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

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Troxel, Ronald L., 1951-, Friebel, Kelvin G., 1952-, Magary, Dennis Robert, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.