Fortunate the Eyes That See

by Beck, Astrid B.; Bartelt, Andrew H.; Raabe, Paul R.; Franke, Chris A.

• ISBN13: 9780802838018
• ISBN10: 0802838014
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

The expertise and scope of this prodigious volume produced in honor of David Noel Freedman reflect the fond respect the scholarly world accords this superior scholar of the Hebrew Bible.
These forty essays by prominent biblical scholars comment on the wide range of themes in biblical studies that have received Freedman's consideration over the past fifty years.
This work, which also includes photographs and a comprehensive bibliography of Freedman's own writings, is not only a fitting tribute to the continuing vitality and influence of Freedman's career; it also serves as a comprehensive survey of the current state of scholarship in biblical studies - and charts its course for the future.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Personal Tribute to David Noel Freedman
David Noel Freedman: An Appreciation from His Colleagues
P and J in Genesis 1:1-11:26: An Alternative Hypothesis	p. 1
What They Don't Know Won't Hurt Them: Genesis 6-9	p. 16
Tangled Plots in Genesis	p. 35
Why God Rejected Cain's Offering: The Obvious Answer	p. 52
The Land Redeemer and the Jubilee	p. 66
The Deuteronomistic School	p. 70
All Israel's Response to Joshua: A Note on the Narrative Framework of Joshua 1	p. 81
Aaron's Calf and Jeroboam's Calves	p. 92
The Transfer of Kingship: A Divine Turning	p. 105
Murderous Fathers, Manipulative Mothers, and Rivalrous Siblings: Rethinking the Architecture of Genesis-Kings	p. 121
Linguistic Coherence in Prophetic Discourse	p. 137
Isaiah 5 and 9: In- or Interdependence?	p. 157
Zephaniah's Oracle against the Nations and an Israelite Cultural Myth	p. 175
Who Knows What YHWH Will Do? The Character of God in the Book of Joel	p. 185
Jonah: The Prophecy of Antirhetoric	p. 197
The Future Fortunes of the House of David: The Evidence of Second Zechariah	p. 207
The Name of "Second Isaiah": The Forgotten Theory of Nehemiah Rabban	p. 223
Why Prophetic Oracles against the Nations?	p. 236
A Literary Approach to Chronicles' Ark Narrative in 1 Chronicles 13-16	p. 258
Qohelet's Autobiography	p. 275
The Graded Numerical Saying in Job	p. 288
Toward a History of Hebrew Prosody	p. 298
Shards, Strophes, and Stats	p. 310
War and Rebel Chants in the Former Prophets	p. 322
"Who Is This That Rises Like the Nile?": Some Egyptian Texts on the Inundation and a Prophetic Trope	p. 338
Writing and Editing	p. 364
Mixed Marriage Metaphor in Ezekiel 16	p. 384
Prepositions with Pronominal Suffixes in Phoenician and Punic	p. 400
The Raised Hand of God as an Oath Gesture	p. 411
On Being "Damned Certain": The Story of a Curse in the Sefire Inscription and Its Interpretation	p. 422
Topography and Theology in the Gospel of John	p. 436
Mark and Isaiah	p. 449
"Happy the Eyes That See": The Tradition, Message, and Authenticity of Luke 10:23-24 and Parallels	p. 467
Images of Transcendence and Divine Communion: The Queen Mother of the West in Chinese Pictorial Art from the Han through the Sung Dynasties	p. 478
The Portrayal of Job's Wife and Her Representation in the Visual Arts	p. 516
Needlework and Sewing in Israel from Prehistoric Times to the Roman Period	p. 527
An Examination of the Prophetic Impetus in the Celtic and Norse Mythical Traditions in Juxtaposition with the Biblical Corpus	p. 560
An Orange Peeling (A Chapter from The Book of the State): A Translation of S. Y. Agnon's Short Story "Qlypt tpwh zhb"	p. 578
Jewish Christianity and Its Significance for Ecumenism Today	p. 584
Logos, Liturgy, and the Evolution of Humanity	p. 601
1947-1982	p. 633
1982-1995	p. 660
Contributors	p. 670
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