Full Description
Offered in celebration of Talmon's half-century of life and study in Israel, the essays in this Festschrift reflect Talmon's lifelong interest in all phases of biblical and related study. Also included is a comprehensive listing of Talmon's published writings.
Contents
Editors' Preface
Abbreviations
Abstracts of Hebrew Articles
The Published Writings of Shemaryahu Talmon
Biblical Literature and Exegesis
MICHAEL FISHBANE - University of Chicago The Well of Living Water: A Biblical Motif and Its Ancient Transformations
WESTON W. FIELDS - Hebrew University The Motif 'Night as Danger' Associated with Three Biblical Destruction Narratives
JAN P. FOKKELMAN - University of Leiden Structural Remarks on Judges 9 and 19
CYRUS H. GORDON - New York University 'This Time' (Genesis 2:23)
BARUCH HALPERN - York University Sociological Comparativism and the Theological Imagination: The Case of the Conquest
PAUL D. HANSON - Harvard University 1 Chronicles 15-16 and the Chronicler's Views on the Levites
SARA JAPHET - Hebrew University The Israelite Legal and Social Reality as Reflected in Chronicles: A Case Study
OTTO KAISER - Philipps University, Marburg The Law as Center of the Hebrew Bible
KLAUS KOCH - University of Hamburg Ezra and Meremoth: Remarks on the History of the High Priesthood
NORBERT LOHFINK - Philologisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen Deuteronomy 6:24: 'To Maintain Us'
CAROL L. MEYERS and ERIC M. MEYERS - Duke University Jerusalem and Zion after the Exile: The Evidence of First Zechariah
JACOB MILGROM - University of California, Berkeley The Priestly Laws of Sancta Contamination
SHALOM M. PAUL - Hebrew University Polysensuous Polyvalency in Poetic Parallelism
ROLF RENDTORFF - University of Heidelberg The Image of Postexilic Israel in German Bible Scholarship from Wellhausen to von Rad
NAHUM M. SARNA - Brandeis University, Emeritus Legal Terminology in Psalm 3:8
JACK M. SASSON - University of North Carolina Time...to Begin
J. ALBERTO SOGGIN - University of Rome Jacob in Shechem and in Bethel (Genesis 35:1-7)
MATITIAHU TSEVAT - Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati Was Samuel a Nazirite?
Textual Criticism
MICHAEL V. FOX - University of Wisconsin, Madison The Redaction of the Greek Alpha-Text of Esther
MOSHE GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN - Hebrew University Editions of the Hebrew Bible—Past and Future
SARAH KAMIN The Theological Significance of the Hebraica Veritas in Jerome's Thought
EMANUEL TOV - Hebrew University Interchanges of Consonants between the Masoretic Text and the Vorlage of the Septuagint
EUGENE ULRICH - University of Notre Dame The Canonical Process, Textual Criticism, and Latter Stages in the Composition of the Bible
Qumran
JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH - Princeton Theological Seminary An Allegorical and Autobiographical Poem by the Moreh has-Sedeq (1GH 8:4-11)
JONAS C. GREENFIELD - Hebrew University Two Notes on the Apocryphal Psalms
ALEXANDER ROFE - Hebrew University A Neglected Meaning of the Verb and the Text of 1QS vi: 11-13
JAMES A. SANDERS - Claremont School of Theology The Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical Studies
Judaism
W. D. DAVIES - Duke University, Emeritus Reflections on Territory in Judaism
JACOB NEUSNER - University of Southern Florida Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Judaism: Sifra and the Problem of the Mishnah
Ancient Near East
TZVI ABUSCH - Brandeis University Ritual and Incantation: Interpretation and Textual History of Maqlu vii:58-105 and ix: 152-59
WILLIAM W. HALLO - Yale University Royal Ancestor Worship in the Biblical World
THORKILD JACOBSEN - Harvard University, Emeritus The Spell of Nudimmud
Index of References
Hebrew Bible
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
New Testament
Qumran/Dead Sea Scrolls
Mishnaic and Other Rabbinic Writings
Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts
