Interested readers : essays on the Hebrew Bible in honor of David J. A. Clines / edited by James K. Aitken, Jeremy M. S. Clines and Christl M. Maier.

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Publication details: Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, c2013.Description: xix, 485 pages : illustrations ; paperback ; 23 cmISBN:

9781589839243 (paper binding : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc

DDC classification:

221.6 23

LOC classification:

BS1225.52 .I58 2013

Contents:

Part 1 : Literary/Exegetical Readings. The Encounter with the Courtesan in the Gilgameš Epic and with Rahab in Joshua 2 / Daniel Bodi -- (Divine) Silence Is Golden : A New Reading of the Prologue of Job / Marc Zvi Brettler -- Memories, Myths, and Historical Monuments : Yahweh's Developing Character in the Psalms / Craig C. Broyles -- "A Psalm of David, When ... " : Reflections on Some Psalm Titles in the Hebrew Bible / Adrian H.W. Curtis -- "Moab Is My Washpot" (Ps 60:8 [MT 10]) : Another Look at the MFL (Moabite Liberation Front) / Susan E. Gillingham -- Solomon : Wisdom's Most Famous Aspirant / Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher -- The Unexpected Visitor : The Elihu Speeches in Personal Voice Perspective / Mayer I. Gruber -- Reading as an Earth Being : Rereading Genesis 2-3, Again / Norman C. Habel -- Self-Defense and Identity Formation in the Depiction of Battles in Joshua and Esther / Paul J. Kissling -- Egypt-Watching : Orientalism in the Hebrew Bible / Diana Lipton -- Reading Back and Forth : Gender Trouble in Jeremiah 2-3 / Christl M. Maier -- Dreams : Had, Recounted, and Interpreted : Power Plays in the Joseph Story? / Heather A. McKay -- "What You See Is What You Get" : The Passion of a Literary Character? / Eep Talstra -- Desperately Seeking Yhwh : Finding God in Esther's "Acrostics" / Laurence A. Turner --

Part 2 : Ideological-Critical Readings. The Bible in the Presidential Elections of 2012, 2008, and 2004, and the Collapse of American Secularism / Jacques Berlinerblau -- Three Questions on Economics for G. E. M. de Ste. Croix / Roland Boer -- Reading as a Canaanite : Paradoxes in Joshua / Mark G. Brett -- Occupy Central : Scribal Resistance in Daniel, the Long Road to Universal Suffrage / Philip P. Chia -- Voice and Ideology in Ecclesiastes : Reading "Cross the Grains" / Barbara M. Leung Lai -- Possibilities and Prospects of Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation : A South African Perspective / Jeremy Punt -- Deploying the Literary Detail of a Biblical Text (2 Samuel 13:1-22) in Search of Redemptive Masculinities / Gerald O. West --

Part 3 : Language and Lexicography. Neologisms : A Septuagint Problem / James K. Aitken -- The Invention of Language in the Poetry of Job / Edward L. Greenstein -- Linguistic Clues as to the Date of the Book of Job : A Mediating Position / Jan Joosten -- Speaker, Addressee, and Positioning : Dialogue Structure and Pragmatics in Biblical Narrative / Frank H. Polak -- Notes on Some Hebrew Words in Ecclesiastes / Stuart Weeks -- Patterns of Linguistic Forms in the Masoretic Text : The Preposition [ ] "From" / Ian Young --

Pat 4 : Reception History. The Bible in the Twenty-First Century : Where and How? / Athalya Brenner -- Nineteenth-Century British Job Oratorios / Katharine J. Dell -- Judging Judges Scholarship / Alan J. Hauser -- Boaz Reawakened : Modeling Masculinity in the Book of Ruth / Hugh S. Pyper -- From London to Amsterdam : Handel's Esther Reincarnated / Deborah W. Rooke.

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Includes bibliographical references.
BIbliography of David J.A. Clinees , 2003-2013 (p. 475).

Part 1 : Literary/Exegetical Readings.
The Encounter with the Courtesan in the Gilgameš Epic and with Rahab in Joshua 2 / Daniel Bodi --
(Divine) Silence Is Golden : A New Reading of the Prologue of Job / Marc Zvi Brettler --
Memories, Myths, and Historical Monuments : Yahweh's Developing Character in the Psalms / Craig C. Broyles --
"A Psalm of David, When ... " : Reflections on Some Psalm Titles in the Hebrew Bible / Adrian H.W. Curtis --
"Moab Is My Washpot" (Ps 60:8 [MT 10]) : Another Look at the MFL (Moabite Liberation Front) / Susan E. Gillingham --
Solomon : Wisdom's Most Famous Aspirant / Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher --
The Unexpected Visitor : The Elihu Speeches in Personal Voice Perspective / Mayer I. Gruber --
Reading as an Earth Being : Rereading Genesis 2-3, Again / Norman C. Habel --
Self-Defense and Identity Formation in the Depiction of Battles in Joshua and Esther / Paul J. Kissling --
Egypt-Watching : Orientalism in the Hebrew Bible / Diana Lipton --
Reading Back and Forth : Gender Trouble in Jeremiah 2-3 / Christl M. Maier --
Dreams : Had, Recounted, and Interpreted : Power Plays in the Joseph Story? / Heather A. McKay --
"What You See Is What You Get" : The Passion of a Literary Character? / Eep Talstra --
Desperately Seeking Yhwh : Finding God in Esther's "Acrostics" / Laurence A. Turner --

Part 2 : Ideological-Critical Readings.
The Bible in the Presidential Elections of 2012, 2008, and 2004, and the Collapse of American Secularism / Jacques Berlinerblau --
Three Questions on Economics for G. E. M. de Ste. Croix / Roland Boer --
Reading as a Canaanite : Paradoxes in Joshua / Mark G. Brett --
Occupy Central : Scribal Resistance in Daniel, the Long Road to Universal Suffrage / Philip P. Chia --
Voice and Ideology in Ecclesiastes : Reading "Cross the Grains" / Barbara M. Leung Lai --
Possibilities and Prospects of Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation : A South African Perspective / Jeremy Punt --
Deploying the Literary Detail of a Biblical Text (2 Samuel 13:1-22) in Search of Redemptive Masculinities / Gerald O. West --

Part 3 : Language and Lexicography.
Neologisms : A Septuagint Problem / James K. Aitken --
The Invention of Language in the Poetry of Job / Edward L. Greenstein --
Linguistic Clues as to the Date of the Book of Job : A Mediating Position / Jan Joosten --
Speaker, Addressee, and Positioning : Dialogue Structure and Pragmatics in Biblical Narrative / Frank H. Polak --
Notes on Some Hebrew Words in Ecclesiastes / Stuart Weeks --
Patterns of Linguistic Forms in the Masoretic Text : The Preposition [ ] "From" / Ian Young --

Pat 4 : Reception History.
The Bible in the Twenty-First Century : Where and How? / Athalya Brenner --
Nineteenth-Century British Job Oratorios / Katharine J. Dell --
Judging Judges Scholarship / Alan J. Hauser --
Boaz Reawakened : Modeling Masculinity in the Book of Ruth / Hugh S. Pyper --
From London to Amsterdam : Handel's Esther Reincarnated / Deborah W. Rooke.

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