A palimpsest
Subtitle: rhetoric, ideology, stylistics, and language relating to Persian Israel
By: edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana V. Edelman, Frank Polak.
Contributors: Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951-; Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954-; Polak, Frank.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Piscataway, N.J
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. -- O.T. -- Language, style; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D; Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Hebrew language -- Grammar
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Diana V. Edelman; title: Group identities in Jeremiah : is it the Persian period conflict? /   Dalit Rom-Shiloni; title: Ezra 1&6 as idealized past / Diana V. Edelman; title: Ancestor ideologies and the territoriality of the dead in Genesis / Francesca Stavrakopoulou; title: God rhetoric : reconceptualizing YHWH Sebaot as YHWH Elohim in the Hebrew Bible / Diana V. Edelman; title: The Book of Esther : a Persian story in Greek style / Jean-Daniel Macchi; title: Nahum 1 : prophet, senet, and divination / Philippe Guillaume; title: Verbs of motion in Biblical Hebrew : lexical shifts and syntactic structure / Frank Polak; title: - Parallelism and noun groups in prophetic poetry from the Persian era / Frank Polak; title: What happened to the Book of Samuel in the Persian period and beyond? / Robert Rezetko; title: What is late Biblical Hebrew / Ian Young; title: The communicative message of some linguistic choices / Ehud Ben Zvi.