From Author to Copyist : : Essays on the Composition, Redaction, and Transmission of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Zipi Talshir / / ed. by Cana Werman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Aejmelaeus, Anneli,; Amara, Dalia,; Barrera, Julio Trebolle,; Ben-Dov, Jonathan,; Blum, Erhard,; Deines, Roland,; Forti, Tova,; Glatt-Gilad, David A.,; Gruber, Mayer I.,; Hendel, Ronald,; Joosten, Jan,; Kislev, Itamar,; Lust, Johan,; Mizrahi, Noam,; Munnich, Olivier,; Polak, Frank H.,; Rofé, Alexander,; Schenker, Adrian,; Shupak, Nili,; Tov, Emanuel,; Vergari, Romina,; Werman, Cana,
• HerausgeberIn: Werman, Cana,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

Zipi Talshir’s work on the evolution, formation, and transmission of the Hebrew Bible throughout her academic career, her remarkable ability to integrate the Septuagint into this research, and her profound understanding of the late books of the Hebrew Bible and the process of canonization are well known and appreciated. In this volume, 21 of Talshir’s colleagues and students contribute essays in her honor on these topics that are so close to her heart. A bibliography of her publications and a short biography open and complete this compelling volume presented by renowned authors in the field from all over Europe, Israel, and the U.S.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Academic Publications of Zipi Talshir -- Abbreviations -- Septuagint and Samareitikon -- The Text-Critical Contribution of the Antiochean Greek and Old Latin Texts—Case Study: 2 Kings 8:10–11 -- The Genealogical Lists in Genesis 5 and 11 in Three Different Versions -- An Identical Scribal Mistake in 1 Kings 9 and 2 Chronicles 7 Consequences for the Textual History of Kings and Chronicles -- Text and Context: The Textual Elimination of the Names of Gods and Its Literary, Administrative, and Legal Context -- Once Again: Hosea and the Pentateuchal Traditions -- Ezekiel, a Singer of Erotic Songs? Some Text-Critical Remarks on Ezekiel 33:31–32 -- If You Go Down to the Woods Today: B(e)aring the Text of Proverbs MT and LXX -- Numbers 36:13: The Transition between Numbers and Deuteronomy and the Redaction of the Pentateuch -- Bel and the Dragon: The Relationship between Theodotion and the Old Greek -- The Masoretic Rewriting of Daniel 4–6: The Septuagint Version as Witness -- Speaking about God: Person Deixis in Malachi (Text and Versions) -- Echoes of Solomon and Nehemiah: Hezekiah’s Cultic Reforms in the Book of Chronicles -- Textual History through the Prism of Historical Linguistics: The Case of Biblical Hebrew z-m-r -- Whodunit? Implicit Subject, Discourse Structure, and Pragmatics in the Hebrew and Greek Bibles -- Weighing in the Scales: How an Egyptian Concept Made Its Way into Biblical and Postbiblical Literature -- The Rabbinic Sages’ Allegation about LXX Genesis 1:1: Bickerman’s Cogent Explanation -- When Did the Books of Samuel Become Scripture? -- What Is a Biblical Book? -- Revelatory Experiences as the Beginning of Scripture: Paul’s Letters and the Prophets in the Hebrew Bible -- The Canonization of the Hebrew Bible in Light of Second Temple Literature -- Index of Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources