Studies on the Text and Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon

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Geoffrey Khan, Diana Lipton
BRILL, Oct 28, 2011 - Religion - 458 pages
This collection of previously unpublished essays by outstanding international scholars in honour of Robert P. Gordon, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University, covers a wide range of topics,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

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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
General Index
419
Biblical References
425
Rabbinic References
436
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