http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2007/05/24/top-ten-old-testament-scholars-since-1800/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2007/05/24/top-ten-old-testament-scholars-since-1800/comment-page-1/#comment-137025 Ken Fri, 25 May 2007 15:05:28 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2007/05/24/top-ten-old-testament-scholars-since-1800/#comment-137025 Obviously, TDNT is Gerhard Kittel. That’s what I get for posting before breakfast. Still, Rudolf Kittel for BHK alone.

]]> http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2007/05/24/top-ten-old-testament-scholars-since-1800/comment-page-1/#comment-136992 Ken Fri, 25 May 2007 13:07:35 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2007/05/24/top-ten-old-testament-scholars-since-1800/#comment-136992 Do you mean Cross instead of Childs? Childs is a bit of a one trick pony himself too, no? Frank M. Cross rightly belongs alongside Wellhausen, Gunkel, von Rad, and Albright. Cross should factor very high for his wide ranging and highly influential contributions to epigraphy, paleography, source and redaction criticism, Israelite religion and history, and perhaps most especially because he directly supervised a whole new generation of first class scholars like Halpern, Knoppers, McCarter, and many, many others. Teaching ought to count for something! I also agree with names such as Driver, Briggs, Mowinckel, and Barthelemy. Their contributions are enormous. For the final position, Tov, I think, merits consideration as do Albrecht Alt, Rudolf Kittel (despite his politics for BHK and TDNT alone), Nadav Na’aman, Andre Lemaire, Shemeryahu Talmon, Mario Liverani, and really a whole slew of others. Oh, and I forgot Jim West!

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