I studied Theology at Cambridge and then taught Hebrew and Aramaic in the Oriental Studies Faculty there for 17 years. I came to Oxford in 1992 and taught Classical Hebrew at all levels from first year undergraduate through to doctoral supervision (about 30 D.Phils) in the Oriental Institute and in connection with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. For a long period I was also heavily involved both practically and especially administratively in archaeological work in Israel. I always played a full part in the life of the Faculty and wider (Chair of the Faculty Board and all other main positions; Vice-President of the British Academy; chair of our national REF panel; etc.)
- A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 1-27, 1: Isaiah 1-5 (xxxviii + 410 pp. International Critical Commentary; London: T & T Clark, 2006)
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Holy, Holy, Holy: The Story of a Liturgical Formula (36 pp. Julius-Wellhausen-Vorlesung 1; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008)
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He Has Shown You What is Good: Old Testament Justice Then and Now (115 pp. The Trinity Lectures, Singapore, 2011; Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2012)
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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 1-27, 2: Isaiah 6-12 (lxi + 740 pp. International Critical Commentary; London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2018)
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‘Isaiah 1–39 and Jeremiah’, in W. de Angelo Cunha and A.T. Abernethy (eds), Isaiah and Intertextuality: Isaiah amid Israel’s Scriptures (FAT II/148; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), 85–97
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‘Playing with the Moabites: Textual and Linguistic Reflections on Isaiah 15–16’, in Kimberley Czajkowski and David A. Friedman (eds), Looking In, Looking Out: Jews and Non-Jews in Mutual Contemplation. Essays for Martin Goodman on his 70th Birthday (JSJSup 212; Leiden: Brill, 2024), 107–22
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‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Methodological Reflections on Reading Isaiah as a Unity’, in Benedetta Rossi, Dominic S. Irudayaraj, and Gina Hens-Piazza (eds), Unity in the Book of Isaiah (LHBOTS 732; London: T & T Clark, 2024), 28–37
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‘Did Isaiah Refer to the Samaritans?’, in Deidre N. Fulton, Kenneth A. Ristau, Jonathan S. Greer, and Margaret E. Cohen (eds), The Formation of Biblical Texts: Chronicling the Legacy of Gary N. Knoppers (FAT 176; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), 427–40
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‘Unravelling Isaiah 17’, in Marjo Korpel and Paul Sanders (eds), Meaningful Meetings with Foreigners in the World of the Bible: Essays in Honour of Klaas Spronk on the Occasion of his Retirement (CBET 119; Leuven: Peeters, 2024), 139–51
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‘Righteousness in the Book of Isaiah’, Nova et Vetera 23 (2025), 723–40
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‘Archaeology’, in John Barton (ed.), Understanding the Hebrew Bible: Essays by Members of the Society for Old Testament Study (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), 146–57
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‘The Valley of Vision: A Speculative Reconsideration of Isaiah 22:1–8a’, in Judith Gärtner and Michael Pietsch (eds), Die Kunst der Auslegung: Festschrift für Friedhelm Hartenstein zum 65. Geburtstag (Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrerGeschichte 82; Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2025), 329–43
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‘Don’t Forget Adonis! Reflections on Isaiah 17:10–11’, in Katherine Southwood, Stuart Weeks, and H. G. M. Williamson (eds), Religion in Ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of John Day (LHBOTS 756; London: T & T Clark, 2026), 37–50
