This volume contains fifty-two essays composed in honor of David Noel Freedman and organized around the topics: Hebrew Poetry and Prophecy, The Prose of the Hebrew Bible, History and Institutions of Israel, Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, and Other Perspectives. A bibliography of the honoree is included.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Foreword
Abbreviations
Sharing the Results of Scholarly Research Philip J. King
I. Hebrew Poetry and Prophecy
Isaiah 33: An Isaianic Elaboration of the Zion Tradition J. J. M. Roberts
Isaiah 55: Invitation to a Feast Richard J. Clifford
MSRT HBRYT, ‘the obligation of the covenant,’ in Ezekiel 20:37 Moshe Greenberg
The Minor Prophets and Ebla Mitchell Dahood
The use of tora in Haggai 2:11 and the Role of the Prophet in the Restoration Community Eric M. Meyers
Dating the Book of Malachi: A Linguistic Reexamination Andrew E. Hill
Psalm 2 and Belit’s Oracle for Ashurbanipal Helmer Ringgren
New Exodus, Covenant, and Restoration in Psalm 23 Michael L. Barre, S. S., and John S. Kselman, S. S.
Studies in the Structure of Hebrew Verse: The Prosody of Lamentations 1:1-22 Frank Moore Cross
Sirach 10:19-11:6: Textual Criticism, Poetic Analysis, and Exegesis Alexander Di Lella, O.F.M.
‘Prose Particle’ Counts of the Hebrew Bible Francis I. Andersen and A. Dean Forbes
Hoy and Hoy-Oracles: A Neglected Syntactic Aspect Delbert R. Hillers
II. The Prose of the Hebrew Bible
A Syllable-Word Structure Analysis of Genesis 12-23 Cornelius B. Houk
Abraham and David in the Theology of the Yahwist Jack R. Lundbom
The Two Pericopes on the Purification Offering Jacob Milgrom
The Composition of Deuteronomy 5-11 Brian Peckham
Levitical History and the Role of Joshua Robert Boling
Judges 9 and Biblical Archeology Edward F. Campbell, Jr.
The Ritual Dedication of the City of David in 2 Samuel 6 P. Kyle McCarter, Jr.
Rab-saris or Rab-shakeh in 2 Kings 18 Hayim Tadmor
Derios, der Meder Klaus Koch
III. History and Institutions of Israel
The Proto-History of Israel: A Study in Method Abraham Malamat
The Identity of the Biblical sir a Oded Borowski
Israelites as gerim, ‘Sojourners,’ in Social and Historical Context Frank Anthony Spina
Gender Roles and Genesis 3:16 Revisited Carol L. Meyers
Priestly Divination in Israel Herbert B. Huffmon
Social Transformation and Ritual in 2 Samuel 6 James W. Flanagan
David’s Relations with Hiram: Biblical and Josephan Evidence for Tyrian Chronology Alberto R. Green
Pollution, Purification, and Purgation in Biblical Israel Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Jerusalem in der Sicht des Ezechielbuches Walther Zimmerli
587 ou 586? Henri Cazelles, S. S.
IV. Northwest Semitic Epigraphy
Writing Systems, Native Speaker Analyses, and the Earliest Stages of Northwest Semitic Orthography M. O’Connor
The Descriptive Ritual Texts from Ugarit: Some Formal and Functional Features of the Genre Baruch A. Levine
The Gezer Jar Signs: New Evidence of the Earliest Alphabet Joe D. Seger
The Discovery of the Moabite Stone Siegfried H. Horn
Ammonite Personal Names in the Context of the West Semitic Onomasticon Kent P. Jackson
Social Organization in Egyptian Military Settlements of the Sixth-Fourth Centuries B.C.E.: dgl and mt. Aramaic Papyri in the Egyptian Museum: Missing Endorsements Bezalel Porten
The Historical, Linguistic, and Biblical Significance of the Khirbet et-Kom Ostraca Lawrence T. Geraty
The Background of the Paleo-Hebrew Texts and Qumran K. A. Mathews
V. Other Perspectives
Material Remains and the Cult in Ancient Israel: An Essay in Archeological Systematics William G. Dever
Two Palestinian Segments from the Eblaite Geographical Atlas William H. Shea
Baal, Lord of the Earth: The Ugaritic Baal Epic Lawrence E. Toombs
The Zoroastrian Cosmos Gernot L. Windfuhr
Nabateans and the Hisma: In the Footsteps of Glueck and Beyond David F. Graf
Matthew 12:40 as an Interpretation of ‘The Sign of Jonah’ Against its Biblical Background George M. Landes
Jewish Reaction to Christian Borrowings Cyrus H. Gordon
Humanism and the Rise of Hebraic Studies: From Christian to Jewish Renaissance M. H. Goshen-Gottstein
Prague Structuralism in American Biblical Scholarship: Performance and Potential Stanislav Segert
Prophet, Poet, Shaman: The Bible and the Literature of Western America David Robertson
Bibliography of the Works of David Noel Freedman M. O’Connor
