Published by De Gruyter

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

Edited by: John Barton, Reinhard G. Kratz, Nathan MacDonald, Sara Milstein and Markus Witte

ISSN: 0934-2575

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The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

BZAW welcomes submissions that make an original and significant contribution to the field; demonstrate sophisticated　engagement with the relevant secondary literature; and are written in readable, logical, and engaging prose.

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Book 2023

Seeing David Double

Reading the Book of Two Houses. Collected Essays

A. Graeme Auld

Volume 550 in this series

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In his third volume of collected essays, the former Professor of Hebrew Bible at Edinburgh University assembles studies published since 2017. With one significant modification (on the first Jeroboam), they develop the twin theses of his 2017 monograph, Life in Kings: that the material common to the books of Samuel-Kings and Chronicles is both untypical of Samuel-Kings as a whole and the major source out of which they developed. Most importantly, these fresh essays explore the DNA of what Graeme Auld calls the Book of Two Houses (BoTH): some 150 uniquely paired words (including names) and phrases that occur in its reports of only two kings. The final extended essay (not previously published) sets these pairings in their context throughout the book. As the artistry of this foundational text is revealed, fresh historical questions call for answers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111060279
ISBN:: 9783111060279
ISBN:: 9783111060781
ISBN:: 9783111059976
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2024

One or Two Translators?

Translation Technique and Theology of LXX Proverbs and Its Relation to LXX Job

Bryan Beeckman

Volume 549 in this series

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In 1946, Gillis Gerleman proposed a single translator for LXX Proverbs and LXX Job. After he launched this hypothesis, scholars have either confirmed or debunked this hypothesis. Although attempts have been made to come up with an adequate answer to the question of a single translator for both Proverbs and Job, scholars have, thus far, not reached consensus. Moreover, the attempts that have been made are not at all elaborate. Thus, the question remains unsolved.
This book tries to formulate an answer to the question of a single translator for both Proverbs and Job by examining the translation technique and theology of both books. The translation technique of both books is analysed by examining the Greek rendering of Hebrew hapax legomena, animal, floral, plant and herb names. The theology is examined by looking at the pluses in the LXX version which contain θεός and κύριος. The results of these studies are compared with one another in order to formulate an answer to a single translator. By doing so, this book not only formulates an answer to a single translator for both LXX Proverbs and Job but also characterises their translation technique and theology in greater detail.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111041582
ISBN:: 9783111041582
ISBN:: 9783111042077
ISBN:: 9783111041094
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

The Scribe in the Biblical World

A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures

Esther Eshel, Michael Langlois

Volume 547 in this series

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This book offers a fresh look at the status of the scribe in society, his training, practices, and work in the biblical world.

What was the scribe’s role in these societies? Were there rival scribal schools? What was their role in daily life? How many scripts and languages did they grasp? Did they master political and religious rhetoric? Did they travel or share foreign traditions, cultures, and beliefs? Were scribes redactors, or simply copyists? What was their influence on the redaction of the Bible? How did they relate to the political and religious powers of their day? Did they possess any authority themselves?

These are the questions that were tackled during an international conference held at the University of Strasbourg on June 17–19, 2019. The conference served as the basis for this publication, which includes fifteen articles covering a wide geographical and chronological range, from Late Bronze Age royal scribes to refugees in Masada at the end of the Second Temple period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110984293
ISBN:: 9783110984293
ISBN:: 9783110996685
ISBN:: 9783110984491
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

Joschua und Melchisedek

Studien zur Entwicklung des Jerusalemer Hohepriesteramtes vom 6. bis zum 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

Sarah Schulz

Volume 546 in this series

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In an interplay of analyses, relevant biblical texts (esp. Hag.; Zech. 1–8; Ezra 1–6, Gen. 14; Ps. 110) and extra-biblical sources, this study reconstructs the development of the politically influential office of the high priest in Jerusalem. Countering a widespread research trend, this study draws the conclusion that the politicization of the Jerusalem office of the high priest did not begin before the Seleucid age.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110793451
ISBN:: 9783110793451
ISBN:: 9783110793475
ISBN:: 9783110793413
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2023

Ester – eine Gewaltgeschichte

Die Gewaltdarstellungen in der hebräischen und griechischen Esterüberlieferung

Helge Bezold, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur

Volume 545 in this series

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Lautenschlaeger Award 2023.

The Book of Esther tells the story of a plot to exterminate the Persian Jews and their great struggle against their enemies. This study locates these portrayals of violence in the Hellenistic epoch, in the Hasmonean period (second century BCE). It compares the Hebrew text with the two Greek Books of Esther, thus providing insights into a dynamic discourse of violence in Hellenistic and Roman literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792263
ISBN:: 9783110792263
ISBN:: 9783110792355
ISBN:: 9783110792232
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Julius Wellhausens Göttinger Licentiaten-Promotion von 1870

Thomas Kaebel

Volume 544 in this series

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This volume analyzes Wellhausen’s Göttingen licentiate doctorate for a wider audience. Alongside the original Latin text, it includes German and English translations and a transcription of the doctoral file with a German translation of the Latin sections. Moreover, it places Wellhausen’s dissertation in the context of earlier and more recent research on the Chronicles and the Genealogies, and provides an extensive literary analysis of it.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110779387
ISBN:: 9783110779387
ISBN:: 9783110779448
ISBN:: 9783110779165
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: History of Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Treasures Lost

A Literary Study of the Despoliation Notices in the Book of Kings

Francisco Martins

Volume 543 in this series

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The book of Kings repeatedly refers to the despoliation of the treasures of the Jerusalem temple and royal palace. These short notices recounting a foreign invasion and the loss of "national wealth" have been explored only briefly among scholars applying their expertise to the analysis of the book of Kings or the study of the Jerusalem temple and royal palace, from both literary and historical perspectives.

This monograph aims to fill this lacuna. Adopting an approach that combines a more traditional form of literary criticism with a thorough analysis of the narrative role and intertextual connections giving shape to the texts (Sitz in der Literatur), the book offers a more complex and nuanced appreciation of the literary development and ideological profile of the despoliation notices. In addition, it weighs the use of the underlying literary motif in the biblical writings against other Ancient Near Eastern sources.

This study not only provides new perspectives on the role of motifs in biblical historiography but has far-reaching implications for the reconstruction of the process of production and transmission of Kings as part of the Deuteronomistic History.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778892
ISBN:: 9783110778892
ISBN:: 9783110779011
ISBN:: 9783110776119
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Sprüche über das Sprechen

Meta-pragmatische Metaphern zum sprachlichen Handeln in Spr 10-29

Johannes Thon

Volume 542 in this series

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Biblical proverbial wisdom frequently addresses humans’ verbal actions. It is often about how communication works in the social context. This volume examines the aphoristic wealth of Old Testament reflections on language, inquires into points of comparison with modern models of communication theory by taking into account text and interpretative history, and develops the metaphoric concepts used in the process.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110765663
ISBN:: 9783110765663
ISBN:: 9783110765717
ISBN:: 9783110765595
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36

James D. Moore

Volume 541 in this series

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This is the first study to compare the allusions to scribal culture found in the Aramaic Story of Ahiqar and the Hebrew Tale of Jeremiah and Baruch’s Scroll in Jeremiah 36. It is shown that disguised in the royal propagandistic message of Ahiqar is a sophisticated Aramaic critique on the social practices of Akkadian scribal culture. Jeremiah 36, however, uses loci of scribal activity as well as allusions to scribal interactions and the techniques of the scribal craft to construct a subversive tale. When studied from a comparative perspective it is argued that the Story of Ahiqar, which has long been associated with the well-known court tale genre, is an example of a subgenre which is here called the scribal conflict narrative, and Jeremiah 36 is found to be a second example of or a response to it. This observation is arrived at by means of rigorous manuscript examination combined with narrative analysis, which identified, among other things, the development of autobiographical and biographical styles of the same ancient narrative. This study not only provides new perspectives on scribal culture, Ahiqar studies, and Jeremiah studies, but it may have far reaching implications for other ancient sources.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753042
ISBN:: 9783110753042
ISBN:: 9783110753127
ISBN:: 9783110752540
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Sprache in der Geschichte

Etappen der Erforschung des Biblischen Hebräisch

Brinthanan Puvaneswaran

Volume 540 in this series

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This study of scholarship history reveals how biblical Hebrew has been venerated as an eternal and sacred language, inseparable from Judaism, but how it has also been claimed by Christianity, which appropriated Hebrew linguistics as an aid for use in academic theology and continues to do so to this day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110749106
ISBN:: 9783110749106
ISBN:: 9783110749168
ISBN:: 9783110748215
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Jewish Languages
Subject:: Hebrew
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context

Tova Ganzel

Volume 539 in this series

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Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context examines evidence from Babylonian sources to better understand Ezekiel's vision of the future temple as it appears in chapters 40–48. Tova Ganzel argues that Neo-Babylonian temples provide a meaningful backdrop against which many unique features of Ezekiel's vision can and should be interpreted. In pointing to the similarities between Neo-Babylonian temples and the description in the book of Ezekiel, Ganzel demonstrates how these temples served as a context for the prophet's visions and describes the extent to which these similarities provide a further basis for broader research of the connections between Babylonia and the Bible. Ultimately, she argues the extent to which the book of Ezekiel models its temple on those of the Babylonians. Thus, this book suggests a comprehensive picture of the book of Ezekiel’s worldview and to contextualize its visionary temple by comparing its vision to the actual temples surrounding the Judeans in exile.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740844
ISBN:: 9783110740844
ISBN:: 9783110740998
ISBN:: 9783110740677
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Tefillin and Mezuzot from Qumran

New Readings and Interpretations

Ariel Feldman

Volume 538 in this series

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This monograph studies ancient tefillin (also known as phylacteries) and mezuzot found in the Caves of Qumran. Most of these miniature texts were published by the end of 1970s and thus have long been available to scholars. And yet in several respects, these tiny fragments remain an unfinished business.

A close scrutiny of their editions reveals a presence of texts that have not been fully accounted for. These fall into three categories. First, there are multiple tefillin and mezuzot that contain legible fragments which their editors were unable to identify. Second, several tefillin and mezuzot feature imprints of letters that have not been deciphered. Third, there are texts which were provisionally classified as tefillin and mezuzot yet left unread.

This monograph offers a detailed study of these unidentified and undeciphered texts. It thus sheds new light on the contents of ancient tefillin and mezuzot and on the scribal practices involved in their preparation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110725377
ISBN:: 9783110725377
ISBN:: 9783110725438
ISBN:: 9783110725261
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: facet.subjectFacet.TL-02-11
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Redaktionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Pentateuch

Gesammelte Schriften II

Hans-Christoph Schmitt, Markus Witte, Markus Saur

Volume 537 in this series

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This volume presents twenty essays by the Old Testament scholar Hans-Christoph Schmitt (1941–2020) on topics pertaining to the tradition history and redaction criticism of the Pentateuch. It makes a contribution to the interpretation of central texts from the books of Genesis, Exodus, and Deuteronomy, as well as to fundamental methodological questions in current Pentateuch research and the theological history of Israel and early Judaism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724448
ISBN:: 9783110724448
ISBN:: 9783110724547
ISBN:: 9783110724394
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

The Textual History of 2 Kings 17

Timo Tapani Tekoniemi

Volume 536 in this series

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The textual history of the Books of Kings forms one of the most complex and debated issues in the modern text-historical scholarship. This book examines and reconstructs the textual history of 2 Kings 17 in light of the preserved textual evidence. The analysis of textual differences between the LXX, the Old Latin, and the MT allows the reconstruction of the oldest text attainable. The Old Latin version appears to have in many cases best preserved the Old Greek edition of the chapter, now lost in the Greek witnesses due to Hebraizing revisions. The Old Greek version of 2 Kings 17 evidences a Hebrew Vorlage often radically differing from the MT. In most cases the MT exhibits signs of later editing. The LXX can thus help the scholars reconstruct multiple text-historical layers previously out of our reach, as well as shed new light on certain historiographical details recounted in 2 Kings 17. As supposed by the literary critics for well over a century, the textual data shows beyond doubt that there happened vast editing and rewriting of the Books of Kings even at very late date. Text-critical considerations are therefore not only useful, but invaluable to all scholarly work on 2 Kings 17, and the Books of Kings as a whole.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720792
ISBN:: 9783110720792
ISBN:: 9783110720853
ISBN:: 9783110720761
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Israel's Past

Studies on History and Religion in Ancient Israel and Judah

Bob Becking

Volume 535 in this series

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How should one write a history of Ancient Israel? In the last few decades, a lively discussion has taken place on the historiography of ancient Israel. Minimalists such as Philip Davies, Thomas Thompson, and Niels Peter Lemche challenged the usefulness of the Hebrew Bible as a source for constructing Israel's past. Maximalists like Baruch Halpern and William Dever argued instead that the data from the Hebrew Bible should be trusted until otherwise proven. Others – among whom we can name Hans Barstad, Rainer Albertz, and Lester Grabbe – took a third road. The essays in this volume follow that third road by applying insights from the field of philosophy of history. A dozen case studies from David to the earliest Samaritans demonstrate how difficult it is to write a history of ancient Israel without falling in the abyss of an ideology in one direction or another. The matrix designed by Manfred Weippert to look at the past through five windows (landscape, climate, archaeology, epigraphy and only at the end the Hebrew Bible) turned out to be more helpful. The conclusion of this research is that there are some stable pillars in the swamp of the past, but it comes with the warning that the space between these pillars is large and cannot easily be filled.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717266
ISBN:: 9783110717266
ISBN:: 9783110717280
ISBN:: 9783110717143
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Collective Memory and Collective Identity

Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in Their Context

Johannes Unsok Ro, Diana Edelman

Volume 534 in this series

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“Collective memory” has attracted the attention and discussion of scholars internationally across academic disciplines over the past 40−50 years in particular. It and "collective identity" have become important issues within Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies; the role collective memory plays in shaping collective identity links the two organically. Research to date on memory within biblical studies broadly falls under four approaches: 1) lexical studies; 2) discussions of biblical historiography in which memory is considered a contributing element; 3) topical explorations for which memory is an organizing concept; and 4) memory and transmission studies.
The sixteen contributors to this volume provide detailed investigations of the contours of collective memory and collective identity that have crystallized in Martin Noth's "Deuteronomistic History" (Deut-2 Kgs). Together, they yield diverse profiles of collective memory and collective identity that draw comparatively on biblical, ancient Near eastern, and classical Greek material, employing one of more of the four common approaches. This is the first volume devoted to applying memory studies to the "Deuteronomistic History."

