Milestones: Philip R. Davies (1945–2018)

On May 31, one of the most important Biblical scholars of our era, Professor Philip R. Davies, died. He studied at the universities of Oxford and St. Andrews, but his name would become synonymous with the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield, which he helped develop into the cutting-edge center of Biblical scholarship from the 1970s to the 2000s. Davies epitomized the changes that took place in the field over the past 40–50 years. A specialist in early Judaism, his early work was focused on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and he was instrumental in ensuring that […]