Le-ma'an Ziony : essays in honor of Ziony Zevit / edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn & Gary A. Rendsburg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenspahn, Frederick E., editor.

Rendsburg, Gary A., 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Hebrew language--History.

Hebrew language.

Israel--Antiquities.

Israel.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2017.

Summary:

An international array of twenty-six scholars contributes twenty-one essays to honor Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University), one of the foremost biblical scholars of his generation. The breadth of the honoree is indicated by the breadth of coverage in these twenty-one articles, with seven each in the categories of history and archaeology, Bible, and Hebrew (and Aramaic) language.

Contents:

Part 1. History and archaeology. History from things : on writing new histories of ancient Israel / William G. Dever

Tel 'Eton excavations and the history of the Shephelah during the Iron Age / Avraham Faust

Jerusalem in Rome : Moses Mendelssohn on the Arch of Titus Menorah / Steven Fine

Ekron of the Philistines : a response to issues raised in the literature / Seymour Gitin

Regional and local museums for archaeology in the first years of the state of Israel / Raz Kletter

Disks and deities : images on Iron Age terracotta plaques / Carol Meyers

An early Iron Age phase to Kuntillet 'Ajrud? / William M. Schniedewind

Part 2. Bible. Psalm 122 : the idealized Jerusalem / Adele Berlin

The Qeré in the context of the Masorah Parva / Michael V. Fox

The odd prophet out and in / Zev Garber, Bruce Zuckerman

Canon, codex, and the printing press / Frederick E. Greenspahn

Piercing God's name : a mythological subtext of deicide underlying blasphemy in Leviticus 24 / Theodore J. Lewis

Varia on crowns and diadems in the Bible and Mesopotamia / Shalom M. Paul

Psalm 20 and Amherst Papyrus 63. XII, 11-19 : a case study of a text in transit / Karel van der Toorn

Part 3. Hebrew (and Aramaic) language. Two maskilic explanations of the difference between the causative Pi'el and the Hiph'il in biblical Hebrew / Steven E. Fassberg

Kissing through a veil : translating the emphatic in biblical Hebrew / Richard Elliott Friedman

H.H. Rowley's Aramaic of the Old Testament after (almost) a century / Lester L. Grabbe

Visual grammar : an eye-tracking perspective on cognitive complexity in biblical Hebrew pronunciation / Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé Jacobus A. Naudé, Tanya Beelders, Luna Bergh

Syntactic-stylistic aspects of the so-called 'priestly' work in the Torah / Frank H. Polak

šemen tūraq (Song 1:3) / Gary A. Rendsburg, Ian Young

On the tolerative/permissive Hiph'il / Jeffrey H. Tigay.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 10, 2017).

ISBN:

9781498206921

1498206921