A Sage in New Haven: Essays on the Prophets, the Writings, and the Ancient World in Honor of Robert R. Wilson

Alison Acker Gruseke; Carolyn J. Sharp

doi:10.5771/9783963272172

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-96327-216-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-96327-217-2
Publisher: Zaphon, Münster
Series: Ägypten und Altes Testament
Volume: 117
Language: English
Pages: 386
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Preface No access
2. Table of Contents No access
3. Publications of Robert R. Wilson No access
A Sage in New Haven Marches to the Beat of His Own Drum: The Inimitable Wit and Wisdom of Robert Rutherford Wilson No access Pages 17 - 30
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1. The Sons of the Prophets: Movement, Guild, Order, or Sect? No access Pages 33 - 42
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2. Situating Balaam No access Pages 43 - 50
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3. Tradition and Variation in Tales of National Foundation: Og in Biblical Historiography and Postbiblical Contexts No access Pages 51 - 60
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4. The Name(s) of the Book of Judges in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods: Observations and Reflections No access Pages 61 - 66
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5. The Human Body in Judges No access Pages 67 - 76
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6. Breaking Ground: Archaeology’s Contribution to the Redaction of the Shechem Temple Narrative (Judges 9:46–49) No access Pages 77 - 84
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7. Nathan’s Sixth Sense: Russian Formalism, Cinematic Technique, and the Character of a Prophet No access Pages 85 - 94
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8. “All Flesh,” “Together”: The Divine Glory’s Tractive Force in Isaiah 40–66 No access Pages 95 - 104
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9. Eunuchs and Foreigners: Males and Sexual Assault in Isaiah 56:1–8 No access Pages 105 - 114
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10. The Prose Discourses of Jeremiah 1–25 as Legitimation for the Collapse of Early Sixth-Century Judean Society No access Pages 115 - 126
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11. Pain and Provocation: A Social-Scientific Reading of Jeremiah 15 No access Pages 127 - 136
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12. How Prophecy Gets Written: Hosea, Redactors, and Neo-Assyrian Prophecy No access Pages 137 - 148
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13. Genre Multiplicity in Micah 6:1–8: A Non-Legal rîb and an Entrance Liturgy No access Pages 149 - 156
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14. On Doing Justice, Loving Mercy, and Walking Humbly in Micah 6:8: The Peaceable Ways of Israel’s God, Then and Now No access Pages 157 - 168
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1. Conveying the Covenant: Mechanisms of Persuasion in the Sefire Inscriptions No access Pages 171 - 182
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2. Pandemics and Pilgrimages: A Suggested Sitz im Leben for Psalm 91 No access Pages 183 - 194
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3. Psalm 137: Another Look No access Pages 195 - 208
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4. “Lord, How Come Me Here?” Psalms and Spirituals as Sanctuaries No access Pages 209 - 218
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5. Upstairs, Downstairs: Hermeneutical Insights Based on the Structure of Job’s Prologue No access Pages 219 - 228
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6. Signs of Writing (Poetry) in Lamentations No access Pages 229 - 244
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7. The Intractable Problem of Aging in Ancient Israelite and Jewish Instructions No access Pages 245 - 252
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8. Radiant Genealogies: A Note on Genealogy and History in the Biblical World No access Pages 253 - 260
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9. Battle Horns and Frame Drums No access Pages 261 - 274
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10. Hush, Little Child: Rituals for Keeping Infants Safe and Quiet in the Ancient Near East No access Pages 275 - 284
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11. Call Them Ishmael: A Childist Investigation of Israel’s First Son as a Powerful Precedent No access Pages 285 - 296
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12. Historical Criticism, Moral Judgment, and the Future of the Past No access Pages 297 - 308
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13. Modalities of Millenarianism in Ancient Judaism No access Pages 309 - 320
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14. “Let Your Yes Be Yes and Your No Be No”: The Absence of Answer Particles in Biblical Hebrew and Some Related Issues No access Pages 321 - 330
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15. Irregular Short-Yiqṭol Forms in Late Second Temple Hebrew No access Pages 331 - 342
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16. Ezra the Scribe and the (Purported) Origins of Targum No access Pages 343 - 350
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17. The Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart in Tradition- and Reception-History No access Pages 351 - 360
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18. Yale and the Bible: 1886–1925 No access Pages 361 - 368
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Abbreviations No access Pages 369 - 374
Contributors No access Pages 375 - 378
Index No access Pages 379 - 384