Biblical & Near Eastern Essays

by Carmel McCarthy, John F. Healey, Andrew Mein (Editor), Claudia V. Camp (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays contains a wide range of topics reflecting the depth and breadth of interest of the scholar in whose honour they were commissioned - Kevin J. Cathcart.

The central focus is Near Eastern, and covers a range of philological, linguistic, exegetical, historical and interpretative issues. The Near Eastern languages examined include Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Septuagintal Greek, Syriac and Ugaritic, while exegetical and text-critical topics include treatments of issues in Deuteronomy, 1 Kings, Isaiah, Amos, Psalms and the Song of Songs. Hermeneutical and historical essays touch on Ancient Israel's history and its interpretation, as well as on the significance of such individuals as the consular official John Dickson, E.H. Palmer in the Cambridge Libraries, William Lithgow of Lanark, and the contribution to Semitic epigraphy of the explorer Julius Euting.

This is volume 375 in the Jourbanal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826466907
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/01/2004
Series:	The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies , #375
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Andrew Mein is Lecturer in Old Testament at the University of Durham, UK.

Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAbbreviations List of ContributorsPART ITEXTS AND THEMES IN THE BIBLEJOHN DAY Does the Old Testament refer to Sacred Prostitution and did it actually exist in Ancient Israel? ROBERT P. GORDONThe Philistines: the Ideological FoeHENRY WANSBROUGH The Finale of the Davidic Succession Narrative? HUGH G.M. WILLIAMSON The Formation of Isaiah 2.6-22JOHN BARTONThe Day of Yahweh in the Minor ProphetsCHARLES CONROYThe 'Four Servant Poems' in Second Isaiah in the Light of Recent Redaction-Historical Studies JOHN A. EMERTONSome Problems in Psalm 88.16PART IITEXTS AND THEMES IN THE ANCIENT VERSIONSKNUD JEPPESEN 'The Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?' From Osee to Jonas in the SeptuagintCARMEL MCCARTHY Samaritan Pentateuch Readings in DeuteronomySEBASTIAN P. BROCKA Neglected Revision of the Peshitta PsalterCÉLINE MANGAN Wisdom, Torah and Creation in Targumic LiteratureMARTIN MCNAMARAThe Colophon of Codex Neofiti 1: The Scribe Menahem and the Roman Medical Family of ManuelePART IIIINTERPRETATION AND HISTORY OF THE BIBLEANDREW D.H. MAYESMarx, Weber and the Religion of Ancient IsraelJOHN R. BARTLETTBetween Scylla and Charybdis: The Problem of Israelite HistoriographyJOHN J. COLLINS The Politics of Biblical InterpretationGERARD J. NORTON Dahood's Commentary on the Psalms: A Review of an Academic Grandparent's Work after Thirty YearsMICHAEL MAHER 'A Lily among Thorns': Cant. 2:2 in the Latin Exegetical TraditionPART IVNEAR EASTERN PHILOLOGY AND HISTORYWILFRED G.E. WATSON Akkadian Loanwords in Ugaritic: The Hippiatric TextsMANFRED KROPP Ethiopic Names in Sabaic and the Question of matres lectionis in Epigraphic South ArabianG. REX SMITH Classical Arabic Pattern Fa(a4li Revisited REINHARD PUMMER Foot-Soldiers of the Byzantines or Spies for the Muslims? The Role of the Samaritans in the Muslim Conquest of PalestinePART VNEAR EASTERN NOTABLESC. EDMUND BOSWORTH William Lithgow of Lanark's travels in Hungary, Transylvania and Poland, 1616JOHN F. HEALEY'Sicherheit des Auges': the Contribution to Semitic Epigraphy of the Explorer Julius Euting (1839-1913) GRAHAM I. DAVIES Fresh Evidence on E.H. Palmer's Travels from Cambridge LibrariesDAVID MORRAYA Late-Victorian Consul in the Near East: John Dickson (1846-1906)