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Articles by Al Wolters

 

1979    On Vollenhoven's Problem-Historical Method,” in J. Kraay and A. Tol, eds., Hearing and Doing.  Philosophical Essays Dedicated to H. Evan Runner (Toronto:  Wedge, 1979) 231-262.

 

1981    “The Structure of Enneads II, 9,” in Henry VanderGoot, ed., Life is Religion:  Essays in Honor of H. Evan Runner (St. Catharines: Paideia Press, 1981) 83-94.

 

“Facing the Perplexing History of Philosophy,” Tydskrif vir christelike wetenskap 17 (1981) 1-17.  Also available as an ICS Academic Paper.

 

1982    “A Survey of Modern Scholarly Opinion on Plotinus and Indian Thought,” in R. Baine Harris, ed., Neoplatonism and Indian Thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982) 293-308.

 

“Truth as Relational,” RES Theological Forum 9 (1982) 7-11.

 

1983            “Aspects of Ficino's Translation of Plotinus,” in Proceedings:  Fourth Medieval Forum (April 22-23, 1983) (Plymouth State College, 1983) 98-99.

 

“Dutch Neo-Calvinism:  Worldview, Philosophy and Rationality,” in H. Hart et al., eds., Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition (Lanham MD:  University Press of America, 1983) 113-131.

 

Review article of J. Igal, Plotino: Enéadas I-II, Spanish translation of Plotinus, Dionysius 7 (1983) 33-41.*

 

1984    “Nature and Grace in the Interpretation of Proverbs 31:10-31,” Calvin Theological Journal 19 (1984) 153-166.*

 

1985            Sôpiyyâ (Prov 31:27) as Hymnic Participle and Play on sophia," Journal of Biblical Literature 104 (1985) 577-587.*

 

“The Intellectual Milieu of Herman Dooyeweerd,” in C.T. McIntire, ed., The Legacy of Herman Dooyeweerd (New York: University Press of America, 1985) 1-19.

 

1986    “The First Draft of Ficino's Translation of Plotinus,” in Marsilio Ficino e il ritorno di Platone.  Studi e Documenti, a cura di Gian Carlo Garfagnini (2 vols.; Florence: Olschki, 1986) 1.305-329.

 

“Ficino and Plotinus’ Treatise ‘On Eros’,” Ficino and Renaissance Neoplatonism, K. Eisenbichler and O.Z. Pugliese, eds. (University of Toronto Italian Studies 1; Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1986) 189-197.


 

1987    “Recent Biographical Studies of Calvin,” In Honour of John Calvin, 1509-64.  Papers from the 1986 International Calvin Symposium, McGill University, E.J. Furcha, ed. (ARC Supplement #3; Montreal:  Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, 1987) 349-360.

 

“Notes on the Copper Scroll (3Q15),” Revue de Qumran, 48 (1987) 589-596.*

 

“Poliziano as a Translator of Plotinus,” Renaissance Quarterly 40 (1987) 452-64.*

 

“Worldview and Textual Criticism in 2 Peter 3:10,” Westminster Theological Journal 49 (1987) 405-413.*

 

1988    “The Last Treasure of the Copper Scroll,” Journal of Biblical Literature 107 (1988) 419-429.*

 

“Wordplay and Dialect in Amos 8:1-2,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 31 (1988) 407-410.*

 

“The Fifth Cache of the Copper Scroll: ‘The Plastered Cistern of Manos’,” Revue de Qumran 13 (1988) 167-176.*

 

“Proverbs xxxi 10-31 as Heroic Hymn:  A Form-critical Analysis,” Vetus Testamentum 38 (1988) 446-457.* [See also 2000.]

 

1989    “On the Idea of Worldview and Its Relation to Philosophy,” in Paul A. Marshall, et al., eds., Stained Glass:  Worldview and Social Science (Lanham MD:  University Press of America, 1989), 14-25.

