Marbeh Ḥokmah: Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz

Published by Penn State University Press 2015

Marbeh Ḥokmah

Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz

Edited by: Shamir Yonah , Edward L. Greenstein , Mayer I. Gruber , Peter Machinist and Shalom M. Paul

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575063614

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The title, Marbeh Ḥokmah, meaning “increases wisdom,” reflects the fact that Victor Avigdor Hurowitz was a scholar who increased wisdom and who continues to increase the wisdom of scholars throughout the world even after his untimely death at the age of 64. The book was edited by five of Professor Hurowitz’s colleagues: Profs. Shamir Yona and Mayer I. Gruber of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Edward L. Greenstein of Bar-Ilan University, Peter Machinist of Harvard University, and Shalom M. Paul of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The two-volume collection contains 49 groundbreaking essays written by 53 distinguished authors from various institutions of higher learning in Israel and around the world. The authors include Victor’s teachers, colleagues, and students, and the essays deal with a great variety of subjects. The breadth of subject matter featured in Marbeh Ḥokmah is a most appropriate tribute to Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, whose published scholarship encompassed a wide variety of fields of interest pertaining to the study of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East: Wisdom Literature, Psalmody, prophecy and prophets, the priesthood, eschatology, historiography, ancient inscriptions, medieval Hebrew biblical exegesis, religious rites, building and architecture, temples, the art of warfare, Semitic philology, Sumerian proverbs, epigraphy, rhetoric and stylistics, poetry, lamentations, the interconnections between Hebrew Scripture and the ancient Near East, the cultures of ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia, innerbiblical parallels, and many other subjects.

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“These papers demonstrate that both fields—Bible and ancient Near Eastern studies— stand much to gain by following the path of dialogue and discourse upon which Victor Hurowitz left his indelible footprints.”
—Yoram Cohen, Review of Biblical Literature

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
About the Editors and Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Personal and Academic Biography of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Publications of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
English Abstracts of the Hebrew Essays Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxv
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xlii
Maqlû Tablet II: Its Literary Frame and Formation Tzvi Abusch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Images of the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Calah in the Throne-Room Vision of Isaiah 6 Shawn Zelig Aster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Bathing the Goddess (CTH 714) Gary Beckman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Psalm 132: A Prayer for the Restoration of Judah Adele Berlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Josiah in Bethel: An Ancient Prophecy Newly Fulfilled Mordechai Cogan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
The Well-Attested BH-Akk. Simile כראים (Ps 92:11) / כמו בן־ראמים (Ps 29:6) = Akk. kīma rīmi/rīmāniš and Its Semantic Equivalent כְּאַבִּיר (Isa 10:13 [Kethiv]) in the Speech of the Assyrian King Chaim Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
The Pastoral Idea of Hesed and the Symbolism of Matzo and Hamets Sol Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
The Tower and City of Babel Story (Genesis 11:1–9): Problems of Interpretation and Background John Day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Human Tribulation and Transience in Job: The Metaphor of the Moth Tova Forti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Did Ezra Create Judaism? Lisbeth S Fried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Ancient Mesopotamian Cultic Whispering into the Ears Uri Gabbay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Two New Cultic Inscriptions from Seventh-Century b.c.e. Ekron Seymour Gitin and Shmuel Aḥituv Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Reflections on the Intersection between “Song” and Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible David A. Glatt-Gilad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
To Whom Can a Wronged Person Turn for Help in the Old Babylonian Period? Shirley Graetz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Finding One’s Way in Proverbs 30:18–19 Edward L Greenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
ʾel = ʾet: An Unrecognized Lexeme in Biblical Hebrew Mayer I. Gruber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
A Sumerian Incantation for the Lavatory and Neo-Assyrian Eschatology Wayne Horowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Religion and Ethics in Sumerian Proverb Literature Jacob Klein and Nili Samet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
How Did Rabshakeh Know the Language of Judah? Yigal Levin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
From Accountability to Commandment: Trends in the Evolution of the Ancient Near Eastern Ritual Genre Baruch A. Levine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Idol Moments: Reading the Bible in Abraham’s Father’s Idol Shop Diana Lipton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Portable Sanctuaries and Their Evolution: The Biblical Tabernacle (ʿōhel môʿēd/miškān) and the Akkadian qersu Natalie N. May Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
“Your Father Is an Amorite and Your Mother a Hittite” (Ezekiel 16:3) Bustenay Oded Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Vain Imprecations on Having Been Born in Job 3 and Mesopotamian Literature Shalom M. Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
The Discourse Structure of the Mesha Inscription “I-Style,” Intonation Units, and Oral Performance Frank H. Polak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Anointing Documents with Oil and Sacrificing before Them Barbara N. Porter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
Repetition with Variation in Legal-Cultic Texts of the Torah Gary A. Rendsburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Siege Mentality: Fighting at the City Gate in the Mari Archives Jack M Sasson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
The Question of David’s Voice(s) in the Lament of 2 Samuel 1:19–27 Mark S. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Gudea’s Kingship and Divinity Claudia E. Suter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
Eschatology in the Book of Jeremiah Marvin A. Sweeney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
The “Holiness School”—Creativity and Editorial Activity in the Book of Joshua: The Case of Joshua 24 Ada Taggar-Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	541
Saul’s Pursuit of David in the Land of Judah and the Geographical Background Shmuel Vargon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559
Under The Skin: A Study of SU, the Sumerian Bodyscape Joan Goodnick Westenholz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	587
Another Look at the Nomadic Tribal Arameans in the Inscriptions of Ninurta-kudurrī-uṣur of Suḫu K. Lawson Younger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	605
Taking the Measure of the Ten-Cubit Gap, Isaiah’s Vision, and Iron Age Bones Ziony Zevit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	633
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Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 736

eBook

Published: December 10, 2015
ISBN: 9781575063614