Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures II : : Comprising the contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, vol. 5 / / Ehud Ben Zvi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Zvi, Ehud Ben,
• MitwirkendeR: Assis, Elie,; Avioz, Michael,; Baltzer, Klaus,; Brenner, Athalya,; Britt, Brian,; Carr, David M.,; Davies, Philip R.,; Doudna, Greg,; Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn,; Grayson, A. Kirk,; Guillaume, Ph.,; Guillaume, Philippe,; Haase, Ingrid M.,; Knoppers, Gary N.,; Knowles, Melody D.,; Kummerow, David,; Landy, Francis,; Linville, James R.,; Mckenzie, Steven L.,; Mitchell, Christine,; Najm, S.,; Noegel, Scott,; Pinker, Aron,; Schniedewind, William M.,; Schweitzer, Steven J.,; Wright, John W.,; Zvi, Ehud Ben,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (708 p.)

This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 5 (2004-2005) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- JUBILEE CALENDAR RESCUED FROM THE FLOOD NARRATIVE -- LETTING THE “BI-WORD” “RULE” IN JOEL 2:17 -- UZZAH’S REBELLION -- SHALMANESER III AND THE LEVANTINE STATES: THE “DAMASCUS COALITION REBELLION” -- OSTRACA KHQ1 AND KHQ2 FROM THE CEMETERY OF QUMRAN: A NEW EDITION -- PROLEGOMENA FOR THE SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF CLASSICAL HEBREW -- THE HARD ‘SELL’ IN NAH 3:4B -- GEMINATE BALLAST AND CLUSTERING: AN UNRECOGNIZED LITERARY FEATURE IN ANCIENT SEMITIC POETRY -- NEW LIGHT ON THE NEBIIM FROM ALEXANDRIA: A CHRONOGRAPHY TO REPLACE THE DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY -- REGULATING ‘SONS’ AND ‘DAUGHTERS’ IN THE TORAH AND IN PROVERBS: SOME PRELIMINARY INSIGHTS -- A REJOINDER TO A. BRENNER, “REGULATING ‘SONS’ AND ‘DAUGHTERS’ IN THE TORAH AND IN PROVERBS: SOME PRELIMINARY INSIGHTS” -- ON THE MEANING OF קשת נחושה -- TRACING THE ORIGIN OF THE SABBATICAL CALENDAR IN THE PRIESTLY NARRATIVE (GENESIS 1 TO JOSHUA 5) -- JOB, HOPEFUL OR HOPELESS? THE SIGNIFICANCE OF גם IN JOB 16:19 AND JOB’S CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF DEATH -- DEATH, SOCIAL CONFLICT, AND THE BARLEY HARVEST IN THE HEBREW BIBLE -- COULD SAUL RULE FOREVER? A NEW LOOK AT 1 SAMUEL 13:13–14 -- THE ORIGIN OF BIBLICAL ISRAEL -- IN CONVERSATION WITH W. M. SCHNIEDEWIND, HOW THE BIBLE BECAME A BOOK: THE TEXTUALIZATION OF ANCIENT ISRAEL (CAMBRIDGE, 2003) -- RESPONSE TO W. M. SCHNIEDEWIND HOW THE BIBLE BECAME A BOOK: THE TEXTUALIZATION OF ANCIENT ISRAEL -- IMPLICATIONS FOR AND FROM EZRA-NEHEMIAH -- IMPLICATIONS FOR AND FROM CHRONICLES -- ADRIFT: HOW THE BIBLE BECAME A BOOK -- “THE HAND OF A WOMAN”: DEBORAH AND YAEL (JUDGES 4) -- NEW STUDIES IN CHRONICLES: A DISCUSSION OF TWO RECENTLY-PUBLISHED COMMENTARIES -- INTRODUCTION -- A REVIEW OF GARY N. KNOPPERS, I CHRONICLES 1–9 AND IDEM, I CHRONICLES 10–29 -- COMMENTS ON MCKENZIE’S AND KNOPPERS’ COMMENTARIES ON CHRONICLES -- IN CONVERSATION AND APPRECIATION OF THE RECENT COMMENTARIES BY STEVEN L. MCKENZIE AND GARY N. KNOPPERS -- RESPONSE TO RECENT CHRONICLES COMMENTARIES BY GARY N. KNOPPERS AND STEVEN L. MCKENZIE -- A COMMENTARY ON COMMENTARIES ON CHRONICLES -- OF REWRITTEN BIBLES, ARCHAEOLOGY, PEACE, KINGS, AND CHRONICLES -- RECENT CHRONICLES COMMENTARIES: A RESPONSE -- REVIEWS -- INDEX