1984 BAS Publication Awards
Biblical Archaeology Society is please to announce the winners of the 1984 Publication Awards in Seven Categories:
Discovering Jerusalem: Recent Archaeological Excavations in the Upper City
Nahman Avigad, Hebrew University
(Nelson)
“A masterpiece. This book should set the standards for the award in the coming years.”
Judges:
Oded Borowski, Emory University
Joseph A. Callaway, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University
The Material Culture of the Land of the Bible in the Persian Period 538–332 B.C.
Ephraim Stern, Hebrew University
(Aris & Phillips/Israel Exploration Society)
“The first time the scholar and layperson have a lucid and thorough exposition of nearly all the available evidence for this crucial period in Israelite history.”
Judges:
Philip J. King, Boston College
David I. Owen, Cornell University
Joe D. Seger, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Volume I
James H. Charlesworth, Editor, Princeton Theological Seminary
(Doubleday)
“A massive work of distinguished and meticulous scholarship, bound to become a standard in the field.”
Honorable Mention: Adele Berlin, University of Maryland
Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative (Eisenbrauns)
Judges:
R. Lansing Hicks, Yale University
Nahum Sarna, Brandeis University
Robert R. Wilson, Yale University
Co-Winner
Introduction to the New Testament
Helmut Koester, Harvard University
(Fortress Press)
“A milestone in New Testament research. Situates early Christianity and its literary productions squarely in their historical and cultural context.”
Co-Winner
The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul
Wayne A. Meeks, Yale University
(Yale University Press)
“The best treatment so far of the social context of Paul’s activity as a missionary and a church leader.”
Judges:
Michael David Coogan, Harvard University
Siegfried Horn, Andrews University
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., University of Virginia
Co-Winner
Ezekiel 1–20
Moshe Greenberg, Hebrew University
(Doubleday, Anchor Bible Series)
“Greenberg’s Ezekiel translation effectively uses early commentaries, including rabbinic materials, in a holistic method of interpretation.”
Co-Winner
Ezekiel (Vol. II chapters 25–48)
Walther Zimmerli, University of Göttingen, W. Germany
(Fortress Press, Hermeneia Series)
(Walther Zimmerli died December 4, 1983)
“With noteworthy results, Zimmerli’s original translation has woven together methods of historical, textual, philological, traditio-historical, and history of religions analysis.”
Judges:
Michael Fishbane, Brandeis University
Ernest S. Frerichs, Brown University
Paul David Hanson, Harvard University
The Epistles of John
Raymond E. Brown, Union Theological Seminary
(Doubleday)
“An understandable presentation of the data with Brown’s impressive original judgments. Unquestionably a landmark study of the Johannine Epistles.”
Judges:
Victor Paul Furnish, Southern Methodist University
John C. Hurd, Trinity College
George W. MacRae, S.J., Harvard University
Co-Winner
“Assyria and Its Image in the First Isaiah”
Peter Machinist, University of Arizona
(Journal of the American Oriental Society)
Co-Winner
“Studies in the Structure of Hebrew Verse: The Prosody of Lamentations 1:1–22” (The Word Shall Go Forth)
Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University
(Eisenbrauns)
Co-Winner
“A Paganized Version of Psalm 20:2–6 from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script”
Charles E. Nims, University of Chicago, and Richard C. Steiner, Yeshiva University
(Journal of the American Oriental Society)
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Judges:
Michael David Coogan, Harvard University
Siegfried Horn, Andrews University
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., University of Virginia