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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818091703321

Autore

Paul Shalom M

Titolo

Divrei Shalom : collected studies of Shalom M. Paul on the Bible and the ancient Near East, 1967-2005 = [Divre Shalom (Devarim 2, 26; Ester 9, 30)] / / by Shalom M. Paul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005

ISBN

1-280-86874-0

9786610868742

90-474-0745-8

1-4337-0512-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (562 p.)

Collana

Culture and history of the ancient Near East, , 1566-2055 ; ; v. 23

Disciplina

221.6

Soggetti

Middle Eastern literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Abbreviations; The Bible and the Ancient Near East; 1. ""The Image of the Oven and the Cake in Hosea 7:4-10,"" Vetus Testamentum 18 (1968), 114-120; 2. ""Deutero-Isaiah and Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions,"" Journal of the American Oriental Society 88 (1968) (= Essays in Memory of E. A. Speiser, ed. W. W. Hallo [New Haven, 1968], 180-186); 3. ""Cuneiform Light on Jer. 9:20,"" Biblica 49 (1968), 373-376; 4. ""Exod. 21:10: A Threefold Maintenance Clause,"" Journal of Near Eastern Studies 28 (1969), 48-53

5. ""Sargon's Administrative Diction in 2 Kings 17:27,"" Journal of Biblical Literature 88 (1969), 73-746. ""Formulaic Patterns of Law in Israel and Mesopotamia,"" Leàonénu 34 (1970), 257-266. Hebrew (translation into English); 7. ""Psalm 72:5-A Traditional Blessing for the Long Life of the King,"" Journal of Near Eastern Studies 31 (1972), 351-355; 8. ""Heavenly Tablets and the Book of Life,"" in: T. H. Gaster Festschrift (New York, 1973) (= Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University 5), 345-354

9. ""Classifications of Wine in Mesopotamian and Rabbinic Sources,"" Israel Exploration Journal 25 (1975), 42-4410. ""Nehemiah 6:19-Counterespionage,"" Hebrew Annual Review 1 (1977), 177-179; 11. ""Amos 3:15-Winter and Summer Mansions,"" Vetus Testamentum 28



(1978), 358-360; 12. ""Fishing Imagery in Amos 4:2,"" Journal of Biblical Literature 97 (1978), 183-190; 13. ""An Unrecognized Medical Idiom in Song of Songs 6:12 and Job 9:21,"" Biblica 59 (1978), 545-547; 14. ""1 Samuel 9:7: An Interview Fee,"" Biblica 59 (1978), 542-544

15. ""Unrecognized Biblical Legal Idioms in the Light of Comparative Akkadian Expressions,"" Revue Biblique 86 (1979), 231-23916. ""Adoption Formulae: A Study of Cuneiform and Biblical Legal Clauses,"" Maarav 2/2 (1979-80), 173-185; 17. ""Psalm 27:10 and the Babylonian Theodicy,"" Vetus Testamentum 32 (1982), 489-492; 18. ""Two Cognate Semitic Terms for Mating and Copulation,"" Vetus Testamentum 32 (1982), 492-493; 19. ""Job 4:15-A Hair Raising Encounter,"" Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 95 (1983), 119-121

24. ""Biblical Analogues to Middle Assyrian Law,"" in: Religion  and Law: Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives, ed. E. B. Firmage et al. (Winona Lake, IN, 1990), 333-350

Sommario/riassunto

This volume consists of philological and literary studies written by the author between the years 1967 and 2005 pertaining to the elucidation and explication of various aspects of the narrative, legal, prophetic, and wisdom genres of Biblical literature, with a major emphasis on the textual analysis of themes, idioms, terminology, and lexemes with the aid of Akkadian and Ugaritic source material.