Publications (to be updated)
Books
- The Semantics of Blessing and Cursing in Ancient Hebrew (Louvain: Peeters, 2007).
Note also:
G.I. Davies, assisted by J.K. Aitken, D.R. de Lacey, P.A. Smith & J. Squirrel, Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus and Concordance, vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Edited Books
- Challenges in Jewish-Christian Relations (edited with E. Kessler) (New York: Paulist Press, 2006).
- Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers (edited with T. Rajak, S. Pearce & J. Dines) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), forthcoming.
Articles
- `The Morphological and Orthographic Features in Greek Papyri and Inscriptions as related to the Septuagint', forthcoming.
- `Social Context in Biblical Lexicons', in T. Falla (ed.), Perspectives in Syriac Linguistics (ISLP; Gorgias Press, 2007).
- `Other Hebrew Lexicons: Zorell and Alonso Schoekel', in T. Falla (ed.), Perspectives in Syriac Linguistics (ISLP; Gorgias Press, 2007).
- ‘A lexical database of Septuagint Greek and its lexicographic possibilities’, in A. Thompson & B. Fraser (eds), Ancient Greek lexicography: Electronic Databanks and the design of new dictionaries (Cardiff: University Press of Wales), forthcoming.
- ‘The God of the pre-Maccabees: Designations of the divine in the early Hellenistic period’, in R.P. Gordon (ed.), The God of Israel (University of Cambridge Oriental publications, 64; Cambridge University Press, 2007), 246-66.
- 'Poet and Critic: Royal Ideology and the Greek Translator of Proverbs’, in Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers, forthcoming.
- 'Rhetoric and Poetry in Greek Ecclesiastes', Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies 38 (2006), pp. 55-78.
- ‘What does Christianity in Jewish terms mean?’, in J.K. Aitken & E.D. Kessler (eds), Challenges in Jewish-Christian Relations (New York: Paulist Press, 2006), 203-17.
- ‘Sanctus Matthaeus, magister sapientiae, summa cum laude’, in Jeremy Corley & Vincent Skemp (eds), Intertextual Studies in Ben Sira and Tobit (CBQMS, 38; Washington, DC: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2005), pp. 264-79.
- ‘Hengel's, Judentum und Hellenismus’, Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004), pp. 331–41.
- ‘Introducing the Septuagint’, Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies 34 (2004), 20-26.
- ‘Lexical semantics and the cultural context of knowledge in Job 28, illustrated by the meaning of chaqar’, in E. van Wolde (ed.), Job 28: Cognition in Context (Biblical Interpretation Series, 64; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2003), pp. 119–138.
- ‘Divine Will and Providence’, in R. Egger-Wenzel (ed.), Ben Sira’s God (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 282–301.
- ‘Culture, Identity and Faith: Jewish–Christian Relations in a Multicultural Context’, in E. Kessler, J. Pawlikowski & J. Banki (eds), Jews and Christians in Conversation: Crossing Generations and Cultures (Cambridge: Orchard Academic, 2002), pp. 215-234.
- 'The proposed Aramaic background to Mark 9:11', Journal of Theological Studies 53/1 (2002), pp. 75-80.
- ‘schoinos in the Septuagint’, Vetus Testamentum.50.4 (2000), pp. 433-444.
- ‘Biblical Interpretation as Political Manifesto: The Seleucid Setting of the Wisdom of Ben Sira’, Journal of Jewish Studies 51.2 (2000), pp. 191-208.
- ‘Jewish Tradition and Culture [66-430CE]’, in P.F. Esler (ed.), The Early Christian World (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 80-110.
- ‘Apocalyptic, Revelation and Early Jewish Wisdom Literature’, in C.T.R. Hayward & P.J. Harland (eds), New Heaven and New Earth. Prophecy and the Millennium: Essays in honour of Anthony Gelston (VT Suppl. 77; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999), pp. 181-93.
- ‘The Semantics of “Glory” in Ben Sira - traces of a development in post-Biblical Hebrew?’ in T. Muraoka and J.F. Elwolde (eds), Sirach,Scrolls and Sages: Proceedings of a Second International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira and the Mishnah, held at Leiden University, 15-17 December 1997 (STDJ xxxiii; Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1999), pp. 1-24.
- ‘Hebrew Study in Ben Sira’s Beth Midrash’, in W. Horbury (ed.), Hebrew Study from Ezra to Ben-Yehuda (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999), pp. 27-37.
- ‘The Language of the Septuagint: Recent theories, Future Prospects’, Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies 24 (1999), pp. 24-33.
- Various semantic studies in T. Muraoka (ed.) Semantics of Ancient Hebrew (Abr-Nahrain Suppl, 6; Louvain: Peeters Press, 1998), pp. 11-37, 74-78, 79-85, 86-88, 101-105, 114-21, 137-45.
- ‘Hippocrates on Necrotising Fasciitis’, The Lancet, August 1994 (with V. Deschamps & M. Lee).
- Author of entries in the following reference works: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization (Cambridge, forthcoming), A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge, 2006), New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon Press).
Currently writing
- Commentary on Wisdom of Solomon
- Commentary on Book of Judges
- A Study of Greek Ecclesiastes
- A Study of Ben Sira
- Also editor of Reviews in Jewish-Christian Relations, and co-editor of Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies.
Electronic Publications
And some more popular ones
- ‘A silent night for the soul’, The Parliament Monitor (Westminster: December 1999).
- ‘Jews and Christians take Counsel’, The Church Times 7183 (20. Oct 2000), pp. 15, 17.
- ‘Christian monotheism and the Abrahamic faiths’, From the Martin Buber Haus 24 (Heppenheim: ICCJ, 2001).
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