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Seeking out the wisdom of the ancients : essays offered to honor Michael V. Fox on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Michael V. Fox, long-time professor in the Dept. of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, is known both for his scholarship and his teaching. As the editors of this volume in his honor note, the care and sensitivity of his reading of the Hebrew text are well known, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Troxel, Ronald L., 1951-, Friebel, Kelvin G., 1952-, Magary, Dennis Robert, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Observations on Ezekiel as a book prophet / Menahem Haran
  • The decrees of Yahweh that are "not good" : Ezekiel 20:25-26 / Kelvin G. Friebel
  • Ellipsis involving negation in biblical poetry / Cynthia L. Miller
  • Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22 : two versions of the same song / Theron Young
  • The wisdom of creation in Psalm 104 / Adele Berlin
  • "Come, O children ... I will teach you the fear of the Lord" (Psalm 34:12) : comparing Psalms and Proverbs / William P. Brown
  • A proverb in the mouth of a fool / James L. Crenshaw
  • Genericity, tense, and verbal patterns in the sentence literature of Proverbs / John A. Cook
  • Word order in the book of Proverbs / Robert D. Holmstedt
  • Exegetical and stylistic analysis of a number of aphorisms in the book of Proverbs : mitigation of monotony in repetitions in parallel texts / Shamir Yona
  • Forming "fearers of Yahweh" : repetition and contradiction as pedagogy in Proverbs / Christine Roy Yoder
  • Visual metaphors and Proverbs 5:15-20 : some archaeological reflections on gendered iconography / Carole R. Fontaine
  • The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17-24:22 from the perspective of contemporary research / Nili Shupak
  • The woman of valor and a woman large of head : matchmaking in the ancient Near East / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz
  • The fly and the dog : observations on ideational polarity in the book of Qoheleth / Tova Forti
  • A sense of timing : a neglected aspect of Qoheleth's wisdom / Richard L. Schultz
  • The little sister and Solomon's vineyard : Song of songs 8:8-12 as a lovers' dialogue / J. Cheryl Exum
  • Answering questions, questioning answers : the rhetoric of interrogatives in the speeches of Job and his friends / Dennis R. Magary
  • The mysterious disappearance of Zerubbabel / Theodore J. Lewis
  • Textual criticism of the book of Deuteronomy and the Oxford Hebrew Bible project / Sidnie White Crawford
  • What's in a name? : contemporization and toponyms in LXX-Isaiah / Ronald L. Troxel
  • Characterization in the Old Greek of Job / Karl V. Kutz
  • On the influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic literature / Heidi M. Szpek
  • Becoming canon : women, texts, and scribes in Proverbs and Sirach / Claudia V. Camp
  • Translating biblical words of wisdom into the modern world / Leonard Greenspoon
  • The text-critical value of the Septuagint of Proverbs / Johann Cook
  • Christian Aramaism : the birth and growth of Aramaic scholarship in the sixteenth century / Stephen G. Burnett
  • Spying out the land : a report from genology / Carol A. Newsom
  • What's in a calendar? calendar conformity, calendar controversy and calendar reform in ancient and medieval Judaism / Shemaryahu Talmon
  • Competing commentaries / Frederick E. Greenspahn.