Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday

Published by Penn State University Press 2005

Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients

Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday

Edited by: Ronald L. Troxel , Kelvin G. Friebel and Dennis R. Magary

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065625

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Michael V. Fox, long-time professor in the Dept. of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, is known both for his scholarship and his teaching. As the editors of this volume in his honor note, the care and sensitivity of his reading of the Hebrew text are well known, and he lavishes equal attention on his own writing, to the benefit of all who read his work, which now includes the first of two volumes in the Anchor Bible commentary on Proverbs (the next volume is in preparation), as well as monographs on wisdom literature in ancient Israel and elsewhere, and many articles. The rigor that he brought to his own work he also inflicted on his students, and they and a number of his colleagues honor him with their contributions to this volume.

Contributors include: Menahem Haran, Kelvin G. Friebel, Cynthia L. Miller, Theron Young, Adele Berlin, William P. Brown, James L. Crenshaw, John A. Cook, Robert D. Holmstedt, Shamir Yona, Christine Roy Yoder, Carol R. Fontaine, Nili Shupak, Victor Avigdor Horowitz, Tova Forti, Richard L. Schultz, J. Cheryl Exum, Dennis R. Magary, Theodore J. Lewis, Sidnie White Crawford, Ronald L. Troxel, Karl V. Kutz, Heidi M. Szpek, Claudia V. Camp, Johann Cook, Leonard Greenspoon, Stephen G. Burnett, Carol A. Newsom, Shemaryahu Talmon, and Frederick E. Greenspahn.

The book is organized around themes that reflect Prof. Fox’s interests and work: Part 1: “Seeking Out Wisdom and Concerned with Prophecies” (Sir 39:1): Studies in Biblical Texts”; Part 2: “Preserving the Sayings of the Famous” (Sir 39:2): Text, Versions, and Method.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Michael V. Fox: A Tribute Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
The Publications of Michael V. Fox: Overview and Bibliography Lawrence J. Mykytiuk Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
Part 1 “Seeking Out Wisdom and Concerned with Prophecies” (Sirach 39:1): Studies in Biblical Texts
Observations on Ezekiel as a Book Prophet Menahem Haran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The Decrees of Yahweh That Are “Not Good”: Ezekiel 20:25–26 Kelvin G. Friebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Ellipsis Involving Negation in Biblical Poetry Cynthia L. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22: Two Versions of the Same Song Theron Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
The Wisdom of Creation in Psalm 104 Adele Berlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
“Come, O Children . . . I Will Teach You the Fear of the Lord” (Psalm 34:12): Comparing Psalms and Proverbs William P. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
A Proverb in the Mouth of a Fool James L. Crenshaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Genericity, Tense, and Verbal Patterns in the Sentence Literature of Proverbs John A. Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Word Order in the Book of Proverbs Robert D Holmstedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Exegetical and Stylistic Analysis of a Number of Aphorisms in the Book of Proverbs: Mitigation of Monotony in Repetitions in Parallel Texts Shamir Yona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Forming “Fearers of Yahweh”: Repetition and Contradiction as Pedagogy in Proverbs Christine Roy Yoder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Visual Metaphors and Proverbs 5:15–20: Some Archaeological Reflections on Gendered Iconography Carole R. Fontaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17–24:22 from the Perspective of Contemporary Research Nili Shupak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
The Woman of Valor and A Woman Large of Head: Matchmaking in the Ancient Near East Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
The Fly and the Dog: Observations on Ideational Polarity in the Book of Qoheleth Tova Forti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
A Sense of Timing: A Neglected Aspect of Qoheleth’s Wisdom Richard L. Schultz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
The Little Sister and Solomon’s Vineyard: Song of Songs 8:8–12 as a Lovers’ Dialogue J. Cheryl Exum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Answering Questions, Questioning Answers: The Rhetoric of Interrogatives in the Speeches of Job and His Friends Dennis R. Magary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Part 2 “Preserving the Sayings of the Famous” (Sirach 39:2): Text, Versions, and Method
The Mysterious Disappearance of Zerubbabel Theodore J. Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Textual Criticism of the Book of Deuteronomy and the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project Sidnie White Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
What’s in a Name? Contemporization and Toponyms in LXX-Isaiah Ronald L Troxel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Characterization in the Old Greek of Job Karl V. Kutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
On the Influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic Literature Heidi M. Szpek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Becoming Canon: Women, Texts, and Scribes in Proverbs and Sirach Claudia V. Camp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Translating Biblical Words of Wisdom into the Modern World Leonard Greenspoon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
The Text-Critical Value of the Septuagint of Proverbs Johann Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Christian Aramaism: The Birth and Growth of Aramaic Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century Stephen G. Burnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Spying out the Land: A Report from Genology Carol A. Newsom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
What’s in a Calendar? Calendar Conformity, Calendar Controversy, and Calendar Reform in Ancient and Medieval Judaism Shemaryahu Talmon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
Competing Commentaries Frederick E. Greenspahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 536

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Published: June 23, 2005
ISBN: 9781575065625