Dr David Shepherd Full Publications List Monographs/Co-Authored Works The Curse of the Sword: Bloodguilt, the house of David and the Deuteronomistic History, in progress, publisher tbc. Ezra-Nehemiah: a commentary (THOTC) (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans) under contract and forthcoming, 2014.(co-authored with Christopher Wright). The Bible on Silent Film: Spectacle, Story and Scripture in the Early Cinema (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) in press, forthcoming 2013. Targum and Translation: A Reconsideration of the Qumran Aramaic version of Job [Studia Semitica Neerlandica 45] (Assen: Van Gorcum, 2004). Non-academic: Seeking Sabbath: A Personal Journey (Oxford: BRF, 2007). Some Assembly Required: Behind the Scenes at the Re-Birth of the Scottish Parliament (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2000). Edited Collections The Silents of Jesus: The Lives and Passions of the Christ in the Early Cinema (publisher tbc). Images of the Word: Hollywood s Bible and Beyond. Semeia Studies (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008). Chapters/Articles in Books Seduction in DeMille's Ten Commandments (1923) in: (eds.) M. Wyke and M. Pantelis, The Ancient World in the Silent Cinema (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) forthcoming, 2013. Louis Feuillade ; Gene Gauntier, The Golden Calf in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, (eds. H.-J. Klauck et al.); Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming, 2013. Aramaic Job (11Q10 and 4Q157) in: (eds. G. Brooke, and C. Hempel) T & T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls. (T & T Clark/Bloomsbury: London, forthcoming, 2013. Is the governor also among the prophets? Parsing the purposes of Jeremiah in the memory of Nehemiah in (eds.) M. Boda and L. Wray-Beal, Prophets and Prophecy in Ancient Israelite Historiography (Grand Rapids: Eisenbrauns, 2013), 209-228. The Life of Moses (1909-1910) in: (ed.) Adele Reinhartz, Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films (New York: Routledge, 2013), 182-86.
Re-solving the Son of Man Problem in Aramaic in: (eds.) L. Hurtado and P. Owen, Who is this Son of Man? The Latest Scholarship on a Puzzling Expression of the Historical Jesus. Library of New Testament Studies (New York: T and T Clark International, 2011) 50-60. Prolonging The Life of Moses : Spectacle and Story in the Early Cinema in: (ed.) D. Shepherd, Images of the Word: Hollywood s Bible and Beyond. Semeia Studies (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008) 11-38. Peshitta (NT), Peshitta (OT), 11QarJob and 4QarLev in: (eds.) J. Neusner, A. Avery-Peck, Dictionary of Religious Writings in Antiquity (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007). Analysis of variants to the Targum of Ezekiel in: Finley, T (ed.) A Bilingual Concordance to the Targum of the Prophets: Ezekiel. Vols.15-17 (Series Ed. J.C De Moor) 1999 (E.J. Brill) Journal Articles Strike his bone and his flesh : Reading Job 2 from the Beginning Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 33 [1] (2008) 81-97. What s in a name? Targum and Taxonomy in the Caves of Qumran Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 17.3 (2008) 189-206. Do you love me? A narrative-critical reappraisal of agapao and phileo in John 21:15-17, Journal of Biblical Literature 129 [4] (2010) 777-792. From Gospel to Gibson: An Interview with the Writers behind Mel Gibson s The Passion of the Christ Religion and the Arts 9 [3-4] (2005) 321-31. Rendering Flesh and Bones: Pair Reversal and the Peshitta of Job 2:5 Aramaic Studies 3.2 (2005) 205-13. Prophetaphobia: Fear and False Prophecy in Nehemiah 6, Vetus Testamentum 55 [2] (2005) 232-50. Violence in the Fields? Translating, Reading and Revising in Ruth 2 Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 63 [3] (2001) 444-65. Speaking up for Qumran, Dalman, and the Son of Man: Was Bar Enasha a Common Term for Man in the Time of Jesus? Journal for the Study of the New Testament 81 (2001) 81-122. Will the Real Targum Please Stand Up? Translation and Coordination in the Ancient Aramaic Versions of Job. Journal of Jewish Studies 51 (1) 2000, 88-116. MN QDM: Deferential treatment in the Aramaic of Daniel and 11QarJob? Vetus Testamentum 50 (3) 2000, 401-404. Translating and Supplementing: A(nother) look at the Targumic Versions of Genesis 4:3-16 Journal of the Aramaic Bible (now Aramaic Studies) 1, (1999) 125-146. Before Bomberg: The Case of the Targum of Job in the Rabbinic Bible and the Solger Codex Biblica 79 (3) 1998, 360-375.
