Congress volume : : Cambridge, 1995 / / edited by J.A. Emerton.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, Volume 66
• Author: International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament. Congress
• TeilnehmendeR: Emerton, J. A. 1928-; International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament. Congress
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, New York ;, Köln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 1997.; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; Volume 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (431 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: English, French, and German.; Papers given by invitation at the Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, held July 1995 at Cambridge (England).

This volume publishes the papers given by invitation at the fifteenth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, which was held at Cambridge in July 1995, under the Presidency of J.A. Emerton. The articles cover a wide range of subjects relevant to the study of the Old Testament, and reflect the ongoing debate on a variety of themes among the world's leading contemporary Old Testament scholars.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Authors CONGRESS VOLUME: CAMBRIDGE 1995 -- COMPARATIVE SEMITIC PHILOLOGY AND HEBREW LEXICOGRAPHY / J.A. EMERTON -- ON READING BIBLICAL POETRY: THE ROLE OF METAPHOR / ADELE BERLIN -- THE END OF THE MALE CULT PROSTITUTE: A LITERARY-HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HEBREW QĀDĒŠ-QĔDĒŠÎM / PHYLLIS A. BIRD -- THE AGE OF DECIPHERMENT: THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY / KEVIN J. CATHCART -- DES OUTILS POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT DE L'HERMÉNEUMATIQUE SÉMITIQUE NORD-OCCIDENTALE / CUNCHILLOS JESÚS-LUIS -- RESURRECTION IMAGERY FROM BAAL TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL / JOHN DAY -- ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF WISDOM IN ISRAEL / KATHARINE J. DELL -- WHAT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS IS ABOUT / MICHAEL V. FOX -- CHASING SHADOWS? THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL GODDESS / JUDITH M. HADLEY -- ZUM VERHÄLTNIS VON TEXTKRITIK UND LITERARKRITIK: ÜBERLEGUNGEN ANHAND EINIGER BEISPIELE / ARIE VAN DER KOOIJ -- LA PLACE DU SACRIFICE DANS L'ANCIEN ISRAËL / ALFRED MARX -- THE ROOTS OF ANICONISM: AN ISRAELITE PHENOMENON IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE / TRYGGVE N.D. METTINGER -- FROM TRADITION TO CRITICISM: JEWISH SOURCES AS AN AID TO THE CRITICAL STUDY OF THE HEBREW BIBLE / ALEXANDER ROFÉ -- CENT ANS DE BOTANIQUE AU PROCHE-ORIENT ANCIEN / HEDWIGE ROUILLARD-BONRAISIN -- DAS SPÄTDEUTERONOMISTISCHE GESCHICHTSWERK GENESIS 1-2 REGUM XXV UND SEINE THEOLOGISCHE INTENTION / HANS-CHRISTOPH SCHMITT -- KONZEPTION UND VORGESCHICHTE DES STELLVERTRETUNGSGEDANKENS IM ALTEN TESTAMENT / HERMANN SPIECKERMANN -- FIGURATIVE POLICY, PROPAGANDA UND PROPHETIE / CHRISTOPH UEHLINGER -- JEZREEL, SAMARIA AND MEGIDDO: ROYALCENTRES OF OMRI AND AHAB / DAVID USSISHKIN -- LE RÉCIT DE LA MER (EXODE XIII 17-XIV 31) REFLÈTE-T-IL UNE RÉDACTION DE TYPE DEUTÉRONOMIQUE? QUELQUES REMARQUES SUR LE PROBLÈME DE L'IDENTIFICATION DES ÉLÉMENTS DEUTÉRONOMIQUES CONTENUS DANS LE TÉTRATEUQUE / MARC VERVENNE -- HEBREW AND SYRIAC TEXTS OF THE BOOK OF JOB / MICHAEL WEITZMAN -- MICHAL UND DIE ANFÄNGE DES KÖNIGTUMS IN ISRAEL / INA WILLI-PLEIN.