A critical engagement
Subtitle: essays on the Hebrew Bible in honour of J. Cheryl Exum
By: edited by David J.A. Clines and Ellen van Wolde
Contributors: Exum, J. Cheryl
Series: Hebrew Bible monographs -- 38; Hebrew Bible monographs -- 38.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press; Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sheffield, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781907534331
Subjects: Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Altes Testament; Theology; Bibel; Reader-response criticism; Textual Criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hidden polemics in the story of Judah and Tamar / Yairah Amit; title: Contexts for Tamar : Samuel and the Song of Songs / A. Graeme Auld; title: 'If there are such things as miracles, Israel has to be one!' narratives from the Hollywood vault / Alice Bach; title: Maurice Haldwachs, memory, and the Hebrew Bible / Hans M. Barstad; title: The Shulammite's burning bush : passion, im/possibility and the existence of God in Song 8.6 and Exodus 3 / Fiona C. Black; title: Ruth : the art of memorizing territory and religion / Athalya Brenner; title: Illustrations of the Sotah in popular printed works in the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / Claudia V. Camp; title: Reading the Song of Songs as a classic / David J.A. Clines; title: Tears in Jerusalem : David's response to the death of Absalom in 2 Samuel and Tomkins's 'when David heard' / Andrew Davies; title: Reading the tale of Job / Michael V. Fox; title: The comic plots of the Bibles / Edwin M. Good; title: On the alleged wisdom of kings : an application of Adorno's immanent criticism to Qohelet / Norman Gottwald; title: 'Difficulty' in teh poetry of Job / Edward L. Greenstein; title: Samson improved for youth in an age of empire : Mr. Atherton, gentleman and genial giant, in G.A. Henty's 'Maoiry and Settler' (1891), as a case of Biblical reception / David M. Gunn; title: The 'description poems' in ancient Jewish sources and in teh Jewish exegesis of the Song of Songs / Sara Japhet; title: The book that cannot be read / Franic Landy; title: Flesh of my flesh / Burke O. Long; title: Is God mentioned in teh Song of Songs? flame of Yahweh, love, and death in Song of Songs 8.6-7a / Martti Nissinen; title: The Bible in Orientalist art / Martin O'Kane; title: Other mothers : maternity and masculinity in the book of Ruth / Hugh S. Pyper; title: 'A breeder or two for each leader' : on mothers in Judges 4 and 5 / Jack M. Sasson; title: Interpreting Hebrew writing in Christian art / John F.A. Sawyer; title: God and Cyrus in Isaiah 41.2-3 / H.G.M. Williamson; title: The bow in the clouds in Genesis 9.12-17 : when cognitive linguistics meets visual criticism / Ellen van Wolde; title: 'A woman of valor, 'Eshet Hayil'' (Proverbs 31.10-31) : a conservative response to the Song of Songs / Yair Zakovitch.