Reading from Right to Left Essays on the

Thirty-seven essays from established scholars around the world covering topics including the Pentateuch, prophecy, wisdom, ancient Israelite history, Greek tragedy and the ideology of biblical scholarship make up this interesting and varied collection in honor of David J.A. Clines. Several of the contributors interact with ideas prominent in the work of David J.A. Clines of the University of Sheffield, to whom the volume is dedicated.

Preface

ix

Abbreviations

xv

List of Contributors

xix

What Was a Biblical Prophet? Why Does It Matter?

1

(12)

A. Graeme Auld

A Puzzle in Deuteronomy

13

(12)

James Barr

The Prophet Oded and the Zakkur Inscription: A Case of Obscuriore Obscurum?

25

(13)

Hans M. Barstad

An Early Metacommentary: Tertullian's Against Marcion

38

(12)

John Barton

The Unity of the Book of Isaiah: Another Attempt at Bridging the Gorge Between its Two Main Parts

50

(13)

Willem A.M. Beuken

The One in the Middle

63

(13)

Joseph Blenkinsopp

Theme Revisited: Bread Again!

76

(14)

Walter Brueggemann

A Tribute to the Book List of Sots

90

(5)

Brevard S. Childs

The People or the Book

95

(12)

Richard J. Coggins

Tragedy and Ethics: Revisiting Athens and Jerusalem

107

(14)

Philip R. Davies

A Phrase in a Phoenician Papyrus and a Problem in Isaiah 5.14

121

(7)

J.A. Emerton

Song of Songs as an `Answer' to Clines's Book of Job

128

(13)

Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

`The Voice of My Lover': Double Voice and Poetic Illusion in Song of Songs 2.8--3.5

141

(12)

J. Cheryl Exum

Wisdom and the Self-Presentation of Wisdom Literature

153

(20)

Michael V. Fox

So What Might the Song of Songs Do to Them?

173

(11)

John Goldingay

The Ephraimite Messiah and the Targum(s) to Zechariah 12.10

184

(12)

Robert P. Gordon

The Puzzling Politics of Ancient Israel

196

(9)

Norman K. Gottwald

Were the Pre-Maccabean High Priests `Zadokites'?

205

(11)

Lester L. Grabbe

`Lawless Riot and Intestine Division': Judges 19--21 and Civil War in England and North America, 1628--1786

216

(13)

David M. Gunn

The Role of the Poor in Proverbs

229

(12)

Walter J. Houston

Insights on Job 3, From a Medieval Commentary: Rabbi Samuel Ben Meir (Rashbam) on the Book of Job

241

(13)

Sara Japhet

Which Parts of 1 Enoch Were Known to Jubilees? A Note on the Interpretation of Jubilees 4.16-25

254

(9)

Michael A. Knibb

God's Righteousness in the Original and in Translations

263

(12)

Joze Krasovec

From David to David: Psalm 24 and David Clines

275

(15)

Francis Landy

Twelve Commandments---Three Stages: A New Theory on the Formation of the Decalogue

290

(11)

Bernhard Lang

Holy Persuasion: The Bible as Advertising

301

(19)

Burke O. Long

Man and Woman: Toward a Theological Anthropology

320

(9)

Patrick D. Miller

The Rebel in Bible Lands

329

(18)

Johannes C. de Moor

`The Consolations of God': Assessing Job's Friends Across a Cultural Abyss

347

(12)

Carol A. Newsom

Nadab and Abihu

359

(5)

Rolf Rendtorff

The Wisdom Formula `Do Not Say ...' and the Angel in Qohelet 5.5

364

(13)

Alexander Rofe

Measurable and Immeasurable: Themes in Old Testament Theology

377

(13)

John W. Rogerson

Isaiah and the Jews: Some Reflections on the Church's Use of the Bible

390

(12)

John F.A. Sawyer

Interested Parties: History and Ideology at the End of the Century

402

(21)

Keith W. Whitelam

Judgment and Hope in Isaiah 1.21-26

423

(12)

H.G.M. Williamson

Love and Hatred in a Multiracial Society: The Dinah and Shechem Story in Genesis 34 in the Context of Genesis 28--35

435

(15)

Ellen J. van Wolde

Psalm 87: A Case for Ideological Criticism?

450

(11)

Erich Zenger

Bibliography of David J.A. Clines

461

(16)

Index of References

477

(15)

Index of Authors

492

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Reading from Right to Left Essays on the Hebrew Bible in honour of David J. A. Clines

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