The Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics

Selected Publications

Books:

For some of the online publications you will need to access the free fonts SPAtlantis, SPEdessa, SPIonic, or SPTiberian at http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/fonts/. Unfortunately it has not been possible to ensure that Hebrew or Syriac word-wrap appear correctly on all browsers, and for pagination reference needs to be made to the originals.

• Early Syriac Translation Technique and the Textual Criticism of the Greek Gospels(Texts and Studies; Gorgias Press, 2004).

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• Studies in the Syntax of the Peshitta of 1 Kings (Monographs of the Peshitta Institute, Leiden 12; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001).

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• P.J. Williams, A.D. Clarke, P.M. Head and D. Instone-Brewer, eds., The New Testament in Its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in Honour of B.W. Winter on His 65th Birthday (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004).

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• Editor, Syriac Word Sources, Senses and Functions (Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics; Gorgias Press, in progress).

Select Articles:

• 'The Translation of Greek alpha-privatives in the Syriac Epistles', in P.J. Williams, eds., Syriac Word Sources, Senses and Functions (Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics; Gorgias Press, forthcoming 2007).

• 'On Matching Syriac Words with Their Greek Vorlage', in T.C. Falla et al., eds. (Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics; Gorgias Press, forthcoming 2006).

• 'Is God Moral? On the Saul Narratives as Tragedy', in R.P. Gordon, ed., The God of Israel: Studies of an Inimitable Deity (CUP, forthcoming).

• 'P115 and the Number of the Beast', Tyndale Bulletin (2006, forthcoming).

• 'On the Representation of Sahidic within the Apparatus of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece', Journal of Coptic Studies 8 (2006) 123-25.

• 'But Are the Variants All Real?', Bible League Quarterly 423 (2005) 135-38.

• 'Are the Biblical Rephaim and the Ugaritic RPUM Healers?', in R.P. Gordon and J. de Moor, eds., The Old Testament in Its World (OTS 52; Leiden: Brill, 2005) 266-75.

• 'The Linguistic Background to Jesus' Dereliction Cry (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34)', in P.J. Williams, A.D. Clarke, P.M. Head and D. Instone-Brewer, eds., The New Testament in Its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in Honour of B.W. Winter on His 65th Birthday (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004) 1-12.

• ‘The International Syriac Language Project (ISLP)’, Hugoye 7.1 (2004).

• 'Beginning to Study the Old Testament', in Philip Duce and Daniel Strange, eds., Encountering God's Word: Beginning Biblical Studies (Leicester: Apollos, 2003) 13-64.

• 'Textual Criticism', in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch (2003) 834-41.

• 'Lying Spirits Sent by God? The Case of Micaiah's Prophecy', in Paul Helm and Carl Trueman, eds., The Trustworthiness of God: Perspectives on the Nature of Scripture (Leicester: Apollos, 2002) 58-66.

• 'Israel outside the Land: The Transjordanian Tribes in 1 Chronicles 5', in V. Philips Long, David W. Baker and Gordon J. Wenham, eds., Windows into Old Testament History: Evidence, Argument, and the Crisis of 'Biblical Israel'

  (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002) 147-60.

• 'The Difference between the Roots mlt and plt', Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 114 (2002) 438-42.

• ‘Bread and the Peshitta in Matthew 16:11-12 and 12:4’, Novum Testamentum

  48 (2001) 331-33.

• 'Some Problems in Determining the Vorlage of Early Syriac Versions of the NT', New Testament Studies 47 (2001) 537-43.

• ‘“According to all” in MT and the Peshitta’, Zeitschrift für Althebraistik 12 (1999) 107-109.

• ‘The LXX of 1 Chronicles 5:1-2 as an Exposition of Genesis 48-49’, Tyndale Bulletin 49 (1998) 369-71.

• ‘TMR in 1 Kings ix 18’, Vetus Testamentum 46 (1997) 262-65.

• 18 articles some published and some forthcoming in the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database.

Reviews Include:

• Joanna Weinberg, Azariah de' Rossi's Observations on the Syriac New Testament: A Critique of the Vulgate by a Sixteenth-century Jew, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies Volume 9, Number 1 (January 2006).

• Cyrus H. Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg, Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and the Eblaite Language, Volume 4, Review of Biblical Literature, 2003.

• Colin R. Nicholl, From Hope to Despair in Thessalonica: Situating 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Review of Biblical Literature, 2004.

• Carroll D. Osburn, The Text of the Apostolos in Epiphanius of Salamis, Review of Biblical Literature, 2005.

• Peter M. Head and P.J. Williams, ‘Q Review’, Tyndale Bulletin 54.1 (2003) 119-44. This includes a lengthy analysis of Maurice Casey, An Aramaic Approach to Q (Cambridge: CUP, 2002).

• Ulrich Luz. Matthew 8-20, in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism: Volume 8 (2003)

• E. Jan Wilson, The Old Syriac Gospels: Studies and Comparative Translations, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies Volume 5, Number 2 (July 2002).

• ‘A Study on Translation Technique in the Peshitta to Jeremiah’, Aramaic StudiesTranslation Technique in the Peshitta to Jeremiah (Leiden: Brill, 2002).

  1.2 (2003) 289-98. An extensive critical view of Gillian Greenberg,

• Riad Aziz Kassis, The Book of Proverbs & Arabic Proverbial Works, Tyndale Bulletin 51.1 (2000) 151-54.

• M.P. Weitzman, The Syriac Version of the Old Testament: An Introduction, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Series 3, 10, I (2000) 85-88.

Other Reviews:

• European Journal of Theology

• Evangelicals Now

• Journal for the Study of the New Testament Book List

• Journal of Semitic Studies

• Journal of Theological Studies

• Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology

• Scottish Journal of Theology

• The Society for Old Testament Study Book List

• Themelios

• The Book List of Vetus Testamentum

Collaboration:

• International Greek New Testament Project

• International Syriac Language Project

• Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database

• Syriac Interlinear Project

• New English translation of the Old Testament Peshitta

• Evangelical Textual Criticism Blog

Other:

• The Biesenthal Collection and the Aberdeen Codex of the Hebrew Bible - Interview with Gill Smith for BBC Greater Manchester Radio's 'It's Kosher' 13.5.04 (1.02MB MP3 file)

• The Great Pointing Crisis (a piece I wrote to help my students in Cambridge learn how to point Hebrew)