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CURRICULUM VITAE

津村俊夫（つむらとしお）
David Toshio Tsumura
1944年生まれ。

聖書神学舎旧約学教師 (1974年～2021年)。
文学博士(Ph.D. 1973) ブランダイス大学。
ハーバード大学研究員(1973 年～1974 年)、ティンデル聖書学研究所研究員(1986 年～1988年)、筑波大学助教授（1975 年～2000 年）を歴任。
米国聖書学会編集委員(JBL)を経て、2019から国際旧約学会編集顧問(VT )。
現在、新日本聖書刊行会理事（編集委員長）、聖書考古学資料館理事長。聖書宣教会 「聖書学研究所」所長。

著書：Earth and Waters in Genesis 1 and 2 (1989), Creation and Destruction (2005), TheFirst and Second Book of Samuel (NICOT; 2007, 2019)他。
研究領域：創世記 1 ｰ 11 章、ヘブル詩の並行法、ヘブル語の動詞、談話文法、詩篇、雅歌、サムエル記、小預言書、カナンの文化と宗教、創造神話、ウガリト語、比較セム語等。

CURRICULUM VITAE 2023.3.1

Name: TSUMURA, David Toshio
Title: Prof. / Dr.
Date of birth: Feb 4, 1944


Position: Emeritus Prof. of Old Testament, Japan Bible Seminary 2-9-3 Hanenishi, Hamura, Tokyo 205-0017


Education:
1966.3 Hitotsubashi University (B.S. in Commerce)
1969.6 Asbury Theological Seminary (M.Div.)
1971.6 Brandeis University (M.A. in Mediterranean Studies)
1973.6 Brandeis University (Ph.D. in Mediterranean Studies)

Research:
1973.9 -74.3 Harvard University, Divinity School (Visiting Scholar)
1979.7-9 University of Michigan (Visiting Scholar)
1986.7 -88.3 Tyndale House, Cambridge, U.K. (Research Fellow)
1994.6-7 Harvard University, Dept of Near Eastern Studies (Visiting Scholar)

Job history:
1974.4 Japan Bible Seminary (Lecturer in Old Testament)
1975.4 University of Tsukuba, Institute for Literature and Linguistics(Associate Professor of Semitic Linguistics)
1990.4- Japan Bible Seminary (Professor of Old Testament)
-2019.3 (Dean of Faculty 2005.4-2009.3)

Membership:
Society of Biblical Literature (U.S.A.)
Society for Old Testament Study in Japan
Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan
Biblical Exegesis Study Group in Japan, etc.

Current Research:
Creation and Chaos, Ugaritic liturgical texts, Canaanite religion, Samuel, Hebrew poetry

Editorship:
1990- Exegetica: Studies in Biblical Exegesis (Japanese): Editor
2010-15 Journal of Biblical Literature: Editorial Board member
2010-23 Shinkaiyaku 2017 (New Japanese Bible): Editor-in-chief
2019- Vetus Testamentun: Advisory Committee member
2022- Tyndale Bulletin: Advisory editor

Other Scholarly Works:
1977.8- Oral presentation at various international academic societies
(WCJS/Jerusalem, IOSOT/Oslo, München, Aberdeen, Zürich,
RAI/London, Münster, Ugarit 75/Sherbrook, SBL/San Francisco, San
Diego, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, San Antonio, Salzburg, Denver,
NAPH/Los Angeles, ICANAS/Tokyo, Hong Kong, TF/Cambridge,
Assyriology/Tsukuba)
Session Chairman: Louvain (CBL), Salzburg (SBL)
1986.7- Invited lectures at Cambridge, Copen Hagen, Atlanta, Seoul,
Hong Kong, Peking, Lanzhou, Xi’an, Aberdeen (IOSOT 2019)
2019.8.10 External examiner for a St. Andrews University PhD thesis

