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.

Table of Contents

The beginnings of "biblical archaeology" / Graham Davies -- Mission among the Jews, Holy Land and Aramaic studies : the case of Gustaf Dalman / Thomas Willi -- Traces of ergativity in biblical Hebrew / John Barton -- Isaiah 30:15 [ ... ] and Akkadian {caron}subat n{macr}ehuti/{caron}subtu n{macr}ehutu, "quiet abode" / Kevin J. Cathcart -- Who "began to call on the name of the Lord" in Genesis 4:26b? : the MT and the versions / Robert P. Gordon -- The Septuagint of Isaiah and priesthood / Arie van der Kooij -- Proverbs 30:32 and the root [nvl] / A.A. Macintosh -- The role of Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion in modern commentaries on the Hebrew Bible / Alison Salvesen -- The many voices of Isaiah 40 / David J.A. Clines -- Tyre and the Mediterranean in the book of Isaiah / Anselm C. Hagedorn -- The one who brings justice : conceptualizing the role of "The Servant" in Isaiah 42:1-4 and Matthew 12:15-21 / Elizabeth R. Hayes -- Who or what is Israel in Trito-Isaiah? / Gary N. Knoppers -- The two houses of Israel / Reinhard G. Kratz -- "I am like a luxuriant juniper" : language about God in Hosea / J.G. McConville -- From woe to weal : completing a pattern in the Bible and the ancient Near East / Alan Millard -- On triplets in a trio of prophets / David J. Reimer -- Zechariah and the ambiguity of kingship in postexilic Israel / Walter H. Rose -- 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 / Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer -- Flashforward : future glimpses in the past of Ezra 1-6 / Mark J. Boda -- Nehemiah, the best king Judah never had / Iain Duguid -- 2 Chronicles 32:30 and the water systems of pre-exilic Jerusalem / Judith M. Hadley -- Pain in childbirth? : further thoughts on "an attractive fragment" (1 Chronicles 4:9-10) / Iain Provan -- Was David a Judahite or an Ephraimite? : light from the genealogies / Sara Japhet -- The two Ahabs of the South, Joash and Josiah / John Jarick -- The citation and interpretation of the law in Chronicles : the Chronicler's distribution of exegetical devices in the narratives of Solomon and Hezekiah / Kevin L. Spawn -- Genesis 1 as holiness preamble / Bill T. Arnold -- Who destroyed Ashkelon? : on some problems in relating text to archaeology / Hans M. Barstad -- Where was Tarshish? / John Day -- The sotah : why is this case different from all other cases? / Richard Elliott Friedman -- Entering and leaving the Psalter : Psalms 1 and 150 and the two polarities of faith / Susan Gillingham -- A reference to the covenant code in 2 Kings 17:24-41? / Andr{acute}e Lemaire -- Ships and other seafaring vessels in the Old Testament / Jill Middlemas -- Who are the bad guys in the Psalms? / Patrick D. Miller -- David's stronghold and Samson's Rock of Etam / Nadav Na'aman.