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JOHN JARICK Publications JOHN JARICK Publications Books (authored) Gregory Thaumaturgos’ Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes (Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 29; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990) 1 Chronicles (Readings: A New Biblical Commentary; London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002; reprinted Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007) 2 Chronicles (Readings: A New Biblical Commentary; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007) Books (edited) A Comprehensive Bilingual Concordance of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Ecclesiastes (CATSS [Computer-Assisted Tools for Septuagint Study] Basic Tools, 3; Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 36; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993) Sacred Conjectures: The Context and Legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 457; New York and London: T & T Clark International, 2007) Perspectives on Israelite Wisdom: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 618; London: Bloomsbury, 2016) SOTS at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 650; London: Bloomsbury, 2017) Articles “The Time for Planting — Ecclesiastes 3:2c”, Lutheran Theological Journal 16 (1982), pp. 142-143 “Shalom Reaffirmed: A Response to Gerleman’s Theory”, Lutheran Theological Journal 20 (1986), pp. 2-9 “Et Nova et Vetera et cetera [Song of Songs 7:13 & Matthew 13:52]”, Ormond Papers 5 (1988), pp. 211-216 “Gregory Thaumaturgos’ Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes”, Abr-Nahrain 27 (1989), pp. 37-57 “Aquila’s Koheleth”, Textus: Studies of the Hebrew University Bible Project 15 (1990), pp. 131-139 “An ‘Allegory of Age’ as Apocalypse — Ecclesiastes 12:1-7”, Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review 22:2 (May 1990), pp. 19-27 “The Seven (?) Prophetesses of the Old Testament”, Lutheran Theological Journal 28 (1994), pp. 116-121 “Prophets and Losses: Some Themes in Recent Study of the Prophets”, The Expository Times 107:3 (December 1995), pp. 75-77 “Theodore of Mopsuestia and the Interpretation of Ecclesiastes”, in M. Daniel Carroll R., David J.A. Clines and Philip R. Davies (eds.), The Bible in Human Society: Essays in Honour of John Rogerson (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplements, 200; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 306-316 “Theodore of Mopsuestia and the Text of Ecclesiastes”, in Leonard Greenspoon and Olivier Munnich (eds.), VIII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Paris 1992 (Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 41; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995), pp. 367-385 “The Four Corners of Psalm 107”, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 59 (1997), pp. 270-287 “The Bible’s ‘Festival Scrolls’ among the Dead Sea Scrolls”, in Stanley E. Porter and Craig A. Evans (eds.), The Scrolls and the Scriptures: Qumran Fifty Years After (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplements, 26; Roehampton Institute London Papers, 3; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), pp. 170-182 “Questioning Sheol”, in Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes and David Tombs (eds.), Resurrection (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplements, 186; Roehampton Institute London Papers, 5; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 22-32 “The Hebrew Book of Changes: Reflections on hakkol hebel and lakkol zeman in Ecclesiastes”, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 90 (2000), pp. 79-99 “Additions to Daniel, Esther, and Jeremiah”, in Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter (eds.), Dictionary of New Testament Background (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2000), pp. 250-252 “The Fall of the House (of Cards) of Ussher: Why the World as We Know It Did Not End at Sunset on 22 October 1997”, in Christopher Rowland and John Barton (eds.), Apocalyptic in History and Tradition (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplements, 43; London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002), pp. 233-252 “The Implications of LXX 1 Chronicles 3:21 for King David’s Place in the Chronicles Timeline”, in M.F.J. Baasten and W.Th. van Peursen (eds.), Hamlet on a Hill: Semitic and Greek Studies presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 118; Leuven: Peeters Press, 2003), pp. 579- 585 “Ecclesiastes” and “Greek Esther”, in James D.G. Dunn and John W. Rogerson (eds.), Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003), pp. 457-463 and 806-810 “Letter 10: Salu Father of Zimri to Zur Father of Cozbi”, in Philip R. Davies (ed.), Yours Faithfully: Virtual Letters from the Bible (London: Equinox, 2004), pp. 61-64 “The Temple of David in the Book of Chronicles”, in John Day (ed.), Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 422; London and New York: T & T Clark International, 2005), pp. 365-381 “The Enigma that is Ecclesiastes”, Lutheran Theological Journal 41 (2007), pp. 103-109 “The Stings in the Tales of the Kings of Judah”, in Duncan Burns and John W. Rogerson (eds.), Far from Minimal: Celebrating the Work and Influence of Philip R. Davies (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 484; London and New York: T & T Clark International, 2012), pp. 226-236 “The Two Ahabs of the South: Joash and Josiah”, in Iain Provan and Mark J. Boda (eds.), Let Us Go Up To Zion: Essays in Honour of H.G.M. Williamson on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Vetus Testamentum Supplements, 153; Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 307-316 “Cross-Examining Chronicles: Adventures in the Story-World of a Notionally Historical Narrative”, in Katharine J. Dell and Paul M. Joyce (eds.), Biblical Interpretation and Method: Essays in Honour of John Barton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 214-222 “Imagining a qohelet as an ekklesiastes”, in David J.A. Clines and J. Cheryl Exum (eds.), The Reception of the Hebrew Bible in the Septuagint and the New Testament: Essays in Memory of Aileen Guilding (Hebrew Bible Monographs, 55; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013), pp. 83-96 “Ecclesiastes Among the Comedians”, in Katharine Dell and Will Kynes (eds.), Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 587; London: Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. 176-188 “The Rhetorical Structure of Ecclesiastes”, in John Jarick (ed.), Perspectives on Israelite Wisdom: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 618; London: Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 208-231 “Ecclesiastes Among the Tragedians”, in George J. Brooke and Pierre van Hecke (eds.), Goochem in Mokum / Wisdom in Amsterdam: Papers on Biblical and Related Wisdom Read at the Fifteenth Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap, Amsterdam, July 2012 (Oudtestamentische Studiën, 68; Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 95-107 “God as Gambler”, Lutheran Theological Journal 50 (2016), pp. 146-154 “A Timeline of SOTS”, in John Jarick (ed.), SOTS at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 650; London: Bloomsbury, 2017), pp. 71-98 .
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