Jimmy Jack McBee Roberts (born May 28, 1939), known as J. J. M. Roberts , is William Henry Green Professor of Old Testament Literature (Emeritus) at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey .[ 1] A member of the Churches of Christ , Roberts attended Abilene Christian University before pursuing doctoral work at Harvard University .[ 2] [ 3]
His teaching and research interests laid in comparative studies involving Mesopotamian and Israelite religion, Old Testament prophecy, Semitic languages , and Hebrew lexicography. Recent publications include Nahum , Habakkuk , and Zephaniah (OTL) and a forthcoming collection of essays. Roberts is currently working on a commentary on Isaiah 1–39 . He served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biblical Literature , Catholic Biblical Quarterly , the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research , and Restoration Quarterly , and was editor of the SBL OT dissertation series and a member of the New Revised Standard Version translation committee. He was the coeditor of the Princeton Classical Hebrew Lexicon Project.[ 4]
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Roberts, J. J. M. (1969). The Early Akkadian Pantheon: A Study of the Semitic Deities Attested in Mesopotamia before UR III (PhD dissertation). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. OCLC 76997136 .
——— (1972). The Earliest Semitic Pantheon: A Study of the Semitic Deities Attested in Mesopotamia before Ur III . Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-801-81388-7 . OCLC 379068 .
———; Goedicke, Hans (1975). Unity and Diversity: Essays in the History, Literature, and Religion of the Ancient Near East . Johns Hopkins Near Eastern Studies. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-801-81638-3 . OCLC 1322165 .
———; Miller, Patrick D. (1977). The Hand of the Lord: A Reassessment of the "Ark Narrative" of 1 Samuel . Johns Hopkins Near Eastern Studies. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-801-81920-9 . OCLC 2542903 .
——— (1991). Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: A Commentary . Old Testament Library (1st ed.). Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster, John Knox Press. ISBN 978-0-664-21937-6 . OCLC 22732269 .
——— (2002). The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected Essays . Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-1-575-06066-8 . OCLC 50422851 .
———; Dobbs-Allsopp, F. W. ; Seow, Choon-Leong ; Whitaker, Richard E. (2004). Hebrew Inscriptions: Texts from the Biblical Period of the Monarchy with Concordance . New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10397-7 . OCLC 469281919 .
——— (2015). Machinist, Peter (ed.). First Isaiah: A Commentary . Hermeneia – A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-0-800-66080-2 . OCLC 908176161 .
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References
^ "Faculty Directory" . PTS People . Princeton Theological Seminary. Retrieved 2007-05-11 .
^ Rollston, Christopher A. (March 2003). "The Bible and the Ancient Near East" . The Clipboard . Emmanuel School of Religion. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2007-05-11 .
^ Batto, Bernard Frank (2004). David and Zion: Biblical Studies in Honor of J.J.M. Roberts . Eisenbrauns. p. vii.
^ "J.J.M. Roberts" . Meet Our Faculty . Princeton Theological Seminary. 2006-03-18. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-05-11 .
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