Reflection and refraction
Subtitle: studies in biblical historiography in honour of A. Graeme Auld
By: edited by Robert Rezetko, Timothy H. Lim and W. Brian Aucker.
Contributors: Auld, A. Graeme.; Rezetko, Robert.; Lim, Timothy H.; Aucker, W. Brian.
Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum -- v. 113
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9789004145122
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A prophet in king's clothes: kingly and divine re-presentation in 2 Kings 4 and 5 / W. Brian Aucker; title: Historiography and theodicy in the Old Testament / John Barton; title: The books of Chronicles and the scrolls from Qumran / George J. Brooke; title: A royal privilege: dining in the presence of the great king (2 Kings 25.27-30) / Ronald E. Clements; title: Translating Psalm 23 / David J. A. Clines; title: The just king: fact or fancy? Some Ugaritic reflections / Adrian H. W. Curtis; title: The trouble with Benjamin / Philip R. Davies; title: Gibeon and the Gibeonites in the Old Testament / John Day; title: Reading Numbers after Samuel / Mary Douglas; title: Mighty oaks from (genetically manipulated?) acorns grow: The chronicle of the kings of Judah as a source of the Deuteronomistic history / Lester L. Grabbe; title: The 'original text' of Sefer Yesira or the 'earliest recoverable text'? / A. Peter Hayman; title: 'The righteous generation': the use of Dor in Psalms 14 and 24 / Alastair G. Hunter; title: Exodus 20.24b: linchpin of Pentateuchal criticism or just a further link between the Decalogue and the Book of the Covenant? / Willliam Johnstone; title: Cutheans or children of Jacob? The issue of Samaritan origins in 2 Kings 17 / Gary N. Knoppers; title: Obeisance in the biblical stories of David / Lydie Kucova; title: The book of Ruth and its literary voice / Timothy H. Lim; title: Bugs through the looking glass: the infestation of meaning in Joel / James R. Linville; title: The trouble with King Jehoshaphat / Steven L. McKenzie; title: The Deuteronomic history and the books of Chronicles: contemporary competing historiographies / Raymond F. Person, Jr.; title: Swallowed by a song: Jonah and the Jonah-Psalm through the looking-glass /Hugh S. Pyper; title: Stories of forgiveness: narrative ethics and the Old Testament / David J. Reimer; title: 'Late' common nouns in the book of Chronicles / Robert Rezetko; title: Israel's sojourn in the wilderness and the construction of the book of Numbers / Thomas Christian Romer; title: The notion of Jerusalem as a holy city / Margreet L. Steiner; title: Biliteral exegesis of Hebrew roots in the Septuagint? / Emanuel Tov; title: Kings (MT/LXX) and Chronicles: the double and triple textual tradition / Julio Trebolle; title: The 'shared text' of Samuel-Kings and Chronicles re-examined / John Van Seters; title: Once upon a time; title: -? / H. G. M. Williamson; title: Gideon: a new Moses? / Gregory T. K. Wong; title: The seventy sons of Athirat, the nations of the world, Deuteronomy 32.6b, 8-9, and the myth of divine election / N. Wyatt.