Publications:
[BOOKS] –– selected ––

  1. The Ugaritic Drama of the Good Gods: A Philological Study. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1973. [Ph.D. dissertation, Brandeis University].
  2. The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2 (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series 83). Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989.
  3. Richard S. Hess & David Tsumura (eds.), “I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood”: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11 (Eisenbrauns, 1994), pp. xvi & 480.
  4. Creation and Destruction: A Reappraisal of the Chaoskampf Theory in the Old Testament. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.
  5. Creation and Flood. Tokyo: Japan Bible Society, 2006. [Japanese]
  6. The First Book of Samuel (NICOT). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
  7. The Second Book of Samuel (NICOT). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2019.
  8. Heburu-Shi no Bunpou: Seisho-Heburugo no Heikouhou [= Grammar of Hebrew Poetry: Pararellism in Biblical Hebrew]. Tokyo: Hitsuji Shobo, 2022. [Japanese]
  9. Vertical Grammar of Parallelism in Biblical Hebrew (Ancient Israel and Its Literature 47). Atlanta: SBL Press, 2023.
  10. Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Canaan? Papers on Ugaritic Religion and Language (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike ). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck [forthcoming].

[ARTICLES] – selected –

  1. “A Ugaritic God, Mt-w-Šr, and his two Weapons (UT 52:8-11),” Ugarit Forschungen 6 (1974), 407-413.
  2. “A Problem of Myth and Ritual Relationship: CTA 23 (UT 52): 56-57 Reconsidered,” Ugarit Forschungen 10 (1978), 387-95.
  3. “The Vetitive Particle ya and the Poetic Structure of Proverb 31:4,” Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute 4 (1978), 23-31.
  4. “The verba primae waw, wld, in Ugaritic,” Ugarit Forschungen 11 (1979), 779-782.
  5. “Literary Structure of Psalm 46, 2-8,” Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute 6 (1980), 29-55.
  6. “Sorites in Psalm 133, 2-3a,” Biblica 61 (1980), 416-17.
  7. “Ritual Rubric or Mythological Narrative? CTA 23 (UT 52): 56-57 Reconsidered,” Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress of Jewish Studies,1977: Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
    (Jerusalem, 1981), 9-16.
  8. “Twofold image of wine in Psalm 46: 4-5,” Jewish Quarterly Review 71 (1981), 167-75.
  9. “Literary Insertion (AXB) Pattern in Biblical Hebrew,” Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies,1981. Division a: The Period of the Bible. Jerusalem, 1982, 1-6.
  10. “Hab 2: 2 in the Light of Akkadian Legal Practice,” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 94 (1982), 294-95.
  11. “Janus Parallelism in Nah 1: 8,” Journal of Biblical Literature 102 (1983), 109-11.
  12. “Literary Insertion (AXB Pattern) in Biblical Hebrew,” Vetus Testamentum 33 (1983), 468-82.
  13. “The Problem of Childlessness in the Royal Epic of Ugarit,” in Monarchies and Socio-Religious Traditions in the Ancient Near East. (Otto Harrassowitz, 1984), 11-20.
  14. “Literary Insertion, AXB Pattern, in Hebrew and Ugaritic: A Problem of Adjacency and Dependency in Poetic Parallelism,” Ugarit Forschungen 18 (1986), 351-61.
  15. “Niphal with an Internal Object in Habakkuk 3: 9a,” Journal of Semitic Studies 31 (1986), 11-16.
  16. “Nabalkutu, tu-a-bi-[u] and tohû wābohû,” Ugarit Forschungen 19 (1987), 309-15.
  17. “‘The Deluge’ (mabbûl) in Psalm 29:10,” Ugarit Forschungen 20 (1988), 351-55.
  18. “‘Inserted Bicolon’, the AXYB Pattern, in Amos I 5 and Psalm IX 7,” Vetus Testamentum 38 (1988), 234-36.
  19. “A ‘hyponymous’ word pair, ‘rṣ and thm(t), in Hebrew and Ugaritic,” Biblica 69 (1988), 258-69.
  20. “Tohû in Isa. XLV 19,” Vetus Testamentum 38 (1988), 361-64.
  21. “Ugaritic Poetry and Habakkuk 3,” Tyndale Bulletin 40 (1989), 24-48.
