Milk and Honey: Essays on Ancient Israel and the Bible in Appreciation of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego

Published by Penn State University Press 2007

Milk and Honey

Essays on Ancient Israel and the Bible in Appreciation of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego

Edited by: Sarah Malena and David Miano

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065786

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From the Foreword—

In a very short stretch of years, the Judaic Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego, has developed into one of the most important centers for teaching and research in biblical studies, in ancient Near Eastern and biblical archaeology, and more generally in Judaic studies. The program now rivals far older centers of study in these fields in eastern research universities. I have been an admirer of the program for some years, proud of former students of mine whose energy and foresight have contributed to the developments in La Jolla, including the establishment of endowed chairs that guarantee the future of this center and its program.

This collection of essays honoring the Judaic Studies Program and its faculty is a testimony to the fecundity of the program in producing scholars, whose essays dominate the collection. Several essays come from other scholars whose home base is in the West and who have engaged in colloquia and common pursuits with the San Diego faculty. . . . There are sections on Genesis, poetry and prophecy, narrative and history, lexicon, archaeology, and (not least) paleography.

—Frank Moore Cross

Harvard University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface: ‘Milk and Honey’ Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Encomia Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
The Judaic Studies Program at UCSD: A History Sarah Malena and David Miano Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Part 1 Genesis
A Goddess in the Garden? The Fall of Eve Shawna Dolansky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Jacob’s Bargain with God (Genesis 28:20–22) and Its Implications for the Documentary Hypothesis Jeffrey Geoghegan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Do Not Interpretations Belong to God? A Narrative Assessment of Genesis 40 as It Elucidates the Persona of Joseph Miriam Sherman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Part 2 Poetry and Prophecy
Quantitative Analysis of the Tribal Sayings in Deuteronomy 33 and Its Significance for the Poem’s Overall Structure Brian Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
The Lion Has Roared: Rhetorical Structure in Amos 1:2–3:8 Jack Lundbom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
On the Use of the Name of God in the Book of Jonah Elizabeth Goldstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Part 3 Narrative and History
The Good Book and the Bad Movies: Moses and the Failure of Biblical Cinema Michael Homan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
What Happened in the Fourteenth Year of Hezekiah? A Historical Analysis of 2 Kings 18–20 in the Light of New Textual Considerations David Miano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Where Is God? Divine Presence in the Absence of the Temple Risa Kohn and Rebecca Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Part 4 Lexicon
The First Halleluyah Ziony Zevit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Spice Roots in the Song of Songs Sarah Malena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The Participle in Biblical Hebrew and the Overlap of Grammar and Lexicon Francis Andersen and A. Forbes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Part 5 Archaeology and Paleography
Biomolecules, Bedouin, and the Bible: Reconstructing Ancient Foodways in Israel’s Northern Negev Margie Burton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
From the Wilderness of Zin alongside Edom: Edomite Territory in the Eastern Negev during the Eighth–Sixth Centuries b.c.e. Laura Zucconi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
The Gamla Coin: A New Perspective on the Circumstances and Date of Its Minting . Yoav Arbel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Indexes of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: June 23, 2007
ISBN: 9781575065786