The Methods of Late Biblical Scribes as Evidenced by the Septuagint Compared with the Other Textual Witnesses

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Moshe Greenberg: An Appreciation ix
4. Bibliography of the Writings of Moshe Greenberg xxiii
5. Abbreviations xxxix
6. PART 1
7. Love of Zion: A Literary Interpretation of Psalm 137 3
8. The Meaning of Amos’s Third Vision (Amos 7:7–9) 13
9. On Reading Genesis 12:10–20 23
10. Harvesting the Biblical Narrator’s Scanty Plot of Ground: A Holistic Approach to Judges 16:4–22 39
11. Proverbs 2 and 31: A Study in Structural Complementarity 47
12. Reading Rahab 57
13. Psalm 8 on the Power and Mystery of Speech 69
14. Two Aspects of the “Tent of Meeting” 73
15. The Firstfruits Festivals of Grain and the Composition of Leviticus 23:9–21 81
16. What Did Laban Demand of Jacob? A New Reading of Genesis 31:50 and Exodus 21:10 91
17. A Lover’s Garden of Verse: Literal and Metaphorical Imagery in Ancient Near Eastern Love Poetry 99
18. Nehemiah 9: An Important Witness of Theological Reflection 111
19. Naboth’s Vineyard Revisited (1 Kings 21) 119
20. The “Aramean” of Deuteronomy 26:5: Peshat and Derash 127
21. “He Begot a Son in His Likeness after His Image” (Genesis 5:3) 139
22. Diferent Editions of the Song of Hannah and of Its Narrative Framework 149
23. PART 2 Historical, Thematic, and Methodological Studies
24. On the Use of Traditional Jewish Exegesis in the Modern Literary Study of the Bible 173
25. The Genre of the Biblical Commentary as Problem and Challenge 185
26. David’s Jerusalem: Notes and Reflections 193
27. The Bĕrît ‘Covenant’: Its Nature and Ceremonial Background 203
28. Prophecy and Soothsaying 221
29. The Next Phase in Jewish Religion: The Land of Israel as Sacred Space 245
30. The Methods of Late Biblical Scribes as Evidenced by the Septuagint Compared with the Other Textual Witnesses 259
31. PART 3 Postbiblical and Rabbinic Studies
32. Rabbinic Mythmaking and Tradition: The Great Dragon Drama in b. Baba Batra 74b–75a 273
33. A Law and Its Interpretation 285
34. Masorah and Halakhah: A Study in Conflict 291
35. The Akedah—and What to Remember 307
36. English Abstracts of Hebrew Essays 315
37. Index of Authors 326
38. Index of Scripture 334
39. Index of Ancient and Premodern Sources 343