Conference Papers and Public Lectures Did Jehu write to the rulers of Samaria or Jezreel? Solving the epistolary mystery of 2 Kings 10:1, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore, November, 2013. If he comes, he will build it: Temple, Messiah and Targum Jonathan, Congress of the International Organisation for Targum Studies Munich, Germany, Aug, 2013. See God and live? 11QarJob and the impossibility of seeing God, Manchester-Helsinki Dead Sea Scrolls Symposium, University of Manchester, July 24-25, 2013. 'Alice and Jesus: Female visions of Jesus in the Early Silent Cinema' in the Bible and the Moving Image Section of the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Amsterdam, July 23, 2012. '"The Sword Shall Never Depart...": Blood, Guilt and the House of David' at the Summer Meeting of the Society of Old Testament Studies, Manchester, July 17, 2012. Visible Violence: Numbers 25 and the Atonement of Phinehas, Manchester-Lausanne Colloquium, University of Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland, May 31-June 2, 2012. 'Remember Me!': Jeremiah's ministry and Nehemiah's memoir, Briercrest Bible-Theology Colloquium, Briercrest Seminary, Caronport, Canada, Apr. 11, 2012. Children at Risk: Exodus and Anxiety in the Early French Cinema, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November, 2011. Seduction in DeMille's Ten Commandments (1923) Transformations of Antiquity Symposium, Humboldt University, Berlin, March 18, 2011 (and then subsequently in the Research Seminar of the Biblical Studies department of the University of Sheffield, Sept 10, 2011). Is the governor also among the prophets? Parsing the purposes of Jeremiah in the memory of Nehemiah, Joint seminar of the Faculty of Divinity and CAMES, Cambridge University, February 9, 2011. Can Anything Targumic Come from Qumran? Revisiting Klaus Beyer s Targums of Tobit and Isaiah. Congress of the International Organisation for Targum Studies Helsinki, Finland, Aug, 2010. Seduction in DeMille's Ten Commandments (1923) Bible and Film Consultation. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, November, 2009. The Ten Commandments (1923): a panel discussion (with Prof. Cheryl Exum [Sheffield]). Bible and Film Consultation. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, November, 2009.
Do you love me? John 21:15-17 in its narrative context Autumn Meeting of the Irish Biblical Association, October 13, 2009, Maynooth. Strike his flesh and his bone : Reading Job from the Beginning, Society for Old Testament Studies, Durham University, Summer, 2006. From Gospel to Gibson: An Interview with the Writers behind Mel Gibson s The Passion of the Christ (Convenor and Participant) Special Seminar (with Prof. Alice Bach). Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, November, 2004. Rendering flesh and bones: the Peshitta of Job and its translation. The Bible of Edessa. Towards a New English Annotated Translation of the Peshitta. Peshitta Institute, Leiden, August 2, 2004. What s in a name? Targum and Taxonomy in the Caves of Qumran The Seminar for the Study of Judaism in Late Antiquity. Faculty of Theology, Durham University, Durham, England, May 2003; Aramaic Studies Section. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November, 2003. Prophetaphobia: Fear and False Prophecy in Nehemiah 6 Ezra-Nehemiah-Chronicles Section, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Toronto, November, 2002; Biblical Studies Seminar, Faculty of Divinity, New College, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland, June, 2003 Drinking, like water, iniquity : Translation, Transposition and Targum in the Aramaic versions of Job. Congress of the International Organisation for Targum Studies Basel, Switzerland, August, 2001. Will the Real Targum Please Stand Up? Translation and Coordination in the Ancient Aramaic Versions of Job? Aramaic Studies Section. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November, 1999. Violence in the Fields? Translating, Reading and Revising in Ruth 2 Bible Translation Section. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November, 1999. Before Bomberg: The Case of the Targum of Job in the Rabbinic Bible and the Solger Codex Congress of the International Organisation for Targum Studies (affiliated with International Organisation for the Study of the Old Testament), Norway, Oslo. July, 1998. Translating and Supplementing: A(nother) look at the Targumic Versions of Genesis 4:3-16 Targum Colloquium, Theologische Universiteit Kampen, Kampen, Netherlands. January, 1998. Returning to the Field of Boaz: Translation and Tradition in Ruth Chapter 2 Conference on the Study of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, 1995. Esteem Indicators
Committee Member, Society of Old Testament Studies (UK and Ireland), 2012-present. Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester, Religions and Theology, 2011 present Co-chair, The Bible and the Moving Image programme unit, International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, 2011-present. Founder and Coordinator, Chester Biblical Studies Seminar (departmental research seminar), 2011- Executive Committee Member, International Organization for Targum Studies, 2007-present. External Examiner, Biblical studies, University of Sheffield, 2011 present. External Examiner, Biblical studies, University of Aberdeen (International Christian College), 2011 present.