Description: This volume presents an important insight into the history of scholarship on the Old Testament over the last 100 years. Presented in collaboration with the Society for Old Testament Study, which celebrates its centenary in 2017, the volume examines the shifting patterns in scholarship on the Old Testament over the last century, from the types of subject studied to the demographic make-up of the scholars working on the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible themselves. The volume has been written by several longstanding members and officers of the society. As such the volume presents a remarkable history of scholarship of Old Testament studies.
Brief description: John Jarick is Lecturer in Old Testament at the University of Oxford.
Review Quotes:
"Everyone interested in the study of the OT in Britain and Ireland will learn much from it about the history of the discipline." --Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
"A reading of these essays gives a clear picture of the personality of SOTS both in the past and today, and gives assurance that it is flourishing and able to develop the study of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible in many directions." --Journal of Jewish Studies