Far from minimal
Subtitle: celebrating the work and influence of Philip R. Davies
By: edited by Duncan Burns and J.W. Rogerson
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 484; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 484.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: T & T Clark
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780567027177
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Theology
Other titles: Celebrating the work and influence of Philip R. Davies
Notes: "Publications [of Philip R. Davies]": pages xviii-xxix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP17.50 0.

In English; occasional phrases in Hebrew with English translations.
Table of contents: title: Writing time and eternity in Samuel and Kings  -- A. Graeme Auld; title: When YHWH tests people :; title: general considerations and particular observations regarding the books of Chronicles and Job  -- Ehud Ben Zvi; title: Formless but not void :; title: some thoughts on the psalmist-subject from clay level  -- Fiona C. Black; title: The Servant of the Lord, the Teacher of Righteousness, and the exalted one of 4Q491c  -- Joseph Blenkinsopp; title: A fleshly reading :; title: masochism, ecocriticism and the Song of Songs  -- Roland Boer; title: Religion and politics as passive-aggressive partners :; title: some reflections on the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, 8/2005  -- Athalya Brenner; title: Rules for martyrs :; title: the sacrifice of the beloved son in rabbinic Judaism, patristic Christianity, Sunni Islam  -- Bruce Chilton; title: In the public domain :; title: whose biblical studies is it anyway?  -- Edgar W. Conrad; title: Were Zerubbabel and Nehemiah the same person?  -- Diana Edelman; title: Four notes on Albrightian biblical archaeology :; title: Rehov, Megiddo, Jerusalem, and Rosh Zayit  -- Israel Finkelstein; title: Prophecy as inspired biblical interpretation :; title: the Teacher of Righteousness and David Koresh  -- Lester L. Grabbe; title: Prudent Abigail, submission, and the force of beauty :; title: Voltaire's version of the Bible in his Saül, 1763  -- David M. Gunn; title: Why was the Second Temple built?  -- John M. Halligan; title: Divine knowledge in the book of Job and 4QInstruction  -- James E. Harding; title: Turning a sow's ear into a silk purse : arguments against silence in the quest for early Israel  -- David Henige; title: Only fools and children :; title: belief in God as a problem for the psalmist in Psalms 8-14  -- Alastair G. Hunter; title: The stings in the tales of the kings of Judah  -- John Jarick; title: The power of parenthesis :; title: 2 Samuel 4:4 in its literary context  -- David Jobling; title: Meroz (Judges 5:23)  -- Ernst Axel Knauf; title: Isaiah 2 :; title: Torah and terror  -- Francis Landy; title: Joshua and Western violence  -- Niels Peter Lemche; title: A study in methodological (in)consistency, or, How I stopped worrying and learned to love the work of the Jesus Seminar  -- William John Lyons; title: "Jews by nature" :; title: Paul, ethnicity, and Galatians  -- R. Barry Matlock; title: The Second Temple origins of the halakhah of Besah  -- Jacob Neusner; title: The deconstruction of Deuteronomism in the Former Prophets :; title: Micaiah ben Imlah as example  -- K.L. Noll; title: Productive presuppositions, exuberant commentaries?; title: The New Testament discipline read through the lens of Foucault's "L'ordre du discours"  -- Jorunn Økland; title: The Greek of the Jews and early Christians :; title: the language of the people from a historical sociolinguistic perspective  -- Stanley E. Porter; title: "Whose prophecy is it anyway?"; title: What Micah 3:12 is doing in Jeremiah 26  -- Hugh S. Pyper; title: The storm before the calm?; title: The Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies in the 1980s  -- J.W. Rogerson; title: Reflections on "modern" biblical studies, or, Why Philip Davies is (just a little bit) like Immanuel Kant  -- Yvonne Sherwood; title: The book of Daniel, the canon, and the grand narrative of Christianity  -- Izak J.J. Spangenberg; title: The verb(s) lgr in classical Hebrew and the task of the lexicographer  -- David M. Stec; title: Without evidence or method  -- Thomas L. Thompson; title: Computer technology as impetus for a multi-level Hebrew-English interlinear translation  -- Christo H.J. van der Merwe; title: The rhetoric of 2 Peter :; title: an apologia for early Christian ethics (and not "primitive Christian eschatology")  -- Robert L. Webb; title: The death of biblical history  -- Keith W. Whitelam; title: Some recent discussion on the ḥērem -- K. Lawson Younger.