Divrei Shalom: Collected Studies of Shalom M. Paul on the Bible and the Ancient Near East 1967-2005

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This volume consists of philological and literary studies written by the author between the years 1967 and 2005 pertaining to the elucidation and explication of various aspects of the narrative, legal, prophetic, and wisdom genres of Biblical literature, with a major emphasis on the textual analysis of themes, idioms, terminology, and lexemes with the aid of Akkadian and Ugaritic source material.

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This volume consists of philological and literary studies written by the author between the years 1967 and 2005 pertaining to the elucidation and explication of various aspects of the narrative, legal, prophetic, and wisdom genres of Biblical literature, with a major emphasis on the textual analysis of themes, idioms, terminology, and lexemes with the aid of Akkadian and Ugaritic source material.

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Shalom M. Paul, Ph.D. (1964), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Bible Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1971-2004). He has published extensively on Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Literature.

Table of Contents

1 The image of the oven and the cake in Hosea 7:4-10 3
2 Deutero-Isaiah and cuneiform royal inscriptions 11
3 Cuneiform light on Jer. 9:20 23
4 Exod. 21:10 : a threefold maintenance clause 27
5 Sargon's administrative diction in 2 Kings 17:27 37
6 Formulaic patterns of law in Israel and Mesopotamia 39
7 Psalm 72:5 - a traditional blessing for the long life of the king 51
8 Heavenly tablets and the book of life 59
9 Classifications of wine in Mesopotamian and rabbinic sources 71
10 Nehemiah 6:19 - counterespionage 75
11 Amos 3:15 - winter and summer mansions 77
12 Fishing imagery in Amos 4:2 81
13 An unrecognized medical idiom in Song of songs 6:12 and Job 9:21 91
14 1 Samuel 9:7 : an interview fee 95
15 Unrecognized biblical legal idioms in the light of comparative Akkadian expressions 99
16 Adoption formulae : a study of cuneiform and biblical legal clauses 109
17 Psalm 27:10 and the Babylonian theodicy 121
18 Two cognate Semitic terms for mating and copulation 125
19 Job 4:15 - a hair raising encounter 129
20 Daniel 3:29 - a case of 'neglected' blasphemy 133
21 Dan 6:8 : an Aramaic reflex of Assyrian legal terminology 139
22 [actual symbol not reproducible] : Hosea 8:8-10 and ancient Near Eastern royal epithets 145
23 A technical expression from archery in Zechariah 9:13a 155
24 Biblical analogues to Middle Assyrian law 159
25 Exodus 1:21 : 'to found a family' : a biblical and Akkadian idiom 177
26 Gleanings from the Biblical and Talmudic lexica in light of Akkadian 181
27 Decoding a 'joint' expression in Daniel 5:6, 16 195
28 From Mari to Daniel : instructions for the acceptance of servants into the royal court 205
29 Euphemistically 'speaking' and a covetous eye 213
30 Untimely death in the Semitic languages 223
31 The 'plural of ecstasy' in Mesopotamian and biblical love poetry 239
32 Two proposed Janus parallelisms in Akkadian literature 253
33 Hosea 7:16 : gibberish jabber 257
34 'Emigration' from the netherworld in the ancient Near East 263
35 A lover's garden of verse : literal and metaphorical imagery in ancient Near Eastern love poetry 271
36 The Mesopotamian background of Daniel 1-6 285
37 The shared legacy of sexual metaphors and euphemisms : Mesopotamian and biblical literature 299
38 A double entendre in Job 15:32 in the light of Akkadian 315
39 Daniel 12:9 : a technical Mesopotamian scribal term 319
40 Hebrew [actual symbol not reproducible] and its interdialectal equivalents 323
41 Daniel 6:20 : an Aramaic Calque on an Akkadian expression 329
42 Jerusalem of gold - revisited 333
43 Two cosmographical terms in Amos 9:6 343
44 Amos 1:3-2:3 : a concatenous literary pattern 353
45 Prophets and prophecy 363
46 Literary and ideological echoes of Jeremiah in Deutero-Isaiah 399
47 A literary reinvestigation of the authenticity of the oracles against the nations of Amos 417
48 Amos 3:3-8 : the irresistible sequence of cause and effect 439
49 Polysensuous polyvalency in poetic parallelism 457
50 Polysemous pivotal punctuation : more Janus double entendres 477
51 An overlooked double entendre in Jonah 2:5 485
Additional writings of Shalom M. Paul 489

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