Studies on the Text and Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert GordonGeoffrey Khan, Diana Lipton This collection of previously unpublished essays by outstanding international scholars in honour of Robert P. Gordon, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University, covers a wide range of topics,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'. |
Contents
RPG | 1 |
Exodus 17 As InnerBiblical Commentary | 7 |
Legal Analogy in Deuteronomy and Fratricide in the Field | 21 |
Are There Anachronisms in the Books of Samuel? | 39 |
A Methodological Survey | 49 |
The Friendship of Jonathan and David | 65 |
A Sign and a Portent in Isaiah 818 | 77 |
The Book of Jeremiah As a Source for the History of the Near East in the Time of Nebuchadnezzar | 87 |
What Remains of the Hebrew Bible? The Accuracy of the Text of the Hebrew Bible in the Light of the Qumran Samuel 4QSAMA | 211 |
The Social Matrix That Shaped the Hebrew Bible and Gave Us the Dead Sea Scrolls | 221 |
Josephus and 11Q13 on Melchizedek | 239 |
On the Agreements between Josephus Works and Targumic Sources | 253 |
TelLike Character and a Continuum | 269 |
Genesis 36 and Its Aramaic Targumim | 295 |
The Condemned Rulers in Targum Isaiahs Eschatological Banquet | 315 |
Reflections on the Linguistic Environment | 325 |
Psalms Biblical Theology and the Christian Church | 99 |
On the Coherence of the Third Dialogic Cycle in the Book of Job | 113 |
A Feature of the Dates in the Aramaic Portions of Ezra and Daniel | 127 |
Fat Eglon | 141 |
People and Places in the Earliest Translations of NeoAssyrian Texts Relating to the Old Testament | 155 |
A Consideration of Their Singularity | 169 |
Language and Ideology in LXX Isa 26 | 181 |
What Was an ὀπωροφυλάκιον? | 197 |
On Some Connotations of the Word Maʿaseh | 337 |
Reflections on the Christian Turn to the Hebraica Veritas and Its Implications | 353 |
A NinthCentury Irish Bog Psalter and Reading the Psalms as Three Fifties | 373 |
The Grammatical Commentary on Hosea by the Karaite Yūsuf Ibn Nūḥ | 387 |
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Rabbinic References | 436 |
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