Biblical & Near Eastern Essays

by McCarthy, Carmel; Healey, John F.

• ISBN13: 9780826466907
• ISBN10: 0826466907
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

There is something for everyone in this collection of essays, containing as it does a wide range of topics reflecting the depth and breadth of interest of the scholar in whose honor they were commissioned--Kevin J. Cathcart. The central focus is Near Eastern, and covers a range of philological, linguistic, exegetical, historical and interpretative issues. The Near Eastern languages examined under varying aspects include Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Septuagintal Greek, Syriac and Ugaritic, while exegetical and text-critical topics include treatments of issues in Deuteronomy, 1 Kings, Isaiah, Amos, Psalms and the Song of Songs. Hermeneutical and historical essays touch on ancient Israel's history and its interpretation, as well as on the significance of such individuals as the consular official G.H. Fitzmaurice, E.H. Palmer in the Cambridge Libraries, William Lithgow of Lanark, and the contribution to Semitic epigraphy of the explorer, Julius Euting.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Does the Old Testament Refer to Sacred Prostitution and Did it Actually Exist in Ancient Israel?	p. 2
The Ideological Foe: The Philistines in the Old Testament	p. 22
The Finale of the Davidic Succession Narrative?	p. 37
The Formation of Isaiah 2.6-22	p. 57
The Day of Yahweh in the Minor Prophets	p. 68
The 'Four Servant Poems' in Second Isaiah in the Light of Recent Redaction-Historical Studies	p. 80
Some Problems in Psalm 88.16	p. 95
'The Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy?': From Osee to Jonas in the Septuagint	p. 105
Samaritan Pentateuch Readings in Deuteronomy	p. 118
A Neglected Revision of the Peshitta Psalter	p. 131
Wisdom, Torah and Creation in Targumic Literature	p. 143
The Colophon of Codex Neofiti I: The Scribe Menahem and the Roman Medical Family of Manuele	p. 154
Marx, Weber and the Religion of Ancient Israel	p. 169
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Problem of Israelite Historiography	p. 180
The Politics of Biblical Interpretation	p. 195
Dahood's Commentary on the Psalms: A Review of an Academic Grandparent's Work after Thirty Years	p. 212
'A Lily among Thorns': Canticles 2,2 in the Latin Exegetical Tradition	p. 227
Akkadian Loanwords in Ugaritic: The Hippiatric Texts	p. 240
Ethiopian Names in Sabaie and the Question of matres lectionis in Epigraphic South Arabian	p. 258
Classical Arabic Pattern fa 'ali Revisited	p. 264
Foot-Soldiers of the Byzantines or Spies for the Muslims? The Role of the Samaritans in the Muslim Conquest of Palestine	p. 280
William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in Hungary, Transylvania and Poland, 1616	p. 298
'Sicherheit des Auges': The Contribution to Semitic Epigraphy of the Explorer Julius Enting (1839-1913)	p. 313
Fresh Evidence on E. H. Palmer's Travels from Cambridge Libraries	p. 331
A Late-Victorian Consul in the Near East: John Dickson (1846-1906)	p. 341
Bibliography of the Works of Kevin James Cathcart	p. 354
Index of References	p. 360
Index of Authors	p. 370
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