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1 online resource (xxix, 572 pages) |
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Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 0083-5889 ; v. 113 |
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Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 113. 0083-5889
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| Contents |
A prophet in king's clothes: kingly and divine re-presentation in 2 Kings 4 and 5 / W. Brian Aucker -- Historiography and theodicy in the Old Testament / John Barton -- The books of Chronicles and the scrolls from Qumran / George J. Brooke -- A royal privilege: dining in the presence of the great king (2 Kings 25.27-30) / Ronald E. Clements -- Translating Psalm 23 / David J.A. Clines -- The just king: fact or fancy? Some Ugaritic reflections / Adrian H.W. Curtis -- The trouble with Benjamin / Philip R. Davies -- Gibeon and the Gibeonites in the Old Testament / John Day -- Reading Numbers after Samuel / Mary Douglas -- Mighty oaks from (genetically manipulated?) acorns grow: The chronicle of the kings of Judah as a source of the Deuteronomistic history / Lester L. Grabbe -- The 'original text' of Sefer Yeṣira or the 'earliest recoverable text'? / A. Peter Hayman -- 'The righteous generation': the use of Dôr in Psalms 14 and 24 / Alastair G. Hunter -- Exodus 20.24b: linchpin of Pentateuchal criticism or just a further link between the Decalogue and the Book of the Covenant? / William Johnstone -- Cutheans or children of Jacob? The issue of Samaritan origins in 2 Kings 17 / Gary N. Knoppers -- Obeisance in the biblical stories of David / Lydie Kucová |
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The book of Ruth and its literary voice / Timothy H. Lim -- Bugs through the looking glass: the infestation of meaning in Joel / James R. Linville -- The trouble with King Jehoshaphat / Steven L. McKenzie -- The Deuteronomic history and the books of Chronicles: contemporary competing historiographies / Raymond F. Person, Jr. -- Swallowed by a song: Jonah and the Jonah-Psalm through the looking-glass /Hugh S. Pyper -- Stories of forgiveness: narrative ethics and the Old Testament / David J. Reimer -- 'Late' common nouns in the book of Chronicles / Robert Rezetko -- Israel's sojourn in the wilderness and the construction of the book of Numbers / Thomas Christian Römer -- The notion of Jerusalem as a holy city / Margreet L. Steiner -- Biliteral exegesis of Hebrew roots in the Septuagint? / Emanuel Tov -- Kings (MT/LXX) and Chronicles: the double and triple textual tradition / Julio Trebolle -- The 'shared text' of Samuel-Kings and Chronicles re-examined / John Van Seters -- Once upon a time---? / H.G.M. Williamson -- Gideon: a new Moses? / Gregory T.K. Wong -- The seventy sons of Athirat, the nations of the world, Deuteronomy 32.6b, 8-9, and the myth of divine election / N. Wyatt |
| Summary |
On the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, this Festschrift celebrates A. Graeme Auld, Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Edinburgh, as one of the most innovative scholars in Old Testament Studies of his generation. The contributors of the volume, colleagues, friends and former students, have written articles that touch on various aspects of Auld's work including Old Testament, historiography, Pentateuch, Deuteronomistic History, Chronicles, prophecy and prophets, Septuagint, and textual criticism |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
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Oude Testament.
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Geschiedschrijving.
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Exegese.
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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 |
Auld, A. Graeme.
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Rezetko, Robert.
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Lim, Timothy H.
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Aucker, W. Brian.
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| ISBN |
9789047408000 |
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9047408004 |
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1281396702 |
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9781281396709 |
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9786611396701 |
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6611396705 |
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