Studies on the text and versions of the Hebrew Bible in honour of Robert Gordon / / edited by Geoffrey Khan and Diana Lipton.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 149
• TeilnehmendeR: Gordon, R. P.; Khan, Geoffrey.; Lipton, Diana.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 149.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (458 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This collection of previously unpublished essays by outstanding international scholars in honour of Robert P. Gordon, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University, covers a wide range of topics, from accuracy, anachronism, and incongruity in the books of Samuel, through the theology of Psalms, ancient Near eastern historiography, and the ideology of the Septuagint, to philology and grammar in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Targum, Josephus, and medieval sources. It should interest readers concerned with inner-biblical exegesis and the Hebrew Bible in relation to its parallels, translations, and versions, as well as with big questions about the classification of the Bible and its antecedents as books, the social context of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Christian attitudes towards ‘original Hebrew'.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- RPG / Andrew A. Macintosh -- Anticipations of Horeb: Exodus 17 As Inner-Biblical Commentary / Nathan MacDonald -- Legal Analogy in Deuteronomy and Fratricide in the Field / Diana Lipton -- Are There Anachronisms in the Books of Samuel? / Alan Millard -- Incongruity in the Story of Saul in 1 Samuel 9–15: A Methodological Survey / Katharine J. Dell -- The Friendship of Jonathan and David / Graham Davies -- A Sign and a Portent in Isaiah 8.18 / H.G.M. Williamson -- Jeremiah the Historian: The Book of Jeremiah As a Source for the History of the Near East in the Time of Nebuchadnezzar / Hans M. Barstad -- Psalms, Biblical Theology, and the Christian Church / Ronald E. Clements -- On the Coherence of the Third Dialogic Cycle in the Book of Job / V. Philips Long -- A Feature of the Dates in the Aramaic Portions of Ezra and Daniel / Brian A. Mastin -- Fat Eglon / James K. Aitken -- People and Places in the Earliest Translations of Neo-Assyrian Texts Relating to the Old Testament / Kevin J. Cathcart -- The Bible, the Septuagint, and the Apocrypha: A Consideration of Their Singularity / Peter J. Williams -- The Land is Full of Foreign Children: Language and Ideology in LXX Isa. 2.6 / Rodrigo de Sousa -- What Was an ὀπωροφυλάκιον? / Jennifer Dines -- What Remains of the Hebrew Bible? The Accuracy of the Text of the Hebrew Bible in the Light of the Qumran Samuel (4QSAMA) / David J.A. Clines -- The Social Matrix That Shaped the Hebrew Bible and Gave Us the Dead Sea Scrolls / Charlotte Hempel -- Josephus and 11Q13 on Melchizedek / William Horbury -- Josephus, Onkelos, and Jonathan: On the Agreements between Josephus’ Works and Targumic Sources / Arie van der Kooij -- The Targums: Tel-Like Character and a Continuum / Martin McNamara -- Mules, Rome, and a Catalogue of Names: Genesis 36 and Its Aramaic Targumim / Robert Hayward -- The Condemned Rulers in Targum Isaiah’s Eschatological Banquet / William D. Barker -- Targum Proverbs and the Peshitta: Reflections on the Linguistic Environment / John F. Healey -- On Some Connotations of the Word Maʿaseh / Stefan C. Reif -- Reflections on the Christian Turn to the Hebraica Veritas and Its Implications / Philip Alexander -- A Ninth-Century Irish Bog Psalter and Reading the Psalms as ‘Three Fifties’ / Susan E. Gillingham -- The Grammatical Commentary on Hosea by the Karaite Yūsuf Ibn Nūḥ / Geoffrey Khan -- General Index -- Biblical References -- Rabbinic References.