Genesis, Isaiah and Psalms: A Festschrift to honour Professor John Emerton for his eightieth birthday(135 Vetus Testamentum, Supplements)

Genesis, Isaiah and Psalms are three key texts in the Hebrew Bible and represent the lifelong interests of Professor John Emerton, Emeritus Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, for whom this volume is written on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. The contributors have all enjoyed academic relationships with John over the years and represent a truly international group. The contributions include comparison of biblical texts with ancient Near Eastern counterparts and evaluation of them in the light of archaeology. They include intertextual work on a literary level, and traditional literary-historical approaches to texts. Many move beyond the Hebrew Bible itself to consider other texts and versions or to draw out interpretations of texts by scholars ancient and modern - and even by novelists. The result is a refreshing group of articles that indicate the broad range of approaches that characterize the discipline of Old Testament study in the present day.

Table of Contents:
PART A Genesis: Arie van der Kooij The Story of Paradise in the Light of Mesopotamian Culture and Literature Terry Fenton Nimrod’s cities: an item from the rolling corpus Ina Willi-Plein Power or Inheritance: A constructive comparison of Genesis 16 and Genesis 21 John F. Healey The Nabatean “God of the Fathers” Graham Davies The Transition from Genesis to Exodus Bertil Albrektson Novelists as Interpreters of Genesis PART B Isaiah: Menahem Haran Isaiah as a Prophet to Samaria and his Memoirs Alan Millard “Take a large writing tablet and write on it”: Isaiah – a writing prophet? Katharine J. Dell The Suffering Servant of Deutero-Isaiah: Jeremiah revisited Joachim Schaper God and the gods: Pagan Deities and religious concepts in the Old Greek of Isaiah Knud Jeppesen Frants Buhl as an Old Testament Scholar: The Isaiah Commentary in Danish PART C Psalms: Anthony Gelston Editorial Arrangement in Book IV of the Psalter Yee Von Koh An Appraisal of G.H. Wilson’s Theories on the organization of the Masoretic Psalter Stefan C. Reif Psalm 93: A Historical and Comparative Survey of its Jewish Interpretation Patrick D. Miller Gregory of Nyssa: The Superscriptions of the Psalms Rudolf Smend Wellhausen on the Psalms Index of Biblical References Index of Names

About the Author :
Katharine Dell, D. Phil (1988) in Old Testament, University of Oxford, is University Senior Lecturer at Cambridge University and Fellow of St Catharine's College. She has published extensively in the area of the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, including recently The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context (CUP, 2006). Graham Davies, Ph.D. (1975) University of Cambridge, D.D. (Oxford), F.B.A., is Professor of Old Testament Studies at Cambridge University and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He has published books on the Pentateuch, Hosea, archaeology and Hebrew inscriptions, and articles on a wide variety of Old Testament topics. Yee Von Koh, Ph.D. (2005) in Old Testament, University of Cambridge, is an independent biblical scholar residing in Malaysia. She has recently published a book on Ecclesiastes in De Gruyter's BZAW series (no. 369).

Review :
"It is an excellent collection of original research and can be highly recommended." Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (School of Divinity, King's College, Aberdeen)