Let us go up to Zion : essays in honour of H.G.M. Williamson on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / / edited by Iain Provan and Mark J. Boda.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Williamson, H. G. M. 1947-; Provan, Iain W. 1957-; Boda, Mark J.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 153
• Physical Description: xxxix, 515 p. :; ill., port.
• Other title: The beginnings of "biblical archaeology" /; Mission among the Jews, Holy Land and Aramaic studies : the case of Gustaf Dalman /; Traces of ergativity in biblical Hebrew /; Isaiah 30:15 [ ... ] and Akkadian {caron}subat n{macr}ehuti/{caron}subtu n{macr}ehutu, "quiet abode" /; Who "began to call on the name of the Lord" in Genesis 4:26b? : the MT and the versions /; The Septuagint of Isaiah and priesthood /; Proverbs 30:32 and the root [nvl] /; The role of Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion in modern commentaries on the Hebrew Bible /; The many voices of Isaiah 40 /; Tyre and the Mediterranean in the book of Isaiah /; The one who brings justice : conceptualizing the role of "The Servant" in Isaiah 42:1-4 and Matthew 12:15-21 /; Who or what is Israel in Trito-Isaiah? /; The two houses of Israel /; "I am like a luxuriant juniper" : language about God in Hosea /; From woe to weal : completing a pattern in the Bible and the ancient Near East /; On triplets in a trio of prophets /; Zechariah and the ambiguity of kingship in postexilic Israel /; The coming of the Lord : an inter-textual reading of Isa 40:1-11, 52:7-10, 59:15b-20, 62:10-11 and 63:1-6 /; Flashforward : future glimpses in the past of Ezra 1-6 /; Nehemiah, the best king Judah never had /; 2 Chronicles 32:30 and the water systems of pre-exilic Jerusalem /; Pain in childbirth? : further thoughts on "an attractive fragment"; Was David a Judahite or an Ephraimite? : light from the genealogies /; The two Ahabs of the South, Joash and Josiah /; The citation and interpretation of the law in Chronicles : the Chronicler's distribution of exegetical devices in the narratives of Solomon and Hezekiah /; Genesis 1 as holiness preamble /; Who destroyed Ashkelon? : on some problems in relating text to archaeology /; Where was Tarshish? /; The sotah : why is this case different from all other cases? /; Entering and leaving the Psalter : Psalms 1 and 150 and the two polarities of faith /; A reference to the covenant code in 2 Kings 17:24-41? /; Ships and other seafaring vessels in the Old Testament /; Who are the bad guys in the Psalms? /; David's stronghold and Samson's Rock of Etam /
• Bibliography: "Academic achievements of H.G.M. Williamson" (p. [xvii]-xxviii) includes a bibliography of H.G.M. Williamson's works.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-479) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9789004215986 (hardback); 9004215980 (hardback); 9004226583 (electronic bk.); 9789004226586 (electronic bk.)
• ISSN: 0083-5889
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Iain Provan and Mark J. Boda.