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Title Reading from right to left : essays on the Hebrew Bible in honour of David J.A. Clines / edited by J. Cheryl Exum and H.G.M. Williamson
Published London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 499 pages)
Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 373
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 373.
Contents What was a biblical prophet? Why does it matter? / A. Graeme Auld -- Puzzle in Deuteronomy / James Barr -- Prophet Oded and the Zakkur inscription: a case of obscuriore obscurum? / Hans M. Barstad -- Early metacommentary: Tertullian's against Marcion / John Barton -- Unity of the book of Isaiah: another attempt at bridging the gorge between its two main parts / Willem A.M. Beuken -- One in the middle / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- Theme revisited: bread again! / Walter Brueggemann -- Tribute to the Book List of SOTS / Brevard S. Childs -- People or the book / Richard J. Coggins -- Tragedy and ethics: revisiting Athens and Jerusalem / Philip R. Davies -- Phrase in a Phoenician papyrus and a problem in Isaiah 5:14 / J.A. Emerton -- Song of Songs as an 'answer' to Cline's Book of Job / Tamara Cohn Eskenazi -- 'Voice of my lover': double voice and poetic illusion in Song of Songs 2:8-3:5 / J. Cheryl Exum -- Wisdom and the self-presentation of wisdom literature / Michael V. Fox -- So what might the Song of Songs do to them? / John Goldingay -- Ephraimite messiah and the targum(s) to Zechariah 12:10 / Robert P. Gordon -- Puzzling politics of ancient Israel / Norman K. Gottwald -- Were the pre-Maccabean high priests 'Zadokites'? / Lester L. Grabbe -- 'Lawless riot and intestine division': Judges 19-21 and civil war in England and North America, 1628-1786 / David M. Gunn -- Role of the poor in Proverbs / Walter J. Houston -- Insights on Job 3, from a medieval commentary: Rabbi Samuel Ben Meir (Rashbam) on the book of Job / Sara Japhet -- Which parts of 1 Enoch were known to Jubilees? A note on the interpretation of Jubilees 4:16-25 / Michael A. Knibb -- God's righteousness in the original and in translations / Joz̆e Kras̆ovec -- From David to David: Psalm 24 and David Clines / Francis Landy -- Twelve commandments--three stages: a new theory on the formation of the Decalogue / Bernhard Lang -- Holy persuasion: the Bible as advertising / Burke O. Long -- Man and woman: toward a theological anthropology / Patrick D. Miller -- Rebel in Bible lands / Johannes C. de Moor -- 'Consolations of God': assessing Job's friends across a cultural abyss / Carol A. Newsom -- Nadab and Abihu / Rolf Rendtorff -- Wisdom formula 'Do not say ... ' and the angel in Qohelet 5:5 / Alexander Rofé -- Measurable and immeasurable: themes in Old Testament theology / John W. Rogerson -- Isaiah and the Jews: some reflections on the church's use of the Bible / John F.A. Sawyer -- Interested parties: history and ideology at the end of the century / Keith W. Whitelam -- Judgment and hope in Isaiah 1:21-26 / H.G.M. Williamson -- Love and hatred in a multiracial society: the Dinah and Shechem story in Genesis 34 in the context of Genesis 28-35 / Ellen J. van Wolde -- Psalm 87: a case for ideological criticism? / Erich Zenger
Summary Thirty-seven essays from established scholars around the world cover topics including the Pentateuch prophecy, wisdom, ancient Osraelite history, Greek tragdy and the ideology of biblical scholarship make up this interesting and varied collection in honor of David J.A. Clines. Several of the contributors interact with ideas prominent in the work of David J.S. Clines of the University of Sheffield, to whom the volume i dedicated. The authors include Graeme Auld, James Barr, Hans Barstad, John Barton, Willem Beuken, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Walter Brueggermann, Brevard Childs, Reichard Coggins, Philip
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-476) and indexes
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
Oude Testament.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Clines, David J. A.
Exum, J. Cheryl.
Williamson, H. G. M. (Hugh Godfrey Maturin), 1947-
ISBN 9780567459992
0567459993
1281802883
9781281802880
9786611802882
6611802886