Offered in celebration of Talmons half-century of life and study in Israel, the essays in this Festschrift reflect Talmons lifelong interest in all phases of biblical and related study. Also included is a comprehensive listing of Talmons published writings.
Offered in celebration of Talmon&;s half-century of life and study in Israel, the essays in this Festschrift reflect Talmon&;s lifelong interest in all phases of biblical and related study. Also included is a comprehensive listing of Talmon&;s published writings.
Editors Preface
Abbreviations
Abstracts of Hebrew Articles
The Published Writings of Shemaryahu Talmon
Biblical Literature and Exegesis
MICHAEL FISHBANE - University of Chicago The Well of Living Water: A Biblical
Motif and Its Ancient Transformations
WESTON W. FIELDS - Hebrew University The Motif Night as Danger Associated
with Three Biblical Destruction Narratives
JAN P. FOKKELMAN - University of Leiden Structural Remarks on Judges 9 and
19
CYRUS H. GORDON - New York University This Time (Genesis 2:23)
BARUCH HALPERN - York University Sociological Comparativism and the
Theological Imagination: The Case of the Conquest
PAUL D. HANSON - Harvard University 1 Chronicles 15-16 and the Chroniclers
Views on the Levites
SARA JAPHET - Hebrew University The Israelite Legal and Social Reality as
Reflected in Chronicles: A Case Study
OTTO KAISER - Philipps University, Marburg The Law as Center of the Hebrew
Bible
KLAUS KOCH - University of Hamburg Ezra and Meremoth: Remarks on the History
of the High Priesthood
NORBERT LOHFINK - Philologisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen
Deuteronomy 6:24: To Maintain Us
CAROL L. MEYERS and ERIC M. MEYERS - Duke University Jerusalem and Zion after
the Exile: The Evidence of First Zechariah
JACOB MILGROM - University of California, Berkeley The Priestly Laws of
Sancta Contamination
SHALOM M. PAUL - Hebrew University Polysensuous Polyvalency in Poetic
Parallelism
ROLF RENDTORFF - University of Heidelberg The Image of Postexilic Israel in
German Bible Scholarship from Wellhausen to von Rad
NAHUM M. SARNA - Brandeis University, Emeritus Legal Terminology in Psalm
3:8
JACK M. SASSON - University of North Carolina Time...to Begin
J. ALBERTO SOGGIN - University of Rome Jacob in Shechem and in Bethel
(Genesis 35:1-7)
MATITIAHU TSEVAT - Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati Was Samuel a Nazirite?
Textual Criticism
MICHAEL V. FOX - University of Wisconsin, Madison The Redaction of the Greek
Alpha-Text of Esther
MOSHE GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN - Hebrew University Editions of the Hebrew BiblePast
and Future
SARAH KAMIN The Theological Significance of the Hebraica Veritas in Jeromes
Thought
EMANUEL TOV - Hebrew University Interchanges of Consonants between the
Masoretic Text and the Vorlage of the Septuagint
EUGENE ULRICH - University of Notre Dame The Canonical Process, Textual
Criticism, and Latter Stages in the Composition of the Bible
Qumran
JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH - Princeton Theological Seminary An Allegorical and
Autobiographical Poem by the Moreh has-Sedeq (1GH 8:4-11)
JONAS C. GREENFIELD - Hebrew University Two Notes on the Apocryphal Psalms
ALEXANDER ROFE - Hebrew University A Neglected Meaning of the Verb and the
Text of 1QS vi: 11-13
JAMES A. SANDERS - Claremont School of Theology The Dead Sea Scrolls and
Biblical Studies
Judaism
W. D. DAVIES - Duke University, Emeritus Reflections on Territory in Judaism
JACOB NEUSNER - University of Southern Florida Biblical Exegesis and the
Formation of Judaism: Sifra and the Problem of the Mishnah
Ancient Near East
TZVI ABUSCH - Brandeis University Ritual and Incantation: Interpretation and
Textual History of Maqlu vii:58-105 and ix: 152-59
WILLIAM W. HALLO - Yale University Royal Ancestor Worship in the Biblical
World
THORKILD JACOBSEN - Harvard University, Emeritus The Spell of Nudimmud
Index of References
Hebrew Bible
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
New Testament
Qumran/Dead Sea Scrolls
Mishnaic and Other Rabbinic Writings
Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts
