| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 376 pages) : portrait |
| Series |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 375 |
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 375.
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| Contents |
Does the Old Testament refer to sacred prostitution and did it actually exist in ancient Israel? / John Day -- The Philistines : the ideological foe / Robert P. Gordon -- The finale of the Davidic succession narrative? / Henry Wansbrough -- The formation of Isaiah 2.6-22 / Hugh G.M. Williamson -- The Day of Yahweh in the Minor Prophets / John Barton -- The 'Four servant poems' in Second Isaiah in the light of recent redaction-historical studies / Charles Conroy -- Some problems in Psalm 88.16 / John A. Emerton -- 'The Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?' : from Osee to Jonas in the Septuagint / Knud Jeppesen -- Samaritan Pentateuch readings in Deuteronomy / Carmel Mccarthy -- A neglected revision of the Peshitta Psalter / Sebastian P. Brock -- Wisdom, Torah and creation in Targumic literature / Céline Mangan -- The colophon of Codex Neofiti 1 : the scribe Menahem and the Roman medical family of Manuele / Martin Mcnamara -- Marx, Weber and the religion of ancient Israel / Andrew D.H. Mayes -- Between Scylla and Charybdis : the problem of Israelite historiography / John R. Bartlett -- The politics of Biblical interpretation / John J. Collins -- Dahood's Commentary on the Psalms : a review of an academic grandparent's work after thirty years / Gerard J. Norton -- 'A lily among thorns' : Cant. 2:2 in the Latin exegetical tradition / Michael Maher -- Akkadian loanwords in Ugaritic : the Hippiatric texts / Wilfred G.E. Watson -- Ethiopic names in Sabaic and the question of matres lectionis in epigraphic South Arabian / Manfred Kropp -- Classical Arabic pattern faʻāli revisited / G. Rex Smith -- Foot-soldiers of the Byzantines or spies for the Muslims? : the role of the Samaritans in the Muslim conquest of Palestine / Reinhard Pummer -- William Lithgow of Lanark's travels in Hungary, Transylvania and Poland, 1616 / C. Edmund Bosworth -- 'Sicherheit des Auges' : the contribution to Semitic epigraphy of the explorer Julius Euting (1839-1913) / John F. Healey -- Fresh evidence on E.H. Palmer's travels from Cambridge libraries / Graham I. Davies -- A late-Victorian consul in the Near East : John Dickson (1846-1906) / David Morray |
| Summary |
This collection of essays contains a wide range of topics reflecting the depth and breadth of interest of the scholar in whose honour they were commissioned - Kevin J. Cathcart. The central focus is Near Eastern, and covers a range of philological, linguistic, exegetical, historical and interpretative issues. The Near Eastern languages examined include Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Septuagintal Greek, Syriac and Ugaritic, while exegetical and text-critical topics include treatments of issues in Deuteronomy, 1 Kings, Isaiah, Amos, Psalms and the Song of Songs. Hermeneutical and h |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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"Bibliography of the works of Kevin James Cathcart": pages 354-359 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617
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Bible. fast (OCoLC)fst01356024 |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
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Oude Testament.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cathcart, Kevin J.
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McCarthy, Carmel.
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Healey, John F.
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| ISBN |
9780826446633 |
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0826446639 |
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