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On Stone and Scroll

Essays in Honour of Graham Ivor Davies
  • Edited by: James K. Aitken , Katharine J. Dell and Brian A. Mastin
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2011
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The volume On Stone and Scroll addresses biblical exegesis from the historical, archaeological, theological, and linguistic perspectives, and discusses many of the issues central to the interpretation of the Bible. It is written by colleagues and former students of Graham Davies in his honour on his retirement. It covers three main areas central to his work: inscriptional and archaeological, including socio-historical, studies; theological and exegetical studies, especially of Exodus and the Prophets; and semantic studies. A lasting focus of Graham’s work has been the combination of sources that he has utilised in the interpretation of the biblical text. His approach has been distinctive in biblical studies in his combining of archaeological, inscriptional, linguistic and theological evidence for a deeper understanding of text. His work has ranged from archaeological studies, through an edition of Hebrew inscriptions, contributions to Hebrew semantics and biblical theology, to exegesis of the Pentateuch and Prophets. The essays in this volume reflect that broad view of Old Testament study.

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James K. Aitken, Katharine J. Dell and Brian A. Mastin, University of Cambridge, UK.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Preface

    VII
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    Table of Contents

    IX
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    List of Contributors

    XIII
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    Table of Abbreviations

    XVII
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    Biographical Note: Graham Ivor Davies

    1
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    Publications of Graham Ivor Davies

    3
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    The Contribution by Graham Davies to Old Testament Studies

    11
    J. A. EMERTON
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  • Part I. Archaeology
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    Treasures of Merenptah in the Karnak Temple at Luxor. The Record of the Walls of the Cour de la Cachette

    23
    JAMES ATWELL
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    Prophetic Speech in the Egyptian Royal Cult

    39
    JOHN W. HILBER
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    The Palestinian Campaign of Pharaoh Shishak

    55
    A. D. H. MAYES
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    Who Built and Who Used the Buildings at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud?

    69
    B. A. MASTIN
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    The Phoenician Inscriptions from Arslan Tash and Some Old Testament Texts (Exodus 12; Micah 5:4-5[5-6]; Psalm 91)

    87
    KEVIN J. CATHCART
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    A Literary Analysis of the Shiloah (Siloam) Tunnel Inscription

    101
    KLAAS A. D. SMELIK
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    Incense–the Ancient Room Freshener. The Exegesis of Daniel 2:46

    111
    ALAN MILLARD
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    Between Scroll and Codex? Reconsidering the Qumran Opisthographs

    123
    GEORGE J. BROOKE
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    Liberty in the Coin Legends of the Jewish Revolts

    139
    WILLIAM HORBURY
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    “...wie es eigentlich gewesen” Historical “Facts” and the Reconstruction of the History of “Ancient Israel”

    153
    JOACHIM SCHAPER
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    The “Way of the Wilderness” on Sixteenth-Century Maps

    169
    JOHN R. BARTLETT
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  • Part II. Biblical Texts
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    “Couch” or “Crouch”? Genesis 4:7 and the Temptation of Cain

    195
    ROBERT P. GORDON
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    The Flood and the Ten Antediluvian Figures in Berossus and in the Priestly Source in Genesis

    211
    JOHN DAY
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    “P” as Editor: The Case of Exodus 4:18-26

    225
    WILLIAM JOHNSTONE
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    “Kingdom of Priests” What is Priestly in Exodus 19:6?

    239
    PHILIP JENSON
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    The Fifth Commandment in Context

    253
    DAVID L. BAKER
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    Deuteronomy and the Babylonian Diaspora

    269
    ERNEST NICHOLSON
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    The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Date of the Final Stage of the Pentateuch

    287
    ARMIN LANGE
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    Reading Joshua after Samuel

    305
    GRAEME AULD
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    Why Did Jael Kill Sisera? A Canonical Perspective

    317
    PAUL NOBLE
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    By Stone and Sling. 1 Samuel 17:50 and the Problem of Misreading David’s Victory over Goliath

    329
    WALTER MOBERLY
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    Why does the Deuteronomistic History Make no Mention of the Prophets to Whom Books are Attributed?

    343
    JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP
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    The Practicalities of Prophetic Writing in Isaiah 8:1

    357
    H. G. M. WILLIAMSON
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    “And he shall hear a rumour...” (Isaiah 37:7; 2 Kings 19:7)

    371
    JAMES KINNIER WILSON
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    About Third Isaiah...

    375
    JOHN GOLDINGAY
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    Penitential Innovations within the Twelve

    391
    MARK J. BODA
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    Hosea, Creation, and Wisdom. An Alternative Tradition

    409
    KATHARINE J. DELL
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    Acrostics and Lamentations

    425
    ROBERT B. SALTERS
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    “Slaves” in Biblical Narrative and in Translation

    441
    PETER J. WILLIAMS
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    The Repentance of God

    453
    ANTHONY GELSTON
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  • Part III. Language and Literacy
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    Literacy, Orality, and Literature in Israel

    465
    STUART WEEKS
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    Light on ئ٢

    479
    A. A. MACINTOSH
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    The Operation of a Syntactic Rule in Classical Biblical Hebrew and in Hebrew Inscriptions of the Monarchic Period

    493
    JAN JOOSTEN
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    The Significance of Rhetoric in the Greek Pentateuch

    507
    JAMES K. AITKEN
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    Midrash in Greek? An Exploration of the Versions of Aquila and Symmachus in Exodus

    523
    ALISON SALVESEN
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    LXX Exodus 23 and the Figure of the High Priest

    537
    ARIE VAN DER KOOIJ
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    Robert Hatch Kennett (1864-1932) The Old Testament in a Time of Transition

    551
    RONALD E. CLEMENTS
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    Index of Modern Authors

    565
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576
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110228069
eBook ISBN: 9783110228069
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Bible; Old Testament; Hebrew; Religion; Israelite Inscriptions
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