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110715101
ISBN:: 9783110715101
ISBN:: 9783110715200
ISBN:: 9783110715088
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Deuteronomy in the Making

Studies in the Production of Debarim

Diana Edelman, Kåre Berge, Philippe Guillaume, Benedetta Rossi

Volume 533 in this series

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A number of long-standing theories concerning the production of Deuteronomy are currently being revisited. This volume takes a fresh look at the theory that there was an independent legal collection comprising chs 12-26 that subsequently was set within one or two narrative frames to yield the book, with ongoing redactional changes. Each contributor has been asked to focus on how the “core” might have functioned as a stand-alone document or, if exploring a theme or motif, to take note of commonalities and differences within the “core” and “frames” that might shed light on the theory under review. Some of the articles also revisit the theory of a northern origin of the “core” of the book, while others challenge de Wette’s equation of Deuteronomy with the scroll found during temple repairs under Josiah. With Deuteronomic studies in a state of flux, this is a timely collection by a group of international scholars who use a range of methods and who, in varying degrees, work with or challenge older theories about the book’s origin and growth to approach the central focus from many angles. Readers will find multivalent evidence they can reflect over to decide where they stand on the issue of Deuteronomy as a framed legal “core.”

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110713312
ISBN:: 9783110713312
ISBN:: 9783111263540
ISBN:: 9783110713411
ISBN:: 9783110713053
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Ezekiel's Message of Hope and Restoration

Redaction-Critical Study of Ezekiel 1–7

Hei Yin Yip

Volume 532 in this series

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The first twenty-four chapters of the book of Ezekiel are characterised by vehement declarations of judgement. This observation leaves the impression that Ezekiel 1–7 is devoid of references to hope and restoration. However, there is a redactional stratum in this section that supplemented the texts with material that conveys restoration and hope for the future.

In Ezekiel 1–7, many of these additions focus on priestly topics. The motif of restoration in the redactional material of Ezekiel 3–5 is expressed by the reinstatement of Ezekiel in his priestly role. This editorial emphasis on Ezekiel as priest in the redactional material suggests that the redaction was influenced by Zechariah 3, a text that depicts the reinstitution of the exiled Zadokite priesthood. Moreover, the redactional material of Ezekiel 6-7 drew inspiration from the Law of the Temple in Ezekiel 43-46, as the redactors sought to enhance Ezekiel’s priestly role.

The study provides new insights into how redactors, who may have been associated with the Zadokite priesthood, inserted the message of hope and restoration into the literary unit Ezekiel 1-7 during the post-exilic period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711578
ISBN:: 9783110711578
ISBN:: 9783110711677
ISBN:: 9783110711264
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Inschrift, Religion und Geschichte

Studien zur Profan- und Theologiegeschichte des antiken Palästina

Johannes Renz

Volume 531 in this series

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This volume brings together essays written by the author in the fields of comparative Semitic studies and northwest Semitic epigraphy / the religious history of Palestine. Alongside two comparative linguistic studies, its main focus is the contribution that Hebrew epigraphy can make to the profane and religious history of Syria-Palestine (theological statements from everyday religiosity, monolatry, writing, and literature).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716368
ISBN:: 9783110716368
ISBN:: 9783110716382
ISBN:: 9783110710151
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Henoch und der Tempel des Todes

1 Henoch 14-16 zwischen Schriftauslegung und Traditionsverarbeitung

Mirjam Judith Bokhorst

Volume 530 in this series

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This volume takes a new, comprehensive look at Enoch’s vision of the two houses (1En 14:8–25), which previous research has frequently interpreted as the vision of a temple and throne room. But a closer look shows that this vision is one of the most radical temple-critical texts of ancient Judaism and picks up on numerous traditional ideas while presenting them in an innovative and unusual way.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110710366
ISBN:: 9783110710366
ISBN:: 9783110710427
ISBN:: 9783110709803
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2021

Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible

Jaeyoung Jeon, Louis C. Jonker, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Volume 528 in this series

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The study of the Books of Chronicles has focused in the past mainly on its literary relationship to Historical Books such as Samuel and Kings. Less attention was payed to its possible relationships to the priestly literature. Against this backdrop, this volume aims to examine the literary and socio-historical relationship between the Books of Chronicles and the priestly literature (in the Pentateuch and in Ezekiel).

Since Chronicles and Pentateuch (and also Ezekiel) studies have been regarded as separate fields of study, we invited experts from both fields in order to open a space for fruitful discussions with each other. The contributions deal with connections and interactions between specific texts, ideas, and socio-historical contexts of the literary works, as well as with broad observations of the relationship between them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110707014
ISBN:: 9783110707014
ISBN:: 9783110707045
ISBN:: 9783110706598
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Isaiah and the Twelve

Parallels, Similarities and Differences

Richard J. Bautch, Joachim Eck, Burkard M. Zapff

Volume 527 in this series

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Die Frage der Beziehung zwischen dem Jesajabuch und dem Buch der Zwölf Propheten ist angesichts vielfältiger Berührungen sprachlicher und motivischer Art zentral, jedoch hinsichtlich der damit verbundenen möglichen Implikationen bislang nur ungenügend bearbeitet.

Im Rahmen eines internationalen Kongresses, der vom 31.Mai bis 3.Juni 2018 an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt stattfand, suchten Fachleute des Zwölfprophetenbuches bzw. des Jesajabuches mit unterschiedlichen methodischen Ansätzen ein umfassenderes Bild der verschiedenen Arten von Beziehungen oder thematischen Berührungen zu erarbeiten, die entweder für die beiden Corpora als ganze oder für spezifische Teile beider charakteristisch sind, um daraus entsprechende Schlussfolgerungen zu ziehen. Das Ergebnis ist ein Überblick zur Vielfalt der semantischen, intertextuellen, literarischen, redaktionellen, historischen und theologischen Aspekte der Beziehungen zwischen dem Jesajabuch und dem Zwölfprophetenbuch, die einlinigen Lösungsvorschlägen zur Erklärung des Zustandekommens dieser Bezüge widerstreiten.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110705799
ISBN:: 9783110705799
ISBN:: 9783110705881
ISBN:: 9783110705737
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Die Komposition der Chronikbücher

Redaktionsgeschichtliche Studien zu 2 Chr 10-36

Andreas Hilpert

Volume 526 in this series

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The Books of Chronicles are generally considered the works of a single author, who attempts a canonical synthesis of the Hebrew Bible. This study examines the history of King Judas (2 Chr 10–36) to reach a different conclusion. The Chronicles were revised across the books. The texts of the Chronicles should now be understood as historically evolved documents, which document a historical transformation of theology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110698534
ISBN:: 9783110698534
ISBN:: 9783110698596
ISBN:: 9783110698435
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Politische Theologie im frühen Judentum

Eine Analyse der fünf Versionen des Estherbuches

Simon Bellmann

Volume 525 in this series

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This monograph discusses the question of political theology with regard to the ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Latin versions of the Esther story. Each of the five versions appears as a separate attempt at early Jewish identity formation in the period between the 4th century BCE and the end of the 1st century CE. This study makes a major contribution to scholarship, especially with regard to the Old Latin version of the Book of Esther, published in an appendix for the first time in German translation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110674514
ISBN:: 9783110674514
ISBN:: 9783110674552
ISBN:: 9783110674460
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Petitioners, Penitents, and Poets

On Prayer and Praying in Second Temple Judaism

Timothy J. Sandoval, Ariel Feldman

Volume 524 in this series

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This volume contributes to the growing interest in understanding the phenomenon of prayer and praying in the Hebrew Bible, Early Judaism, and nascent Christianity. Papers by the leading scholars in these fields revisit long-standing questions and chart new paths of inquiry into the nature, form, and practice of addressing the divine in the ancient world.

The essays in this volume deal with particular texts of and about prayer, practices of prayer, as well as figures and locations (historical and literary) that are associated with prayer and praying. These studies apply a range of methods and theoretical approaches to prayer and the language of prayer in literatures of Early Judaism and Christianity. Some studies apply the classical methods of biblical studies to Second Temple texts of prayer, including form critical and text critical approaches; others engage in literary and narrative analysis of ancient works that recount discourse directed to the divine. Still other studies draw on anthropological and sociological analyses of prayer or marshal particular theories of discourse, ethics, and moral agency to offer fresh interpretations of address to God in the literature of Second Temple Judaism and earliest Christianity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110624526
ISBN:: 9783110624526
ISBN:: 9783110621341
ISBN:: 9783110620405
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Hugo Greßmann und sein Programm der Religionsgeschichte

Sascha Gebauer

Volume 523 in this series

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As a leading proponent of the History of Religions School, Hugo Greßman (1877–1927) brought the history of religions method to prominence. The biographical, academic, historical study describe Greßmann’s history of religions program, situates it in the context of the history of science, and reveals its importance for the later study of the history of science.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110669657
ISBN:: 9783110669657
ISBN:: 9783110667745
ISBN:: 9783110667622
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Bundestheologie bei Hosea?

Eine Spurensuche

Franz Sedlmeier, Hans Ulrich Steymans

Volume 522 in this series

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Where can we find the origins of biblical covenant theology? Perhaps in the Book of Hosea, where the word ברית appears five times? In interdisciplinary dialogue with Roman legal history, development and social psychology, literary studies, and ancient Near East studies, this edited volume sets off on an exciting and inspiring search for clues, with the goal of "ploughing new ground" (Hos 10:12).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792706
ISBN:: 9783110792706
ISBN:: 9783110792751
ISBN:: 9783110666885
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Sacharja 9–14

Eine kompositionsgeschichtliche Analyse

Martin Schott

Volume 521 in this series

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The final chapter of the Book of Zechariah (Zech 9:14) has long been marginalized as an originally separate appendage to the Book of Zechariah. This study subjects the text for the first time to a detailed examination from the perspective of editorial history, considering its place as a composition between Zechariah 1:8 and the Book of Malachi at the end of the Books of Twelve.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668063
ISBN:: 9783110668063
ISBN:: 9783110665840
ISBN:: 9783110666892
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Qui aura sa vie comme butin?

Échos narratifs et révélation dans la lecture des oracles personnels de Jérémie

Erwan Chauty

Volume 519 in this series

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In this research, the oracles destined to five secondary characters are analyzed by reframing them synchronically into their narrative context. The book opens with two preambles, at the crossing of narrative theory, Hebrew syntax, and specificities of Jr : the characteristics and relations of the literary forms of narration and reported speech ; the different types of characters along the history of literature and the best-fitted categories for analyzing Jr’s characters. Then are studied the oracles intended for Pashhur, Ebed-Melech, Baruch, Gedaliah, and Zedekiah. The "character-effect" soon appears to be quite limited, calling for a solution situated out of the fabula to the puzzle created by the narration. The causality for the divine judgments expressed in the oracles can be reconstructed thanks to the discovery of verbal echoes and resonances between preceding oracles and the narrativization of characters. This exegetical result intersects with the theology of revelation and challenges the paradigms upon which it was built both at the beginning of Christianism and at Vatican II. The thinking of the revelation of the paternity of God can be founded anew upon a theological interpretation of the reader’s new capacities.Une analyse synchronique de Jr : comment les oracles destinés aux personnages secondaires peuvent-ils être interprétés dans leur contexte narratif ? Liant les formes littéraires du récit et du discours, s’orientant parmi les théories des personnages, ce livre découvre les limites de l’« effet-personnage » et propose une solution hors de la fabula à l’énigme de la narration. Cela conduit à renouveler la théologie de la Révélation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110657845
ISBN:: 9783110657845
ISBN:: 9783110653809
ISBN:: 9783110654455
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Reception of Jewish Texts
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Transforming Authority

Concepts of Leadership in Prophetic and Chronistic Literature

Katharina Pyschny, Sarah Schulz

Volume 518 in this series

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Human leadership is a multifaceted topic in the Hebrew Bible from a synchronic as well as diachronic perspective. A large range of distributions emerges from the successive sharpening or modification of different aspects of leadership. While some of them are combined to a complex figuration of leadership, others remain reserved for certain individuals. Furthermore, it can be considered a consensus within scholarly debate, that concepts of leadership have a certain connection to the history of ancient Israel which is, though, hard to ascertain. Following a previous volume that focused on the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets (BZAW 507), this volume deals with different concepts of leadership in selected Prophetic (Hag/Zech; Jer) and Chronistic literature Ezr/Neh; Chr). They are examined in a literary, (religious-/tradition-) historical and theological perspective. Special emphasis is given to phenomena of transforming authority and leadership claims in exilic/post-exilic times. Hence, the volume contributes to biblical theology and sheds new light on the redaction/reception history of the texts. Not least, it provides valuable insights into the history of religious and/or political “authorities” in Israel and Early Judaism(s).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650358
ISBN:: 9783110650358
ISBN:: 9783111256009
ISBN:: 9783110646313
ISBN:: 9783110647150
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Reconsidering the Book of the Four

