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词条 W. D. Davies
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  1. Life

  2. Work

  3. Selected works

     Books  Edited by 

  4. References

  5. Further reading

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William David Davies {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (1911–2001), often cited as W. D. Davies, was a Welsh Congregationalist minister, theologian, author and professor of religion in England and the United States.

Life

Davies was born in 1911 in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Educated at the University of Wales (BD, 1938) and at Cambridge (MA, 1942), he was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church in 1941 and served churches in Cambridgeshire until 1946. Concurrently, he engaged in research at the University of Cambridge under the dean of British New Testament scholars, C. H. Dodd, and David Daube, a Jewish scholar who became Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford), but who wrote extensively on the New Testament from the vantage point of rabbinic sources.

Davies was then appointed Professor of New Testament Studies at Yorkshire United College in Bradford, Yorkshire, a post he held till 1950. In 1948, the University of Wales granted him the degree of Doctor of Divinity operis causa, the first time for that degree to be so granted. That year saw the publication of his first major book, Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology, and in 1950 Davies was named Professor of Biblical Theology at Duke Divinity School. In 1955 he became professor of religion at Princeton University, where he was one of three professors (R. Y. B. Scott and Horton Davies the other two) who helped to inaugurate a graduate study program leading to a Doctor of Philosophy degree in religion – the first such program in a secular university in the United States. (See New York Times, July{{nbsp}}5, 1955.)

He then became Edward Robinson Professor of Biblical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, where he had important relationships with Reinhold Niebuhr and, across the street, with Louis Finkelstein (Pharisaism), Neil Gillman, Abraham Joshua Heschel (narrative and law), and Saul Lieberman (Hellenism in the land of Israel) – all housed at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America – as well as Salo Wittmayer Baron of Columbia University, up the hill. At Union, he supervised the dissertation of E. P. Sanders, which became the book The Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition. Davies later returned to Duke as George Washington Ivey Professor of Advanced Studies and Research in Christian Origins.

Davies died on 12 June 2001 in Durham, North Carolina.

Work

Davies's period of study and research in Cambridge and his participation in Dodd's seminar led to his editing, together with Daube, of the volume of essays presented to C. H. Dodd in 1956, The Background of the New Testament and Its Eschatology. In his own published works, Davies's double interests – in the Jewish background of the New Testament and in the theological implications of this background – are especially exhibited. His books on Paul's writings and on the Sermon on the Mount (in Matthew) explore Pharisaic understandings of the Law (or Torah) in the "age to come" or messianic era – against the backdrop of developments and thought in Judaism not only during the time of Jesus but also in the closing decades of the first century (especially the destruction of Jerusalem and the Council of Jamnia).

''Paul and Rabbinic Judaism is one of the first books to rescue the apostle from the purely Greek background which earlier scholars had assumed for him. In The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount (1964), Davies sees a law which remains even under the covenant of grace and thus spans the canonical tensions between James and Paul.

Theologically, then, by reorienting views on Paul, and by bringing Pharisaic, nomistic themes in Matthew to the fore, Davies sought to pull together the various New Testament strands and aims at a comprehensive combination of Law and Gospel. As for church life, in Christian Origins and Judaism Davies comes to the conclusion that, in the New Testament (rather like the Old), there is no single fixed pattern of church order that is to be regarded as normative, only certain criteria to guide.

The Dodd-Daube-Davies troika led, in many ways, to the so-called New Perspective on Paul – probably what Davies meant when he eulogized Daube by saying that, when Daube called Christianity "a New Testament Judaism", he ushered in a "near-revolution" in New Testament studies.[1] The leading light of the new/originalist Paul movement, E. P. Sanders, was a student of Daube and Davies, and Sanders's first book, Paul and Palestinian Judaism, is very much in dialogue with Davies's earlier Paul and Rabbinic Judaism. By no means are the two in agreement on all things, but Davies's work in de-Hellenizing Paul allowed for Sanders to approach the apostle dusted, scrubbed, and ready for fresh analysis.

