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Title From author to copyist : essays on the composition, redaction, and transmission of the Hebrew Bible in honor of Zipi Talshir / edited by Cana Werman
Published Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2015

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Contents Septuagint and Samareitikon / Jan Joosten -- The text-critical contribution of the Antiochean Greek and Old Latin texts-Case study: 2 Kings 8:10-11 / Julio Trebolle Barrera -- The genealogical lists in Genesis 5 and 11 in three different versions / Emanuel Tov -- An identical scribal mistake in 1 Kings 9 and 2 Chronicles 7: consequences for the textual history of Kings and Chronicles / Adrian Schenker -- Text and Context: the textual elimination of the names of gods and its literary, administrative, and legal contextAlexander Rofé -- Once again: Hosea and the Pentateuchal traditions / Erhard Blum -- Ezekiel, a singer of erotic songs? Some text-critical remarks on Ezekiel 33:31-32 / Johan Lust -- If you go down to the woods today: b(e)aring the text of Proverbs MT and LXX / Tova Forti -- Numbers 36:13: the transition between Numbers and Deuteronomy and the redaction of the Pentateuch / Itamar Kislev -- Bel and the Dragon: the relationship between Theodotion and the Old Greek / Dalia Amara -- The Masoretic rewriting of Daniel 4-6: the Septuagint version as witness / Olivier Munnich -- Speaking about God: person deixis in Malachi / Jonathan Ben-Dov, Romina Vergari -- Echoes of Solomon and Nehemiah: Hezekiah's cultic reforms in the Book of Chronicles / David A. Glatt-Gilad -- Textual history through the prism of historical linguistics: the case of Biblical Hebrew z-m-r / Noam Mizrahi -- Whodunit? Implicit subject, discourse structure, and pragmatics in the Hebrew and Greek Bibles / Frank H. Polak -- Weighing the scales: how an Egyptian concept made its way into biblical and postbiblical literature / Nili Shupak -- The Rabbinic Sages' allegation about LXX Genesis 1:1: Bickerman's cogent explanation / Mayer I. Gruber -- When did the books of Samuel become Scripture? / Anneli Aejmelaeus -- What is a biblical book? / Ronald Hendel -- Revelatory experiences as the beginning of Scripture: Paul's letters and the prophets in the Hebrew Bible / Roland Deines -- The canonization of the Hebrew Bible in light of Second Temple literature / Cana Werman
Summary Zipi Talshir's work on the evolution, formation, and transmission of the Hebrew Bible throughout her academic career, her remarkable ability to integrate the Septuagint into this research, and her profound understanding of the late books of the Hebrew Bible and the process of canonization are well known and appreciated. In this volume, 21 of Talshir's colleagues and students contribute essays in her honor on these topics that are so close to her heart. A bibliography of her publications and a short biography open and complete this compelling volume presented by renowned authors in the field from all over Europe, Israel, and the U.S
Notes Collection of essays resulting from a conference honoring Professor Zipi Talshir, an eminent scholar of Bible and history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, Redaction -- Congresses
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Talshir, Zipora, honouree
Werman, Cana, editor
LC no. 2015027556
ISBN 9781575063638
1575063638
1570563500
9781570563508
1575063506
9781575063508