Luis Alonso Schökel
Adele Berlin
Joseph Blenkinsopp
John J. Collins
Cheryl Exum
Michael Fishbane
Michael V. Fox
Moshe Greenberg
Menahem Haran
Bernd Janowski
Jon D. Levenson
Bernard Levinson
Oded Lipschitz
Norbert Lohfink
Roland Meynet
Jacob Milgrom
Shemaryahu Talmon
Jeffrey Tigay
Emanuel Tov
Phyllis Trible
Moshe Weinfeld
Erich Zenger
Well, I agree with most of your critique and substitutes--except for Gottwald. A contemporary giant that both of you have overlooked is Walter Brueggemann.
Posted by: Michael Westmoreland-White | May 26, 2007 at 02:36 PM
Yes! This looks much more like my bookcase(s) than Christopher's list.
Posted by: Jim Getz | May 27, 2007 at 02:35 PM
These are all excellent scholars. I think you have underestimated Gottwald's influence. I definitely disagree with Michael's suggestion of including Brueggemann in this list. I read everything Brueggemann writes and I value him, but his scholarship is so trendy that about a decade after it is written it is passe.
Scholars that I did not include in my list, but in my opinion may be more influential than some scholars in your list (except Tov and Lohfink which I admit might have been oversights on my part): S. R. Driver, Graf, Mowinckel, Gustavo Gutierrez, Joseph Ratzinger, Hans Kung, and Otto Eissfeldt. Lists like these are always hard, but I appreciate your critique and insight.
Some of our disagreement might come from our academic focus. Your list causes me to think that you might be more focused upon history of interpretation while my training is centered more in philology and ancient history. This might have biased my list.
Posted by: Charles Halton | May 30, 2007 at 03:40 PM
I enjoy your blog. It has helped me in my study of Hebrew tremendously. One thing though, how come there is no love for Bruce Waltke? I think he has written one of the best grammars in the last 30 years. Just wondering.
Posted by: Justin Richter | March 23, 2008 at 08:37 PM
Hi, Justin.
That's an amazing blog you link to. Do you write for it as well? I couldn't find an "about" page.
Bruce Waltke is a very fine evangelical OT scholar. The Syntax of which you speak, co-authored with Michael O'Connor is a magnificent achievement. On the other hand, since it is a subject matter I am passionate about, I could nitpick or worse on just about every page.
My purpose here was to focus on non-WASP scholars.
Posted by: JohnFH | March 24, 2008 at 08:55 AM
Yeah, that makes sense I should have taken your purpose into mind. I guess I overlooked the the non-WASP in the title.
I share that blog with some friends from New Mexico, where we grew up together. We all are pursuing further our graduate studies in different places so it gives us a chance to connect and share ideas that we are thinking about.
Thanks again.
Posted by: Justin Richter | March 24, 2008 at 09:26 AM
How accurate is the writing of the 10 commandments in the movie
The 10 Commandments with Carlton Heston?
Thank you
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