Biblical & Near Eastern Essays - Healey, John F.

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Résumé :

Preface
Abbreviations
List of Contributors

PART I
TEXTS AND THEMES IN THE BIBLE

JOHN DAY
Does the Old Testament refer to Sacred Prostitution and did it actually exist in Ancient Israel?

ROBERT P. GORDON
The Philistines: the Ideological Foe

HENRY WANSBROUGH
The Finale of the Davidic Succession Narrative?

HUGH G.M. WILLIAMSON
The Formation of Isaiah 2.6-22

JOHN BARTON
The Day of Yahweh in the Minor Prophets

CHARLES CONROY
The 'Four Servant Poems' in Second Isaiah in the Light of Recent Redaction-Historical Studies

JOHN A. EMERTON
Some Problems in Psalm 88.16

PART II
TEXTS AND THEMES IN THE ANCIENT VERSIONS

KNUD JEPPESEN
'The Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?' From Osee to Jonas in the Septuagint

CARMEL MCCARTHY
Samaritan Pentateuch Readings in Deuteronomy

SEBASTIAN P. BROCK
A Neglected Revision of the Peshitta Psalter

C?LINE MANGAN
Wisdom, Torah and Creation in Targumic Literature

MARTIN MCNAMARA
The Colophon of Codex Neofiti 1: The Scribe Menahem and the Roman Medical Family of Manuele

PART III
INTERPRETATION AND HISTORY OF THE BIBLE

ANDREW D.H. MAYES
Marx, Weber and the Religion of Ancient Israel

JOHN R. BARTLETT
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Problem of Israelite Historiography

JOHN J. COLLINS
The Politics of Biblical Interpretation

GERARD J. NORTON
Dahood's Commentary on the Psalms: A Review of an Academic Grandparent's Work after Thirty Years

MICHAEL MAHER
'A Lily among Thorns': Cant. 2:2 in the Latin Exegetical Tradition

PART IV
NEAR EASTERN PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY

WILFRED G.E. WATSON
Akkadian Loanwords in Ugaritic: The Hippiatric Texts

MANFRED KROPP
Ethiopic Names in Sabaic and the Question of matres lectionis in Epigraphic South Arabian

G. 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 Palestine

PART V
NEAR EASTERN NOTABLES

C. EDMUND BOSWORTH
William Lithgow of Lanark's travels in Hungary, Transylvania and Poland, 1616

JOHN 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 Libraries

DAVID MORRAY
A Late-Victorian Consul in the Near East: John Dickson (1846-1906)