Words Remembered, Texts Renewed: Essays in Honour of John F.A. SawyerJon Davies, Graham Harvey, Wilfred G. E. Watson To mark the retirement of John F. A. Sawyer, Professor of Religious Studies in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, colleagues and former students from around the world have contributed studies on his areas of interest: the study of Hebrew, the books of the Jewish Bible, and the culture and traditions of Judaism. The essayists consider not simply the origin of the meaning of word and text, but also the many and strange ways in which word and text become transposed, re-oriented and often enough traduced by later interests and purposes. The roll call of scholars reads: Philip Alexander, Francis Andersen, Graeme Auld, Calvin Carmichael, Robert Carroll, David Clines, Richard Coggins, Jon Davies, Philip Davies, James Dunn, John Elwolde, John Gibson, Graham Harvey, Peter Hayman, Dermot Killingley, Jonathan Magonet, Robert Morgan, Takamitsu Muraoka, Christopher Rowland, Deborah Sawyer, Clyde Curry Smith, Max Sussman, William Telford, Marc Vervenne, Wilfred Watson, Keith Whitelam and Isabel Wollaston. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Abbreviations | 11 |
List of Contributors | 15 |
Once More Genesis 614 | 19 |
PostHolocaust Interpretations of Genesis 22 | 41 |
What Biblical Scholars Might Learn from Emily Dickinson | 52 |
The Names of God in Biblical Narratives | 80 |
The Ten Commandments Reading from Left to Right | 97 |
Reflections on the Jewish Background of Early Christianity | 280 |
Birthing Images in Johns Gospel | 300 |
The Marriage at Cana of Galilee | 310 |
Community and Letterality | 321 |
Some Basic Hermeneutical Reflections in Relation to the New Testament | 340 |
A Biblical Scholars Perspective | 360 |
On the Unity of Scripture | 395 |
The Problem of Continuing Revelation in Judaism | 414 |
Uses of the Witchcraft Passages in the Bible | 113 |
What Does Deuteronomistic Mean? | 135 |
Towards a Human History of Ancient Palestine? | 149 |
Reading Joshua after Kings | 167 |
Aha Assyria Rod of my Fury Very Staff of My SentencingCurse | 182 |
Some ReligioHistorical Reflections on Isaiah 4055 | 207 |
Echoes and Traces of Isaiah in the Poetry of William Blake | 226 |
Hosea III in the Septuagint Version | 242 |
Some Ancient Near Eastern Parallels to the Song of Songs | 253 |
Coordination by Vav in Biblical Hebrew | 272 |
A Scholarly Illusion? | 434 |
Glasgow MS Hunter 477 | 450 |
Proposals for a Lexicographic Theory with Sample Translation and Notes | 462 |
Rammohun Roy and Bishop Hebers View of the Trinity | 480 |
The House of Lords and the War Crimes Debate 19891990 | 497 |
Professor John FA Sawyer | 509 |
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