David John Alfred Clines (21 November 1938 – 8 December 2022) was a biblical scholar.
Clines (ISBN 0826466869) included contributions by James Barr, John Barton, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Walter Brueggemann, Brevard Childs, Patrick D. Miller, Rolf Rendtorff, Hugh Williamson, and Ellen van Wolde.
In 2013, he was honoured with another Festschrift, Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J.
A. Clines, which included contributions from Marc Zvi Brettler, Norman C. Habel, and Athalya Brenner.
[2] Together with David M. Gunn, Clines made the University of Sheffield a pioneer in literary readings of the final form of the biblical text.