Words remembered, texts renewed : essays in honour of John F.A. Sawyer / edited by Jon Davies, Graham Harvey and Wilfred G.E. Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sawyer, John F. A.

Davies, Jon, 1939-

Harvey, Graham.

Watson, Wilfred G. E.

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 195.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 195

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sawyer, John F. A.

Sawyer, John F. A--Bibliography.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

533 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Essays in honour of John F.A. Sawyer

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, [1995]

Contents:

All they need is love : once more Genesis 6.1-4 \ Marc Vervenne

'Traditions of remembrance': post-Holocaust interpretations of Genesis 22 \ Isabel Wollaston

What biblical scholars might learn from Emily Dickinson \ Francis I.

The names of God in biblical narratives \ Jonathan Magonet

The Ten Commandments, reading from left to right \ David Clines

The suffering of witches and children : uses of the witchcraft passages in the Bible \ Graham Harvey

'deuteronomistic' mean? \ Richard Coggins

Sociology or history : towards a (human) history of ancient Palestine? \ Keith Whitelam

Reading Joshua after Kings \ Graeme Auld

'Aha! Assyria! rod of my fury, very staff of my sent \ Clyde Curry Smith

God of Cyrus, God of Israel : some religio-historical reflections on Isaiah 40-55 \ Philip Davies

Revisionings : echoes and traces of Isaiah in the poetry of William Blake \ Robert Carroll

Hosea III in the version \ Takamitsu Muraoka

Some ancient Near Eastern parallels to the Song of Songs \ Wilfred Watson

Coordination by vav in biblical Hebrew \ John Gibson

Moses and Patmos : reflections on the Jewish background of early Christopher Rowland

Water and blood : birthing images in John's gospel \ Deborah Sawyer

The marriage at Cana of Galilee \ Calum Carmichael

Using Scripture : community and letterality \ Gerard Loughlin

Historical text as

text : some basic hermeneutical reflections in relation to the New Testament \ James Dunn

The New Testament in fiction and film : a biblical scholar's perspective \ William R. Telford

On the unity of Scripture \ Robert Morgan part of prophecy' : the problem of continuing revelation in Judaism \ Philip Alexander

The 'original text' : a scholarly illusion? \ Peter Hayman

Isaac Israeli and his Sefer hasheten : Glasgow MS Hunter 477 \ Max Sussman

The of Menahem : proposals for a lexicographic theory, with sample translation and notes \ John Elwolde

Rammohun Roy and Bishop Hefer's view of the Trinity \ Dermot Killingley

Judaism traduced : the House of Lords and the war crim 1989-1990 \ Jon Davies.

Notes:

"Publications" [of John F.A. Sawyer]: pages 510-513.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

ISBN:

1850755426

OCLC:

33102584