Full Description
Nineteen friends and colleagues present this Festschrift to Ellen van Wolde, honouring her life-long contribution to the field of Biblical studies. The contributions focus on the major topics that define her research: the books of Genesis and of Job, and study of the Hebrew language. Profoundly inspired by the lasting legacy of the jubilarian, the articles present innovative and thought-provoking developments in the linguistic study of the Hebrew Bible, with a particular attention to cognitive linguistics, and in the research - literary as well as linguistic - of two of its most fascinating books.
Contents
Preface
Part 1 Genesis
A Coat of Many Colors and a Range of Many Dates
The Origins of the Story of Joseph in Genesis 37-50
Robert Rezetko
Yahweh's Kin
A Comparative Linguistic and Mythological Analysis of 'The Children of God' in the Hebrew Bible
Aren M. Wilson-Wright
Be My Knife
Representation and the Akedah Revisited
Diana Lipton
The Symbolism of the Spatial-Temporal Concepts 'in front of, before' (לפני) and 'behind, after' (אחרי) in the Hebrew Bible, with a Special Focus on the Jacob Narratives
Talia Sutskover
The πανοῦργος Problem
Semantic Change and Septuagint Self-Criticism
James K. Aitken
Ways of Understanding Divine Creation in Late Antique and Medieval Piyyut
Wout van Bekkum
Imago Dei and the Challenge of Racism
Soundings in the History of Interpretation of Genesis 1:26-27
Matthijs den Dulk
Part 2 Book of Job
The State of the Text of Job
David J.A. Clines
Syntax and Poetics in the Interpretation of Job
Edward L. Greenstein
Theory of Mind and Cognitive Dissonance in the Book of Job
Carol A. Newsom
"Let Me Sow and Another will Eat?"
The Meaning of the Cohortatives in Job 6:10 and Job 31:8
Hanneke van Loon
What Are You Doing Here, Master Elihu?
The Role(s) of Elihu in the Book of Job
Katharine J. Dell
The Fate of the Wicked in Job 38:13-15 and the Birth of the Sea
Francis Landy
Part 3 Hebrew Language and Linguistics
Seeing and Shining
The Extramission Theory of Vision and Hebrew Polysemy
Pierre Van Hecke
The Conceptualisation of Heart as an Active Zone Body Part in Biblical Hebrew
An Exploratory Study
Christo H.J. van der Merwe
Conceptualizing Love in the Song of Songs
J. Cheryl Exum
'But a Few Days'
Ways of Intensification of Love and Affection in Biblical Hebrew
Ruti Vardi
The Root נחם Niphal and Hitpael in the Hebrew Bible
Broken Continuity and Disengagement
Françoise Mirguet
Voice, Discourse Prominence, and Aspect
The Niphal and Passive Qal of Yālad
Camil Staps
Index Locorum
