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Ve-'Ed Ya'aleh (Gen 2 : 6), Volume 1: Essays in Biblical and Ancient near Eastern Studies Presented to Edward L. Greenstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Machinist, Peter.
- Series:
- Writings from the Ancient World Supplement
- Writings from the Ancient World Supplement ; v.5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Pentateuch.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (741 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh
- Ve-'Ed Ya'aleh
- Place of Publication:
- : Society of Biblical Literature, 2020.
- Summary:
- Sixty-six colleagues, friends, and former students of Edward L. Greenstein present essays honoring him upon his retirement. Throughout Greenstein's half-century career he demonstrated expertise in a host of areas astonishing in its breadth and depth, and each of the essays in these two volumes focuses on an area of particular interest to him. Volume 1 includes essays on ancient Near Eastern studies, Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic languages, and biblical law and narrative. Volume 2 includes essays on biblical wisdom and poetry, biblical reception and exegesis, and postmodern readings of the Bible.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Edward L. Greenstein Publications
- Abbreviations
- Ancient Near Eastern Studies
- Adaptation Processes of Mythologemes
- Babylonian Months
- The "Hunger Years" and the "Sea Peoples"
- Some Thoughts on tu-ta-ti
- Mandaeans in the Face of Modernity
- Role of Thitmanit as a Mourner
- Frustrations of an Epigrapher
- Negotiation Tactics, Diplomacy, and Literary Design
- Studies in Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Languages
- When Five Is Not 5
- Linguistic Dating of Lamentations
- Three-Tier Names
- Note on the Vocalization and Accentuation
- On the Etymology of Aramaic שרשיפא "Footstool"
- A Note on the Pluractional Piel
- Purity and Profanation
- Rhetorical Marker ועתה הנה
- 2 Kings 6:1-3 as an Instance of Conversational Repair
- Metaphorical and Symbolic Uses of Flora
- Archaic Lexicon in Biblical Hebrew
- בן בית
- Exodus 1, Akkadian pilku, and Israelite Corvée Labor
- Studies in Biblical Law and Narrative
- Ishmael
- Biblical Law
- Playing with Fire
- Opening Section of the Book of Kings
- Noah and His Sons
- Prophetic Speech in Judges 6:7-10 Reconsidered
- Significance of Leah's Soft Eyes
- Two Readings of Jacob's Dream
- Form Follows Content in Biblical Literature
- Samson as Riddle
- Gideon Cycle and the Deuteronomist's Critique of Hereditary Monarchy
- What Is Melchizedek the King-Priest Doing
- What Not to Do with the Name of Yahweh Your God
- ויצלהו מידם
- Glimpses of God
- Textual Emendations Based on Style and Syntax.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780884144847
- 0884144844
- OCLC:
- 1272993191
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