My father, Ronald Clements, who has died aged 94, was a theologian who taught for many years at Cambridge University and King’s College London, and became one of the pre-eminent British scholars of the Old Testament.
Ronald’s many books included Abraham and David: Genesis 15 and Its Meaning for Israelite Tradition (1967); Prophecy and Tradition (1975); Old Testament Theology: A Fresh Approach (1978); A Century of Old Testament Study (1983); Wisdom in Theology (1992); and Jerusalem and the Nations (2011), as well as commentaries on Exodus, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
