Birkat Shalom: Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday

Published by Penn State University Press 2008

Birkat Shalom

Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday

Edited by: Chaim Cohen , Victor Avigdor Hurowitz , Avi M. Hurvitz , Yochanan Muffs , Baruch J. Schwartz and Jeffrey H. Tigay

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065908

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This magnificent volume is a compilation of the writings of friends, colleagues, and former students in tribute to Shalom Paul, Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Bible Department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. More than 60 essayists contribute new ideas in the areas of research most loved by Prof. Paul, such as biblical literature and criticism, prophecy, comparative exegesis and linguistics, ancient Near Eastern historical and cultural milieus, and biblical and Mesopotamian law.

Contributors include scholars of renown such as Adele Berlin, Frank Moore Cross, William G. Dever, Michael V. Fox, William W. Hallo, Sara Japhet, André Lemaire, Carol Meyers, Jacob Milgrom, Elisha Qimron, Gary A. Rendsburg, Jack M. Sasson, Shemaryahu Talmon, Emanuel Tov, James C. VanderKam, Joan Goodnick Westenholz, and Ziony Zevit.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Shalom Paul: Scholar, Teacher, Friend Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Publications of Shalom M. Paul Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
Volume 1
Part 1 The Bible
The Torah
Statut Public et Droit Privé dans la Tôrâh Henri Cazelles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Exodus 21:22–25 Revisited: Methodological Considerations Barry L. Eichler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Three Major Redactors of the Torah Richard Elliott Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Nimrod, Son of Cush, King of Mesopotamia, and the Dates of P and J Israel Knohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
A Linguistic Analysis of the Phrase צל משצנחך-צל (Exodus 21:19) and the Homiletic Sense צל משצנחך-צל בזזיך Simcha Kogut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Burnt Offering of Head, Peder, and Kidneys Edward Lipinski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
The Desecration of YHWH’s Name: Its Parameters and Significance Jacob Milgrom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Alliteration in the Exodus Narrative Gary A Rendsburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Deuteronomic Concepts of Exile Interpreted in Jeremiah and Ezekiel Dalit Rom-Shiloni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Light in Genesis 1:3— Created or Uncreated: A Question of Priestly Mysticism? Mark S Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
The Historical Books
“They Feared God”/“They Did Not Fear God”: On the Use of yéreª Yhwh and yareª ªet Yhwh in 2 Kings 17:24–41 Shawn Zelig Aster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
The Lament of David over Abner Elisha Qimron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Oracle Inquiries in Judges Jack M. Sasson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
King Solomon J. A. Soggin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Synchronic and Diachronic Considerations in the DtrH Portrayal of the Demise of Solomon’s Kingdom Marvin A Sweeney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
“And the Lord Sent Moses and Aaron” Yair Zakovitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
The Davidic-Solomonic Empire from the Perspective of Archaeological Bibliology Ziony Zevit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
The Books of the Prophets
The Sinai Theophany in the Psalm of Habakkuk Shmuel Ahituv Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Jeremiah 3:1–4:2 between Deuteronomy 24 and Matthew 5: Jeremiah’s Exercise in Ethical Criticism Mayer I Gruber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
The Historical Background of the Prophecies of Amos Menahem Haran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Isaiah and the Transition from Prophecy to Apocalyptic Ronald Hendel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Engendering Ezekiel: Female Figures Reconsidered Carol Meyers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Zechariah 12:12–14 and Hosea 10:5 in the Light of an Ancient Mourning Practice Alexander Rofé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
The Ultimate Aim of Israel’s Restoration in Ezekiel Baruch J. Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Is It Good for the Jews? Ambiguity and the Rhetoric of Turning in Isaiah Benjamin D Sommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
The Message of Psalm 114 Adele Berlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
The Writings
A New Criterion for Identifying “Wisdom Psalms” Tova Forti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Concepts of Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs Michael V. Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
“The Voice of Yhwh Causes Hinds to Calve” (Psalm 29:9) Jeffrey H. Tigay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
The Influence of Legal Style on the Style of Aphorism The Origin of the Retribution Formula and the Clause loª yinnaqeh ‘He Will Not Go Unpunished’ in the Book of Proverbs Shamir Yona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Part 2 The Bible and the Ancient Near East
