Hugh G. M. Williamson

Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson OBE FBA (born 15 July 1947) is a theologian and academic. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2014,^[1] a position he now holds as Emeritus.^[2]

Career

Williamson has authored major commentaries on Ezra/Nehemiah in the Word Biblical Commentary series and a multi-volumed commentary of Isaiah 1-27 for the International Critical Commentary series. For the latter, volume 1 was published in 2006 and volume 2 in 2019.^[2]

He has been chairman of the British Academy’s Humanities Group and also chairman of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society.^[3]

He remains secretary to the executive committee of the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database project.^[2]

Williamson remains active in his research interests, which include the Book of Isaiah and the Achaemenid Period history and literature.^[3]

A festschrift was published in 2012 for H. G. M. Williamson on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.^[4]

Honours

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to scholarship and theology.^[5][6]

Works

Books

• Williamson, Hugh G. M. (1985). Ezra, Nehemiah. Word Biblical Commentary. Vol. 16. Waco, TX: Word Books. ISBN 978-0-849-90215-4. OCLC 12437788.
• ——— (2006). A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 1-27: Isaiah 1-5 (Volume 1). International Critical Commentary. London: T & T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-04451-8. OCLC 71298301.
• ——— (2008). Holy, Holy, Holy: The Story of a Liturgical Formula. Julius-Wellhausen-Vorlesung. Vol. 1. Berlin ; New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-110-20716-3. OCLC 316833005.
• ——— (2012). He Has Shown You What is Good: Old Testament Justice Then and Now (The Trinity Lectures, Singapore, 2011). Cambridge: Lutterworth Press. ISBN 978-0-718-89298-2. OCLC 768167987.

Chapters

• ——— (2012). "Scribe and Scroll: Revisiting the Great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran". In Clines, David J. A.; Richards, Kent Harold; Wright, Jacob L. (eds.). Making a Difference: Essays on the Bible and Judaism in Honor of Tamara Cohn Eskenazi. Hebrew Bible Monographs. Vol. 49. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press. pp. 329–42. ISBN 978-1-907-53472-0.
• ——— (2013). "The Vindication of Redaction Criticism". In Dell, Katharine J.; Joyce, Paul M. (eds.). Biblical Interpretation and Method: Essays in Honour of John Barton. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 26–36. ISBN 978-0-199-64553-4.
• ——— (2013). "Isaiah: Prophet of Weal or Woe?". In Gordon, Robert P.; Bartsad, Hans M. (eds.). "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period. Winona Lake, OH: Eisenbrauns. pp. 273–300. ISBN 978-1-575-06282-2.
• ——— (2013). "Was There an Image of the Deity in the First Temple?". In Pearce, Sarah (ed.). The Image and its Prohibition in Jewish Antiquity. JJS Supplement Series 2. Oxford: Journal of Jewish Studies. pp. 28–37. ISBN 978-0-957-52280-0. OCLC 863324614.

Festschrift

• Provan, Iain W.; Boda, Mark J., eds. (2012). Let us go up to Zion: essays in honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum. Vol. 153. Leiden; Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-9-004-22658-6. OCLC 801777561.

References

External links

• Williamson's Oxford faculty page