1929-
PhD (Sheffield, 1961, supervised by F. F. Bruce) - 'The Divine Dwelling Place in the Old Testament
1960-1967 Lecturer in Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology, University of Edinburgh
1967-1984 Lecture in Old Testament, University of Cambridge
1984-1992 Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament, King's College London
Major Publications
God and temple (Basil Blackwell, 1965)
Abraham and David : Genesis XV and its meaning for Israelite tradition (SCM, 1967)
The conscience of the nation: a study of early Israelite prophecy (Oxford, 1967)
God's chosen people: a theological interpretation of the book of Deuteronomy (SCM, 1968)
Exodus (Cambridge, 1972)
Prophecy and Tradition (Blackwell, 1975)
A century of Old Testament study (Lutterworth, 1976, rev ed. 1983)
'Patterns in the Prophetic Canon' in George W. Coats and Burke O. Long (eds.), Canon and Authority: Essays in Old Testament Religion and Theology (Fortress, 1977)
Old Testament theology: a fresh approach (Marshall Morgan & Scott, 1978)
Isaiah and the deliverance of Jerusalem: a study of the interpretation of prophecy in the Old Testament (JSOT, 1980)
Isaiah 1-39 (Marshall Morgan & Scott, 1980)
'"A Remnant Chosen by Grace" (Romans 11.5): The Old Testament Background and Origin of the Remnant Concept', Donald A. Hagner and Murray J. Harris (ed.), Pauline Studies: Essays Presented to Professor F. F. Bruce on His 70th Birthday (Paternoster, 1980)
'The Unity of the Book of Isaiah', Interpretation 36 (1982)
In Spirit and Truth: Insights from Biblical Prayers (John Knox Press, 1985)
'Isaiah 45.20-25: The Goal of Faith', Interpretation 40 (1986)
Jeremiah (Interpretation; John Knox Press, 1988)
'Solomon and the Origins of Wisdom in Israel' in James L. Crenshaw (ed.), Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible: Essays in Honor of Walter J. Harrelson (Mercer, 1988)
Deuteronomy (JSOT, 1989)
(ed.), The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological and Political Pespectives (Cambridge, 1991)
Wisdom in theology. The 1989 Didsbury Lectures (Paternoster, 1992)
'The Good Neighbour in the Book of Proverbs' in Heather A. mcKay and David J. Clines (eds.), Of Prophets' Visions and the Wisdom of Sages: Essays in Honour of R. Norman Whybray (Sheffield, 1993)
'Wisdom, Virtue and the Human Condition' in M. Daniel Carroll (ed.), The Bible in Human Society: Essays in Honour of John Rogerson (Sheffield, 1995)
Old Testament Prophecy: From Oracles to Canon (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996)
Ezekiel (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996)
'The Deuteronomic Law of Centralisation and the Catastrophe of 587 B.C.' in John Barton and David James Reimer (eds.), After the Exile: Essays in Honour of Rex Mason (Mercer, 1996)
'Deuteronomy' in New Interperter's Bible Vol II (Abingdon, 1998)
'"Who is Blind But My Servant?" (Isaiah 42.19): How Then Shall We Read Isaiah?' in Tod Linafelt and Timothy Kandler Beal (eds.), God in the Fray: A Tribute to Walter Brueggemann (Fortress, 1998)
'The Sources of Wisdom' in Warren S. Brown (ed.), Understanding Wisdom: Sources, Science and Society (Templeton Foundation, 2000)
The book of Deuteronomy: a preacher's commentary (Epworth, 2001)
'Isaiah: A Book without an Ending', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 97 (2002)
'Proverbs' in James D. G. Dunn and John William Rogerson (eds.), Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible (Eerdmans, 2003)
'The Former Prophets and Deuteronomy - A Re-Examination' in J. Harold Ellens et al (eds.), God's Word for Our World: Biblical Studies in Honor of Simon John De Vries (T & T Clark, 2004)
'Prophecy Interpreted: Intertextuality and Theodicy - A case study in Jeremiah 26.16-24' in John Goldingay (ed.), Uprooting and Planting: Essays on Jeremiah for Leslie Allen (T & T Clark, 2007)
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