In "Early Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew, and Linguistic Variability," Dong-Hyuk Kim attempts to adjudicate between the two seemingly irreconcilable views over the linguistic dating of biblical
Two volumes present papers from a conference co-sponsored by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna, held February 2008. From the introduction to the second volume: "While the
Revising his spring 2011 PhD dissertation at Yale University, Young pieces together the considerable evidence for the historical Hezekiah, king of Judah during the final quarter of the eighth century
Incubation here refers to "...the practice of sleeping, or at least passing the night, in a holy place with the object of receiving a divine revelation of divine aid in a dream...," states Kim in the
This volume honours Professor H. G. M. Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University through a collection of essays by colleagues and former students from across the globe. The various c
"Text-critical and Hermeneutical Studies in the Septuagint" is the title of a bilateral research project conducted from 2009 to 2011 by scholars from the universities of Munich (Germany) and Stellenbo
This monograph seeks to identity the target audience of Isaiah 40-55. In doing so, it challenges the widespread view that Isaiah 40-55, in whole or in part, aims at and also reflects the concerns of t
An article on the life and career of Gordon (oriental studies, Cambridge U.) is followed by 27 on various aspects of the Old Testament. The topics include legal analogy in Deuteronomy and fratricide i
Written by leading experts in the field, The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation offers a wide-ranging treatment of the main aspects of Genesis study. Its twenty-nine essays fa
For the English edition of his Il Canatico dei Cantici, published by Paoline Editoriale Libri, Milan in 2004, Barbiero (Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome) has toned down the confessional character
"The Hebrew language may be divided into the biblical, Mishnaic, Medieval, and Modern periods. Biblical Hebrew has its own distinct linguistic profile, exhibiting a diversity of styles and linguistic
This is the second volume to appear (following Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah. Studies of an Interpretative Tradition) in the collection The Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Lit
The studies in this volume investigate Isaiah's use of early sacred tradition, the editing and contextualization of oracles within the Isaianic tradition itself, and the interpretation of the book of
Taking Samuel as a case study, Weiss (Bible, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York) investigates what marks a sentence in the Bible as a metaphor, and how such a sentence differs
