| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 480 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 348 |
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 348.
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| Contents |
The tenacity of the word : using Jeremiah 36 to attempt to construct an appropriate edifice to the memory of Robert Carroll / Mark Brummitt and Yvonne Sherwood -- The maligned patriarch : prophetic ideology and the "bad press" of Esau / Johanna Stiebert -- Saul and the mistress of the spirits (1 Samuel 28.3-25) / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- Counting sheep, sins and sour grapes : the primacy of the primary history? / Graeme Auld -- Reading David's mind : inference, emotion and the limits of language / Hugh S. Pyper -- Prophecy in the book of Jeremiah and the historical prophet / Hans M. Barstad -- Creating waves : why the fictionality of Jonah matters / Alastair G. Hunter -- The "false pen of scribes" : intellectuals then and now / Philip R. Davies -- Through the eyes of horses : representation of the horse family in the Hebrew Bible / Heather A. McKay -- Unsolved mysteries : the Second Temple / John Halligan -- The Bible in church and academy / Robert Davidson -- "The comfortable theory", "maximal conservatism" and neo-fundamentalism revisited / Lester L. Grabbe -- Representing minimalism : the rhetoric and reality of revisionism / Keith W. Whitelam -- Jews, Hebraists and "Old Testament" studies / Stefan C. Reif -- Isaiah and Zionism / John F.A. Sawyer-- Prophetic intercourse / Francis Landy -- The law of Moses as a fence and a fountain / Johann Cook -- The text of war in the context of war : a functional reading / Robert Setio -- Age and ageism in the Hebrew Bible, in an autobiographical perspective / Athalya Brenner -- He-prophets : masculinity as a problem for the Hebrew prophets and their interpreters / David J.A. Clines -- Literature and the possibility of theology / David Jasper -- Polyphonic Carrolling : heteroglossia, pluralism, and editing the Bible / Stephen Prickett -- Vibrant spaces / Gabriel Josipovici -- Browning on Feuerbach and Renan / John Ashton -- Alice's Adventures in wonderland : a girl in the guild / Alice Bach -- What was in the scripture knowledge syllabus at Bertie Wooster's prep school? / Carol Smith -- Interpictoriality : the lives of Moses and Jesus in the murals of the Sistine Chapel / William Johnstone |
| Summary |
In this collection of studies to the memory of Robert Carroll, and reflecting his interests in prophecy, ideology and reception history, are contributions from Graeme Auld, John Ashton, Alice Bach, Hans Barstad, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Athalya Brenner, David Clines, Johann Cook, Robert Davidson, Philip Davies, Sean Freyne, Norman Gottwald, Lester Grabbe, John Halligan, Alastair Hunter, David Jasper, William Johnstone, Gabriel Josipovici, Francis Landy, Heather McKay, Stephen Prickett, Hugh Pyper, Stefan Reif, John Sawyer, Robert Setio, Yvonne Sherwood, Carol Smith and Johanna Stiebert |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Old Testament -- Prophecies
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Prophecies.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
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Prophecies
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Oude Testament.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Prophecies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carroll, Robert P.
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Davies, Philip R.
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Hunter, Alastair G.
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| ISBN |
9780567574374 |
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0567574377 |
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