The Shaping of Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zephaniah as an Early Prophetic Collection

Nicholas R. Werse

Volume 517 in this series

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Although many scholars recognize literary similarities between Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zephaniah, defining the compositional relationship between these texts remains a matter of debate. Following the scholarly trajectory of exploring the compositional relationship between the Twelve prophets, several scholars argue that these four prophetic texts formed a precursory collection to the Book of the Twelve. Yet even among advocates for this ‘Book of the Four’ there remain differences in defining the form and function of the collection. By reexamining the literary parallels between these texts, Werse shows how different methodological convictions have led to the diverse composition models in the field today. Through careful consideration of emerging insights in the study of deuteronomism and scribalism, Werse provides an innovative composition model explaining how these four texts came to function as a collection in the wake of the traumatic destruction of Jerusalem. This volume explores a historic function of these prophetic voices by examining the editorial process that drew them together.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650266
ISBN:: 9783110650266
ISBN:: 9783110649949
ISBN:: 9783110646214
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Das Buch Ezechiel

Komposition, Redaktion und Rezeption

Jan Christian Gertz, Corinna Körting, Markus Witte

Volume 516 in this series

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The volume gives an overview of current research on the Book of Ezekiel with historical-editorial commentary about key texts in this prophetic book. In addition to questions about its textual, traditional, and reception history, the authors also examine central theological themes in the Book of Ezekiel in the context of Jewish-Hebraic and early Christian literary and religious history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110624250
ISBN:: 9783110624250
ISBN:: 9783110623420
ISBN:: 9783110618198
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: facet.subjectFacet.TL-02-11
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

When God Wanted to Destroy the Chosen People

Biblical Traditions and Theology on the Move

Gili Kugler

Volume 515 in this series

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According to narratives in the Bible the threats of the people’s end come from various sources, but the most significant threat comes, as learned from the Pentateuch, from God himself. What is the theological meaning of this tradition? In what circumstances did it evolve? How did it stand alongside other theological and socio-political concepts known to the ancient authors and their diverse audience?
The book employs a diachronic method that explores the stages of the tradition’s formation and development, revealing the authors’ exegetical purposes and ploys, and tracing the historical realities of their time.
The book proposes that the motif of the threat of destruction existed in various forms prior to the creation of the stories recorded in the final text of the Pentateuch. The inclusion of the motif within specific literary contexts attenuated the concept of destruction by presenting it as a phenomenon of specific moments in the past. Nevertheless, the threat was resurrected repeatedly by various authors, for use as a precedent or a justification for present affliction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110609905
ISBN:: 9783110609905
ISBN:: 9783110605822
ISBN:: 9783110609509
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

David in the Desert

Tradition and Redaction in the “History of David’s Rise"

Hannes Bezzel, Reinhard G. Kratz

Volume 514 in this series

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In the course of the last two decades, both the historical reconstruction of the Iron I–Iron IIA period in Israel and Judah and the literary-historical reconstruction of the Books of Samuel have undergone major changes. With respect to the quest for the “historical David”, terms like “empire” or “Großreich” have been set aside in favor of designations like “mercenary” or “hapiru leader”, corresponding to the image of the son of Jesse presented in I Sam. At the same time, the literary-historical classification of these chapters has itself become a matter of considerable discussion. As Leonhard Rost’s theory of a source containing a “History of David’s Rise” continues to lose support, it becomes necessary to pose the question once again: Are we dealing with a once independent ‘story of David’ embracing both the HDR and the “succession narrative” are there several independent versions of an HDR to be detected, or do I Sam 16–II Sam 5* constitute a redactional bridge between older traditions about Saul on the one hand and David on the other? In either case, what parts of the material in I Sam 16-II Sam 5 are based on ancient traditions, and may therefore serve as a source for any tentative historical reconstruction? The participants in the 2018 symposium at Jena whose essays are collected in this volume engage these questions from different redaction-critical and archaeological perspectives. Together, they provide an overview of contemporary historical research on the book of First Samuel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110606164
ISBN:: 9783110606164
ISBN:: 9783111087740
ISBN:: 9783110605273
ISBN:: 9783110604061
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Uncovering Ancient Editing

Documented Evidence of Changes in Joshua 24 and Related Texts

Ville Mäkipelto

Volume 513 in this series

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The Hebrew Bible is a product of ancient editing, but to what degree can this editing be uncovered? “Uncovering Ancient Editing” argues that divergent textual witnesses of the same text, so-called documented evidence, should be the starting point for such an endeavor.

The book presents a fresh analysis of Josh 24 and related texts as a test case for refining our knowledge of how scribes edited texts. Josh 24 is envisioned as a gradually growing Persian period text, whose editorial history can be reconstructed with the help of documented evidence preserved in the MT, LXX, and other ancient sources.

This study has major implications for both the study of the book of Joshua and text-historical methodology in general.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110602241
ISBN:: 9783110602241
ISBN:: 9783110710533
ISBN:: 9783110600117
ISBN:: 9783110598117
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Identität und Kontinuität

Form und Funktion der Rückkehrerliste Esr 2

Anna Maria Bortz

Volume 512 in this series

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The character of the list of returnees in Ezra 2 has been a subject of ongoing scholarly controversy. This study offers a thorough examination of the list in terms of form and content and of its placement and function in the narrative context of Ezra 1-3. The list itself gives insight to the continuities and discontinuities in the construction of post-Exile Jewish identity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110569759
ISBN:: 9783110569759
ISBN:: 9783110568813
ISBN:: 9783110568783
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

The Last Days of the Kingdom of Israel

Shuichi Hasegawa, Christoph Levin, Karen Radner

Volume 511 in this series

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Despite considerable scholarly efforts for many years, the last two decades of the Kingdom of Israel are still beneath the veil of history. What was the status of the Kingdom after its annexation by Assyria in 732 BCE? Who conquered Samaria, the capital of the Kingdom? When did it happen? One of the primary reasons for this situation lies in the discrepancies found in the historical sources, namely the Hebrew Bible and the Assyrian texts.

Since biblical studies and Assyriology are two distinct disciplines, the gaps in the sources are not easy to bridge. Moreover, recent great progress in the archaeological research in the Southern Levant provides now crucial new data, independent of these textual sources.

This volume, a collection of papers by leading scholars from different fields of research, aims to bring together, for the first time, all the available data and to discuss these conundrums from various perspectives in order to reach a better and deeper understanding of this crucial period, which possibly triggered in the following decades the birth of "new Israel" in the Southern Kingdom of Judah, and eventually led to the formation of the Hebrew Bible and its underlying theology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110566604
ISBN:: 9783110566604
ISBN:: 9783110710519
ISBN:: 9783110564167
ISBN:: 9783110564181
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Le livre d’Amos

La place et la fonction des éléments supposés tardifs

Nicodème Bakimani Kolani

Volume 510 in this series

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Lire le livre d’Amos comme une œuvre cohérente est le défi majeur de l’exégèse contemporaine.

Cette étude montre que les exégètes sont parvenus à la conviction que lire le livre d’Amos comme un tout est la voie la mieux indiquée pour entrer dans son processus d’interprétation. Le premier chapitre est consacré aux approches diachroniques qui tentent de reconstituer les ipsissima verba du prophète Amos. Ces travaux conduisent au morcellement du livre en de petits fragments et à la dévalorisation des passages perçus comme secondaires. Le second chapitre révèle que les études synchroniques ne s’accordent pas sur la structure du livre. Les trois derniers chapitres consacrés à l’analyse des textes souvent tenus pour secondaires cherchent à montrer que, loin d’être des éléments inopportuns, ces passages sont accordés à leurs contextes et que leur présence est essentielle à l’équilibre littéraire et théologique du livre. En révélant la place primordiale de ces neuf passages, cette monographie dévoile que le sacrifice d’un seul de ces éléments désarticulerait son unité littéraire et théologique.

Cet ouvrage présente un état de recherche exhaustive sur le livre d’Amos et ouvre de nouvelles pistes de lecture de ce texte prophétique.

Cette monographie est consacrée à l’étude des passages supposés tardifs du livre d’Amos. Les deux premiers chapitres font le point sur l’histoire de son exégèse à partir du XIXe siècle. Les trois chapitres suivants ont le but de démontrer, à travers une lecture synchronique, que les passages souvent attribués à des rédactions postérieures ne sapent pas la cohérence du livre mais qu’ils sont essentiels pour son équilibre littéraire et théologique.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110562743
ISBN:: 9783110562743
ISBN:: 9783110561548
ISBN:: 9783110560954
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud

Ehud Ben Zvi

Volume 509 in this series

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Ehud Ben Zvi has been at the forefront of exploring how the study of social memory contributes to our understanding of the intellectual worldof the literati of the early Second Temple period and their textual repertoire. Many of his studies on the matter and several new relevant works are here collected together providing a very useful resource for furthering research and teaching in this area.
The essays included here address, inter alia, prophets as sites of memory, kings as sites memory, Jerusalem as a site of memory, a mnemonic system shaped by two interacting ‘national’ histories, matters of identity and othering as framed and explored via memories, mnemonic metanarratives making sense of the past and serving various didactic purposes and their problems, memories of past and futures events shared by the literati, issues of gender constructions and memory, memories understood by the group as ‘counterfactual’ and their importance, and, in multiple ways, how and why shared memories served as a (safe) playground for exploring multiple, central ideological issues within the group and of generative grammars governing systemic preferences and dis-preferences for particular memories.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110547146
ISBN:: 9783110547146
ISBN:: 9783110762921
ISBN:: 9783110546385
ISBN:: 9783110546514
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Imago Dei versus Kultbild

Die Sapientia Salomonis als jüdisch-hellenistischer Beitrag zur antiken Bilderdebatte

Helga Völkening

Volume 508 in this series

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The study spotlights the importance of ethical discourse on icons in the Book of Wisdom. Using structural, semantic, and topological analyses, it shows that parenesis about false and true images of God is an overarching theme, and contextualizes it in terms of tradition and cultural history. The text makes a unique contribution to the ancient debate on images by positing that they fulfill the imago dei invested in human beings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110556551
ISBN:: 9783110556551
ISBN:: 9783110555929
ISBN:: 9783110553154
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Debating Authority

Concepts of Leadership in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets

Katharina Pyschny, Sarah Schulz

Volume 507 in this series

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Human leadership is a multifaceted topic in the Hebrew Bible. This holds true not only for the final form of the texts, but also for their literary history. A large range of distributions emerges from the successive sharpening or modification of different aspects of leadership. While some of them are combined to a complex figuration of leadership, others remain reserved for certain individuals. Furthermore, it can be considered a consensus within the scholarly debate, that concepts of leadership have a certain connection to the history of ancient Israel which is, though, hard to ascertain. Up to now, all these aspects of (human) leadership have been treated in a rather isolated manner. Against this background,the volume focuses on the different concepts of leadership in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets. Concepts like "priest", "prophet", "judge", and "king" are examined in a literary, (religious-/tradition-) historical and theological perspective. Hence, the volume contributes to biblical theology and sheds new light on the redaction/reception history of the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets. Not least, it provides valuable insights into the history of religious and/or political “authorities” in Israel and Early Judaism(s).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110543391
ISBN:: 9783110543391
ISBN:: 9783110542752
ISBN:: 9783110540703
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Jeremia – Fürbitter oder Kläger?

Eine religionsgeschichtliche Studie zur Fürbitte und Klage im Jeremiabuch

Sarah Köhler

Volume 506 in this series

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The study is a religious historical examination of the beginnings of the Prophetic Books and examines Jeremiah’s role as lamenter and intercessor. The key texts in Jer 4–10 and 7; 11; 14–15 are analyzed with editorial critique alongside a comparative exploration of non-biblical, ancient Near Eastern literature lamentation and prophecy. This approach yields a new perspective on the stages in the literary development of the protagonist.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110543377
ISBN:: 9783110543377
ISBN:: 9783110540697
ISBN:: 9783110542721
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

The End of the Psalter

Psalms 146-150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint

Alma Brodersen

Volume 505 in this series

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Psalms 146-150, sometimes called “Final Hallel” or “Minor Hallel”, are often argued to have been written as a literary end of the Psalter. However, if sources other than the Hebrew Masoretic Text are taken into account, such an original unit of Psalms 146-150 has to be questioned.

“The End of the Psalter” presents new interpretations of Psalms 146-150 based on the oldest extant evidence: the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Greek Septuagint. Each Psalm is analysed separately in all three sources, complete with a translation and detailed comments on form, intertextuality, content, genre, and date. Comparisons of the individual Psalms and their intertextual references in the ancient sources highlight substantial differences between the transmitted texts.

