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Ve-'Ed Ya'aleh (Gen 2 : 6), Volume 2: 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.6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Pentateuch.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (561 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh
- Ve-'Ed Ya'aleh
- Place of Publication:
- : Society of Biblical Literature, 2021.
- 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
- Abbreviations
- Studies in Biblical Wisdom and Poetry
- World Order in the Doxologies of Amos and Job
- The Art of Poetry in Jeremiah 17:5-8
- Seductive Speech and Double Voice
- Translating Two Job-ish Psalms
- What Do Job's Friends Want Him to Do?
- Seeing God in the Psalms
- "Evil" or "Agitated"
- God's Ambiguous Oaths
- Psalm 29: Canaanite or Israelite?
- Revisiting Edward L. Greenstein's "The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job"
- The Grammar of Creation
- Turning Inward
- God as Defendant, Advocate, and Judge
- Conversation with One's Heart or Soul
- Leviathan's Actions in Job 41:22-24
- Studies in Biblical Reception and Exegesis
- New Approach to the Canonization of the Hebrew Bible
- Phenomenon of Alternative Interpretations
- Song of Moses
- Targumic Wordplay
- Genres of Prophetic Rhetoric
- "Servant of Solomon"
- Reluctant Brick Maker
- Fish Swallows Man
- Postmodern Readings of the Bible
- Gender, Ethnicity, Identity
- Women, Men, and God
- Awe-tism and the Biblical God
- Indeterminacy of Meaning in the Art of Yehuda Levy-Aldema
- Why Did the Serpent Choose to Address Eve Rather Than Adam
- Biblical Interpretation as Mind Reading
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780884145370
- 0884145379
- OCLC:
- 1272990795
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