Seeking out the wisdom of the ancients
Subtitle: essays offered to honor Michael V. Fox on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday
By: edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kelvin G. Friebel, and Dennis R. Magary.
Contributors: Troxel, Ronald L., 1951-; Friebel, Kelvin G., 1952-; Magary, Dennis Robert, 1951-
Publisher: Winona Lake, Ind.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Eisenbrauns
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Observations on Ezekiel as a book prophet / Menahem Haran; title: The decrees of Yahweh that are "not good" : Ezekiel 20:25-26 / Kelvin G. Friebel; title: Ellipsis involving negation in biblical poetry / Cynthia L. Miller; title: Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22 : two versions of the same song / Theron Young; title: The wisdom of creation in Psalm 104 / Adele Berlin; title: "Come, O children ... I will teach you the fear of the Lord" (Psalm 34:12) : comparing Psalms and Proverbs / William P. Brown; title: A proverb in the mouth of a fool / James L. Crenshaw; title: Genericity, tense, and verbal patterns in the sentence literature of Proverbs / John A. Cook; title: Word order in the book of Proverbs / Robert D. Holmstedt; title: Exegetical and stylistic analysis of a number of aphorisms in the book of Proverbs : mitigation of monotony in repetitions in parallel texts / Shamir Yona; title: Forming "fearers of Yahweh" : repetition and contradiction as pedagogy in Proverbs / Christine Roy Yoder; title: Visual metaphors and Proverbs 5:15-20 : some archaeological reflections on gendered iconography / Carole R. Fontaine; title: The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17-24:22 from the perspective of contemporary research / Nili Shupak; title: The woman of valor and a woman large of head : matchmaking in the ancient Near East / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz; title: The fly and the dog : observations on ideational polarity in the book of Qoheleth / Tova Forti; title: A sense of timing : a neglected aspect of Qoheleth's wisdom / Richard L. Schultz; title: The little sister and Solomon's vineyard : Song of songs 8:8-12 as a lovers' dialogue / J. Cheryl Exum; title: Answering questions, questioning answers : the rhetoric of interrogatives in the speeches of Job and his friends / Dennis R. Magary; title: The mysterious disappearance of Zerubbabel / Theodore J. Lewis; title: Textual criticism of the book of Deuteronomy and the Oxford Hebrew Bible project / Sidnie White Crawford; title: What's in a name? : contemporization and toponyms in LXX-Isaiah / Ronald L. Troxel; title: Characterization in the Old Greek of Job / Karl V. Kutz; title: On the influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic literature / Heidi M. Szpek; title: Becoming canon : women, texts, and scribes in Proverbs and Sirach / Claudia V. Camp; title: Translating biblical words of wisdom into the modern world / Leonard Greenspoon; title: The text-critical value of the Septuagint of Proverbs / Johann Cook; title: Christian Aramaism : the birth and growth of Aramaic scholarship in the sixteenth century / Stephen G. Burnett; title: Spying out the land : a report from genology / Carol A. Newsom; title: What's in a calendar? calendar conformity, calendar controversy and calendar reform in ancient and medieval Judaism / Shemaryahu Talmon; title: Competing commentaries / Frederick E. Greenspahn.