Tehillah le-Moshe : : Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Moshe Greenberg / / ed. by Mordechai Cogan, Barry L. Eichler, Jeffrey H. Tigay.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bar-Efrat, Shimon,; Berlin, Adele,; Childs, Brevard S.,; Cogan, Mordechai,; Cooper, Alan,; Eichler, Barry L.,; Exum, J. Cheryl,; Fishbane, Michael,; Freedman, David Noel,; Frymer-Kensky, Tikva,; Goldin, Judah,; Haran, Menahem,; Harrelson, Walter,; Hoffman, Yair,; Knohl, Israel,; Leiman, Sid Z.,; Levine, Baruch A.,; Milgrom, Jacob,; Paradise, Jonathan,; Paul, Shalom M.,; Rendtorff, Rolf,; Rofé, Alexander,; Rosenak, Michael,; Sarna, Nahum M.,; Steiner, Richard C.,; Tigay, Jeffrey H.,; Tov, Emanuel,
• HerausgeberIn: Cogan, Mordechai,; Eichler, Barry L.,; Tigay, Jeffrey H.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (656 p.)

Forty-five scholars here combine their skills in tribute to their colleague, teacher, and friend. This collection includes 27 English and 18 Hebrew essays on literary criticism, rabbinic literature, Hebrew word studies, Septuagint, Qumran, textual criticism, and many other topics. Moshe Greenberg is perhaps best known for his commentary on Ezekiel in the Anchor Bible series.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Moshe Greenberg: An Appreciation -- Bibliography of the Writings of Moshe Greenberg -- Abbreviations -- PART 1 -- Love of Zion: A Literary Interpretation of Psalm 137 -- The Meaning of Amos's Third Vision (Amos 7:7-9) -- On Reading Genesis 12:10-20 -- Harvesting the Biblical Narrator's Scanty Plot of Ground: A Holistic Approach to Judges 16:4-22 -- Proverbs 2 and 31: A Study in Structural Complementarity -- Reading Rahab -- Psalm 8 on the Power and Mystery of Speech -- Two Aspects of the "Tent of Meeting" -- The Firstfruits Festivals of Grain and the Composition of Leviticus 23:9-21 -- What Did Laban Demand of Jacob? A New Reading of Genesis 31:50 and Exodus 21:10 -- A Lover's Garden of Verse: Literal and Metaphorical Imagery in Ancient Near Eastern Love Poetry -- Nehemiah 9: An Important Witness of Theological Reflection -- Naboth's Vineyard Revisited (1 Kings 21) -- The "Aramean" of Deuteronomy 26:5: Peshat and Derash -- "He Begot a Son in His Likeness after His Image" (Genesis 5:3) -- Diferent Editions of the Song of Hannah and of Its Narrative Framework -- PART 2 Historical, Thematic, and Methodological Studies -- On the Use of Traditional Jewish Exegesis in the Modern Literary Study of the Bible -- The Genre of the Biblical Commentary as Problem and Challenge -- David's Jerusalem: Notes and Reflections -- The Bĕrît 'Covenant': Its Nature and Ceremonial Background -- Prophecy and Soothsaying -- The Next Phase in Jewish Religion: The Land of Israel as Sacred Space -- The Methods of Late Biblical Scribes as Evidenced by the Septuagint Compared with the Other Textual Witnesses -- PART 3 Postbiblical and Rabbinic Studies -- Rabbinic Mythmaking and Tradition: The Great Dragon Drama in b. Baba Batra 74b-75a -- A Law and Its Interpretation -- Masorah and Halakhah: A Study in Conflict -- The Akedah-and What to Remember -- English Abstracts of Hebrew Essays -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Ancient and Premodern Sources