Studies on the text and versions of the Hebrew Bible in honour of Robert Gordon /

This collection of previously unpublished essays by outstanding international scholars in honour of Robert P. Gordon, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University, covers a wide range of topics, from accuracy, anachronism, and incongruity in the books of Samuel, through the theology of Psalms,...

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Other Authors: Gordon, R. P., Khan, Geoffrey., Lipton, Diana.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Hebrew

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements 149.
Vetus Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264991.

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Call Number: BS1136 .S78 2012

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • RPG /
  • Andrew A. Macintosh
  • Anticipations of Horeb: Exodus 17 As Inner-Biblical Commentary /
  • Nathan MacDonald
  • Legal Analogy in Deuteronomy and Fratricide in the Field /
  • Diana Lipton
  • Are There Anachronisms in the Books of Samuel? /
  • Alan Millard
  • Incongruity in the Story of Saul in 1 Samuel 9-15: A Methodological Survey /
  • Katharine J. Dell
  • The Friendship of Jonathan and David /
  • Graham Davies
  • A Sign and a Portent in Isaiah 8.18 /
  • H.G.M. Williamson
  • Jeremiah the Historian: The Book of Jeremiah As a Source for the History of the Near East in the Time of Nebuchadnezzar /
  • Hans M. Barstad
  • Psalms, Biblical Theology, and the Christian Church /
  • Ronald E. Clements
  • On the Coherence of the Third Dialogic Cycle in the Book of Job /
  • V. Philips Long
  • A Feature of the Dates in the Aramaic Portions of Ezra and Daniel /
  • Brian A. Mastin
  • Fat Eglon /
  • James K. Aitken
  • People and Places in the Earliest Translations of Neo-Assyrian Texts Relating to the Old Testament /
  • Kevin J. Cathcart
  • The Bible, the Septuagint, and the Apocrypha: A Consideration of Their Singularity /
  • Peter J. Williams
  • The Land is Full of Foreign Children: Language and Ideology in LXX Isa. 2.6 /
  • Rodrigo de Sousa
  • What Was an ὀπωροφυλάκιον? /
  • Jennifer Dines
  • What Remains of the Hebrew Bible? The Accuracy of the Text of the Hebrew Bible in the Light of the Qumran Samuel (4QSAMA) /
  • David J.A. Clines
  • The Social Matrix That Shaped the Hebrew Bible and Gave Us the Dead Sea Scrolls /
  • Charlotte Hempel
  • Josephus and 11Q13 on Melchizedek /
  • William Horbury
  • Josephus, Onkelos, and Jonathan: On the Agreements between Josephus' Works and Targumic Sources /
  • Arie van der Kooij
  • The Targums: Tel-Like Character and a Continuum /
  • Martin McNamara
  • Mules, Rome, and a Catalogue of Names: Genesis 36 and Its Aramaic Targumim /
  • Robert Hayward
  • The Condemned Rulers in Targum Isaiah's Eschatological Banquet /
  • William D. Barker
  • Targum Proverbs and the Peshitta: Reflections on the Linguistic Environment /
  • John F. Healey
  • On Some Connotations of the Word Maʿaseh /
  • Stefan C. Reif
  • Reflections on the Christian Turn to the Hebraica Veritas and Its Implications /
  • Philip Alexander
  • A Ninth-Century Irish Bog Psalter and Reading the Psalms as 'Three Fifties' /
  • Susan E. Gillingham
  • The Grammatical Commentary on Hosea by the Karaite Yūsuf Ibn Nūḥ /
  • Geoffrey Khan
  • General Index
  • Biblical References
  • Rabbinic References.