Sacred history, sacred literature :

Sacred history, sacred literature : essays on ancient Israel, the Bible, and religion in honor of R.E. Friedman on his sixtieth birthday / edited by Shawna Dolansky. - Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xiv, 348 pages) : illustrations, 1 map

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Richard Elliott Friedman : an appreciation / Introduction / Ezekiel and the Levites / Framing Aaron : incense altar and lamp oil in the tabernacle texts / Necromancy and 1 Samuel 19:22 / A tale of the prophet and the courtier : a responsive reading of the Nathan texts / A forgotten cultic reform? : 2 Kings 3:2b / Scribal error and the transmission of 2 Kings 18-20 and Isaiah 36-39 / Empirical taxonomy and the Hebrew Bible / Place-names as superlatives in classical Hebrew / The real formal full personal name of the God of Israel / Leitwort style and literary structure in the J primeval narrative / How Moses gained and lost the reputation of being the Torah's author : higher criticism prior to Julius Wellhausen / How was the Bible written? : reflections on sources and authors in the book of Kings / The "biblical" origins of Passover / "Plowing with a heifer" in Judges 14:18 : tracing a sexual euphemism / Aramean skin care : a new perspective on Naaman's leprosy / Abraham and Damascus in some Greek and Latin texts of the Hellenistic period / Rethinking sectarian Judaism : the centrality of the priesthood in the Second Temple period / In defense of forgery / Can archaeology serve as a tool in textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible? / "You shall make for yourself no molten gods" : some thoughts on archaeology and Edomite ethnic identity / Female infanticide in Iron II Israel and Judah / Elements of popular piety in late medieval and early modern Jewish Psalms commentary / The biblical icon / Walter Rauschenbusch, the Social Gospel movement, and how Julius Wellhausen unwittingly helped create American progressivism in the twentieth century / "Starving" the patient : a Jewish perspective on Terry Schiavo and the feeding tube controversy / William H.C. Propp -- Shawna Dolansky -- Jacob Milgrom -- Carol Meyers -- W. Randall Garr -- Herbert Bardwell Huffmon -- André Lemaire -- Bradley Root -- A. Dean Forbes -- H.G.M. Williamson -- David Noel Freedman -- Ronald Hendel -- Michael M. Homan -- Robert R. Wilson -- Jeffrey C. Geoghegan -- Shalom M. Paul -- Laura M. Zucconi -- John A. Emerton -- Risa Levitt Kohn and Rebecca Moore -- Baruch Halpern -- William G. Dever -- Thomas E. Levy -- Beth Alpert Nakhai -- Alan Cooper -- Stephen Cox -- Steven Cassedy -- Randy Linda Sturman.

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Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Old Testament.


Judaism--History.
RELIGION--Biblical Criticism & Interpretation--Old Testament.
Judaism.


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