 

“Shield and Sword,” in Edward E. Ericson et al., Servant or Tyrant?  The Task and Limits of Government (Mississauga, ON:  Christian Labour Association of Canada, 1989) 1-4. [Reprinted in 1995.]

 

“The Balaamites of Deir ‘Alla as Aramean Deportees,” Hebrew Union College Annual 59 (1988) 101-113 [copyright 1989].*

 

“The reformational-evangelical worldview and the future mission of institutions of Christian higher education in a North American context,” in B.J. van der Walt, ed., Visie en Missie/Vision and Mission (Potchefstroom:  Institute for Reformational Studies, 1989) 84-95.

 

1990            “Christianity and the Classics: A Typology of Attitudes,” in W. Helleman, ed., Christianity and the Classics: The Acceptance of a Heritage (Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1990) 189-203.

 


 

“The Oracle in Ficino's Translation of the Vita Plotini,” in D. Harlfinger, ed., Philophron_ma: Festschrift für Martin Sicherl zum 75. Geburtstag. Von Textkritik bis Humanismusforschung (Paderborn: Schöningh, 1990) 237-251.

 

“‘A Child of Dust and Ashes’ (Job 42:6b),” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 102 (1990) 116-119.*

 

“‘Partners of the Deity’:  A Covenantal Reading of 2 Pet 1:4,” Calvin Theological Journal 25 (1990) 28-44.*

 

“Apocalyptic and the Copper Scroll,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 49 (1990) 145-154.*

 

“Not rescue but destruction: rereading Exod 15:8,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 52 (1990) 223-240.*

 

“The Copper Scroll and the Vocabulary of Mishnaic Hebrew,” Revue de Qumran 14 (1990) 483-495.*

 

“Was Aristotle Committed to a Cardinal Tenet of Reformational Philosophy?” Philosophia Reformata 55 (1990) 198-202.

 

1991            “Aspects of the Literary Structure of Combination I,” in The Balaam Text from Deir ‘Alla Re-evaluated. Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Leiden, 21-24 August 1989 (ed. J. Hoftijzer and G. van der Kooij; Leiden:  Brill, 1991) 294-304.

 

“Untying the King's Knots: Physiology and Wordplay in Daniel 5,” Journal of Biblical Literature 110 (1991) 117-122.*

 

“Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928-),” in Bringing into Captivity Every Thought, Capita Selecta in the History of Christian Evaluations of Non-Christian Philosophy (ed. J. Klapwijk et al.; Lanham MD:  University Press of America, 1991) 229-240.

 

“Postscript to ‘Partners of the Deity’,” Calvin Theological Journal 26 (1991) 418-420.*

 

1992            “Reflections on ‘Primeval History’ and Van Till's Hermeneutics,” Mid-America Journal of Theology 6 (1990) 117-124 [published in 1992].

 

“Literary Analysis and the Copper Scroll,” in Intertestamental Essays in Honour of Józef Tadeusz Milik (ed. Z. J. Kapera; Cracow:  Enigma Press, 1992) 239-52.

 

“The Riddle of the Scales in Daniel 5,” Hebrew Union College Annual 62 (1991) 155-177 [published in 1992].*

 


 

1993    “A Different Way of Looking at Genesis 2 -- A Response,” The Pascal Centre Notebook 2 (1991/92) 3-4 [published in 1993].

 

“Hart's Exegetical Proposal on Romans 1,” Calvin Theological Journal 28 (1993) 166-170.*

 

“An Allusion to Libra in Daniel 5,” in Die Rolle der Astronomie in den Kulturen Mesopotamiens (Grazer Morgenländische Studien 3; ed. Hannes D. Galter; Graz, 1993) 291-306.

 

1994            “Halley's Comet at a Turning Point in Jewish History,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 55 (1993) 687-697 [published in 1994].*

 

“History and the Copper Scroll,” in Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present  Realities and Future Prospects (ed. M. O. Wise et al.;Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 722; New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1994) 285-98.

