The afterlife of the Samson narrative...
home news guidelines bibliographies samples resources contents Blackwell Publishers

 

Editors

John Sawyer (Editor in Chief). Professor of Biblical and Jewish Studies at Lancaster University, UK; formerly Assistant Lecturer in Old Testament Language and Literature at Glasgow University and Head of Religious Studies at Newcastle upon Tyne. Studied at Edinburgh University and the Hebrew University Jerusalem

John Sawyer
Author of Semantics in Biblical Research (1972), A Modern Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (1976), From Moses to Patmos. New Perspectives in the Study of the Old Testament (1977), Prophecy and the Biblical Prophets (1993) The Fifth Gospel. Isaiah in the History of Christianity (1996) and Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts (1999); editor of Reading Leviticus. A Conversation with Mary Douglas (1996); series editor (with D.F. Sawyer) of Religion in the First Christian Centuries and religion editor of the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (1994).

 

Judith Kovacs

Judith Kovacs, Religious Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Christopher Rowland, Queens College, Oxford

David M. Gunn, A. A. Bradford Professor of Religion, Texas Christian
University. David has completed the Judges commentary (published in January 2005) and remains as editor.


Rebecca Harkin, Commissioning Editor, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford


Authors