Dale C. Allison, Jr.
Author of The Historical Jesus in Context
About the Author
Dale C. Allison Jr. is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. His numerous books include Night Comes: Death, Imagination, and the Last Things and The Luminous Dusk: Finding God in the Deep, Still Places.
Works by Dale C. Allison, Jr.
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Matthew (International Critical Commentary) (1907) 115 copies
The Sermon on the Mount: Inspiring the Moral Imagination (Companions to the New Testament) (1999) 94 copies
The end of the ages has come : an early interpretation of the passion and resurrection of Jesus (1985) 57 copies
Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha… (2005) 57 copies
New Proclamation: Year A, Advent Through Holy Week, 2001-2002 (New Proclamation Series) (2001) 7 copies
Scriptural Allusions in the New Testament: Light from the Dead Sea Scrolls (The Dead Sea Scrolls & Christian Origins… (2000) 3 copies
Thallus on the Crucifixion 2 copies
The End of the Ages Has Come 1 copy
The Luminous Dark 1 copy
Construction Jesus 1 copy
Books and The Book 1 copy
Night Comes 1 copy
Associated Works
The New Cambridge History of the Bible: Volume 1, From the Beginnings to 600 (2013) — Contributor — 30 copies
Apocalypticism, Anti-Semitism and the Historical Jesus: Subtexts in Criticism (Library of New Testament Studies) (2005) — Contributor — 19 copies
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- Canonical name
- Allison, Dale C., Jr.
- Other names
- Allison, David Clifford, Jr. (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1955-11-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Wichita, Kansas, USA
- Places of residence
- Wichita, Kansas, USA
- Education
- Wichita State University (BA | Religion | 1977)
Duke University (MA | 1979)
Duke University (PhD | 1982) - Occupations
- New Testament scholar
historian - Organizations
- Society of Biblical Literature
Catholic Biblical Association
Friends University
National Society for Neoplatonic Studies - Awards and honors
- Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
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- Rating
- 4.1
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Because as good as this book is, it is not for the faint-of-academic-heart. I skipped entirely over the text-critical notes (commenting on the various manuscripts in which the text has survived), and almost entirely over the superabundance of parenthetical references to other ancient texts (Jewish, Christian, Graeco-Roman, and others) with comparable words, themes, or ideas. I sounded out some of the Greek words and recognized some cognates, but was frustrated because I can't actually read Greek and thus much of the detailed word-analysis was lost on me.
On the other hand, the introductory chapters which present some context for the text are excellent in their own right. The translation itself, with the long and short recensions presented in parallel, reads very well. The verse by verse commentary attends to the literary structure of the text and its intense intertextuality with scripture and with other ancient writings. It also provides judicious assessments of where Christian influences likely dominate, and engages with other contemporary commentary.
The Testament of Abraham was a delightful discovery for me this semester; and if this volume is typical of the series, the Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature will be indispensable to any scholar in the field.
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