  22. “Vowel sandhi in Ugaritic,” in Near Eastern Studies Dedicated to H. I. H. Prince Takahito Mikasa on the Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (BMECCJ 5; Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, 1991),
    427-35.
  23. “The Interpretation of the Ugaritic Funerary Text KTU 1.161,” in Official Cult and Popular Religion in the Ancient Near East, ed. by Eiko Matsushima (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1993), 40-55.
  24. “Poetic Nature of the Hebrew Narrative Prose in I Samuel 2:12-17,” in J.C. de Moor and W.G.E. Watson (eds.), Verse in Ancient Near Eastern Prose (AOAT 42; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1993), 293-304.
  25. “Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction,” in Richard S. Hess & David Tsumura (eds.), “I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood” : Ancient Near Eastern,
    Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11 (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1994), 27-57.
  26. “A Note on hrnk (Gen 3,16),” Biblica 75 (1994), 398-400.
  27. “The ‘Word Pair’, *qšt and *mṭ, in Habakkuk 3:9 in the Light of Ugaritic and Akkadian,” in J. Coleson & V. Mathews (eds.), Go to the Land I Will Show You: Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young. (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1996), 357-65.
  28. “Coordination Interrupted, or Literary Insertion AX&B Pattern, in the Books of Samuel,” in Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies in the Hebrew Bible, eds. by L.J. de Regt, J. de Waard and J.P. Fokkelman (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1996), 117-32.
  29. “The Father of Ugaritic Studies,” Biblical Archaeologist 59 (1996), 44-50.
  30. “Vowel sandhi in Biblical Hebrew,” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 109 (1997), 575-88.
  31. “Kings and Cults in Ancient Ugarit”, in Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East, ed. by Kazuko Watanabe (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1999), 215-38.
  32. “Scribal Errors or Phonetic Spellings? Samuel as an Aural Text,” Vetus Testamentum 49 (1999), 390-411.
  33. “List and Narrative in I Samuel 6,17-18a in the Light of Ugaritic Economic Texts”, Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 113 (2001), 353-69.
  34. “Vertical Grammar – the grammar of parallelism in Biblical Hebrew” in Hamlet on a Hill: Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, eds. by M.F.J. Baasten & W.Th. van Peursen (Leuven: Peeters, 2003), 487-97.
  35. “Some Examples of Linguistic Variants in 1-2 Samuel,” Orient: Report of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan 38 (2003), 36-50.
  36. “‘Misspellings’ in Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit: Some Cases of Loss or Addition of Signs,” in Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society: Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard, eds. by P. Bienkowski, C. Mee & E. Slater (Library of Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Studies, 426; New York/ London: T & T Clark International, 2005), 143-53.
  37. “Canaan, Canaanites,” in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books, eds. by B. T. Arnold & H. G. M. Williamson (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2005), 122-32.
  38. “The « Chaoskampf » Motif in Ugaritic and Hebrew Literatures “, in J.- M. Michaud (ed), Le Royaume d’Ougarit de la Crète à l’Euphrate. Nouveaux axes de Recherche (Proche-Orient et
    Littérature Ougaritique II; Sherbrooke: GGC, 2007), 473-99.
  39. “Polysemy and Parallelism in Hab 1,8-9” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 120 (2008), 194-203.
  40. “Revisiting the ‘seven’ Good Gods of fertility in Ugarit — Is Albright’s emendation of KTU 1.23:64 correct? –” Ugarit Forschungen 39 (2008), 629-41.
