Reading from Right to Left Essays on the Hebrew Bible in honour of David J. A. Clines

by Exum, J. Cheryl; Williamson, H. G. M.

• ISBN13: 9780826466860
• ISBN10: 0826466869
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Thirty-seven essays from established scholars around the world covering topics including the Pentateuch, prophecy, wisdom, ancient Israelite history, Greek tragedy and the ideology of biblical scholarship make up this interesting and varied collection in honor of David J.A. Clines. Several of the contributors interact with ideas prominent in the work of David J.A. Clines of the University of Sheffield, to whom the volume is dedicated.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xv
List of Contributors	xix
What Was a Biblical Prophet? Why Does It Matter?	1	(12)
A. Graeme Auld
A Puzzle in Deuteronomy	13	(12)
James Barr
The Prophet Oded and the Zakkur Inscription: A Case of Obscuriore Obscurum?	25	(13)
Hans M. Barstad
An Early Metacommentary: Tertullian's Against Marcion	38	(12)
John Barton
The Unity of the Book of Isaiah: Another Attempt at Bridging the Gorge Between its Two Main Parts	50	(13)
Willem A.M. Beuken
The One in the Middle	63	(13)
Joseph Blenkinsopp
Theme Revisited: Bread Again!	76	(14)
Walter Brueggemann
A Tribute to the Book List of Sots	90	(5)
Brevard S. Childs
The People or the Book	95	(12)
Richard J. Coggins
Tragedy and Ethics: Revisiting Athens and Jerusalem	107	(14)
Philip R. Davies
A Phrase in a Phoenician Papyrus and a Problem in Isaiah 5.14	121	(7)
J.A. Emerton
Song of Songs as an `Answer' to Clines's Book of Job	128	(13)
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
`The Voice of My Lover': Double Voice and Poetic Illusion in Song of Songs 2.8--3.5	141	(12)
J. Cheryl Exum
Wisdom and the Self-Presentation of Wisdom Literature	153	(20)
Michael V. Fox
So What Might the Song of Songs Do to Them?	173	(11)
John Goldingay
The Ephraimite Messiah and the Targum(s) to Zechariah 12.10	184	(12)
Robert P. Gordon
The Puzzling Politics of Ancient Israel	196	(9)
Norman K. Gottwald
Were the Pre-Maccabean High Priests `Zadokites'?	205	(11)
Lester L. Grabbe
`Lawless Riot and Intestine Division': Judges 19--21 and Civil War in England and North America, 1628--1786	216	(13)
David M. Gunn
The Role of the Poor in Proverbs	229	(12)
Walter J. Houston
Insights on Job 3, From a Medieval Commentary: Rabbi Samuel Ben Meir (Rashbam) on the Book of Job	241	(13)
Sara Japhet
Which Parts of 1 Enoch Were Known to Jubilees? A Note on the Interpretation of Jubilees 4.16-25	254	(9)
Michael A. Knibb
God's Righteousness in the Original and in Translations	263	(12)
Joze Krasovec
From David to David: Psalm 24 and David Clines	275	(15)
Francis Landy
Twelve Commandments---Three Stages: A New Theory on the Formation of the Decalogue	290	(11)
Bernhard Lang
Holy Persuasion: The Bible as Advertising	301	(19)
Burke O. Long
Man and Woman: Toward a Theological Anthropology	320	(9)
Patrick D. Miller
The Rebel in Bible Lands	329	(18)
Johannes C. de Moor
`The Consolations of God': Assessing Job's Friends Across a Cultural Abyss	347	(12)
Carol A. Newsom
Nadab and Abihu	359	(5)
Rolf Rendtorff
The Wisdom Formula `Do Not Say ...' and the Angel in Qohelet 5.5	364	(13)
Alexander Rofe
Measurable and Immeasurable: Themes in Old Testament Theology	377	(13)
John W. Rogerson
Isaiah and the Jews: Some Reflections on the Church's Use of the Bible	390	(12)
John F.A. Sawyer
Interested Parties: History and Ideology at the End of the Century	402	(21)
Keith W. Whitelam
Judgment and Hope in Isaiah 1.21-26	423	(12)
H.G.M. Williamson
Love and Hatred in a Multiracial Society: The Dinah and Shechem Story in Genesis 34 in the Context of Genesis 28--35	435	(15)
Ellen J. van Wolde
Psalm 87: A Case for Ideological Criticism?	450	(11)
Erich Zenger
Bibliography of David J.A. Clines	461	(16)
Index of References	477	(15)
Index of Authors	492