The book concludes that Psalms 146-150 were at first separate texts which only in the Masoretic Text form the end of the Psalter. It thus stresses the importance of Psalms Exegesis before Psalter Exegesis, and argues for the inclusion of ancient sources beyond to the Masoretic Text to further our understanding of the Psalms.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110536096
ISBN:: 9783110536096
ISBN:: 9783110534764
ISBN:: 9783110534955
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 2025

The Dynamics of Early Judaean Law

Studies in the Diversity of Ancient Social and Communal Legislation

Sandra Jacobs

Volume 504 in this series

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This collection of essays explores aspects of civil and criminal law in ancient Judaea. Whereas the majority of studies on Judaean law focus on biblical law codes (and, therefore, on laws related to sacrifice, cultic purity, and personal piety) this volume focus on laws related to the social and economic dealings of Judaeans in the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and Greco-Roman periods and on the contribution of epigraphic and archival sources and to the study of this material.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110532807
ISBN:: 9783110532807
ISBN:: 9783110531664
ISBN:: 9783110529678
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Witnessing a Prophetic Text in the Making

The Literary, Textual and Linguistic Development of Jeremiah 10:1-16

Noam Mizrahi

Volume 502 in this series

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The book of Jeremiah poses a challenge to biblical scholarship in terms of its literary composition and textual fluidity. This study offers an innovative approach to the problem by focusing on an instructive case study. Building on the critical recognition that the prophecy contained in Jer 10:1-16 is a composite text, this study systematically discusses the various literary strands discernible in the prophecy: satirical depictions of idolatry, an Aramaic citation, and hymnic passages. A chapter is devoted to each strand, revealing its compositional development—from the earliest recoverable stages down to its late reception. A range of pertinent evidence—culled from the literary, text-critical, and linguistic realms—is examined and sets within broader perspectives, with an eye open to cultural history and the development of theological outlook.
The investigation of a particular text has important implications for the textual and compositional history of Jeremiah as a whole. Rather than settling for the common opinion that Jeremiah developed in two main stages, reflected in the MT and LXX respectively, a nuanced supplementary model is advocated, which better accords with the complexity of the available evidence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110530162
ISBN:: 9783110530162
ISBN:: 9783110645590
ISBN:: 9783110530001
ISBN:: 9783110522594
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Studien zu Philo von Alexandrien

Otto Kaiser, Markus Witte, Sina Hofmann

Volume 501 in this series

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The volume presents studies by the Marburg Old Testament scholar Otto Kaiser on the works of the Jewish religious philosopher Philo of Alexandria in the context of intellectual and cultural history. They examine issues of Jewish Biblical exegesis along with Philo’s anthropology and cosmology, his understanding of ritual and prayer, and his ideas about living a virtuous life and overcoming death.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110492651
ISBN:: 9783110492651
ISBN:: 9783110494570
ISBN:: 9783110491944
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

"When the Morning Stars Sang"

Essays in Honor of Choon Leong Seow on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday

Scott C. Jones, Christine Roy Yoder

Volume 500 in this series

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During a moment of exponential growth and change in the fields of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies, it is an opportune time to take stock of the state wisdom and wisdom literature with twenty-three essays honoring the consummate Weisheitslehrer, Professor Choon Leong Seow, Vanderbilt, Buffington, Cupples Chair in Divinity and Distinguished Professor of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University.

This Festschrift is tightly focused around wisdom themes, and all of the essays are written by senior scholars in the field. They represent not only the great diversity of approaches in the field of wisdom and wisdom literature, but also the remarkable range of interests and methods that have characterized Professor Seow's own work throughout the decades, including the theology of the wisdom literature, the social world of Ecclesiastes, the history of consequences of the book of Job, the poetry of the Psalms, and Northwest Semitic Inscriptions, just to name a few.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110428148
ISBN:: 9783110428148
ISBN:: 9783110428223
ISBN:: 9783110425208
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

For Wisdom's Sake

Collected Essays on the Book of Ben Sira

Nuria Calduch-Benages

Volume 499 in this series

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This volume brings together twenty-four articles of Prof. Calduch-Benages' work on the book of Ben Sira over the last two decades. Some were written originally in English and others have been translated from Spanish and Italian originals. They are divided in three groups: introductory, thematic, and exegetical essays.

The exegetical articles offer a detail study of several passages of the book, some of them pivotal in the structure of the book (Sir 2,1; 4,11-19; 6,22; 22,27–23,6; 23,27; 24,22; 27,30–28,7; 34,1-8; 34,9-12; 42,15–43,33; 43,27-33).

The thematic essays deal with important theological issues such as canon and inspiration, wisdom, fear of the lord, trial, cult, prayer, forgiveness, and creation. Other no less important issues such as power and authority, dreams, travels, perfumes, animals and garments are discussed as well. Special attention is given to topics related with women, for instance, Ben Sira’s classification of wives, divorce, polygamy, and the absence of named women in the Praise of the Ancestors (Sir 44–50).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110492316
ISBN:: 9783110492316
ISBN:: 9783110491937
ISBN:: 9783110486506
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Jews, Bible and Prayer

Essays on Jewish Biblical Exegesis and Liturgical Notions

Stefan C. Reif

Volume 498 in this series

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In his articles Stefan Reif deas with Jewish biblical exegesis and the close analysis of the evolution of Jewish prayer texts. Some fourteen of these that appeared in various collective volumes are here made more easily available, together with a major new study of Numbers 13, an introduction and extensive indexes. Reif attempts to establish whether there is any linguistic, literary and exegetical value in the traditional Jewish interpretation of the Hebrew Bible for the modern scientific approach to such texts and whether such an approach itself is always free of theological bias. He demonstrates how Jewish liturgical texts may illuminate religious teachings about wisdom, history, peace, forgiveness, and divine metaphors. Also clarified in these essays are notions of David, Greek and Hebrew, divine metaphors, and the liturgical use of the Hebrew Bible.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110486704
ISBN:: 9783110486704
ISBN:: 9783110636765
ISBN:: 9783110484366
ISBN:: 9783110485851
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2024

Judah in the Biblical Period

Historical, Archaeological, and Biblical Studies Selected Essays

Oded Lipschits

Volume 497 in this series

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The collection of essays in this book represents more than twenty years of research on the history and archeology of Judah, as well as the study of the Biblical literature written in and about the period that might be called the “Age of Empires”. This 600-year-long period, when Judah was a vassal Assyrian, Egyptian and Babylonian kingdom and then a province under the consecutive rule of the Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires, was the longest and the most influential in Judean history and historiography. The administration that was shaped and developed during this period, the rural economy, the settlement pattern and the place of Jerusalem as a small temple, surrounded by a small settlement of (mainly) priests, Levites and other temple servants, characterize Judah during most of its history.
This is the formative period when most of the Hebrew Bible was written and edited, when the main features of Judaism were shaped and when Judean cult and theology were created and developed.
The 36 papers contained in this book present a broad picture of the Hebrew Bible against the background of the Biblical history and the archeology of Judah throughout the six centuries of the “Age of Empires”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110487442
ISBN:: 9783110487442
ISBN:: 9783110486520
ISBN:: 9783110484236
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Scribes as Sages and Prophets

Scribal Traditions in Biblical Wisdom Literature and in the Book of the Twelve

Jutta Krispenz

Volume 496 in this series

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Scholars of the Hebrew Bible used to look at „Prophecy" and „Wisdom" as clearly distinct realms represented by antagonistic and mutually exclusive roles of their central characters: the loyal sage, the pillar of administration, on the one side and the rebellious prophet, criticizing the establishment, on the other. While the influence of wisdom thought on prophetic texts has been a topic in the scholarly debate, the complementary question of the influence of prophetic thought on wisdom texts has rarely been asked.

The contributions in this volume look at both questions: They start from the assumption that texts from the Hebrew Bible and the cultures surrounding Ancient Israel all originated from a social stratum of educated scribes, who authored and transmitted these texts. It then seems plausible that wisdom texts might show similar traces of prophetic influence to those of wisdom thoughts found in prophetic texts. The essays give a multifaceted picture concerning the mutual perception of prophets and sages and thus provide a deeper understanding of both wisdom literature and prophecy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110483604
ISBN:: 9783110483604
ISBN:: 9783110482430
ISBN:: 9783110477276
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Essays on Judaism in the Pre-Hellenistic Period

Joseph Blenkinsopp

Volume 495 in this series

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The essays deal with developments during the period from the liquidation of the Judean state to the conquests of Alexander the Great. This was a critical time in the Near East and the Mediterranean world in general. It marked the end of the great Semitic empires until the rise of Islam in the seventh century A.D.,decisive changes in religion, with appeal to a creator-deity in Deutero-Isaiah, Babylonian Marduk cult, and Zoroastrianism.For the survivors of the Babylonian conquest in a post-collapse society the issue of continuity, with different groups claiming continuity with the past and possession of the traditions, there developed a situation favourable to the emergence of sects. The most pressing question, however, was what to do faced with the overwhelming power of empire, first Babylonian, then Persian. Finally, with the extinction of the native dynasty and the entire apparatus of a nation-state, the temple became the focus and emblem of group identity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110476873
ISBN:: 9783110476873
ISBN:: 9783110475296
ISBN:: 9783110475142
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Prophetic Divination

Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy

Martti Nissinen

Volume 494 in this series

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Prophecy was a wide-spread phenomenon in the ancient world - not only in ancient Israel but in the whole Eastern Mediterranean cultural sphere. This is demonstrated by documents from the ancient Near East, that have been the object of Martti Nissinen’s research for more than twenty years. Nissinen's studies have had a formative influence on the study of the prophetic phenomenon. The present volume presents a selection of thirty-one essays, bringing together essential aspects of prophetic divination in the ancient Near East.

The first section of the volume discusses prophecy from theoretical perspectives. The second sections contains studies on prophecy in texts from Mari and Assyria and other cuneiform sources. The third section discusses biblical prophecy in its ancient Near Eastern context, while the fourth section focuses on prophets and prophecy in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Even prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls is discussed in the fifth section.

The articles are essential reading for anyone studying ancient prophetic phenomenon.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110467765
ISBN:: 9783110467765
ISBN:: 9783110764130
ISBN:: 9783110467666
ISBN:: 9783110466546
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Early Jewish Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

The Text of the Pentateuch

Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Sidnie White Crawford

Volume 493 in this series

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In the last several decades since the first publications of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, a revolution has occurred in the understanding of the history of the text of the Hebrew Bible during the Second Temple period. The present volume is a collection of articles documenting that revolution, written by Sidnie White Crawford over an almost thirty-year period beginning in 1990. As a member of the editorial team responsible for publishing the Qumran scrolls, the author was responsible for the critical editions of nine Deuteronomy scrolls and the four Reworked Pentateuch manuscripts; thus, her work played a critical role in the changing understanding of the textual history of the Pentateuch,especially the book of Deuteronomy and the Rewritten Bible texts. The author’s lifework is brought together here in an accessible format. While the majority of the articles are reprints, the volume will close with two major new pieces: a text-critical study of the Deuteronomic Paraphrase of the Temple Scroll and a comprehensive overview of the history of the text of the Pentateuch.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110467420
ISBN:: 9783110467420
ISBN:: 9783110465846
ISBN:: 9783110467277
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Mirages in the Desert

The Tradition-historical Developments of the Story of Massah-Meribah

Roy E. Garton

Volume 492 in this series

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The story of Massah-Meribah is a pluriform tradition within the Hebrew Bible. Part One of this book uses redaction analysis to assess diachronically the six reminiscences of this tradition within Deuteronomy (Deut 6:16; 8:15; 9:22; 32:13, 52; 33:8). The relative chronological relationship of these texts, and the tradition components they preserve, reveals a framework of five formative stages of this story's tradition-history from the perspective of the tradents responsible for the production of Deuteronomy. Part Two is a redactional study of the tradition's narratives in Exod 17:1-7 and Num 20:1-13. Special attention is devoted to the texts that anchor the Massah-Meribah narratives into the Pentateuch. In the end, Part Two not only corroborates the framework detected in Deuteronomy for the formative stages of the Massah-Meribah tradition, but it also carries broad implications for the formation of the Pentateuch in general and the Wilderness Narrative in particular.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110463354
ISBN:: 9783110463354
ISBN:: 9783110637151
ISBN:: 9783110462661
ISBN:: 9783110461534
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Schriftgelehrte Hymnen

Gestalt, Theologie und Intention der Psalmen 145 und 146–150

Friederike Neumann

Volume 491 in this series

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The study investigates Psalm 145 and the Psalms of Hallel (Psalms 146–150). For the first time, it reveals the intertextual character of these psalms and shows them as highly reflective theological texts. These psalms can thus be characterized as scribal hymns in which scribal theology is presented as the praise of God. The study develops the historical hypothesis that the editions of the Psalms of Hallel were the results of successive growth.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110460575
ISBN:: 9783110460575
ISBN:: 9783110460070
ISBN:: 9783110457247
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Wellhausen and Kaufmann

Ancient Israel and Its Religious History in the Works of Julius Wellhausen and Yehezkel Kaufmann

Aly Elrefaei

Volume 490 in this series

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The controversy between Wellhausen and Kaufmann concerning the history of ancient Israel and the question of historical reconstruction has prompted this study. While Wellhausen’s hypothesis introduces a synthesis of the religious development of ancient Israel, Kaufmann’s work emphasizes the singularity of the Israelite religion. Their respective works, which represent the methodologies, presuppositions and the ideologies of their times, remain an impetus to further inquiry into the history of ancient Israel and its religion.
Both Wellhausen and Kaufmann applied the historical-critical method, but were divided as to its results. They agree that the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible is the primary source on which to base writing about the history of ancient Israel, but differ concerning the authority of its text. This book illustrates the real clash between Wellhausen and Kaufmann, with the aim of providing some basis for reaching a middle ground between these two poles.
As becomes clear in this study, Wellhausen reconstructed the religion of Israel in the framework of its history. Kaufmann, by contrast, proposed that monotheism emerged in Israel as a new creation of the spirit of Israel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110454338
ISBN:: 9783110454338
ISBN:: 9783110453300
ISBN:: 9783110452129
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Alfred Rahlfs (1865-1935) und die kritische Edition der Septuaginta

Eine biographisch-wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Studie

Christian Schäfer

Volume 489 in this series

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Alfred Rahlfs (1865–1935) is among the most important textual philologists of the 20^th century. His wide-ranging works in researching and editing the Greek Old Testament, known as the Septuagint, are still regarded as groundbreaking today. For the first time, this monograph comprehensively presents Rahlfs’s writings in their biographical and historical context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110454796
ISBN:: 9783110454796
ISBN:: 9783110454406
ISBN:: 9783110451849
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period

Studies in the Religion and Society of the Judaean Community at Elephantine

Gard Granerød

Volume 488 in this series

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What was Judaean religion in the Persian period like? Is it necessary to use the Bible to give an answer to the question? Among other things the study argues that

• the religion practiced in the 5th c. BCE Elephantine community and which is reflected in the so-called Elephantine documents represent a well-attested manifestation of lived Persian period Yahwism,
• as religio-historical sources, the Elephantine documents reveal more about the actual religious practice of the Elephantine Judaeans than what the highly edited and canonised texts of the Bible reveal about the religious practice of the contemporary Yahwistic coreligionists in Judah, and
• the image of the Elephantine Judaism emerging from the Elephantine documents can revise the canonised image of Judaean religion in the Persian period (cf. A. Assmann).

