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Jimmy Jack McBee Roberts (born May 28, 1939), known as J. J. M. Roberts , is
William Henry Green Professor of Old Testament Literature (Emeritus) at
Princeton Theological Seminary in
Princeton, New Jersey .
[1] A member of the
Churches of Christ , Roberts attended
Abilene Christian University before pursuing doctoral work at
Harvard University .
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His teaching and research interests laid in comparative studies involving
Mesopotamian and
Israelite religion, Old Testament prophecy,
Semitic languages , and
Hebrew lexicography. Recent publications include
Nahum ,
Habakkuk , and
Zephaniah (OTL) and a forthcoming collection of essays. Roberts is currently working on a commentary on
Isaiah 1–39 . He served on the editorial boards of the
Journal of Biblical Literature ,
Catholic Biblical Quarterly , the
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research , and
Restoration Quarterly , and was editor of the SBL OT dissertation series and a member of the
New Revised Standard Version translation committee. He was the coeditor of the Princeton Classical Hebrew Lexicon Project.
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Works
Books
Roberts, J. J. M. (1969). The Early Akkadian Pantheon: A Study of the Semitic Deities Attested in Mesopotamia before UR III (PhD dissertation). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University.
OCLC
76997136 .
——— (1972).
The Earliest Semitic Pantheon: A Study of the Semitic Deities Attested in Mesopotamia before Ur III . Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN
978-0-801-81388-7 .
OCLC
379068 .
———;
Goedicke, Hans (1975). Unity and Diversity: Essays in the History, Literature, and Religion of the Ancient Near East . Johns Hopkins Near Eastern Studies. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN
978-0-801-81638-3 .
OCLC
1322165 .
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Miller, Patrick D. (1977).
The Hand of the Lord: A Reassessment of the "Ark Narrative" of 1 Samuel . Johns Hopkins Near Eastern Studies. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN
978-0-801-81920-9 .
OCLC
2542903 .
——— (1991). Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: A Commentary . Old Testament Library (1st ed.). Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster, John Knox Press.
ISBN
978-0-664-21937-6 .
OCLC
22732269 .
——— (2002). The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected Essays . Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.
ISBN
978-1-575-06066-8 .
OCLC
50422851 .
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Dobbs-Allsopp, F. W. ;
Seow, Choon-Leong ; Whitaker, Richard E. (2004). Hebrew Inscriptions: Texts from the Biblical Period of the Monarchy with Concordance . New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-10397-7 .
OCLC
469281919 .
——— (2015).
Machinist, Peter (ed.).
First Isaiah: A Commentary . Hermeneia – A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press.
ISBN
978-0-800-66080-2 .
OCLC
908176161 .
Articles
Festschrift
References
^
"Faculty Directory" . PTS People . Princeton Theological Seminary. Retrieved 2007-05-11 .
^ Rollston, Christopher A. (March 2003).
"The Bible and the Ancient Near East" . The Clipboard . Emmanuel School of Religion. Archived from
the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2007-05-11 .
^ Batto, Bernard Frank (2004). David and Zion: Biblical Studies in Honor of J.J.M. Roberts . Eisenbrauns. p. vii.
^
"J.J.M. Roberts" . Meet Our Faculty . Princeton Theological Seminary. 2006-03-18. Archived from
the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-05-11 .
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