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Title The world of the Aramaeans. I. Biblical studies in honour of Paul Eugène Dion / edited by P.M. Michèle Daviau, John W. Wevers and Michael Weigl
Published Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations
Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 324
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 324.
Contents Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Paul-Eugène Dion: An Appreciation; From Many Texts to One: The Formation of the Hebrew Bible; La b[sup(e)]rît entre Laban et Jacob (Gn 31.43-54); Midian and Ishmael in Genesis 37: Synonyms in the Joseph Story; The Organization of the Judiciary in Deuteronomy (Deut. 16.18-20; 17.8-13; 19.15; 21.22-23; 24.16; 25.1-3); Les premiers rois araméens dans la tradition biblique; Les 'Prophètes Écrivains' étaient-ils des [Omitted]?; The Taking of Nothing: 2 Kings 14.25, Amos 6.14 and the Geography of the Deuteronomistic History
Psalm 8.5 and Job 7.17-18: A Mistaken Scholarly Commonplace?In Abraham's Footsteps; Aram and Aramaean in the Septuagint; The Place of Origin of the Old Greek Psalter; L'arameo errante e le origini di Israele; Bibliography of Paul-Eugène Dion; Index of Biblical References; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Subjects; Index of Personal and Tribal Names; Index of Geographical Names
Summary The World of the Aramaeans is a three-volume collection of definitive essays about the Aramaeans and the biblical world of which they were a part. Areas of interest include the language, epigraphy and history of the Aramaeans of Syria as well of their neighbours, the Israelites, Phoenicians, Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites. The first volume, dealing with the Aramaeans in the Bible, has contributions by Douglas Frayne, Stephen Dempster, José Loza Vera, E.J. Revell, Alexander Rofé, André Lemaire, Francolino, J. Gontalves, Baruch Halpern, Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, John William Wevers, Albert Piete
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English, French, German, or Italian
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Arameans -- History
Aramaic philology.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Antiquities
Aramaic philology
Arameans
SUBJECT Middle East -- History -- To 622. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090507
Middle East -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004414
Subject Middle East
Genre/Form Festschriften
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Daviau, P. M. Michèle.
Wevers, John William.
Weigl, Michael, 1963-
Dion, Paul-Eugène, 1934-
LC no. 2001347706
ISBN 9780567200495
0567200493