Preliminary Inventory of the William D. Davies papers, 1940-1987

Abstract

William David Davies (1911-2001) served as a Professor at Duke University Divinity School, from 1950 to 1955 and was George Washington Ivey Professor of Advanced Studies and Research in Christian Origins from 1966 to 1981.

The collection features correspondence, course materials, writings, subject files, sermon notes, and research notes of William D. Davies. Major research subjects include the New Testament, Christian theology, Judaism, and the issue of territorial imperative with regard to land.

Descriptive Summary

Repository: University Archives, Duke University
Creator: Davies, W. D. (William David), 1911-2001.
Title: William D. Davies papers, 1940-1987
Language of Material: English
Extent: 76.5 Linear Feet, 76,500 Items
Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

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Correspondence, manuscript materials, article reprints, student papers, lecture notes, course reading materials, sermon notes, student notebooks relating to courses taken at the University of Wales Memorial College in Brecon, general research subject files, research notes relating to teaching at Duke University, Columbia University, Princeton, and Texas Christian College.

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Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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51 Boxes

The Gospel and the Land-drafts, notes

Box 1

Jerusalem and the Land in the Christian tradition-drafts, notes

Box 2

The Jewish State in the Hellenistic World

Box 2

The Territorial Dimension of Judaism

Box 2

Cambridge History of Judaism

Box 3

Miscellaneous Course materials, 1967

Box 3

General research: Judeo-Christian relations

Box 4

Miscellaneous sermon and lecture notes

Box 4

Lecture notes

Box 5

Student papers

Box 5

Pantyfedwen Lecture (Wales)

Box 5

Paul and the Law

Box 5

The New Creation (sermon collection)

Box 6

Miscellaneous papers

Box 6

Miscellaneous lecture notes

Box 6

Cambridge History of Judaism (CHJ)

Box 7

Personal and professional correspondence, arranged by date

Box 8

Sermons preached in Fowlmere, England, 1941-1946

Box 9

Kearns Lecture, Duke University

Box 9

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1967-1968

Box 9

Cambridge History of Judaism, volume 1

Box 10

Miscellaneous research articles in Italian

Box 10

General correspondence, 1973-1978 (A89-70)

Box 11

General correspondence, 1978-1981

Box 12

People/project files (A-G)

Box 13

Vita

Box 13

People/project files (H-P)

Box 14

People/project files (Q-Z)

Box 15

Cambridge History of Judaism correspondence, 1971-1980

Box 16

Cambridge History of Judaism, general manuscript material, 1980-1986

Box 17

Cambridge History of Judaism, general manuscript material, 1981-1988

Box 18

Cambridge History of Judaism, general manuscript material, volumes I-II

Box 19

Cambridge History of Judaism, general manuscript material, volumes III-IV

Box 20

Aboth

Box 21

Territory

Box 21

Holy Land Colloquium, 1975

Box 21

Miscellaneous research papers (authored by colleagues)

Box 21

Daube writings

Box 22

Miscellaneous correspondence

Box 22

NEH Seminar information and applications, 1982

Box 22

Miscellaneous research papers (authored by colleagues)

Box 23

Student papers, ca 1960-1986

Box 23

General research subject files (bulk 1973-1974)

Box 24

University Research Council

Box 24

Travel expenses

Box 24

Grants, 1981-1982

Box 24

Course outlines

Box 25

General research subject files, bulk 1973-1974

Box 25

Personal files ("from desk")

