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Windows to the ancient world of the Hebrew Bible : essays in honor of Samuel Greengus / edited by Bill T. Arnold, Nancy L. Erickson, and John H. Walton.

Contributor(s): Arnold, Bill T [editor.] | Erickson, Nancy L [editor.] | Walton, John H, 1952- [editor.] | Greengus, Samuel [honouree.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2014Description: xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781575063027 (hardback : alk. paper); 1575063026 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622 | Greengus, SamuelDDC classification: 221.6 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; "Publications by Dr. Samuel Greengus" : pages xv-xvi.
Contents:
Law, economy, academia, and divination in Bronze Age Canaan: The value of cuneiform tablets discovered at Tel Hazor / Stephen J. Andrews -- The holiness redaction of the flood narrative (Gen 6:9-9:29) / Bill T. Arnold -- Isaiah 47 and 54: An investigation into a case of intertextuality / Bryan E. Beyer -- The tenth commandment and the concept of "inward liability" / Aurelian Botica -- The Book of Giants and the Greek Gilgamesh / Jeffey L Cooley -- Donning the right garb: The Egyptian ritual of "opening the mouth" and the biblical regulations in Exodus 28-29 / Nancy L. Erickson -- Mythologizing exile: Life, law, and justice after the flood / Angela Roskop Erisman -- The Hebrew syllable: Definition and practical application / Russell Fuller -- Neither slave nor free: Children living on the edge of a social status / Kristine Henriksen Garroway -- The administration of copper tools at Umma in the Ur III Period / Charles Halton -- Rabbi Joshua Briskin's Tav Y'hoshua: Yalkut Derekh Erez: A handbook for busy Jews / Rabbi Barton Lee -- The changing face of victory / R. Russell Mack -- Zêru, "to hate" as a metaphor for covenant instability / Andrew J. Riley -- With mace in hand...and praise in throat: Comparisons and contrasts in the bookends of the psalter / Tim Undheim -- Do deities deceive? / Ronald A. Veenker -- Toward an ethic of liberation for Bible translation: A work in progress / Steven Voth -- Demons in Mesopotamia and Israel: Exploring the category of non-divine but supernatural entities / John H. Walton -- The literary structure of Judges revisited: Judges as a ring composition / Kenneth C. Way -- The perfect verb and the perfect woman in Proverbs / Brian L. Webster.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Publications by Dr. Samuel Greengus" : pages xv-xvi.

Law, economy, academia, and divination in Bronze Age Canaan: The value of cuneiform tablets discovered at Tel Hazor / Stephen J. Andrews -- The holiness redaction of the flood narrative (Gen 6:9-9:29) / Bill T. Arnold -- Isaiah 47 and 54: An investigation into a case of intertextuality / Bryan E. Beyer -- The tenth commandment and the concept of "inward liability" / Aurelian Botica -- The Book of Giants and the Greek Gilgamesh / Jeffey L Cooley -- Donning the right garb: The Egyptian ritual of "opening the mouth" and the biblical regulations in Exodus 28-29 / Nancy L. Erickson -- Mythologizing exile: Life, law, and justice after the flood / Angela Roskop Erisman -- The Hebrew syllable: Definition and practical application / Russell Fuller -- Neither slave nor free: Children living on the edge of a social status / Kristine Henriksen Garroway -- The administration of copper tools at Umma in the Ur III Period / Charles Halton -- Rabbi Joshua Briskin's Tav Y'hoshua: Yalkut Derekh Erez: A handbook for busy Jews / Rabbi Barton Lee -- The changing face of victory / R. Russell Mack -- Zêru, "to hate" as a metaphor for covenant instability / Andrew J. Riley -- With mace in hand...and praise in throat: Comparisons and contrasts in the bookends of the psalter / Tim Undheim -- Do deities deceive? / Ronald A. Veenker -- Toward an ethic of liberation for Bible translation: A work in progress / Steven Voth -- Demons in Mesopotamia and Israel: Exploring the category of non-divine but supernatural entities / John H. Walton -- The literary structure of Judges revisited: Judges as a ring composition / Kenneth C. Way -- The perfect verb and the perfect woman in Proverbs / Brian L. Webster.

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