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A palimpsest : rhetoric, ideology, stylistics, and language relating to Persian Israel / edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana V. Edelman, Frank Polak.
Van Pelt Library BS1225.52 .P35 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts ; 5.
- Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Bible. Old Testament--Language, style.
- Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
- Judaism.
- History.
- Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).
- Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.
- Jews.
- Hebrew language--Grammar.
- Hebrew language.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- A volume of collected essays that explores what we can learn about the producers and readers of biblical books by looking into matters of language, rhetoric, style, and ideology. What do they teach us about these literati's world of knowledge and imagination, about the issues they had in mind and the ways they came to deal with them through authoritative literature? The book includes essays on such issues as whether linguistic theories can solve literary-critical problems, on what is "late biblical Hebrew," on parallelism and noun groups in biblical poetry, and the communicative meaning of some linguistic choices.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Diana V. Edelman
- Group identities in Jeremiah : is it the Persian period conflict? / Dalit Rom-Shiloni
- Ezra 1&6 as idealized past / Diana V. Edelman
- Ancestor ideologies and the territoriality of the dead in Genesis / Francesca Stavrakopoulou
- God rhetoric : reconceptualizing YHWH Sebaot as YHWH Elohim in the Hebrew Bible / Diana V. Edelman
- The Book of Esther : a Persian story in Greek style / Jean-Daniel Macchi
- Nahum 1 : prophet, senet, and divination / Philippe Guillaume
- Verbs of motion in Biblical Hebrew : lexical shifts and syntactic structure / Frank Polak
- - Parallelism and noun groups in prophetic poetry from the Persian era / Frank Polak
- What happened to the Book of Samuel in the Persian period and beyond? / Robert Rezetko
- What is late Biblical Hebrew / Ian Young
- The communicative message of some linguistic choices / Ehud Ben Zvi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781607245841
- 1607245841
- OCLC:
- 440282943
- Publisher Number:
- 99936117257
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