPTIONS1 (1971) (0)
- Who “Began to Call on the Name of the Lord” in Genesis 4:26b?: . The MT and the Versions (2012) (0)
- Chapter Seven: The Haggadah in Tg Zechariah 3: 1-5 (1994) (0)
- 1 & 2 Chronicles According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation (2019) (0)
- Chapter Four: An Incipit Formula in Tg Prophets (1994) (0)
- The Meaning of the Verb Šwy in the Targum To 1 Samuel V-Vi (1992) (0)
- Les Actes des Prophetes (1988) (0)
- Word-Play and Verse-Order in 1 Samuel Xxiv 5-81 (1990) (0)
- Chapter Eleven: Summary and Prospectus (1994) (0)
- “Couch” or “Crouch”? Genesis 4:7 and the Temptation of Cain (2011) (0)
- DISCIPLESHIP, DISINVESTMENT AND DEPENDENCE (1989) (0)
- Index of Other Sources (1994) (0)
- R. P. GORDON, The Targumists as eschatologists (1978) (0)
- A History of the Brethren Movement. Second (paperback) edition. By F. Roy Coad. London, Paternoster Press, 1976. Pp. 336. £2.40. (1979) (0)
- The Book of Judges . By James D. Martin. (The Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible.) Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. x + 234. £6.00. (1977) (0)
- Ancient Israel. A Short History from Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple edited by Hershel Shanks (London: SPCK, 1989. xx, 267 pp. £12.95) (1991) (0)
- Micah Vii 19 and Akkadian Kabāsu (1978) (0)
- La sagesse de I'Ancien Testament. New edition prepared by Maurice Gilbert. Pp. 455. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 51.) Leuven University Press/Peeters, 1990. Paper FB1500. (1991) (0)
- From Babylon to Bethlehem. By H. L. Ellison. Exeter, Paternoster Press, 1976. Pp. viii, 136. £1·80. (1977) (0)
- Chapter Ten: The Redaction of Tg Prophets (1994) (0)
- Wisdom in ancient Israel: Principal biblical and apocryphal references (1995) (0)
- THE SOLUTION BY MEDIATION (1989) (0)
- Songs of the Servant . By Henri Blocher. London, Inter-Varsity Press, 1975. Pp. 79. 80p. (1976) (0)
- Obadiah, Jonah and Micah: An Introduction and Commentary (2009) (0)
- Isaiah Liii 2 (1970) (0)
- The Gladi Us Hispaniensis and Aramaic ¸Ispānîqê (1985) (0)
- STOICISM AND AGRICULTURE (1989) (0)
- The Sense of Biblical Narrative: Three Structural Analyses in the Old Testament. By David Jobling. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 7. (University of Sheffield. 1978. 102 pp. paper, £3.00; cloth, £6.85.) (1979) (0)
- W.J. DOORLY, Prophet of Love: Understanding the Book of Hosea. iv + 138 pp. Paulist Press, New York and Mahwah, 1991. $8.95. (1996) (0)
- JERUSALEM, ROME, AND ALEXANDRIA (1989) (0)
- S. GELANDER, David and His God. Religious Ideas as Reflected in Biblical Historiography and Literature. Jerusalem Biblical Studies 5. 194 + 12 (Hebrew) pp. Simor Ltd., Jerusalem, 1991. $24. (1996) (0)
- DIALOGUE AND DISPUTATION IN THE TARGUM TO THE PROPHETS (1994) (0)
- Leshon Limmudim : essays on the language and literature of the Hebrew Bible in honour of A.A. Macintosh (2013) (0)
- From Moses to Patmos: New Perspectives in Old Testament Study . By John F. A. Sawyer. London. S.P.C.K., 1977. Pp. ix + 150. £3·50. (1979) (0)
- Chapter Nine: The Land and the Shekinah in Tg Twelve Prophets (1994) (0)
- 'Isaiah's Wild Measure': R. M. McCheyne (1992) (0)
- Chapter Eight: Targum and Peshitṭa in the Twelve Prophets (1994) (0)
- Melbourne Symposium on Septuagint Lexicography (1994) (0)
- THE KINGDOM AND THE HOUSEHOLD (1989) (0)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls; Qumran in Perspective . By Geza Vermes. London, Collins, 1977. Pp. 238. £4.00. (1979) (0)
- The Book of Amos (Hebrew) (1992) (0)
- Index of Scripture References (1994) (0)
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