The Little Sister and Solomon’s Vineyard: Song of Songs 8:8–12 as a Lovers’ Dialogue

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Michael V. Fox: A Tribute ix
4. The Publications of Michael V. Fox: Overview and Bibliography xiii
5. Abbreviations xxv
6. Part 1 “Seeking Out Wisdom and Concerned with Prophecies” (Sirach 39:1): Studies in Biblical Texts
7. Observations on Ezekiel as a Book Prophet 3
8. The Decrees of Yahweh That Are “Not Good”: Ezekiel 20:25–26 21
9. Ellipsis Involving Negation in Biblical Poetry 37
10. Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22: Two Versions of the Same Song 53
11. The Wisdom of Creation in Psalm 104 71
12. “Come, O Children . . . I Will Teach You the Fear of the Lord” (Psalm 34:12): Comparing Psalms and Proverbs 85
13. A Proverb in the Mouth of a Fool 103
14. Genericity, Tense, and Verbal Patterns in the Sentence Literature of Proverbs 117
15. Word Order in the Book of Proverbs 135
16. Exegetical and Stylistic Analysis of a Number of Aphorisms in the Book of Proverbs: Mitigation of Monotony in Repetitions in Parallel Texts 155
17. Forming “Fearers of Yahweh”: Repetition and Contradiction as Pedagogy in Proverbs 167
18. Visual Metaphors and Proverbs 5:15–20: Some Archaeological Reflections on Gendered Iconography 185
19. The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17–24:22 from the Perspective of Contemporary Research 203
20. The Woman of Valor and A Woman Large of Head: Matchmaking in the Ancient Near East 221
21. The Fly and the Dog: Observations on Ideational Polarity in the Book of Qoheleth 235
22. A Sense of Timing: A Neglected Aspect of Qoheleth’s Wisdom 257
23. The Little Sister and Solomon’s Vineyard: Song of Songs 8:8–12 as a Lovers’ Dialogue 269
24. Answering Questions, Questioning Answers: The Rhetoric of Interrogatives in the Speeches of Job and His Friends 283
25. Part 2 “Preserving the Sayings of the Famous” (Sirach 39:2): Text, Versions, and Method
26. The Mysterious Disappearance of Zerubbabel 301
27. Textual Criticism of the Book of Deuteronomy and the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project 315
28. What’s in a Name? Contemporization and Toponyms in LXX-Isaiah 327
29. Characterization in the Old Greek of Job 345
30. On the Influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic Literature 357
31. Becoming Canon: Women, Texts, and Scribes in Proverbs and Sirach 371
32. Translating Biblical Words of Wisdom into the Modern World 389
33. The Text-Critical Value of the Septuagint of Proverbs 407
34. Christian Aramaism: The Birth and Growth of Aramaic Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century 421
35. Spying out the Land: A Report from Genology 437
36. What’s in a Calendar? Calendar Conformity, Calendar Controversy, and Calendar Reform in Ancient and Medieval Judaism 451
37. Competing Commentaries 461
38. Index of Authors 481
39. Index of Scripture 489