Discourse, dialogue, and debate in the Bible
Subtitle: essays in honour of Frank H. Polak
By: edited by Athalya Brenner-Idan
Contributors: Polak, Frank, honoree
Series: Hebrew Bible monographs -- 63; Amsterdam studies in Bible and religion -- 7; Hebrew Bible monographs -- 63.; Amsterdam studies in the Bible and religion -- 7.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781909697430
Subjects: Dialogue in the Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; 11.33 Bible study and interpretation
Other titles: Discourse, dialogue & debate in the Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Frank H. Polak and this volume  -- Athalya Brenner-Idan; title: Human dignity, a firm foundation in the Hebrew Bible -- why?  -- Yairah Amit; title: Is Egypt really the provenance of Joseph's dream narratives?  -- Oren Biderman; title: The issues of the composition and editing of scriptures in Byzantine Jewish exegesis from the tenth century and later  -- Gershon Brin; title: Traces of valence shift in classical Hebrew  -- Janet Dyk; title: The literary style and linguistic stage of Ruth as compared to Esther  -- Mats Eskhult; title: Direct discourse and parallelism  -- Edward L. Greentstein; title: A typological, complex systems approach to the teaching of biblical Hebrew reading  -- Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and -- Jacobus A. Naudé; title: A matter of choice: a sociolinguistic perspective on the contact between Hebrew and Aramaic, with special attention to Jeremiah 10.1-16  -- Noam Mizrahi; title: Twisting Proverbs: oral traditional performance and written context  -- Susan Niditch; title: Joseph and his dreamscapes: from trauma to discovery  -- Meira Polliack; title: What we can learn about other northwest semitic dialects from reading the Bible  -- Gary A. Rendsburg; title: An octave above biblical style: notes on the poetic style of Bialik's Scroll of Fire  -- Tamar Sovran; title: Directionality and space in Jonah  -- Talia Sutskover; title: System and design: reading, computing and translating biblical Hebrew into Dutch  -- Eep Talstra; title: Textual developments in the Torah  -- Emanuel Tov; title: Verba manent: signs, sounds, and letters in rabbinic literature  -- Mǎdǎlina Vârtejanu-Joubert; title: Dating Torah documents: from Wellhausen to Polak -- Ziony Zevit.