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The contributions of this volume present the latest results of world-wide academic research in the field of the Old Testament/The Hebrew Bible and in related areas. The articles cover a multitude of topics, including exegetical and literary problems, history, iconography, history of religion as well as lexicography and central theological questions concerning the Old Testament/the Hebrew Bible.
Dieser Band bietet neueste Ergebnisse von Forscherinnen und Forschern aus Afrika, Asien, Amerika und Europa auf dem Gebiet des Alten Testaments/der Hebräischen Bibel in Verbindung mit angrenzenden Wissenschaftsgebieten. Die Artikel behandeln exegetisch-literarische, historische, religionsgeschichtliche, ikonographische, lexikographische sowie zentrale theologische Fragen in Bezug auf das Alte Testament/die hebräische Bibel.
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Contents: Craig Y. S. Ho: The Supplementary Combination of the Two Creation Stories in Genesis 1-3 - S. Van Den Eynde: «May You Become Thousands of Myriads! (Gen 24,60)». A Gender Analysis of Blessing in Gen 11,24-25,7 - Jan-Wim Wesselius: Alternation of Divine Names as a Literary Device in Genesis and Exodus - Erik Eynikel: The Riddle of Samson: Judges 14 - Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger: Die Aufstiegsgeschichte Davids - Daniel Bodi: Was Abigail a Scarlet Woman? A Point of Rabbinic Exegesis in Light of Comparative Material - Andrés Piquer Otero: Flies, Idols and Oracles. On a Collection of Variants to MT in 2Kgs 1 - Anthony Abela: When Tradition Prevails over Good Parsing. Reconsidering the Translation of Is 53,11b - Simone Paganini: Der Übergang von Deutero- zu Trito-Jesaja: zu Jes 56,9 - Karin Schöpflin: The Destructive and Creative Word of the Prophet in the Book of Ezekiel - Paul M. Joyce: Ezek. 20.32-38: A Problem Text for the Theology of Ezekiel - Carla Sulzbach: Nebuchadnezzar in Eden? Daniel 4 and Ezekiel 28 - SD (Fanie) Snyman: Eretz and Adama in Amos - Agustinus Setiawidi: Satirical Message of Jonah - Teresa Stanek: The Theological Message of the Book of Ruth in the Light of the Masoretic Text - Phil J. Botha: Psalm 67 in its Literary and Ideological Context - Alphonso Groenewald: «Indeed - The Zeal for Your House has Consumed Me!»: Possible Historical Background to Psalm 69:10 ab - Johann Cook: Exegesis in the Septuagint of Proverbs - HJM (Hans) van Deventer: Tampering with Texts and Translations: the Case of Daniel 1 and 7 - Marius Nel: View of Time in Ancient Cultures, and the Origin of Apocalypticism in Jewish Thought in the Centuries before Christ - André Lemaire : Hiwwites, Perizzites et Girgashites : Essai d'Identification Ethnique - Frances Klopper: Springs and Wells in the Religious Conceptual World of Israel Through Ancient Near Eastern Iconography - Martin Prudký: The Two Versions of the Sabbath-Commandment: Structural Similarities - Robin Gallaher Branch: Understudy to Star: The Courageous Audacity of an Israelite Slave Girl - Chaim Cohen: Modern Biblical Hebrew Lexicography. - Three Issues of Methodology: 1. Homonymy vs. Polysemy; 2. Poetic Semantically Equivalent B-Words; 3. Sumerian Determinatives on Akkadian Parallel Terms - Evangelia G. Dafni: Sigma im Altgriechischen Schrifttum und in der Septuaginta. - Zur Anthropologie der Septuaginta - Min Suc Kee: Semantic Development of mlk within the Council System of ancient Mesopotamia - Alexandra Grund: Der gebärende Gott. Zur Geburtsmetaphorik in Israels Gottesrede.
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