John F. A. Sawyer | Author

About the Author

John F. A. Sawyer is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Newcastle University and of Biblical and Jewish Studies at Lancaster. Among his many publications are Sacred Texts and Scared Meanings (2011), A Concise Dictionary of the Bible and its Reception (2009), and The Fifth Gospel: Isaish in show more the History of Christianity (1996). He is co-editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion (with J. M. Y. Simpson, 2001), and series editor (with Christopher Rowland, Judith Kovacs and David Gunn) of the reception-history-based Blackwell Bible Commentary Series. show less

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Works by John F. A. Sawyer

Daily Study Bible: Isaiah, Volume 2, Chapters 33–66 (1986) 230 copies

The Fifth Gospel: Isaiah in the History of Christianity (1996) 71 copies

Prophecy and the Biblical Prophets (Oxford Bible Series) (1993) 58 copies

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture (2006) — Editor — 45 copies, 1 review

Prophecy and the Prophets of the Old Testament (Oxford Bible) (1987) 34 copies

A Modern Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (1976) 31 copies

Midian, Moab and Edom: The History and Archaeology of Late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and North-West Arabia (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, No. 24) (1983) — Editor — 27 copies

A Concise Dictionary of the Bible and Its Reception (2009) 25 copies, 1 review

Reading Leviticus: Responses to Mary Douglas (Library Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) (1996) 22 copies

Words Remembered, Texts Renewed: Essays in Honour of John F.A. Sawyer (1995) 20 copies

Semantics in Biblical research; new methods of defining Hebrew words for salvation (1972) 18 copies

Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion (2001) 13 copies

From Moses to Patmos : new perspectives in Old Testament study (1977) 12 copies

Isaiah Through the Centuries (Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries) (2017) 10 copies

Daily Study Bible: Isaiah (1987) 9 copies

Sacred Texts and Sacred Meanings: Studies in Biblical Language and Literature (Hebrew Bible Monographs) (2011) 5 copies

Daily Study Bible: Old Testament (1998) 5 copies

Perspectives on suffering 1 copy

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The Prophets (1996) — Contributor — 18 copies

Among the Prophets (JSOT Supplement) (1993) — Contributor — 18 copies

A Word in Season: Essays in Honour of William McKane (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 42) (1986) — Contributor — 13 copies

After Ezekiel essays on the reception of a difficult prophet (2011) — Contributor — 7 copies

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Birthdate: 1935
Date of death: 2022
Gender: male
Education: George Watson's College Schools for Boys
Edinburgh University
Occupations: linguist
Old Testament scholar
professor
Organizations: University of Newcastle
Lancaster University
Perugia University
Blackwell Bible Commentary (editor-in-chief)
Nationality: Scotland
UK
Birthplace: Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
Associated Place (for map): Scotland, UK

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A Concise Dictionary of the Bible and Its Reception by John F. A. Sawyer

NCLA Review - This book has already found a permanent place on my desktop. John F. A. Sawyer, an Old Testament scholar, has done us all a favor by rescuing the Bible dictionary from a boring, predictable reference work, to a volume which is both engaging and informative. If you already have a Bible dictionary you will still want to add this to your collection. Unlike other Bible dictionaries, this work approaches things from an objective and subjective point of view—addressing not only show more what it means in the Bible, but what it has meant to those who have been engaged by it. You will not find here everything that is covered in a normal Bible dictionary, but what is covered is done in a way that makes you want to return to it again and again. Just imagine a Bible dictionary which contains entries from T.S. Eliot to the Talmud—from Verdi to the Virgin Mary. The author provides a helpful list of books for further reference, and an exhaustive index of biblical references. Rating: 4 —WS show less

Dec 21, 2009

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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture by John F. A. Sawyer