essays in honour of H.G.M. Williamson on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday Williamson, H. G. M. (Hugh Godfrey Maturin) 1947- Provan, Iain W. (Iain William) 1957- Boda, Mark J. text bibliography festschrift Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. ne Leiden Boston Brill 2012 monographic eng 1 online resource (xxxix, 515 pages) : illustrations, portrait. This volume honours Professor H.G.M. Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University through a collection of essays by colleagues and former students from across the globe. The various contributions intersect with the previous work of Professor Williamson related to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and Hebrew language and texts. The beginnings of "biblical archaeology" / Graham Davies -- Mission among the Jews, Holy Land and Aramaic studies : the case of Gustaf Dalman / Thomas Willi -- Traces of ergativity in biblical Hebrew / John Barton -- Isaiah 30:15 ... and Akkadian šubat nēḫti/šubtu nēḫtu, "quiet abode" / Kevin J. Cathcart -- Who "began to call on the name of the Lord" in Genesis 4:26b? The MT and the versions / Robert P. Gordon -- The Septuagint of Isaiah and priesthood / Arie van der Kooij -- Proverbs 30:32 and the root [nvl] / A.A. Macintosh -- The role of Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion in modern commentaries on the Hebrew Bible / Alison Salvesen -- The many voices of Isaiah 40 / David J.A. Clines -- Tyre and the Mediterranean in the book of Isaiah / Anselm C. Hagedorn -- The one who brings justice : conceptualizing the role of "The Servant" in Isaiah 42:1-4 and Matthew 12:15-21 / Elizabeth R. Hayes -- Who or what is Israel in Trito-Isaiah? / Gary N. Knoppers -- The two houses of Israel / Reinhard G. Kratz -- "I am like a luxuriant juniper" : language about God in Hosea / J.G. McConville -- From woe to weal : completing a pattern in the Bible and the ancient Near East / Alan Millard -- On triplets in a trio of prophets / David J. Reimer -- Zechariah and the ambiguity of kingship in postexilic Israel / Walter H. Rose -- The coming of the Lord : an inter-textual reading of Isa 40:1-11, 52:7-10, 59:15b-20, 62:10-11 and 63:1-6 / Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer -- Flashforward : future glimpses in the past of Ezra 1-6 / Mark J. Boda -- Nehemiah, the best king Judah never had / Iain Duguid -- 2 Chronicles 32:30 and the water systems of pre-exilic Jerusalem / Judith M. Hadley -- Pain in childbirth? Further thoughts on "an attractive fragment" (1 Chronicles 4:9-10) / Iain Provan -- Was David a Judahite or an Ephraimite? Light from the genealogies / Sara Japhet -- The two Ahabs of the South : Joash and Josiah / John Jarick -- The citation and interpretation of the law in Chronicles : the Chronicler's distribution of exegetical devices in the narratives of Solomon and Hezekiah / Kevin L. Spawn -- Genesis 1 as holiness preamble / Bill T. Arnold -- Who destroyed Ashkelon? On some problems in relating text to archaeology / Hans M. Barstad -- Where was Tarshish? / John Day -- The sotah : why is this case different from all other cases? / Richard Elliott Friedman -- Entering and leaving the Psalter : Psalms 1 and 150 and the two polarities of faith / Susan Gillingham -- A reference to the covenant code in 2 Kings 17:24-41? / André Lemaire -- Ships and other seafaring vessels in the Old Testament / Jill Middlemas -- Who are the bad guys in the Psalms? / Patrick D. Miller -- David's stronghold and Samson's Rock of Etam / Nadav Na'aman. edited by Iain Provan and Mark J. Boda. "Academic achievements of H.G.M. Williamson": pages xvii-xxviii. Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-479) and indexes. Criticism, interpretation, etc BIBLES General RELIGION Biblical Reference General RELIGION Biblical Reference Handbooks BS410 .V452 v.153eb 220.05 Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 (OCoLC)801777561 9789004226586 9004226583 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=475687 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=475687 N$T 120821 20200709055555.0 ocn807026201 eng