The Elephantine Yahwism should not be interpreted within a framework dependent upon theological, conceptual and spatial concepts alien to it, such as biblical ones. The study proposes an alternative framework by approaching the Elephantine documents on the basis of N. Smart’s multidimensional model of religion. Elephantine should not be exotified but brought to the very centre of any discussion of the history of Judaism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110454314
ISBN:: 9783110454314
ISBN:: 9783110607468
ISBN:: 9783110452112
ISBN:: 9783110453171
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Sennacherib's Campaign Against Judah and Jerusalem in 701 B.C.

A Historical Reconstruction

Nazek Khalid Matty

Volume 487 in this series

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This study offers a reconstruction of Sennacherib’s campaign against Judah and Jerusalem in 701 BC. It contrasts and compares various, partly contradictious readings of this event and challenges established narratives. By giving equal weight to a great variety of different sources, whether literary or archaeological, the author comes to a new and profound understanding of this complex military conflict.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110451047
ISBN:: 9783110451047
ISBN:: 9783110449372
ISBN:: 9783110447880
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period

Mika S. Pajunen, Jeremy Penner

Volume 486 in this series

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When thinking about psalms and prayers in the Second Temple period, the Masoretic Psalter and its reception is often given priority because of modern academic or theological interests. This emphasis tends to skew our understanding of the corpus we call psalms and prayers and often dampens or mutes the lived context within which these texts were composed and used. This volume is comprised of a collection of articles that explore the diverse settings in which psalms and prayers were used and circulated in the late Second Temple period.

The book includes essays by experts in the Hebrew bible, the Dead Sea scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament, in which a wide variety of topics, approaches, and methods both old and new are utilized to explore the many functions of psalms and prayers in the late Second Temple period. Included in this volume are essays examining how psalms were read as prophecy, as history, as liturgy, and as literature. A variety methodologies are employed, and include the use of cognitive sciences and poetics, linguistic theory, psychology, redaction criticism, and literary theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110449266
ISBN:: 9783110449266
ISBN:: 9783110448535
ISBN:: 9783110447743
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Die Josefsgeschichte

Literarkritische und redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur Entstehung von Gen 37–50

Franziska Ede

Volume 485 in this series

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Using the methodology of redaction criticism, the study reconstructs the origins of the Joseph narrative. It reveals that the story only gradually developed into its present form. Even in its most ancient version (Gen 37–41*), it can be regarded in the context of the history of the Patriarchs, whereas its connection to the Exodus took place secondarily – but still prior to the Priestly scriptures – with Israel’s departure from Egypt.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110449884
ISBN:: 9783110449884
ISBN:: 9783110447460
ISBN:: 9783110449365
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

The Origins of Yahwism

Jürgen van Oorschot, Markus Witte

Volume 484 in this series

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This compendium examines the origins of the God Yahweh, his place in the Syrian-Palestinian and Northern Arabian pantheon during the bronze and iron ages, and the beginnings of the cultic veneration of Yahweh. Contributors analyze the epigraphic and archeological evidence, apply fundamental considerations from the cultural and religious sciences, and analyze the relevant Old Testament texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110448221
ISBN:: 9783110448221
ISBN:: 9783110656701
ISBN:: 9783110447118
ISBN:: 9783110425383
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Michas Rätsel

Eine Untersuchung zur Kompositionsgeschichte des Michabuches

Björn Corzilius

Volume 483 in this series

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In this historical-critical examination of the Book of Micah, the author seeks to redefine the work’s textual legacy, which can be traced back to the historical prophets. While previous researchers have generally considered Micah 1–3 as original, this study suggests that a poem about the calamity of Shefela is the true origin of the tradition. It thus presents a new perspective on the history of the Book of Micah.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110445084
ISBN:: 9783110445084
ISBN:: 9783110437072
ISBN:: 9783110443738
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Im Lesen verstehen

Studien zu Theologie und Exegese

Christian Frevel

Volume 482 in this series

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This volume is a collection of the author’s studies on themes in Deuteronomic history, the lamentations, monotheism, and the prohibition of images. Besides methodological and hermeneutic elements, the essays explore issues related to reception history and theology. The book includes Frevel’s papers about all parts of the canon, including Gen. 34, Exod. 18, Deut. 34, Josh. 23, 2 Kings 17, Ps. 8, 95, 104, Lam. 1 and Lam. 3.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424386
ISBN:: 9783110424386
ISBN:: 9783110426823
ISBN:: 9783110424621
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Vom Gründungsmythos zur Untergangssymphonie

Eine text- und literaturgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu 1Kön 11-14

Frank Ueberschaer

Volume 481 in this series

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Using Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Latin textual references, this study develops a model for the origins of 1 Kings 11–14. Its methodological innovation is to consider multiple traditions and combine them in the analysis. The stories of the end of the great kingdom and the founding of the northern kingdom are shown to be a reservoir of narratives that critically address various aspects of political and religious life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421309
ISBN:: 9783110425154
ISBN:: 9783110421309
ISBN:: 9783110421392
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Diaspora als Wüstenzeit

Übersetzungswissenschaftliche und theologische Aspekte des griechischen Numeribuches

Carsten Ziegert

Volume 480 in this series

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Insights from modern translation studies have found little application until now in research on the Septuagint. This study applies the functionalist (skopos) theory of translation to the Greek Book of Numbers as a way of determining the translation's "position in life." The Greek Book of Numbers is shown to be a document from the Alexandrine diaspora, whose skopos is located between historicization and modernization.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421262
ISBN:: 978-3-11-042502-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-042126-2
ISBN:: 9783110421378
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Diaspora
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Geschichte, Sprache und Text

Studien zum Alten Testament und seiner Umwelt

Siegfried Kreuzer

Volume 479 in this series

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This volume contains 24 essays on the history and language of the Old Testament and on the transmission of the Hebrew and Greek texts. In terms of chronology, the essays extend from the mid 2nd millennium BCE (archeology and texts of the Tanakh; religious reforms under Pharaoh Akhenaten), through the period of the Old Kingdom (Saul and David) and up to the Maccabean period and the oldest transmission of the Old Testament text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110418293
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041735-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041829-3
ISBN:: 9783110418354
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Exile and Return

The Babylonian Context

Jonathan Stökl, Caroline Waerzeggers

Volume 478 in this series

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Many books of the Hebrew Bible were either composed in some form or edited during the Exilic and post-Exilic periods among a community that was to identify itself as returning from Babylonian captivity. At the same time, a dearth of contemporary written evidence from Judah/Yehud and its environs renders any particular understanding of the process within its social, cultural and political context virtually impossible. This has led some to label the period a dark age or black box – as obscure as it is essential for understanding the history of Judaism. In recent years, however, archaeologists and historians have stepped up their effort to look for and study material remains from the period and integrate the local history of Yehud, the return from Exile, and the restoration of Jerusalem’s temple more firmly within the regional, and indeed global, developments of the time. At the same time, Assyriologists have also been introducing a wide range of cuneiform material that illuminates the economy, literary traditions, practices of literacy and the ideologies of the Babylonian host society – factors that affected those taken into Exile in variable, changing and multiple ways. This volume of essays seeks to exploit these various advances.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110419283
ISBN:: 9783110417005
ISBN:: 9783110419283
ISBN:: 9783110578096
ISBN:: 9783110419528
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Die Anhänge zum Richterbuch

Eine kompositionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung von Ri 17–21

Sarah Schulz

Volume 477 in this series

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There has been little previous exegetical examination of the so-called appendices to the Book of Judges (Judg. 17–21). Using a meticulous edition historical approach, the study casts new light on the composition of these chapters and on the Book of Judges as a whole.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110412475
ISBN:: 9783110412475
ISBN:: 9783110412529
ISBN:: 9783110411355
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Priestly Rule

Polemic and Biblical Interpretation in Ezekiel 44

Nathan MacDonald

Volume 476 in this series

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Whilst prophetic oracles in late prophetic books evidence tensions about the Jerusalem temple and its priesthood, MacDonald demonstrates that the relationships between prophetic oracles have been incorrectly appraised. Employing an interpretative method attentive to issues of redaction and inner-biblical interpretation, MacDonald show that Ezekiel 44 is a polemical response to Isaiah 56, and not the reverse as is typically assumed. This has significant consequences for the dating of Ezekiel 44 and for its relationship to other biblical texts, especially Pentateuchal texts from Leviticus and Numbers. Since Ezekiel 44 has been a crucial chapter in understanding the historical development of the priesthood, MacDonald's arguments affect our understanding of the origins of the distinction between Levites and priests, and the claims that a Zadokite priestly sept dominated the Second Temple hierarchy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110411867
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041003-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041186-7
ISBN:: 9783110412017
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Ezekiel’s Vision Accounts as Interrelated Narratives

A Redaction-Critical and Theological Study

Janina Maria Hiebel

Volume 475 in this series

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Ezekiel is one of the best-structured books in the Old Testament. It is commonly recognized that the strongly interrelated vision accounts (Ez 1:1–3:15; 8–11; 37:1–14; 40–48) contribute greatly to this impression of unity. However, there is a marked lacuna in publications focusing on the vision accounts in Ezekiel as an interconnected text corpus.
The present study combines redaction-critical analysis with literary methods that are typically used in a synchronic approach. Drawing on the paradigm of Fortschreibung, it is the first to present a united redaction history that takes into account the growing interconnections and dependencies between the vision accounts. Building on these results, the second part follows the development of selected themes, such as the relationships between characters, the roles of intermediate figures and anthropological and theological implications, throughout the stages of redaction.
The study thus represents an important step towards an understanding of the complex redaction history of the book of Ezekiel, and indeed of its theology. The combination of diachronic and synchronic methods makes it relevant for scholars of both directions and is itself a methodological statement.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110406658
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040364-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040665-8
ISBN:: 9783110406825
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Völkerwallfahrt im Jesajabuch

Michael P. Maier

Volume 474 in this series

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This monograph examines for the first time the momentous biblical theme of the peoples’ pilgrimage to Zion in the end of days. The study includes an exegesis of the texts, which extend from the second to the final chapter of the Book of Isaiah, along with an extensive theological reflection. It elucidates the prophetic prediction of universal salvation and the relationship between Israel and the non-Jewish nations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110406306
ISBN:: 9783110403114
ISBN:: 9783110406306
ISBN:: 9783110406450
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Jesaja 1 - Eine Exegese der Eröffnung des Jesaja-Buches

Die Präsentation Jesajas und JHWHs, Israels und der Tochter Zion

Joachim Eck

Volume 473 in this series

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This interpretation of the opening of the Book of Isaiah proposes a typology of prophetic superscriptions, challenges the existence of the genre of a prophetic lawsuit, and interprets Israel’s offenses against the socially vulnerable as a resistance to the just rule of JHWH with calamitous consequences. Seen in the light of Isa.1, Isaiah’s speech (Isa.6) is directed against a people whose tyrannical behavior recalls that of the Egyptian Pharaoh.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110406320
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040293-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040632-0
ISBN:: 9783110406474
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Wisdom Epistemology in the Psalter

A Study of Psalms 1, 73, 90, and 107

John Kartje

Volume 472 in this series

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We present a comparative epistemological analysis of the wisdom motifs in Psalms 1, 73, 90, and 107. These texts were selected on the basis of their epistemological content (each confronts the relationship between virtue and prosperity), and their canonical placement within the Psalter (each begins one of the Psalter’s five “Books”). We explore the implications of their respective epistemological features for our understanding of the canonical structure of the Psalter.
After developing a diagnostic method for the identification and analysis of the epistemological features within a biblical text, we apply it to each of the four psalms, and discuss their epistemological qualities with respect to their canonical placement in the Psalter.
We find that an epistemic progression develops across the canonical ordering of the four psalms. While the psalmists are increasingly forthright in acknowledging the moral paradox that the righteous often suffer, while the wicked can prosper, they engage this paradox with ever more sophisticated responses. Although Yhwh is ultimately the source of all wisdom, human beings can facilitate their acquisition of knowledge by seeking him out intentionally, by questioning him directly, and by observing him with a heart focused on learning.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110352962
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035053-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035296-2
ISBN:: 9783110383454
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Das Fremde und das Eigene

Die Fremdendarstellungen des Deuteronomiums im Kontext israelitischer Identitätskonstruktionen

Ruth Ebach

Volume 471 in this series

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This study examines the statements about strangers, foreign peoples, and gods in Deuteronomy. It shows that representations of the stranger were closely tied to differently nuanced constructions of the authors’ own Israelite identities during different eras. The approach combines literary historical analysis with sociological insights regarding the construction of the identities of self and other.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110362329
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036173-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036232-9
ISBN:: 9783110391138
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

On Prophets, Warriors, and Kings

Former Prophets through the Eyes of Their Interpreters

George J. Brooke, Ariel Feldman

Volume 470 in this series

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While recent decades have seen a plethora of studies exploring the complex processes that shaped biblical books traditionally designated as Prophets, much remains to be done in order to uncover the rich history of their interpretation throughout the ages. This collection of essays aims at filling this gap by exploring different aspects of the exegesis of the Former and Latter Prophets in contexts both ancient and modern, Jewish and Christian. From the inner-biblical interpretation of the Prophets to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the New Testament, Patristic writings, and contemporary rhetoric, this volume sheds light on how key figures in those books were read and understood by both ancient and not so-ancient readers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110377385
ISBN:: 9783110377385
ISBN:: 9783110392913
ISBN:: 9783110375961
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

The Dead Sea Scrolls Rewriting Samuel and Kings

Texts and Commentary

Ariel Feldman

Volume 469 in this series

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Long neglected by scholars, the Dead Sea scrolls rewriting Samuel-Kings shed precious light on the ancient Jewish interpretation of these books. This volume brings all these texts together for the first time under one cover. Improved editions of the fragments, up-to-date commentary, and detailed discussions of the exegetical traditions embedded in these scrolls will be of interest to both scholars and students of Second Temple Jewish literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339291
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033811-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033929-1
ISBN:: 9783110389494
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism

Nathan MacDonald

Volume 468 in this series

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Are the rituals in the Hebrew Bible of great antiquity, practiced unchanged from earliest times, or are they the products of later innovators? The canonical text is clear: ritual innovation is repudiated as when Jeroboam I of Israel inaugurate a novel cult at Bethel and Dan. Most rituals are traced back to Moses. From Julius Wellhausen to Jacob Milgrom, this issue has divided critical scholarship. With the rich documentation from the late Second Temple period, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, it is apparent that rituals were changed. Were such rituals practiced, or were they forms of textual imagination? How do rituals change and how are such changes authorized? Do textual innovation and ritual innovation relate? What light might ritual changes between the Hebrew Bible and late Second Temple texts shed on the history of ritual in the Hebrew Bible?

The essays in this volume engage the various issues that arise when rituals are considered as practices that may be invented and subject to change. A number of essays examine how biblical texts show evidence of changing ritual practices, some use textual change to discuss related changes in ritual practice, while others discuss evidence for ritual change from material culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368710
ISBN:: 9783110368710
ISBN:: 9783110609431
ISBN:: 9783110392678
ISBN:: 9783110372731
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Maleachi, ein Hermeneut

Jutta Noetzel

Volume 467 in this series

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This volume explores a hermeneutical question. The secret of Malachi can be found in a new understanding of the prophet within the narrative as told in the Book of the Twelve. Prophecy is biblical interpretation. Malachi is not a literary figure. As he takes form, he is fallible. As a revelatory communicator, he interprets the situation of God’s people with the story of Jacob from Genesis, but this story, too, needs updating and reinterpretation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368734
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037269-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036873-4
ISBN:: 9783110386042
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Götter für die Toren

Die Verbindung von Götterpolemik und Weisheit im Alten Testament

Sonja Ammann

Volume 466 in this series

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Old Testament polemics against other gods, mocking them as powerless images, are often viewed as lacking great theological import. Drawing on Isa: 40–48, Jer. 10, Ps. 135, EpJer and SapSal, this study examines the history of such polemics and shows their connection to the wisdom tradition. The analysis of links between polemics against pagan gods and wisdom provides a historical context for the polemical strategy of these texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110365382
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036410-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036538-2
ISBN:: 9783110385878
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: History of Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Elischa

Eine redaktions- und religionsgeschichtliche Studie

Ruth Sauerwein

Volume 465 in this series

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Elischa ist neben Elia der wichtigste „vorklassische Prophet“ im Korpus der erzählenden Bücher des Alten Testaments. Die vorliegende Untersuchung rekonstruiert konsequent literar- und redaktionsgeschichtlich alle Elischa-Erzählungen und gelangt zu einer neuen Stratifizierung der Texte. Zugleich liefert die Arbeit für den Textbereich 1Kön 19 – 2Kön 13 einen neuen Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion um die Entstehungsgeschichte des sog. Deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerkes.

Der zweite Teil der Arbeit widmet sich der Typologie des wundertätigen Propheten Elischa und fragt nach dem Ursprung und der Wirkung dieser Typologie. Dabei reicht das herangezogene Vergleichsmaterial von den altorientalischen Prophetentexten aus Mari über neuassyrische und neubabylonische Texte bis in die Literatur der griechischen Antike, des tannaitisch-rabbinischen Judentums und ins Neue Testament. So konnte u.a. die enorme wirkungsgeschichtliche Bedeutung der Wunder Elischas für die Wunderdarstellung der Evangelien sowie der Apostelgeschichte gezeigt werden. Weiterhin überprüft und erläutert die Arbeit die in der existierenden Forschung bisher nur angedeuteten religionsphänomenologischen Analogien zu Wundertäter-Gestalten des islamischen Sufismus.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110352948
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035129-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035294-8
ISBN:: 9783110377842
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Human Rights in Deuteronomy

With Special Focus on Slave Laws

Daisy Yulin Tsai

Volume 464 in this series

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The humanitarian concerns of the biblical slave laws and their rhetorical techniques rarely receive scholarly attention, especially the two slave laws in Deuteronomy. Previous studies that compared the biblical and the ANE laws focused primarily on their similarities and developed theories of direct borrowing. This ignored the fact that legal transplants were common in ancient societies. This study, in contrast, aims to identify similarities and dissimilarities in order to pursue an understanding of the underlying values promoted within these slave laws and the interests they protected. To do so, certain innovative methodologies were applied. The biblical laws examined present two diverse legal concepts that contrast to the ANE concepts: (1) all agents are regarded as persons and should be treated accordingly, and (2) all legal subjects are seen as free, dignified, and self-determining human beings. In addition, the biblical laws often distinguish an offender’s “criminal intent,” by which a criminal’s rights are also considered. Based on these features, the biblical laws are able to articulate YHWH’s humanitarian concerns and the basic concepts of human rights presented in Deuteronomy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110364422
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036320-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036442-2
ISBN:: 9783110385793
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Hoffnung in Bethlehem

Innerbiblische Querbezüge als Deutungshorizonte im Ruthbuch

Andrea Beyer

Volume 463 in this series

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The Book of Ruth cannot be understood simply in terms of an emancipatory impetus or a history of integration. Its substantive and structural form is shaped by literary references and poetic allusions that interpret earlier narratives and lend it theological poignancy. As a history of hope in the gestalt of a family story, the Book of Ruth is a variant of wisdom theology in which human and divine actions are inseparably bound together.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110353631
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035018-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035363-1
ISBN:: 9783110387865
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

The Question of the Beginning and the Ending of the So-Called History of David’s Rise

A Methodological Reflection and Its Implications

Sung-Hee Yoon

Volume 462 in this series

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The extent of the so-called History of David’s Rise has been indecisive, and as a result, various issues around the document have been left extremely flexible. This comprehensive monograph sees the root of the problem in inadequate methodological reflection, and seeks to provide sensible answers to the source-critical question on the basis of hermeneutic and literary reflection.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110352924
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034980-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035292-4
ISBN:: 9783110387810
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period

Ehud Ben Zvi, Christoph Levin

Volume 461 in this series

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Water is a vital resource and is widely acknowledged as such. Thus it often serves as an ideological and linguistic symbol that stands for and evokes concepts central within a community. This volume explores ‘thinking of water’ and concepts expressed through references to water within the symbolic system of the late Persian/early Hellenistic period and as it does so it sheds light on the social mindscape of the early Second Temple community.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110349665
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034882-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034966-5
ISBN:: 9783110386554
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

The Reception of Biblical War Legislation in Narrative Contexts

Christoph Berner, Harald Samuel

Volume 460 in this series

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In the Hebrew Bible, war is a prominent topic which is dealt with in both legal and narrative texts. So far, the interplay between the two areas has received only little attention. This volume explores the impact of biblical war legislation on war accounts in the Hebrew Bible and in Early Jewish Literature. It provides case studies which show the importance of the topic and shed new light on redaction- and reception-historical developments.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110349726
ISBN:: 9783110348446
ISBN:: 9783110349726
ISBN:: 9783110384130
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Les leçons et les énigmes du passé

Une exégèse intra-biblique des psaumes historiques

Sophie Ramond

Volume 459 in this series

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A significant part of Biblical literature is the result of a process involving the reception and revision of earlier texts and traditions contained in the Bible itself, among them the historical psalms. An analysis of the intertextuality present in these psalms sheds light not only on their meaning and compositional purpose, but also on the redaction and composition of the Pentateuch.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110349009
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034618-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034900-9
ISBN:: 9783110369816
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Philosophical Interpretations of the Old Testament

Seizo Sekine, J. Randall Short

Volume 458 in this series

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Western biblical studies have tended to follow either faith-based theological approaches or value-free historical-critical methods. This monograph challenges the two extremes by pursuing the middle path of philosophical hermeneutics. While drawing on Eastern and Western philosophical writings from ancient to modern times, the author proposes original interpretive solutions to a wide range of important biblical texts, including the Akedah, Second Isaiah, the Decalogue, Qohelet, Job, and Jeremiah. Yet, this is not a collection of antiquarian studies. Readers will also gain fresh and stimulating perspectives concerning monotheism, religious faith and identity, suffering and salvation, and modern and postmodern ethics. Finally, in a supplementary essay, the author introduces readers to the history of Old Testament studies in Japan, and he outlines prospects for the future.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110340761
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034015-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034076-1
ISBN:: 9783110374629
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Eastern Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Images of Joshua in the Bible and Their Reception

Zev Farber

Volume 457 in this series

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The central theme of the book is the relationship between a hero or cultural icon and the cultures in which he or she is venerated. On one hand, a hero cannot remain a static character if he or she is to appeal to diverse and dynamic communities. On the other hand, a traditional icon should retain some basic features in order to remain recognizable. Joshua son of Nun is an iconic figure of Israelite cultural memory described at length in the Hebrew Bible and venerated in numerous religious traditions. This book uses Joshua as a test case. It tackles reception and redaction history, focusing on the use and development of Joshua’s character and the deployment of his various images in the narratives and texts of several religious traditions. I look for continuities and discontinuities between traditions, as well as cross-pollination and polemic. The first two chapters look at Joshua’s portrayal in biblical literature, using both synchronic (literary analysis) as well as diachronic (Überlieferungsgeschichte and redaction/source criticism) methodologies. The other four chapters focus on the reception history of Joshua in Second Temple and Hellenistic Jewish literature, in the medieval (Arabic) Samaritan Book of Joshua, in the New Testament and Church Fathers, and in Rabbinic literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343366
ISBN:: 9783110343366
ISBN:: 9783110383669
ISBN:: 9783110338881
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

"To Teach" in Ancient Israel

A Cognitive Linguistic Study of a Biblical Hebrew Lexical Set

Wendy L. Widder

Volume 456 in this series

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This book employs cognitive linguistics to determine the foundational elements of the ancient Israelites’ concept of teaching as reflected in the text of the Hebrew Bible and Ben Sira. It analyzes four prominent lexemes that comprise a lexical set referring to the act of teaching: ירה-H, למד-D, ידע-H, and יסר-D. The study concludes that, in its most basic form, the concept of teaching in ancient Israel was that a teacher creates the conditions in which learning can occur.
The methodology employed in this project is built on a premise of cognitive studies, namely, that because teaching is a universal human activity, there is a universal concept of teaching: one person A recognizes that another person B lacks knowledge, belief, skills, and the like (or has incomplete or distorted knowledge, etc.), and person A attempts to bring about a changed state of knowledge, belief, or skill in person B. This universal concept provides the starting place for understanding the concept of teaching that Biblical Hebrew reflects, and it also forms the conceptual base against which the individual lexemes are profiled.
The study incorporates a micro-level analysis and a macro-level analysis. At the micro-level, each lexeme is examined with respect to its linguistic forms (the linguistic analysis) and the contexts in which the lexeme occurs (the conceptual analysis). The linguistic analysis considers the clausal constructions of each instantiation and determines what transitivity, ditransitivity, or intransitivity contributes to the meaning. Collocations of the lexeme, including prepositional phrases, adverbial adjuncts, and parallel verbs, are evaluated for their contribution to meaning. The conceptual analysis of each lexeme identifies the meaning potential of each word, as well as what aspect of the meaning potential each instantiation activates. The study then determines the lexeme’s prototypical meaning, which is profiled on the base of the universal concept of teaching. This step of profiling represents an important adaptation of the cognitive linguistics tool of profiling to meet the special requirements of working with ancient texts in that it profiles prototype meanings, not instantiations.
In the macro-analysis, the data of all four lexemes in the lexical set are synthesized. The relationships among the lexemes are assessed in order to identify the basic level lexeme and consider whether the lexemes form a folk taxonomy. Finally, the profiles of the four prototype meanings are collated and compared in order to describe the ancient Israelite concept of teaching.
The study finds that the basic level item of the lexical set is למד-D based on frequency of use and distribution. In its prototypical definition, למד-D means to intentionally put another person in a state in which s/he can acquire a skill or expertise through experience and practice. In contrast to this sustained kind of teaching, the prototypical meaning of ירה-H is situational in nature: a person of authority or expertise gives specific, situational instruction to someone who lacks knowledge about what to do. The lexemes יסר-D and ידע-H represent the most restricted and the most expansive lexemes, respectively: the prototypical meaning of יסר-D is to attempt to bring about changed behavior in another person through verbal or physical means, often to the point of causing pain; the prototypical meaning of ידע-H is that a person of authority causes another person to be in a state of knowing something from the divine realm or related to experiences with the divine realm. The study determines that while the four lexemes of the Biblical Hebrew lexical set “to teach” have significant semantic overlap, they cannot be construed in a folk taxonomy because the words are not related in a hierarchical way.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110335781
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033549-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033578-1
ISBN:: 9783110372922
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Dreams, Riddles, and Visions

Textual, Contextual, and Intertextual Approaches to the Book of Daniel

Michael Segal

Volume 455 in this series

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The volume contains eight original studies, each of which focuses on a different chapter or central passage in Daniel and offers a new interpretation or reading of the passage in question. The studies span the Danielic tales and apocalypses, offering innovative analyses that often challenge the scholarly consensus regarding the exegesis of this book. The eight chapters relate to Daniel 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, Susanna, and the conception of angelology in Daniel.
The studies are all based on careful textual analysis, including comparison between the Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek versions (especially regarding Daniel 4–6), and, in each case, the larger arguments are built upon solid philological foundations. Many of the insights proposed in this volume are based upon the realization that the authors of Daniel were frequently interpreters of earlier biblical books, and that the identification of these intertextual clues can be the key to unlocking the meaning of these texts. In this sense, Daniel is similar to other contemporaneous works, such as Jubilees and Qumran literature, but the extent of this phenomenon has not been fully appreciated by scholars of the book. This volume therefore contributes to the appreciation of Daniel as both the latest book in the Hebrew Bible, and a significant work in the landscape of Second Temple Judaism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110330991
ISBN:: 9783110330991
ISBN:: 9783110389975
ISBN:: 9783110330861
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Weisheit im Widerspruch

Studien zu den Elihu-Reden in Ijob 32-37

Stephan Lauber

Volume 454 in this series

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This study synthesizes academic research on the monologues of Elihu in Job: 32–27, and presents a literary critique that views the complex as a theological compendium ranging from poetical dialogue to divine speech. The genre analysis of the introductory chapter, which is regarded at many points as an ironization of Elihu and a deconstruction of his overall argumentation, allows us to recognize the theological status of the monologues.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110330939
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033083-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033093-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Gender in the Book of Ben Sira

Divine Wisdom, Erotic Poetry, and the Garden of Eden

Teresa Ann Ellis

Volume 453 in this series

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Gender in the Book of Ben Sira is a semantic analysis and, also, an investigation of hermeneutical pathways for performing such an analysis. A comparison of possible Greek and Hebrew gender taxonomies precedes the extensive delineation of the target-category, gender. The delineation includes invisible influences in the Book of Ben Sira such as the author’s choices of genre and his situation as a member of a colonized group within a Hellenistic empire. When the Book of Ben Sira’s genre-constrained invectives against women and male fools are excluded, the remaining expectations for women and for men are mostly equivalent, in terms of a pious life lived according to Torah. However, Ben Sira says nothing about distinctions at the level of how “living according to Torah” would differ for the two groups. His book presents an Edenic ideal of marriage through allusions to Genesis 1 to 4, and a substantial overlap of erotic discourse for the female figures of Wisdom and the “intelligent wife” creates tropes similar to those of the Song of Songs. In addition, Ben Sira’s colonial status affects what he says and how he says it; by writing in Hebrew, he could craft the Greek genres of encomium and invective to carry multiple levels of meaning that subvert Hellenistic/Greek claims to cultural superiority.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110330892
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033079-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033089-2
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Glaube im Alten Testament

Eine begriffsgeschichtliche Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Jes 7,1-17; Dtn 1-3; Num 13-14 und Gen 22,1-19

Susanne Rudnig-Zelt

Volume 452 in this series

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There is no disagreement that the Christian understanding of faith has its roots in the Old Testament. Yet these roots have not been the subjects of extensive research until now; the present study attempts to fill this gap. Its point of departure is the Old Testament concept of faith as ’mn in Hif‘il. Beyond the literal meaning of this term, the study focuses on the ways it was reshaped during the Persian period and continued to evolve through history. In her historical exploration, the author documents the continuity between Old and New Testament discourses on faith. Thus, the book offers ways to think about the Old Testament foundations for the Christian doctrine of faith.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110318791
ISBN:: 9783110318791
ISBN:: 9783110389814
ISBN:: 9783110318685
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Die Gebete der Propheten

Anrufungen Gottes im 'corpus propheticum' der Hebräischen Bibel

Alexa F. Wilke

Volume 451 in this series

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Although prayer is not regarded as one of the basic forms of prophetic tradition, prayer does arise at critical theological junctures in the prophetic books. In this work, Alexa F. Wilke explores the literary and theological functions of prayer and examines the images of self and God communicated in prayer. Her analysis contributes to our understanding of the history of the reception and perpetuation of the prophetic books as well as the nature of the theology of prayer.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110312188
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031207-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031218-8
ISBN:: 9783110373271
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Nichts Neues unter der Sonne?

Zeitvorstellungen im Alten Testament. Festschrift für Ernst-Joachim Waschke zum 65. Geburtstag

Jens Kotjatko-Reeb, Benjamin Ziemer, Stefan Schorch

Volume 450 in this series

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Welche Zeitvorstellungen lassen die Schriften des Alten Testaments erkennen? Das ist das Thema dieses Bandes, der Ernst-Joachim Waschke zum 65. Geburtstag gewidmet ist. Zunächst werden die grundsätzlichen Fragen nach Zeitverständnis, Zeitbewusstsein und Zeitbegriffen untersucht, im Anschluss daran die wichtigsten konkreten chronologischen Strukturierungen des Alten Testaments, von der Tora über das Könige- und das Jeremiabuch bis hin zu Esra–Nehemia. In einem dritten Teil wird der Frage nachgegangen, was es, in Abwandlung des Mottozitats aus Koh 1,9, Neues über die Sonne im Alten Testament zu sagen gibt, während die Beiträge des vierten und letzten Teils dem berühmten „Alles hat seine Zeit“ (Koh 3,1) bis in die Rezeptionsgeschichte und die biblische Archäologie nachgehen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110297935
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029785-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029793-5
ISBN:: 9783110389128
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Scripture and Interpretation

Qumran Texts that Rework the Bible

Ariel Feldman, Liora Goldman, Devorah Dimant

Volume 449 in this series

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The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls more than sixty years ago has revealed a wealth of literary compositions which rework the Hebrew Bible in various ways. This genre seems to have been a popular literary form in ancient Judaism literature. However, the Qumran texts of this type are particularly interesting for they offer for the first time a large sample of such compositions in their original languages, Hebrew and Aramaic. Since the rewritten Bible texts do not use the particular style and nomenclature specific to the literature produced by the Qumran community. Many of these texts are unknown from any other sources, and have been published only during the last two decades. They therefore became the object of intense scholarly study. However, most the attention has been directed to the longer specimens, such as the Hebrew Book of Jubilees and the Aramaic Genesis Apocryphon. The present volume addresses the less known and poorly studied pieces, a group of eleven small Hebrew texts that rework the Hebrew Bible. It provides fresh editions, translations and detailed commentaries for each one. The volume thus places these texts within the larger context of the Qumran library, aiming at completing the data about the rewritten Bible.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110303056
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030298-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030305-6
ISBN:: 9783110552683
ISBN:: 9783110381139
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Von Priestern zum Patriarchen

Levi und die Leviten im Alten Testament

Harald Samuel

Volume 448 in this series

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Defining the relationship between Priests and Levites is a critical element in reconstructing the history of religious leadership in the Old Testament, and is regarded as a key element for understanding the literary history of the Hebrew Bible. The present study undertakes a critical literary comparison of the relevant passages from the Pentateuch and the Early Prophets in order to develop a secure foundation of sources for historical inquiry.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310498
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031039-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031049-8
ISBN:: 9783110368192
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Rejoice, Dear Zion!

Hebrew Construct Phrases with "Daughter" and "Virgin" as Nomen Regens

Magnar Kartveit

Volume 447 in this series

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The phrase “Daughter of Zion” is in recent Bible translations often rendered “Daughter Zion”. The discussion behind this change has continued for decades, but lacks proper linguistic footing. Parlance in grammars, dictionaries, commentaries and textbooks is often confusing.

The present book seeks to remedy this defect by treating all relevant expressions from a linguistic point of view. To do this, it also discusses the understanding of Hebrew construct phrases, and finds that while there is a morphological category of genitive in Akkadian, Ugaritic and Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Syriac do not display it. The use of this term as a syntactical category is unfortunate, and the term should be avoided in Hebrew grammar. Metaphor theory and the use of irony are also tools in the discussion of the phrases.

As a result of the treatment, the author finds that there are some Hebrew construct phrases where nomen regens describes the following nomen rectum, and the description may be metaphorical, in some cases also ironical. This seems to be the case with “Daughter of Zion” and similar phrases. This understanding calls for a revision of the translation of the phrases, and new translations are suggested.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110309157
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030894-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030915-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Konfliktfelder der Diaspora und die Löwengrube

Zur Eigenart der Erzählung von Daniel in der Löwengrube in der hebräischen Bibel und der Septuaginta

Dominik Helms

Volume 446 in this series

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Daniel in the Lion’s Den: the Septuagint and the Hebrew Bible each bear witness to the idiosyncratic transmission of Daniel 6 in different cultural areas. Using comparative narrative analysis, the present study shows the specific profile of each text and their divergent classification in literary history. The analysis develops new perspectives for understanding translation processes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110309638
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030949-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030963-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Wisdom for Life

Nuria Calduch-Benages

Volume 445 in this series

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Professor Maurice Gilbert SJ is widely acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on biblical wisdom literature, in particular the Book of Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon, on which he has produced many publications. This Festschrift, the third one in his honor, brings together twenty-four essays written by both established scholars who are friends and colleagues of Professor Gilbert and younger members of the field who wrote their doctoral dissertation under his guidance at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. There he was rector (1978–1984) and full professor until his retirement (1975–2011). The volume is divided into six main sections, focusing respectively on Proverbs, Job, Qoheleth, Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon, and Psalms. Some essays display rigorous attention to textual and linguistic issues, whereas others deal with more theological questions (fear before God, joy in Qoheleth, arguments for justice in Wisdom of Solomon) or focus on the comparison between two books (for instance, Qoheleth and Sirach, Sirach and Genesis, Sirach and Tobit).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110301649
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030162-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030164-9
ISBN:: 9783110369793
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Israel in der altorientalischen Welt

Gesammelte Studien zur Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte des antiken Israel

Rüdiger Liwak, Markus Witte, Dagmar Pruin

Volume 444 in this series

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The Old Testament is integrally bound to the history and culture of Ancient Israel and the Ancient Middle East. This collection of essays primarily employs approaches from the fields of literary history and archeology. It makes an important contribution to cultural and religious historical aspects of kingship and prophecy. It also casts a new light on questions regarding institutional education and worship practices, on the possibilities and limitations of religious historical comparison, and on Biblical interpretation in a Judeo-Christian context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110301830
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027141-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030183-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Biblical Lexicology: Hebrew and Greek

Semantics – Exegesis – Translation

Eberhard Bons, Jan Joosten, Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, Romina Vergari

Volume 443 in this series

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Lexicography, together with grammatical studies and textual criticism, forms the basis of biblical exegesis. Recent decades have seen much progress in this field, yet increasing specialization also tends to have the paradoxical effect of turning exegesis into an independent discipline, while leaving lexicography to the experts. The present volume seeks to renew and intensify the exchange between the study of words and the study of texts. This is done in reference to both the Hebrew source text and the earliest Greek translation, the Septuagint. Questions addressed in the contributions to this volume are how linguistic meaning is effected, how it relates to words, and how words may be translated into another language, in Antiquity and today. Etymology, semantic fields, syntagmatic relations, word history, neologisms and other subthemes are discussed. The main current and prospective projects of biblical lexicology or lexicography are presented, thus giving an idea of the state of the art. Some of the papers also open up wider perspectives of interpretation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110312164
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031206-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031216-4
ISBN:: 9783110383119
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Alttestamentliche Studien

Arbeiten zu Priesterschrift, Deuteronomistischem Geschichtswerk und Prophetie

Hermann-Josef Stipp

Volume 442 in this series

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This volume is a compilation of 16 essays by the Munich-based Old Testament Catholic scholar Hermann-Josef Stipp, reprinted here in revised form. These essays are devoted to texts from the Priestly Scriptures, the historical sections of Deuteronomy, and the Prophets. The essays are substantively focused on composition and interpretation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110305418
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030536-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030541-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Before the God in this Place for Good Remembrance

A Comparative Analysis of the Aramaic Votive Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim

Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme

Volume 441 in this series

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This monograph is an investigation of Yahwistic votive practice during the Hellenistic period. The dedicatory inscriptions from the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim are analyzed in light of votive practice in Biblical literature and in general on the basis of a thorough terminological and theoretical discussion.
A special focus is laid on remembrance formulae, which request the deity to remember the worshipper in return for a gift. These formulae cannot only be found at Gerizim, but also in other Semitic dedicatory inscriptions. Therefore these texts are interpreted in their broader cultural context, placed within a broad religious practice of dedicating gifts to the gods and leaving inscriptions in sanctuaries. Finally, the aspect of divine remembrance in the Hebrew Bible is explored and related to the materiality of the votive inscription.
The research concludes that there is a perception of the divine behind this practice on Mount Gerizim that ties together the aspects of gift, remembrance and material presence. This ‘theology’ is echoed both in similar Semitic dedicatory inscriptions and in the Hebrew Bible.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110301878
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030118-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030187-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Studien zu Ben Sira

Georg Sauer, Siegfried Kreuzer

Volume 440 in this series

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Ben Sira is properly regarded as one of the most significant representatives of Jewish wisdom literature. Georg Sauer, the renowned Viennese Old Testament scholar, addresses the many sides of these scriptural writings in the present volume. He explores text-immanent questions regarding the structure, content, and theological meaning of Ben Sira’s book in consideration of evidence from Hebrew and Greek texts. In addition, this study illuminates the historical background and context for Ben Sira’s work as well as explores questions about the history of its interpretation in Judaism and Christianity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110300512
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030032-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030051-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible

