“The Voice of Yhwh Causes Hinds to Calve” (Psalm 29:9)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Shalom Paul: Scholar, Teacher, Friend xi
4. Publications of Shalom M. Paul xxi
5. Abbreviations xxix
6. Volume 1
7. Part 1 The Bible
8. The Torah
9. Statut Public et Droit Privé dans la Tôrâh 3
10. Exodus 21:22–25 Revisited: Methodological Considerations 11
11. Three Major Redactors of the Torah 31
12. Nimrod, Son of Cush, King of Mesopotamia, and the Dates of P and J 45
13. A Linguistic Analysis of the Phrase צל משצנחך-צל (Exodus 21:19) and the Homiletic Sense צל משצנחך-צל בזזיך 53
14. Burnt Offering of Head, Peder, and Kidneys 59
15. The Desecration of YHWH’s Name: Its Parameters and Significance 69
16. Alliteration in the Exodus Narrative 83
17. Deuteronomic Concepts of Exile Interpreted in Jeremiah and Ezekiel 101
18. Light in Genesis 1:3— Created or Uncreated: A Question of Priestly Mysticism? 125
19. The Historical Books
20. “They Feared God”/“They Did Not Fear God”: On the Use of yéreª Yhwh and yareª ªet Yhwh in 2 Kings 17:24–41 135
21. The Lament of David over Abner 143
22. Oracle Inquiries in Judges 149
23. King Solomon 169
24. Synchronic and Diachronic Considerations in the DtrH Portrayal of the Demise of Solomon’s Kingdom 175
25. “And the Lord Sent Moses and Aaron” 191
26. The Davidic-Solomonic Empire from the Perspective of Archaeological Bibliology 201
27. The Books of the Prophets
28. The Sinai Theophany in the Psalm of Habakkuk 225
29. Jeremiah 3:1–4:2 between Deuteronomy 24 and Matthew 5: Jeremiah’s Exercise in Ethical Criticism 233
30. The Historical Background of the Prophecies of Amos 251
31. Isaiah and the Transition from Prophecy to Apocalyptic 261
32. Engendering Ezekiel: Female Figures Reconsidered 281
33. Zechariah 12:12–14 and Hosea 10:5 in the Light of an Ancient Mourning Practice 299
34. The Ultimate Aim of Israel’s Restoration in Ezekiel 305
35. Is It Good for the Jews? Ambiguity and the Rhetoric of Turning in Isaiah 321
36. The Message of Psalm 114 347
37. The Writings
38. A New Criterion for Identifying “Wisdom Psalms” 365
39. Concepts of Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs 381
40. “The Voice of Yhwh Causes Hinds to Calve” (Psalm 29:9) 399
41. The Influence of Legal Style on the Style of Aphorism The Origin of the Retribution Formula and the Clause loª yinnaqeh ‘He Will Not Go Unpunished’ in the Book of Proverbs 413
42. Part 2 The Bible and the Ancient Near East
43. The Mesopotamian Background of the Term אחךימ חימים in the World-Peace Vision of Isaiah 2:2a 427
44. The Lions of Nineveh (Nahum 2:12–14): A Check on Nahum’s Familiarity with Assyria 433
45. New Directions in Modern Biblical Hebrew Lexicography 441
46. Ahab and Archaeology: A Commentary on 1 Kings 16–22 475
47. Hurrian Ullikummi and Daniel’s “Little Horn” 485
48. Reanalysis in Biblical and Babylonian Poetry 499
49. In Search of Resen (Genesis 10:12): Dur-Sarrukin? 511
50. Deuteronomy 6:6, 9 in the Light of Northwest Semitic Inscriptions 525
51. The Myth of Tammuz in Biblical Narrative 531
52. Volume 2
53. Part 3 The Ancient Near East
54. Scribal Initiative in the Clarification and Interpretation of Mesopotamian Law Collections 551
55. Two Aramaic Ostraca from a Tannery in ºÊn Gedî 565
56. A Late Iron Age Hebrew Letter Containing the Word Noqédîm 571
57. Wordplay in the Lamastu Incantations 585
58. “The Ship of the Desert, the Donkey of the Sea”: The Camel in Early Mesopotamia Revisited 597
59. “Secular” Love Songs in Mesopotamian Literature 613
60. A Seated Figurine from Tell eß-Íâfi/Gath: A Philistine Image of El? 627
61. The Deity Addu (Hadad) of Kallassu (near Aleppo) in Two Mari Letters 637
62. Negotiating with Hammu-rapi: A Case Study 643
63. The Love Poem of Rim-Sîn and Nanaya 667
64. On rahaßum I, II, III and on Akkadian rihßum = Hebrew ץצרה 705
65. From Biqºat to KTK: “All Aram” in the Sefîre Inscription in the Light of Amos 1:5 713
66. Two Become One: A Unique Memorandum of Obligation 733
67. Part 4 Postbiblical, Medieval, and Modern Judaism
68. The Place of Genres in Bible Curricula 755
69. The Three-Day Period of Purification before Entering the Temple 775
70. Scribal Interventions in 1QIsaiah^a 787
71. The “Plotting Witness” and Beyond: A Continuum in Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Talmudic Law 801
72. Franz Rosenzweig and the Land of Two Rivers 831
73. Rashi and the “Messianic” Psalms 845
74. “The Lovers’ Way”: Cultural Symbiosis in a Medieval Commentary on the Song of Songs 863
75. A Rather Risqué Pun in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic 881
76. The “Voice” of the Narrator and the “Voice” of the Characters in the Bible Commentaries of Yefet ben ºEli 891
77. Codification of Jewish Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls 917
78. Mismarot Lists (4Q322–324c) and “Historical Texts” (4Q322a; 4Q331–4Q333) in Qumran Documents 927
79. Literary Analysis, the So-Called Original Text of Hebrew Scripture, and Textual Evaluation 943
80. Sources for the Astronomy in 1 Enoch 72–82 965
81. I. O. Lehman, HUC mss 951–981 from Kai Feng, and a Purported Link between China and Yemen 979
82. Philo and Maimonides on the Garden of Eden Narrative 989
83. Indexes 1003