 

Anthr_poi  eudokias (Luke 2:14) and ’nšy rswn (4Q416),” Journal of Biblical Literature 113 (1994) 291-92.*

 

Creatio ex nihilo in Philo,” in Hellenization Revisited (ed. W. E. Helleman; Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1994) 107-124.

 

“Creation Order: A Historical Look at Our Heritage,” in God's  Order for Creation (ed. B.J. van der Walt; Potchefstroom:  Institute for Reformational Studies, 1994) 42-61. [See also 1995.]

 

“Text and Script of the LXX Vorlage of Job 40:17b,” Textus: Studies of the Hebrew University Bible Project 17 (1994) 101-115.*

 

Zohar h_r_qiac (Daniel 12.3) and Halley's Comet,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 61 (1994) 111-120.*

 

1995    “The meaning of kîšôr (Proverbs 31:19),” Hebrew Union College  Annual 65 (1994) 91-104. [Copyright 1995.]*

 

            “Creation Order: A Historical Look at Our Heritage,” in An Ethos of Compassion and the

Integrity of Creation (ed. Brian J. Walsh et al.; Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1995) 33-48. [Previously published in South Africa in 1994.]

 

            “Belshazzar's Feast and the Cult of the Moon God Sin,”  Bulletin for Biblical Research 5 (1995) 199-206.*

 


 

            “The Tetragrammaton in the Psalms Scroll,” Textus: Studies of the Hebrew University Bible Project 18 (1995) 87-99.*

 

            “Shield and Sword,” in Confessing Christ in Doing Politics. Essays on Christian. PoliticalThought and Action (ed. B. van der Walt and R. Swanepoel; Potchefstroom:  Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1995) 603-606. [Previouslypublished in 1989.]

 

1996    “Targumic _____ (Zechariah 14:20) = Greek κoρυφαία?”  Journal of Biblical Literature 115 (1996) 710-13.*

 

            “Herman Bavinck on Faith and Science,” in Facets of Faith and Science (4 vols.; ed. J.  van der Meer; Lanham MD: Pascal Centre--University Press of America, 1996) 2.23-55.

 

            “Creation as Separation: A Proposed Link Between Bible and Theory,” in Facets of Faith  and Science (4 vols.; ed. J. van der Meer; Lanham MD: Pascal Centre--University Press of America, 1996) 4.347-52.

 

            “Copper Scroll,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (5 vols.;  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) 2.64-65 [appeared in 1996].

 

1997    The articles “3619 ___,” “4839 ____,” “4888 ___,” 5102 ____,” and “9374 ______,”   in The New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis (5 vols.; ed. Willem A. VanGemeren; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997).

 

            “Balaam: Oracles of,” in New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis (5 vols.; ed. Willem A. VanGemeren; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997) 4.436-    37.

 

            “The Shekinah in the Copper Scroll: A New Reading of 3Q15 12.10,” in The Scrolls and the Scriptures: Qumran Fifty Years After (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha,   Supplement Series, 26; Roehampton Institute London Papers, 3; ed. Stanley E. Porter and  Craig A. Evans; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) 382-91.

 

1998    Abstracts of seven Latin articles (nos. 441, 694, 852, 877, 964, 1089, and 1113) in An Annotated Bibliography of 1 and 2 Thessalonians (New Testament Tools and Studies 24; ed. Jeffrey A. D. Weima and Stanley E. Porter; Leiden: Brill, 1998).

 

            “The Copper Scroll,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A ComprehensiveAssessment (2 vol.; ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; Leiden: Brill, 1998) 1.302-23.

 

            “Cross-Gender Imagery in the Bible,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 8 (1998) 217-228.

 


 

            “Job 32-37: Elihu as the Mouthpiece of God,” in Reading and Hearing the Word: From Text  to Sermon. Essays in Honor of John H. Stek (ed. Arie C. Leder; Grand Rapids: CRC  Publications, 1998) 107-123.

