The pitcher is broken [[electronic resource] ] : memorial essays for Gs̲ta W. Ahlstrm̲ / / edited by Steven W. Holloway and Lowell K. Handy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454106403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, England, : Sheffield Academic Press, c1995
• ISBN: 1-281-80375-8; 9786611803759; 0-567-63671-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (481 p.)
• Collana: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 190
• Altri autori (Persone): Ahlstrm̲Gs̲ta W <1918-> (Gs̲ta Werner); HandyLowell K. <1949->; HollowaySteven W <1955-> (Steven Winford)
• Disciplina: 221.6
• Soggetti: Excavations (Archaeology) - Palestine; Iron age - Palestine; Electronic books.; Palestine Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Doctoral dissertations directed by Gs̲ta W. Ahlstrm̲ at the University of Chicago".; "This volume of essays forms an inclusio with the Festschrift in honor of Gs̲ta W. Ahlstrm̲, edited by W. Boyd Barrick and John R. Spencer, in 1984" [under title: In the shelter of Elyon].; "Tributes to Gs̲ta Ahlstrm̲".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Tributes to Gösta Ahlström; G.W. Ahlström: A Bibliography (Conclusion); Doctoral Dissertations Directed by Gösta W. Ahlström at the University of Chicago; Zephaniah ben Cushi and Cush of Benjamin: Traces of Cushite Presence in Syria-Palestine; Discerning the Time: Haggai, Zechariah and the 'Delay' in the Rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple; Inclusion in and Exclusion from Israel as Conveyed by the Use of the Term 'Israel' in Post-Monarchic Biblical Texts; Temple and bāmāh: Some Considerations; Solomon's Adversaries Hadad, Rezon and Jeroboam: A Trio of 'Bad Guy' Characters Illustrating the Theology of Immediate RetributionCult ; Images, Royal Policies and the Origins of Aniconism; Site Planning and Subsistence Economy: Negev Settlements as a Case Study; United Monarchy-Divided Monarchy: Fact or Fiction?; 'Cush' in Zephaniah; Historical Probability and the Narrative of Josiah's Reform in 2 Kings; Harran: Cultic Geography in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and its Implications for Sennacherib's 'Letter to Hezekiah' in 2 Kings; Joshua 7: A Reassessment of Israelite Conceptions of Corporate PunishmentRuth: An Exercise in Israelite Political Correctness or a Call to Proper Conversion?; Samaria in the Books of the Eighth-Century Prophets; Anat's Warfare Cannibalism and the West Semitic Ban; Priestly Families (or Factions) in Samuel and Kings; The Monuments, the Babel-Bibel Streit and Responses to Historical Criticism; Gösta Ahlström's History of Palestine; Long Live the King: Historical Fact and Narrative Fiction in 1 Samuel 9-10; Index of Biblical References; Index of Subjects; Index of Modern Authors