User:Harold W. Attridge

Harold W. Attridge, the Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament. Dean Attridge has made scholarly contributions to New Testament exegesis and to the study of Hellenistic Judaism and the history of the early Church. His publications include Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, First-Century Cynicism in the Epistles of Heraclitus, The Interpretation of Biblical History in the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius Josephus, and Nag Hammadi Codex I: The Jung Codex, as well as numerous book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. He has edited eleven books, most recently, with Margot Fassler, Psalms in Community. He has been an editorial board member of Catholic Biblical Quarterly, the Harvard Theological Review, the Journal of Biblical Literature, and the Hermeneia Commentary Series. He has been active in the Society of Biblical Literature and served as president of the society in 2001.

Quote Hebrews, then, displays a dialogical use of psalmody that, by giving a dramatic foice to Jesus also offers a model for Christian liturgical life, a model that says, in effect, that in the psalms his followers will find their relationship to God.

From "Giving Voice to Jesus" p. 110 in Psalms in Community: Jewish and Christian Textual, Liturgical, and Artistic Traditions (2003)

Education A.B Boston College B.A., M.A. Cambridge University, Marshall Scholar Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ph.D. Harvard University Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University

Books The Testament of Job (with R. A. Kraft, et al.; SBL Texts and Translations 5; Missoula: Scholars, 1974). The Syrian Goddess (De Dea Syria) attributed to Lucian (with R. Oden; SBL Texts and Translations 9; Missoula: Scholars, 1976). The Interpretation of Biblical History in the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius Josephus (Harvard Dissertations in Religion 7; Missoula: Scholars, 1976). First-century Cynicism in the Epistles of Heraclitus (Harvard Theological Studies 29; Missoula: Scholars, 1976). Philo of Byblos, The Phoenician History (with R. Oden; Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 9; Washington: Catholic Biblical Association, 1981). Nag Hammadi Codex I (The Jung Codex) (Nag Hammadi Studies 22, 23; Leiden: Brill, 1985). Volume editor and contributor (Gospel of Truth, with George MacRae, and the Tripartite Tractate, with Elaine Pagels). Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hermeneia Commentary Series; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989). (with Gohei Hata) Eusebius, Early Christianity and Judaism, (Tokyo: Yamamoto Shoten, and Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992). (with Margot Fassler) Psalms in Community (Atlanta: SBL; Leiden: Brill, 2003). (with Sarah Illes Johnston, et al.) Religions of the Ancient World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004). Harper Collins Study Bible (Rev. ed.; San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006) (with James VanderKam) Presidential Voices: The Society of Biblical Literature in the Twentieth Century (Atlanta: SBL; Leiden: Brill, 2006). The Religion and Science Debate: Why Does it Continue? (Centennial Terry Lectures; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009). The Acts of Thomas (Early Christian Apocrypha 3; Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 2010).