The Motherhood of God and Other Studies

by Gruber, Mayer I.

• ISBN13: 9781555407636
• ISBN10: 1555407633
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: University of South Florida

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Table of Contents

Table of Abbreviations
Preface
Women's Studies
The Motherhood of God in Second Isaiah	p. 3
The Hebrew qedesah and Her Canaanite and Akkadian Cognates	p. 17
Women in the Cult According to the Priestly Code	p. 49
Breast-Feeding Practices in Biblical Israel and in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia	p. 69
Additional Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
The Source of the Biblical Sabbath	p. 111
The Tragedy of Cain and Abel: A Case of Depression	p. 121
Akkadian laban appi in the Light of Art and Literature	p. 133
Ten Dance-Derived Expressions in the Hebrew Bible	p. 149
The Many Faces of Hebrew nasa panim "Lift the Face"	p. 173
Hebrew daabon nepes "Dryness of Throat": From Symptom to Literary Convention	p. 185
Fear, Anxiety and Reverence in Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, and Other Northwest Semitic Languages	p. 193
Rabbinic Studies
The Midrash in Biblical Research	p. 211
The Meaning of orayeta in the Babylonian Talmud	p. 231
The Mishnah as Oral Torah: A Reconsideration	p. 249
Indices
Index of Biblical, Rabbinic, and Other Ancient Sources	p. 265
Index of Words Discussed	p. 273
Index of Authorities Cited	p. 277
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