Divrei Shalom: Collected Studies of Shalom M. Paul on the Bible and the Ancient Near East 1967–2005
Leiden: Brill, 2005. Hardcover. Octavo. xix, (1), 539, (1)pp. Indices. Title page and text in English with some Hebrew. Red buckram lettered in yellow. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Paul and 9 text figures. A fine, as new copy.
Shalom M. Paul (1936-2020) was born in Philadelphia, made aliyah in 1971, and became the Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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. (Publisher)
Contents: Machine generated contents note:; 1.; image of the oven and the cake in Hosea 7:4-10 --; 2.; Deutero-Isaiah and cuneiform royal inscriptions --; 3.; Cuneiform light on Jer. 9:20 --; 4.; Exod. 21:10 : a threefold maintenance clause --; 5.; Sargon's administrative diction in 2 Kings 17:27 --; 6.; Formulaic patterns of law in Israel and Mesopotamia --; 7.; Psalm 72:5 -- a traditional blessing for the long life of the king --; 8.; Heavenly tablets and the book of life --; 9.; Classifications of wine in Mesopotamian and rabbinic sources --; 10.; Nehemiah 6:19 -- counterespionage --; 11.; Amos 3:15 -- winter and summer mansions --; 12.; Fishing imagery in Amos 4:2 --; 13.; unrecognized medical idiom in Song of songs 6:12 and Job 9:21 --; 14.; 1 Samuel 9:7 : an interview fee --; 15.; Unrecognized biblical legal idioms in the light of comparative Akkadian expressions --; 16.; Adoption formulae : a study of cuneiform and biblical legal clauses -- ^; 17.; Psalm 27:10 and the Babylonian theodicy --; 18.; Two cognate Semitic terms for mating and copulation --; 19.; Job 4:15 -- a hair raising encounter --; 20.; Daniel 3:29 -- a case of 'neglected' blasphemy --; 21.; Dan 6:8 : an Aramaic reflex of Assyrian legal terminology --; 22.; [actual symbol not reproducible] : Hosea 8:8-10 and ancient Near Eastern royal epithets --; 23.; technical expression from archery in Zechariah 9:13a --; 24.; Biblical analogues to Middle Assyrian law --; 25.; Exodus 1:21 : 'to found a family' : a biblical and Akkadian idiom --; 26.; Gleanings from the Biblical and Talmudic lexica in light of Akkadian --; 27.; Decoding a 'joint' expression in Daniel 5:6, 16 --; 28.; From Mari to Daniel : instructions for the acceptance of servants into the royal court --; 29.; Euphemistically 'speaking' and a covetous eye --; 30.; Untimely death in the Semitic languages --; 31.
Volume 23 in the Brill series, "Culture and History of the Ancient Near East." Fine. Item #51861
ISBN: 9789004143678
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