Words, ideas, worlds : biblical essays in honour of Yairah Amit / edited by Athalya Brenner and Frank H. Polak.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012.
Description
xxv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Library of Congress genre(s)
Series
Notes
Festschrift.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Introduction / Athalya Brenner and Frank H. Polak
  • Observations on Lines of Thought Concerning the Concepts of Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud, with an Emphasis on Deuteronomy-2 Kings and Chronicles / Ehud Ben Zvi
  • Women and Men He Created Them: Gender and Ideologies in the Book of Judges / Athalya Brenner
  • Hidden Ancestral Polemics in the Book of Genesis? / Diana Edelman
  • Rewriting, Overwriting, and Overriding: Techniques of Editorial Revision in the Deuteronomistic History / Cynthia Edenburg
  • Samson and his God: Modern Culture Reads the Bible / J. Cheryl Exum
  • Silent Gods, Nascent States: The Sacrifice of Isaac and Familicide in Early America / Yael S. Feldman, Mock Abrahams
  • Reading Pragmatically: Interpreting the Binding of Isaac / Edward L. Greenstein
  • The Art of Irony: The Book of Judges / Lillian Klein Abensohn
  • God's Victory over 'The Olden Gods': Theological Corrections in Deuteronomy 33.12, 27 / Israel Knohl
  • Roads That Configure the Space in Biblical Narratives / Nadav Na'aman
  • Divine Names, Sociolinguistics and the Pragmatics of Pentateuchal Narrative / Frank H. Polak
  • Beware of the Gap: The Medieval Concept of 'Elision' (ikhtisar) and its Relationship to Modern and Midrashic Notions of 'Gap-Filling' in Biblical Narrative Exegesis / Meira Polliack
  • When an Explicit Polemic Initiates a Hidden One: Jacob's Aramaic Identity / Dalit Rom-Shiloni
  • Strong Women Confront Helpless Men: Deborah and Jephthah's Daughter in the Midrash / Shulamit Valler.
ISBN
  • 1907534504
  • 9781907534508
OCLC
809411120
RCP
H - S
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