Clines served as president of the
Society of Biblical Literature in 2009.[2] Together with
David M. Gunn, Clines made the University of Sheffield a pioneer in literary readings of the
final form of the biblical text. Followers of this approach are sometimes referred to as the "
Sheffield school".[3]
In 2015, Clines was awarded the
Burkitt Medal by the
British Academy "in recognition of his significant contribution to the study of the Hebrew Bible and Hebrew lexicography".[6]
Selected works
Books
Clines, David J. A. (1978). The Theme of the Pentateuch. JSOT Supplements. Vol. 10. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
——— (1984). The Esther Scroll: the story of the story. Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series. Vol. 30. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
ISBN9780567157133.
OCLC276358541.
——— (1984). Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther: based on the Revised Standard Version. New Century Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI & London: Eerdmans & Marshall, Morgan & Scott.
ISBN9780802800176.
OCLC11113882.
——— (1990). What Does Eve Do to Help? - and Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament. JSOT Supplements. Vol. 94. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
——— (1993–2016). The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, 9 vols. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
——— (1995). Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Old Testament. JSOT Supplements. Vol. 205. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
——— (1998). On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays, 1967–1998 (2 vols.). JSOT Supplements. Vol. 268. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
ISBN1-8507-5901-4.
———;
Gunn, D. M.;
Hauser, Alan J., eds. (1982). Art and meaning: rhetoric in Biblical literature. Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series. Vol. 19. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
ISBN9780567405241.
OCLC276307111.
———;
Sawyer, John F. A., eds. (1983). Midian, Moab, and Edom: the history and archaeology of late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and north-west Arabia. Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series. Vol. 24. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
ISBN9780567174451.
OCLC276783694.
———;
Fowl, Stephen E.;
Porter, Stanley E., eds. (1990). The Bible in Three Dimensions: essays in celebration of forty years of biblical studies in the University of Sheffield. Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series. Vol. 87. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
ISBN9780567540379.
OCLC276307035.
Chapters
——— (1982). "The Arguments of Job's Three Friends". In ———;
Gunn, D. M.;
Hauser, Alan J. (eds.). Art and meaning: rhetoric in Biblical literature. Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series. Vol. 19. Sheffield: JSOT Press. pp. 266–.
ISBN9780567405241.
OCLC276307111.
——— (1989). "The Wisdom Books". In
Biggar, Stephen (ed.). Creating The Old Testament: The Emergence of the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp. 384–.
ISBN0631162496.
——— (2015). "Predestination in the Old Testament". In Pinnock, Clark H. (ed.). Grace for all : the Arminian dynamics of salvation. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications.
——— (1981). "Job 5:1-8: A New Exegesis". Biblica. 62: 185–94.
Festschriften
Exum, J. Cheryl;
Williamson, Hugh G. M., eds. (2003). Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of David J. A. Clines. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement series. Vol. 373. London & New York: Sheffield Academic Press.
ISBN9780567459992.
OCLC276841809.
Aitken, James K.; Clines, Jeremy M.S.; Maier, Christl M., eds. (2013). Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J. A. Clines. Atlanta: SBL Press.
ISBN9781589839243.
OCLC864141377.
^David J. A. Clines, Stephen E. Fowl, and
Stanley E. Porter, "
Preface," in The Bible in Three Dimensions: Essays in Celebration of Forty Years of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield, p. 14.
Lightner, Robert Paul (1995). Handbook of Evangelical Theology: A historical, Biblical, and contemporary survey and review. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications.