Inhalt: | Preliminary Material -- 1. Why Translation Technique and Literalness Again? The Renderings of the Infinitive Absolute in the Septuagint of Jeremiah /Raija Sollamo -- 2. The Assyrians in the West: Assyrianization, Colonialism, Indifference, or Development Policy? /Angelika Berlejung -- 3. Omri and Son, Incorporated: The Business of History /Lester L. Grabbe -- 4. Yavneh, Pierre Menard and the Bible /Raz Kletter -- 5. Archaeology and Texts in the Persian Period: Focus on Sanballat /Jan Dušek -- 6. Apples and Oranges: Textual and Archaeological Evidence for Reconstructing the History of Yehud in the Persian Period /Diana Edelman -- 7. Between Archaeology and Text: A Reevaluation of the Development Process of Jerusalem in the Persian Period /Oded Lipschits -- 8. Scribal Traditions in the Pentateuch and the History of the Early Second Temple Period /Sidnie White Crawford -- 9. How to Reach the Old Greek in 1 Samuel and What to Do with It /Anneli Aejmelaeus -- 10. What about Apocalypticism in the Book of Ben Sira? /Pancratius C. Beentjes -- 11. Conflicted Boundaries: Ben Sira, Sage and Seer /Benjamin G. Wright III -- 12. Enoch and Wisdom: Reflections on the Character of the Book of Parables /Michael A. Knibb -- 13. Anti-Treaty Theology of the Chronicler and His View of History /Tetsuo Yamaga -- 14. The Relationship of the Deuteronomistic History to Chronicles: Was the Chronicler a Deuteronomist? /Gary N. Knoppers -- 15. Deuteronomistic History and the Heritage of the Prophets /Rainer Albertz -- 16. The Deuteronomistic Image of History as Interpretive Device in the Second Temple Period: Towards a Long-term Interpretation of “Deuteronomism” /Konrad Schmid -- 17. Die sogenannte deuteronomistische Redaktion der Prophetenbücher /Uwe Becker -- 18. The Still Elusive Deuteronomists /Steven L. McKenzie -- 19. «Deutéronomiste» et «deutéronomisme»: Quelques remarques de méthode en lien avec le débat actuel /Christophe Nihan -- 20. “Overwriting and Overriding,” Or: What Is Not Deuteronomistic /Cynthia Edenburg -- 21. Which Text Are We Using for Our Studies of Deuteronomistic Literature? /Kristin De Troyer -- 22. Toward a Genuine Dialogue between the Bible and Art /J. Cheryl Exum -- 23. The Many Uses of Intertextuality in Biblical Studies: Actual and Potential /David M. Carr -- 24. Mirrors, Drums, and Trees /Susan Ackerman. This volume brings together the main contributions to the 20th congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Helsinki, Finland in August, 2010. The 24 articles discuss the following five topics: Archaeology and texts, with an emphasis on the Persian Period; Qumran, the Septuagint and the Textual History of the Hebrew Bible; Deuteronomistic texts, with a special focus on the question “What is ‘Deuteronomistic?’”; Wisdom and Apocalypticism; and methodological and interdisciplinary issues such as Bible and art and intertextuality. The volume gives readers an up-to-date view of the most recent developments in the research of these topics and the study of the Hebrew Bible in general |
