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Words, ideas, worlds : biblical essays in honour of Yairah Amit / edited by Athalya Brenner and Frank H. Polak.

Contributor(s): Amit, Yaira | Brenner, Athalya | Polak, Frank
Material type: TextTextSeries: Hebrew Bible monographs: 40.; Amsterdam studies in the Bible and religion: 5.Publisher: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012Description: xxv, 271 pages : portrait ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1907534504; 9781907534508Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, Narrative | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, Textual | Amit, YairaBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; "List of publications by Yairah Amit" : pages [xi]-xxii.
Contents:
Observations on lines of thought concerning the concepts of prophecy and prophets in Yehud, with an emphasis on Deuteronomy-2 Kings and Chronicles / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Women and men he created them : gender and ideologies in the Book of Judges / Athalya Brenner -- Hidden ancestral polemics in the Book of Genesis? / Diana Edelman -- Rewriting, overwriting, and overriding : techniques of editorial revision in the Deuteronomisitc History / Cynthia Edenburg -- Samson and his God : modern culture reads the Bible / J. Cheryl Exum -- Mock Abrahams, silent gods, nascent states : the sacrifice of Isaac and familicide in early America / Yael S. Feldman -- Reading pragmatically : interpretting the binding of Isaac / Edward L. Greentstein --
The art of irony : the Book of Judges / Lillian Klein Abensohn -- God's victory over 'the olden gods' : theological corrections in Deuteronomy 33.12, 27 / Israel Knohl -- Roads that configure the space in biblical narratives / Nadav Na'aman -- Divine names, sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of Pentateuchal narrative / Frank H. Polak -- 'The unseen joints of the text' : on the medieval Judeo-Arabic concept of elision (iḫtiṣār) and its gap-filling functions in biblical interpretation / Meira Polliack -- When an explicit polemic initiates a hidden one : Jacob's Aramaean Identity / Dalit Rom-Shiloni -- Strong women confront helpless men : Deborah and Jephthah's daughter in the midrash / Shulamit Valler.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 East BS1171.3 .W673 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903477517

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"List of publications by Yairah Amit" : pages [xi]-xxii.

Observations on lines of thought concerning the concepts of prophecy and prophets in Yehud, with an emphasis on Deuteronomy-2 Kings and Chronicles / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Women and men he created them : gender and ideologies in the Book of Judges / Athalya Brenner -- Hidden ancestral polemics in the Book of Genesis? / Diana Edelman -- Rewriting, overwriting, and overriding : techniques of editorial revision in the Deuteronomisitc History / Cynthia Edenburg -- Samson and his God : modern culture reads the Bible / J. Cheryl Exum -- Mock Abrahams, silent gods, nascent states : the sacrifice of Isaac and familicide in early America / Yael S. Feldman -- Reading pragmatically : interpretting the binding of Isaac / Edward L. Greentstein --

The art of irony : the Book of Judges / Lillian Klein Abensohn -- God's victory over 'the olden gods' : theological corrections in Deuteronomy 33.12, 27 / Israel Knohl -- Roads that configure the space in biblical narratives / Nadav Na'aman -- Divine names, sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of Pentateuchal narrative / Frank H. Polak -- 'The unseen joints of the text' : on the medieval Judeo-Arabic concept of elision (iḫtiṣār) and its gap-filling functions in biblical interpretation / Meira Polliack -- When an explicit polemic initiates a hidden one : Jacob's Aramaean Identity / Dalit Rom-Shiloni -- Strong women confront helpless men : Deborah and Jephthah's daughter in the midrash / Shulamit Valler.

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