  41. “Vertical Grammar of Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry,” Journal of Biblical Literature 128 (2009), 167-81.
  42. “Tense and Aspect of Hebrew Verbs in II Samuel vii 8-16 — from the Point of View of Discourse Grammar* —” Vetus Testamentum 60 (2010), 641-54.
  43. “The Doctrine of creatio ex nihilo and the Translation of tōhû wābōhû” in Pentateuchal Traditions in the Late Second Temple Period: Proceedings of the International Workshop in Tokyo, August 28-31, 2007 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 158; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2012), 3-21.
  44. “Parallelism” in Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Vol. 3: P–Z (Leiden/Boston: Koninklijke Brill, 2013), 15-19.
  45. “Janus Parallelism in Hab iii 4,” Vetus Testamentum 54 (2004), 124-28 [repr. in Vetus Testamentum IOSOT 2013, pp. 113-19.]
  46. “Textual Corruptions, or Linguistic Phenomena? — The Cases in 2 Samuel (MT) —” Vetus Testamentum 64 (2014), 135-45.
  47. “The Creation Motif in Psalm 74:12-14? A Reappraisal of the Theory of the Dragon Myth,” Journal of Biblical Literature 134 (2015), 547-55.
  48. “Temporal Consistency and Narrative Cohesion in 2 Sam 7,8-11” in The Books of Samuel: Stories – History – Reception History (CBL 2014), ed. by W. Dietrich (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 284; Leuven: Peeters, 2016), 385-92.
  49. “Verticality in Biblical Hebrew Parallelism” in Advances in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics, eds. by A. Moshavi and T. Notarius (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 12; Winona Lake, In: Eisenbrauns, 2017), 189-206.
  50. “Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East and Its Implications for Genesis 1-2,” as Chapter 10 of Since the Beginning: Interpreting Genesis 1 and 2 through the Ages, ed. by K. R. Greenwood. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018), 215-38.
  51. “Vertical Grammar of Biblical Hebrew Parallelism: The AXX’B Pattern in Tetracolons,” Vetus Testamentum 69 (2019), 447-59.
  52. “Is IL a Proper Noun in the phrase BT IL and in the Ugaritic Pantheon Lists?” Ugarit Forschungen 50 (2019), 377-95.
  53. “Statement – Development – Twist – Denouement: the AA’XB Pattern in Biblical Hebrew Poetry,” in Prince of the Orient: A Memorial Volume for H. I. H. Prince Takahito Mikasa. Orient: Journal of the Society for the Near Eastern Studies in Japan, Special Volume, ed. by I. Nakata, Y. Nishiaki, T. Odaka, M. Yamada and S. Yamada, pp. 269-72.
  54. “Speaker-Oriented Connective Particle ʿal-kēn in 2 Sam. 7:22,” Journal of Semitic Studies 65 (2020), 85-91.
  55. “The Chaoskampf Myth in the Biblical Tradition,” Journal for the American Oriental Society 140 (2020), 963-69.
  56. “Vertical Grammar of Parallelism in Ugaritic Poetry,” in “Like Ilu Are You Wise: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures in Honor of Dennis G. Pardee, edited by H. H. Hardy II, J. Lam, and E. D. Reymond, Chicago: OIP, 2022), 267-77.
  57. “Creation Out of Conflict? The Chaoskampf Motif in the Old Testament: Cosmic Dualism or creatio ex nihilo,” Congress Volume Aberdeen 2019 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2022), 474-91.
  58. “Chaos and Chaoskampfin the Bible”: Is ‘Chaos’ a Suitable Term to Describe Creation or Conflict in the Bible?” (pp. 243-81); “Response to Nicholas Wyatt, ‘Distinguishing Wood and Trees in the Waters: Creation in Biblical Thought’” (pp. 285-98); “Some Observations on Nicholas Wyatt’s Response” (pp. 325-28), in Conversations on Canaanite and Biblical Themes: Creation, Chaos and Monotheism, eds. by R. S. Watson and A. H. W. Curtis. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022).
  59. “Conversational Aposiopesis in the MT Samuel: Textual Omission or Conversational Ellipsis?” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (2023), 86–96.
  60. “IL as the Collective Godhead ˀIlū in LB Ugarit,” Journal for the American Oriental Society [forthcoming].