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.

• TeilnehmendeR: Williamson, H. G. M. 1947-; Provan, Iain W. 1957-; Boda, Mark J.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 153; Vetus Testamentum, Supplements 153.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (558 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume honours Professor H. G. M. Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University through a collection of essays by colleagues and former students from across the globe. The various contributions intersect with the previous work of Professor Williamson, with special emphasis on the history of biblical research, study of the Hebrew language and Hebrew textual traditions, post-exilic historiography (Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah) and the prophets (especially Isaiah).

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}ehu<U+00cc><U+0080>ti/{caron}subtu n{macr}ehu<U+00cc><U+0080>tu, "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.