Box 26

General research subject files

Box 26

Cambridge History of Judaism, general manuscript material, ca 1967

Box 27

Sermon notes

Box 27

Miscellaneous articles

Box 27

Lecture notes

Box 28

Sermon notes

Box 28

Reprints

Box 28

Paul, Pauline doctrine

Box 29

Mormonism

Box 29

Lecture notes

Box 29

Miscellaneous writings

Box 29

Miscellaneous research papers (authored by colleagues): A-B

Box 30

Miscellaneous research papers (authored by colleagues): C-Di

Box 31

Miscellaneous research papers (authored by colleagues): Do-G

Box 32

Miscellaneous research papers (authored by colleagues): H-K

Box 33

Miscellaneous research papers (authored by colleagues): L-M

Box 34

Miscellaneous research papers (authored by colleagues): Sch-St

Box 35

Miscellaneous research papers (authored by colleagues): St-W

Box 36

Miscellaneous reprints

Box 37

Course teaching notes

Box 38

Introduction to Theory

Box 38

Cambridge History of Judaism, volumes II-IV

Box 39

International Critical Commentary, volume II

Box 39

International Critical Commentary, volumes I-II

Box 40

Book reviews of works by Davies

Box 41

Details of appointments at Duke, Berkeley, and Princeton

Box 41

Conference and lecture notes

Box 41

Commentary on Matthew

Box 42

Japan correspondence

Box 42

Miscellaneous writings

Box 42

International Critical Commentary, galley proofs

Box 43

Student notebooks (at Brecon), ca 1930

Box 44

Student notebooks (at Brecon), ca 1930

Box 45

Correspondence P-Sch

Box 46

Correpsondence N-O

Box 47

Torah Min Hashamayim

Box 48

Society of Biblical Literature certificate, 1976

Box 48

Miscellaneous correspondence (mostly 1996-1997)

Box 48

Draft of Reflections on Aspects of the Jewish Background of the Gospel of John

Box 48

Miscellaneous writings and correspondence (mostly 1996-1997)

Box 49

Article reprints

Box 49

Sermon at Princeton University, 1985

Box 49

Bibliography

Box 49

Mystical Antisemitism

Box 49

Reviews of Cambridge History of Judaism

Box 49

The Shroud of Turin (by colleagues)

Box 50

Miscellaneous reprints

Box 50

Correspondence (mostly 1992-1993)

Box 50

Reflections of Judaism

Box 50

Contemporary Quest for the Historical Jesus

Box 50

Framed photographs

Box 50

Reprints, 1995

Box 50

Compositional History of Q, draft

Box 51

Paul and the New Exodus

Box 51

Reflections on Aspects of the Jewish Background of the Gospel of John

Box 51

Then and There

Box 51

The Jewish Sources of Matthew's Messianism

Box 51

The Intertextual Jesus: Scripture in Q

Box 51

Historical Note

William David Davies was born in Wales, United Kingdom, and educated at the University of Wales (B.A. 1934, B.D. 1938) and Cambridge University (B.A. 1940, M.A. 1942). Davies received his doctorate (D.D. operis causa 1948) from the University of Wales.

In 1941 Davies was ordained into the Congregational Church at Fowlmere, England. He taught at Yorkshire United College, Bradford, from 1946 to 1950 before moving to Duke for five years as a professor of Biblical theology (1950 to 1955). From 1955 through 1959 he was professor of religion at Princeton University, leaving to become Edward Robinson Professor of Biblical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York, as well as adjunct professor at Columbia University. He rejoined the Duke faculty in 1966 as George Washington Ivey Professor of Advanced Studies and Research in Christian Origins. He stayed until his retirement in 1981. He then became the Bradford Professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas and in 1986-87 he was a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK. He also taught at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Strasboroug, France.

Davies held numerous fellowships and received several awards and honors. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, (from which he also received the Burkitt Medal in Biblical Studies), an Honorary Fellow of Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam College, a Fellow of the Bellagio Center, Italy, and Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research. He was a recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and received honorary doctoral degrees from the University of St. Andrews, the Pacific School of Religion, Uppsala University and the University of Wales. Davies also served as honorary president of the Society for Biblical Literature and President of the Society of New Testament Studies (1976). He was a member of the executive committee of the World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem (1965).

Some of his published works include Paul and Rabbinic Judaism (1948), The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount (1966), and The Gospel and the Land: Early Christianity and Jewish Territorial Doctrine (1974). His popular Invitation to the New Testament (1966) was a Religion section of Book of the Month Club. He was also co-editor of the Cambridge History of Judaism and along with a former student published an International Critical Commentary on Matthew (3 vols).