The Mesopotamian Background of the Term אחךימ חימים in the World-Peace Vision of Isaiah 2:2a Pinhas Artzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
The Lions of Nineveh (Nahum 2:12–14): A Check on Nahum’s Familiarity with Assyria Mordechai Cogan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
New Directions in Modern Biblical Hebrew Lexicography Chaim Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
Ahab and Archaeology: A Commentary on 1 Kings 16–22 William G. Dever Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
Hurrian Ullikummi and Daniel’s “Little Horn” Roy E. Gane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
Reanalysis in Biblical and Babylonian Poetry Edward L. Greenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
In Search of Resen (Genesis 10:12): Dur-Sarrukin? Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Deuteronomy 6:6, 9 in the Light of Northwest Semitic Inscriptions André Lemaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
The Myth of Tammuz in Biblical Narrative Baruch Margalit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531
Volume 2
Part 3 The Ancient Near East
Scribal Initiative in the Clarification and Interpretation of Mesopotamian Law Collections Pamela Barmash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	551
Two Aramaic Ostraca from a Tannery in ºÊn Gedî Frank Moore Cross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	565
A Late Iron Age Hebrew Letter Containing the Word Noqédîm Esther Eshel and Hanan Eshel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	571
Wordplay in the Lamastu Incantations J. N. Ford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	585
“The Ship of the Desert, the Donkey of the Sea”: The Camel in Early Mesopotamia Revisited Wayne Horowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	597
“Secular” Love Songs in Mesopotamian Literature Jacob Klein and Yitschak Sefati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613
A Seated Figurine from Tell eß-Íâfi/Gath: A Philistine Image of El? Aren M. Maeir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	627
The Deity Addu (Hadad) of Kallassu (near Aleppo) in Two Mari Letters Abraham Malamat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	637
Negotiating with Hammu-rapi: A Case Study Frank H. Polak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	643
The Love Poem of Rim-Sîn and Nanaya Marcel Sigrist and Joan Goodnick Westenholz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667
On rahaßum I, II, III and on Akkadian rihßum = Hebrew ץצרה Nathan Wasserman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	705
From Biqºat to KTK: “All Aram” in the Sefîre Inscription in the Light of Amos 1:5 Nili Wazana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	713
Two Become One: A Unique Memorandum of Obligation Ada Yardeni and Bezalel Porten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	733
Part 4 Postbiblical, Medieval, and Modern Judaism
The Place of Genres in Bible Curricula Yairah Amit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	755
The Three-Day Period of Purification before Entering the Temple Aaron Demsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	775
Scribal Interventions in 1QIsaiah^a David Noel Freedman and Joshua J. Van Ee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	787
The “Plotting Witness” and Beyond: A Continuum in Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Talmudic Law Shamma Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	801
Franz Rosenzweig and the Land of Two Rivers William W. Hallo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	831
Rashi and the “Messianic” Psalms Robert A. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	845
“The Lovers’ Way”: Cultural Symbiosis in a Medieval Commentary on the Song of Songs Sara Japhet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	863
A Rather Risqué Pun in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Matthew Morgenstern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	881
The “Voice” of the Narrator and the “Voice” of the Characters in the Bible Commentaries of Yefet ben ºEli Meira Polliack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	891
Codification of Jewish Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls Lawrence H. Schiffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	917
Mismarot Lists (4Q322–324c) and “Historical Texts” (4Q322a; 4Q331–4Q333) in Qumran Documents Shemaryahu Talmon and Jonathan Ben-Dov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	927
Literary Analysis, the So-Called Original Text of Hebrew Scripture, and Textual Evaluation Emanuel Tov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	943
Sources for the Astronomy in 1 Enoch 72–82 James C. VanderKam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	965
I. O. Lehman, HUC mss 951–981 from Kai Feng, and a Purported Link between China and Yemen David B. Weisberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	979
Philo and Maimonides on the Garden of Eden Narrative David Winston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	989
Indexes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1003

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: June 23, 2008
ISBN: 9781575065908