Understanding poets and prophets [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of George Wishart Anderson / / edited by A. Graeme Auld

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782211003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, England, : JSOT Press, c1993
• ISBN: 1-281-80407-X; 9786611804077; 0-567-30923-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Collana: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 152
• Altri autori (Persone): AndersonGeorge W (George Wishart); AuldA. Graeme
• Disciplina: 220.6; 224
• Soggetti: Hebrew language - Style
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Contributions in English, French, and Swedish.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editor's Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Publications of George Wishart Anderson, 1983-1993; Grundtext och urtext: om underlaget för svenska översättningar av Gamla testamentet; Wilhelm Vischer and Allegory; Inscribing the Covenant: Writing and the Written in Jeremiah; Clans, Etat Monarchique, et Tribus; Jeremiah 1-25 and the Deuteronomistic History; The Old Testament in the Church?; Lice or a Veil in the Song of Songs 1.7?; The Anatomy of Hebrew Narrative Poetry; Qohelet, the Rabbis and the Wisdom Text from the Cairo Geniza; The Deuteronomistic Cycles of 'Signs' and 'Wonders' in Exodus 1-13Genesis 1 from the Perspective of a Chinese Creation Myth; Power not Novelty: The Connotations of [omitted] in the Hebrew Bible; The Great Commandment and the Golden Rule; Old and New Covenant (Testament): A Terminological Enquiry; A New Prophetic Message from Aleppo and its Biblical Counterparts; The Place of the Old Testament in Understanding Israelite History and Religion; John 5 and the Limits of Rhetorical Criticism; Psalm 73: Scandinavian Contributions; The Enemy in the Old Testament; Who is 'the Man' in Lamentations 3? A Fresh Approach to the ; Interpretation of the Book of Lamentations'My Secret is With Me' (Isaiah 24.16): Some Semantic Links between Isaiah 24-27 and Daniel; Otto Eissfeldt 1887-1973; Notes on the Joseph Story; The Pauline Epistles as Border Ballads: Truth and Fiction in the Carmen Christi; 'The Hermeneutics of I-Witness Testimony: John 21.20-24 and the ""Death"" of the ""Author""'; Judges 1.1-2.5: The Conquest under the Leadership of the House of Judah; Isaiah 1.11 and the Septuagint of Isaiah; Accommodation and Barbarity in John Calvin's Old Testament CommentariesIndex of References; Index of Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: A rich collection of essays by twenty-eight of Professor G W Anderson's students, colleagues and successors in Edinburgh, and associates at home and abroad in the world of Hebrew and Biblical Studies presented in the year of his 80th birthday.