Selected works

Books

  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask= |title=Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology |location=London |publisher=SCM Press |date=1948 |isbn= |oclc=179912998 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask=3 |title=Torah in the Messianic Age And/or the Age to Come |series=Journal of Biblical Literature - Monograph series |volume=7 |location=Philadelphia, PA |publisher=Society of Biblical Literature |date=1952 |isbn=9780891301776 |oclc=480736 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask=3 |title=Christian Origins and Judaism |location=Philadelphia, PA |publisher=Westminster Press |date=1962 |isbn= |oclc=759621 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1964 |isbn=9780521047975 |oclc=336409 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask=3 |title=Invitation to the New Testament: a guide to its main witnesses |location=Garden City, NY |publisher=Doubleday |date=1966 |isbn= |oclc=376848 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Gospel and the Land: Early Christianity and Jewish Territorial Doctrine |series=Pantyfedwen Trust lectures, 1968 |location=Berkeley, CA |publisher=University of California Press |date=1974

|isbn=9780520022782 |oclc=1008990 }}[2]
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Territorial Dimension of Judaism |series=Quantum book |location=Berkeley, CA |publisher=University of California Press |date=1982 |isbn=9780520043312 |oclc=7197289 }}[3]
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Allison, Jr. |author2-first=Dale C. |author2-link=Dale Allison |title=A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew: Vol. 1. Introduction and commentary on Matthew I-VII |series=International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T&T Clark |date=1988 |isbn=9780567094810 |oclc=19460321 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Allison, Jr. |author2-first=Dale C. |author2-link=Dale Allison |title=A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew: Vol. 2. Commentary on Matthew VIII-XVIII |series=International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T&T Clark |date=1991 |isbn=9780567095459 |oclc=19460321 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Allison, Jr. |author2-first=Dale C. |author2-link=Dale Allison |title=A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew: Vol. 3. Commentary on Matthew XIX-XXVIII |series=International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T&T Clark |date=1997 |isbn=9780567085184 |oclc=19460321 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Davies |author1-first=W. D. |author1-mask=3 |title=Christian Engagements with Judaism |location=Harrisburg, PA |publisher=Trinity |date=1999 |isbn=9781563382680 |oclc=237358305 }}

Edited by

  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Davies |editor1-first=W. D. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Finkelstein |editor2-first=Louis |editor2-link=Louis Finkelstein |title=The Cambridge History of Judaism: Vol. 1: Introduction, the Persian Period |location=Cambridge, UK & New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1984 |isbn=9781139055116 |oclc=440799715 }}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Davies |editor1-first=W. D. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Finkelstein |editor2-first=Louis |editor2-link=Louis Finkelstein |editor3-last=Sturdy |editor3-first=John |editor3-link=John Sturdy |editor4-last=Horbury |editor4-first=William |editor4-link=William Horbury |editor5-last=Katz |editor5-first=Steven T. |editor5-link=Steven T. Katz |title=The Cambridge History of Judaism: Vol. 2: The Hellenistic Age |location=Cambridge, UK & New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1989 |isbn=9780521219297 |oclc=872998103 }}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Davies |editor1-first=W. D. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Sturdy |editor2-first=John |editor2-link=John Sturdy |editor3-last=Horbury |editor3-first=William |editor3-link=William Horbury |title=The Cambridge History of Judaism: Vol. 3: The Early Roman Period |location=Cambridge, UK & New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1999 |isbn=9780521243773 |oclc=1023882413 }}

References

1. ^W. D. Davies, A Gentle Hawk eulogy for David Daube
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Gospel_and_the_Land.html?id=oBTDPQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y |title=The Gospel and the Land: Early Christianity and Jewish Territorial Doctrine |accessdate=November 29, 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Territorial_Dimension_of_Judaism.html?id=PsrTocBeeU0C&redir_esc=y |title=The Territorial Dimension of Judaism |accessdate=November 29, 2018}}

Further reading

  • Preliminary Inventory of the W.D. Davies (William David Davies) Papers, University Archives, Duke University]
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