Karaite Perspectives on Yôm Tĕrû῾â

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Baruch A. Levine: A Brief Biography ix
4. Baruch A. Levine: An Appreciation xiv
5. Baruch A Levine: A Personal Reflection xvi
6. Bibliography of the Writings of Baruch A. Levine xix
7. Abbreviations xxix
8. Part I: Ancient Near East
9. Introducing the Witnesses in Neo-Babylonian Documents 3
10. Kemet and Other Egyptian Terms for Their Land 23
11. A Ugaritic Cognate for Akkadian ḫitpu? 43
12. Un anneau inscrit du Bronze Récent à Megiddo 51
13. Topic and Comment in the Amarna Texts from Canaan 63
14. Non–Word Divider Use of the Small Vertical Wedge in Yariḫ and Nikkal and in an Akkadian Text Written in Alphabetic Cuneiform 89
15. Livraisons et dépenses royales durant la Troisième Dynastie d’Ur 111
16. Part II. Bible
17. Preliminary Remarks for the Sociological Study of Israelite “Official Religion” 153
18. Kings and Prophets: Cyrus and Servant 171
19. Kippēr and Atonement in the Book of Isaiah 189
20. The Goddess Wisdom— “Where Can She Be Found?” 203
21. The Seven-Day Siege of Jericho in Holy War 211
22. Quantitative Measurement in Biblical Hebrew Poetry 229
23. The Terms נפל and הפיל in the Context of Inheritance 251
24. Jeremiah of Anathoth: A Prophet for All Israel 261
25. Textual “Information Gaps” and “Dissonances” in the Interpretation of the Book of Jonah 273
26. History and Time 295
27. No Entry: The Limits of the Sacred in Near Eastern Monotheism 315
28. The Pleiades, the Flood, and the Jewish New Year 329
29. Elisha at Dothan (2 Kings 6:8–23): Historico-literary Criticism Sustained by the Midrash 345
30. “I Will Be Your God and You Will Be My People”: The Origin and Background of the Covenant Formula 355
31. Pants, Persians, and the Priestly Source 373
32. Isaiah 34, Chaos, and the Ban 387
33. “The Appointed Time Has Not Yet Arrived”: The Historical Background of Haggai 1:2 401
34. Some More Delocutives in Hebrew 409
35. Poetry and Prose in the Book of Jeremiah 413
36. The Exodus from Ur of the Chaldeans: A Chapter in Literary Archaeology 429
37. Part III. Judaica
38. Signs of Ambivalence in Islamic Spain: Arabic Representations of Samuel the Nagid 443
39. The Hebrew First-Crusade Narratives and Their Intertextual Messages 467
40. Hebrew Nationalism and Biblical Criticism: The Attitude of Perez Smolenskin 483
41. Ruḥamah’s Daughter: From Hysteria to Her-Story in Ruth Almog’s Shorshei 'Avir 509
42. Jewish Studies and Medieval Jewish Philosophy: The Odd Couple 523
43. Karaite Perspectives on Yôm Tĕrû῾â 537
44. Those Cantankerous Sepphoreans Revisited 543
45. The Sukkot Wine Libation 575
46. Sacred Space and Mental Iconography: Imago Templi and Contemplation in Rhineland Jewish Pietism 593
47. Abstracts of Hebrew Essays 635
48. Index of Authors 639
49. Index of Scripture 653
50. Index of Ancient and Premodern Sources 665