Background
Gordon, Robert Patterson was born on November 9, 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Son of Robert and Eveline (Shilliday) Gordon.
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Robert P. Gordon has provided us with a substantial commentary on the English text of the books of Samuel, concentrating on exegesis, but also paying attention to linguistic and textual problems. "I have not tried to "Christianize" 1 and 2 Samuel at every conceivable point. Often as I have sought to show in the brief introductory section comparison; and the only way to arrive at sensible conclusions in this matter is first to appreciate the Old Testament for its own sake- that is in its own literary, historical, cultural and theological contexts. That is principally what this commentary is about."
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(What connections exist between the physical geography of ...)
What connections exist between the physical geography of Israel and the spirituality of biblical faith? How was the physical space conceived as sacred space? In a wide-ranging study, Professor Robert Gordon leads the readers from the Garden of Eden to Jerusalem, from Genesis through the Psalms and the gospels to Revelation and onwards through the patristic period, the Middle Ages and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gordon shows in particular how topography of Jerusalem and its environment have been used in diverse ways in the spirituality of Jews and Christians over the centuries. The vexed question of land disputes between Israel and the Palestinians is also considered. Holy Land, Holy City offers a current and contemporary reading of sacred geography in the Bible.
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Although the term minor prophets" is a familiar one in English Bible translations, it is not a felicitous one, since it applies as much to Hosea as to Haggai and to Amos as to Obadiah. The Targum offers no such pecking order. Nuggets of importance are as likely to be found in a Targumized "minor" prophet as a "major" one. Included in this volume are the books of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. The authors' apparatus in the introduction provides the translational characteristics, theology, life-setting, text and versions, language, rabbinic citations and parallels, dating, manuscripts, and bibliography. A series of indices is also included. "
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This volume is concerned with the origin and development of the Targum to the prophets, focusing for this purpose on the 12 prophets (from Nahum to Malachi). A wide-ranging introductory chapter sets current research in context by surveying almost two centuries of Targumic study. It is argued that the evidence in the extant text for a Second Commonwealth phase in the Targum's history is meagre and that, in particular, the Qumran Habakkuk "pesher" is not dependent upon the Targum to Habakkuk. Other issues discussed are the Hebrew "Vorlage" of the Targum, incipit formulae, "Additional Targum" and the standard Targum, the "haggadah" in the Targum to Zechariah 3 in the light of a so-called Eastern Aramaic linguistic element, Targum and Peshitta, land and divine presence and the final redaction of the Targum.
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This volume presents the Syriac text of the books of Chronicles as well as a critical apparatus in respect of the textual witnesses.
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(Book by Robert P. Gordon)
Book by Robert P. Gordon
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Gordon, Robert Patterson was born on November 9, 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Son of Robert and Eveline (Shilliday) Gordon.
Bachelor, University Cambridge, England, 1968. Master of Arts, University Cambridge, England, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1973.
Doctor of Letters, University Cambridge, England, 2000.
Lecturer Hebrew and Semitic languages University Glasgow, Scotland, 1969—1979. Lecturer divinity University Cambridge, 1979—1995, professor Hebrew, since 1995. Fellow St. Catharine's College, since 1995.
Book list editor Vetus Testamentum, since 1998. Member translation panel for Review English Bible. Member anglicization committee New International Version.
Didsbury lecturer, Manchester, 2001. University preacher, Cambridge, 1999, Oxford, England, 2000.
(What connections exist between the physical geography of ...)
( Although the term minor prophets" is a familiar one in ...)
(This volume is concerned with the origin and development ...)
(This volume presents the Syriac text of the books of Chro...)
(Book by Robert P. Gordon)
( Robert P. Gordon has provided us with a substantial com...)
Member of British Association Jewish Studies, International Organization for Study of the Old Testament (acting secretary 2001-2004), Society for Old Testament Study (president 2003).
Married Helen Ruth Lyttle, December 30, 1970. Children: Christopher Graham, Nicola Claire, Alasdair Robert.