 

1999    “The Text of the Old Testament,” in The Face of Old Testament Studies. A Survey ofContemporary Approaches (ed. David W. Baker and Bill T. Arnold; Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999) 19-37.

 

            “Semantic Borrowing and Inner-Greek Corruption in LXX Zechariah 11:8,” Journal of Biblical Literature 118 (1999) 685-690.*

 

            “The Foundational Command: ‘Subdue the Earth!’” in Year of Jubilee, Cultural mandate,  Worldview (Study Pamphlet No. 382; ed. B. van der Walt; Potchefstroom: Institute for                  Reformational Studies, 1999) 27-34. [Previously available as ICS Academic Paper, 1978.]

 

2000    “Word Play in Zechariah,” in Puns and Pundits: Word Play in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient  Near Eastern Literature (ed. Scott B.Noegel; Bethesda MD: CDL Press, 2000) 223-230.

 

            “Copper Scroll,” in Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2 vols.; eds. Lawrence H.  Schiffman and James C. VanderKam; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) 1.144-148.

 

            “Proverbs xxxi 10-31 as Heroic Hymn: A Form-Critical Analysis,” in Poetry in the Hebrew Bible. Selected Studies from Vetus Testamentum (ed. David E. Orton; Leiden: Brill, 2000) 186-197. [Previously published in 1988.]

 

            “Confessional Criticism and the Night Visions of Zechariah,” in Renewing Biblical Interpretation (Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, Vol. 1; ed. Craig Bartholomew, Colin Greene, and Karl Möller; Carlisle, UK: Paternoster Press/Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000) 90-117.

 

            “Copper Scroll,” 500-word article in Dictionary of New Testament Background (ed. Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter; Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2000).

 

2002   “Metrological PRS-Terms from Ebla to Mishna,” Eblaitica 4 (ed. Cyrus H. Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg; Winona Lake IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002) 223-241.

 

           “Zechariah 14: A Dialogue with the History of Interpretation,” Mid-America Journal of Theology 13 (2002) 39-56.

 

           Co-editor of A Royal Priesthood? The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically: A Dialogue with Oliver O’Donovan (Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, Vol. 3; ed. Craig Bartholomew, Jonathan Chaplin, Robert Song, Al Wolters; Carlisle UK: Paternoster  Press/Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002).


 

2003    “The Importance of H. Evan Runner,” Comment 21.1 (2003) 20-26. Reprinted “Runner’s Impact on the Academy and Beyond: Personal Reflections,” Pro Rege 32  (2003) 1-7.

 

            “Palaeography and Literary Structure as Guides to Reading the Copper Scroll,” in Copper  Scroll Studies (ed. George J. Brooke and Philip R. Davies; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002 [appeared 2003]) 311-333.

 

2004    “A Semantic Study of α_θέvτης and its Derivatives,” Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 1 (2004) 145-175 (first published electronically in 2003).

 

            “Reading the Gospels Canonically: A Methodological Dialogue with Brevard Childs,” in Reading the Gospels Today (ed. Stanley E. Porter; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004) 179-192.

 

            “Zechariah 14 and Biblical Theology: Patristic and Contemporary Case Studies,” in Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, Vol. 5; ed. Craig Bartholomew et al.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004) 261-285.

 

            Co-editor of Herman Dooyeweerd, Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy.   Volume I: The Greek Prelude (trans. Ray Togtman; Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004). I served as editor of the extensive Greek quotations.

 

           

Forthcoming:

 

 “The Cultic Terminology of the Copper Scroll,” Folia Orientalia.

 

             Article on “Worldview” for New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (Inter-Varsity Press, UK).

 

             “Reading the Gospels Canonically: A Methodological Dialogue with Brevard Childs,” in  the Proceedings of the 2002 Bingham Colloquium in New Testament at McMaster  Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario.

 

 

 

 

       



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