The Biblical Patriarchs in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Devorah Dimant, Reinhard G. Kratz

Volume 439 in this series

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The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely the book of Genesis. In particular the volume is concerned with the links displayed by the Qumranic biblical interpetation to the inner-biblical interpretation and the final shaping of the Hebrew scriptures. Moshe Bar-Asher studies cases of such inner biblical interpretative comments; Michael Segal deals with the Garden of Eden story in the scrolls and other contemporary Jewish sources; Reinhard Kratz analizes the story of the Flood as preamble for the lives of the Patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible; Devorah Dimant examines this theme in the Qumran scrolls; Roman Viehlhauer explores the story of Sodom and Gomorrah; George Brooke and Atar Livneh discuss aspects of Jacob’s career; Harald Samuel review the career of Levi; Liora Goldman examines the Aramaic work the Visions of Amram; Lawrence Schiffman and Aharon Shemesh discuss halakhic aspects of stories about the Patriarchs; Moshe Bernstein provides an overview of the references to the Patriarchs in the Qumran scrolls.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290554
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029042-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029055-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

The Rewritten Joshua Scrolls from Qumran

Texts, Translations, and Commentary

Ariel Feldman

Volume 438 in this series

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In addition to three scrolls containing the Book of Joshua, the Qumran caves brought to light five previously unknown texts rewriting this book. These scrolls (4Q123, 4Q378, 4Q379, 4Q522, 5Q9), as well as a scroll from Masada (Mas 1039–211), are commonly referred to as the Apocryphon of Joshua. While each of these manuscripts has received some scholarly attention, no attempt has yet been made to offer a detailed study of all these texts. The present monograph fills this gap by providing improved editions of the six scrolls, an up-to-date commentary and a detailed discussion of the biblical exegesis embedded in each scroll. The analysis of the texts is followed by a reassessment of the widely accepted view considering 4Q123, 4Q378, 4Q379, 4Q522, 5Q9 and Mas 1039–211 as copies of a single composition. Finally, the monograph attempts to place the Qumran scrolls rewriting the Book of Joshua within the wider context of Second Temple Jewish writings concerned with the figure of Joshua.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290059
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028980-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029005-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

My Psalm Has Turned into Weeping

Job's Dialogue with the Psalms

Will Kynes

Volume 437 in this series

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Drawing inspiration from the widely recognized parody of Ps 8:5 in Job 7:17–18, this study inquires whether other allusions to the Psalms might likewise contribute to the dialogue between Job, his friends, and God. An intertextual method that incorporates both “diachronic” and “synchronic” concerns is applied to the sections of Job and the Psalms in which the intertextual connections are the most pronounced, the Job dialogue and six psalms that fall into three broad categories: praise (8, 107), supplication (39, 139), and instruction (1, 73). In each case, Job’s dependence on the Psalms is determined to be the more likely explanation of the parallel, and, in most, allusions to the same psalm appear in the speeches of both Job and the friends. The contrasting uses to which they put these psalms reflect conflicting interpretive approaches and uncover latent tensions within them by capitalizing on their ambiguities. They also provide historical insight into the Psalms’ authority and developing views of retribution. The dialogue created between Job and these psalms indicates the concern the book has with the proper response to suffering and the role the interpretation of authoritative texts may play in that reaction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110294941
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029481-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029494-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Sworn Enemies

The Divine Oath, the Book of Ezekiel, and the Polemics of Exile

C. A. Strine

Volume 436 in this series

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Sworn Enemies explains how the book of Ezekiel uses formulaic language from the exodus origin tradition – especially YHWH’s oath – to craft an identity for the Judahite exiles. This language openly refutes an autochthonous origin tradition preferred by the non-exiled Judahites while covertly challenging Babylonian claims that YHWH was no longer worthy of worship. After specifying the layers of meaning in the divine oath, the book shows how Ezekiel uses these connotations to construct an explicit, public transcript that denies and mocks the non-exiles’ appeals to a combined Abraham and Jacob tradition (e.g. Ezek 35). Simultaneously, Ezekiel employs the oath’s exodus connotations to support a disguised polemic that resists Babylonian claims that YHWH was powerless to help the exiles. When YHWH swears “as I live” the text goes on to implicitly replace Marduk with YHWH as the deity who controls nations and history (e.g. Ezek 17). Ezekiel, thus, shares the “monotheistic” concepts found in Deutero-Isaiah and elsewhere. Finally, using James C. Scott’s concept of hidden transcripts, the author shows how both polemics cooperate to define a legitimate Judahite nationalism and faithful Yahwism that allows the exiles to resist these threatening “others”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290530
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029039-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029053-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

The Jehu Revolution

A Royal Tradition of the Northern Kingdom and Its Ramifications

Jonathan Miles Robker

Volume 435 in this series

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This monograph re-evaluates the literary development of 2 Kings 9–10 within the context of the Deuteronomistic History. This undertaking opens with a thorough text and literary critical examination of the pericope, arriving at the conclusion that the narrative of 2 Kings 9–10 represents neither an insertion into the Deuteronomistic corpus, nor an independent literary tradition. Rather, when considering the Greek textual traditions of the biblical narrative (most especially B and Ant.), one can appreciate the narrative of Jehu’s revolution within the literary context of an extensive politically motivated narrative about the Israelite monarchy covering the period from the reigns of Jeroboam I to Jeroboam II. The identification of this pro-Jehuide source within the book of Kings enables a reliable dating into the 8th century BCE for much of the material in Kings focusing on the Northern Kingdom. Comparing this biblical narrative to other (mostly Mesopotamian and Syrian) texts relevant to Israelite history of the period advances the discourse about the veracity of the biblical narrative when contrasted with extrabiblical traditions and permits the plausible reconstruction of Israelite history spanning the 8th and 9th centuries BCE.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110285017
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028489-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028501-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Epigraphy
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Aram and Israel during the Jehuite Dynasty

Shuichi Hasegawa

Volume 434 in this series

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The Jehuite Dynasty ruled more than ninety years (841–747 BCE) in the Kingdom of Israel, the longest dynasty in the history of the Northern Kingdom. Under the five kings of the dynasty, Israel was thrown into the arena of the regional political struggles and experienced the time of an unprecedented upheaval and then enjoyed great prosperity. The Aramaeans under Hazael and Ben-Hadad of Damascus and the Assyrians from the north Mesopotamia had great influence on the history of the dynasty.
This book is the result of a comprehensive and updated historical study on this significant dynasty. By consulting all the available Assyrian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Moabite inscriptions and recent archaeological data, this study radically evaluates the historical authenticity of the biblical text of 2 Kings and some parts of the Books of Amos and Hosea and integrates the results into the historical discussion. The study reveals the great importance of this dynasty in the history of the Northern Kingdom as a turning point in its policy toward the Neo-Assyrian Empire and will contribute toward understanding the history of Syria-Palestine in the 9th–8th centuries BCE.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110283488
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028335-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028348-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve

Methodological Foundations - Redactional Processes - Historical Insights

Rainer Albertz, James D. Nogalski, Jakob Wöhrle

Volume 433 in this series

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The formation of the Book of the Twelve is one of the most vigorously debated subjects in Old Testament studies today. This volume assembles twenty-four essays by the world’s leading experts, providing an overview of the present state of scholarship in the field. The book’s contributors focus on questions of method, history, as well as redactional and textual history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110283761
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028334-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028376-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Hermeneutik der Tora

Studien zur Traditionsgeschichte von Prov 2 und zur Komposition von Prov 1-9

Bernd U. Schipper

Volume 432 in this series

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The Book of Proverbs plays almost no role at all in the current discussion on the status of the Torah in the post-exile era. This study casts light on traditional background of Prov 2 and, on this basis, investigates the composition of Prov 1–9. It shows that the Book of Proverbs can be assigned to a theological debate that was held on the relationship between wisdom and the Torah and that was reflected in literary terms in the composition and editing of the Book.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279603
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027948-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027960-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Verheißung und Rechtfertigung

Gesammelte Studien zum Alten Testament II

Christoph Levin

Volume 431 in this series

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This second volume of collected studies by the Munich Old Testament scholar, Christoph Levin, is comprised of 17 essays. A major focus of this volume is on Old Testament hermeneutics and theology. Other papers examine the editorial history of the Pentateuch, the Book of Kings, the Prophetic Books, and the Psalms. Chapters are also devoted to in-depth analyses of the literary history of the books of Genesis, Kings, and Jonah.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110277074
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027694-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027707-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Se reposer pour la terre, se reposer pour Dieu

L’année sabbatique en Lv 25,1-7

Sun-Jong Kim

Volume 430 in this series

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The sabbatical year law in Lv 25,1–7 stipulates the rest of the land and includes foreigners in the list of the beneficiaries, differently from the fallow year law in Ex 23,10–11 and from the debt-release law in Dt 15,1–11. These characteristic features originate from the universalism of creation theology of the Holiness Code: the sabbatical year law in Leviticus aims to practice the God’s creation order in Gn 1–2,4a in human history. Moreover, this law functions as a criterion of the interpretation of the history of Israel; the exilic tragedy in Babylonia has been caused by the negligence of the rest of the Israel’s land. The study on the sabbatical year law in Leviticus contributes not only to the research on the compositional history of the Hebrew Bible, but also offers the precious messages on the political, socio-economic, and ecological problems in our times.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110275605
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027557-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027560-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

The Pillar Function of the Speeches of Wisdom

Proverbs 1:20-33, 8:1-36 and 9:1-6 in the Structural Framework of Proverbs 1-9

Bálint Károly Zabán

Volume 429 in this series

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This work examines the relationship of the speeches of Wisdom to one another and with the rest of Proverbs 1–9. This rapport between the speeches is expounded in the close reading chapters and is also scrutinized from the perspective of their genre definition. In turn, it is suggested that the affinities between the speeches and parental instructions of Proverbs 1–9, point towards viewing the speeches as a component genre, called instruction by Wisdom within the framing genre parental wisdom instruction. Furthermore, it is proposed that the path, house and treasure imageries function as cohesive and unifying elements in the structure of Proverbs 1–9. All these features offer the conclusion that the speeches, in relation to each other and the rest of the material, exhibit the emphatic signs of a successful literary composition, even if stages of redaction are accepted in their editing. Therefore, they function as framing pillars in the structure of Proverbs 1–9. In terms of their overall focus and message, the speeches reflect careful and meaningful designing, notably considering the tripartite formula of temptation, enticement and desirability.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110275490
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027548-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027549-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Die Stadt im Zwölfprophetenbuch

Aaron Schart, Jutta Krispenz

Volume 428 in this series

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The Book of the Twelve Prophets contains an abundance of passages that discuss ancient cities (Samaria, Bet-El, Jerusalem, Ninive, Babel, among others) and their identity. Wide in scope, this volume demonstrates the sensitivity and critical awareness shown by the prophetic tradition which observed processes of urbanization that were very much double-edged. In addition to historical analysis, the essays assembled here offer important perspectives for current theological research on urban studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110269086
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026902-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026908-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Biblische Exegese und hebräische Lexikographie

Das „Hebräisch-deutsche Handwörterbuch“ von Wilhelm Gesenius als Spiegel und Quelle alttestamentlicher und hebräischer Forschung, 200 Jahre nach seiner ersten Auflage

Stefan Schorch, Ernst-Joachim Waschke

Volume 427 in this series

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This volume aims to examine the history and the impact of Wilhelm Gesenius’s “Concise Hebrew-German Dictionary” in the context of historical research. From the time of its initial publication in 1810 through its most recent 18th edition completed in 2010, the dictionary has been among the most important reference works for scholars in Hebrew language studies, Old Testament biblical studies, and Semitic studies. It has exerted lasting influence on Old Testament biblical exegesis, Hebrew lexicography, and Semitic language studies. The 33 essays in this volume provide a picture of the dictionary's diverse historical interrelationships and impacts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110267044
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026612-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026704-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Talio Esto

Recherches sur les origines de la formule 'oeil pour oeil, dent pour dent' dans les droits du Proche-Orient ancien, et sur son devenir dans le monde gréco-romain

Jan Rothkamm

Volume 426 in this series

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This study seeks to clarify the principle of talionic justice beginning with its first historical manifestations in the legal systems of the Ancient Near East. It
attempts to show that talionic justice was not simply a theory of punishment, but also existed as a restorative justice model. The argument for this interpretation of the talionic formula rests on analysis of the salient Biblical verses in the light of the cuneiform models and also utilizes more recent evidence from the Mediterranean region dating from the first centuries of the Christian era. Talionic justice emerges as a complete and constructive principle of justice from the time of its inception, one that cannot be reduced
solely to its punitive elements.

La présente étude cherche à éclaircir le principe du talion à partir de ses premières attestations dans les droits du Proche-Orient ancien. Elle essaie de démontrer que le talion ne se limite pas à une conception pénale, mais qu’il a existé également sous une forme réparatrice. Cette argumentation repose sur une analyse du formulaire du talion, qui interprète les versets bibliques dans le contexte des modèles cunéiformes, et qui s’étend jusqu’aux témoins de la Méditerranée datant des premiers siècles de notre ère.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110264517
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026450-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026451-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Law
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Karl Heinrich Grafs Arbeit am Alten Testament

Studien zu einer wissenschaftlichen Biographie

Joachim Conrad, Uwe Becker

Volume 425 in this series

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Through his groundbreaking studies on Pentateuchal criticism, Karl Heinrich Graf (1815–1869), Old Testament scholar and Orientalist, made a major contribution to research on the origin of the Pentateuch and on the reconstruction of the history of religion in ancient Israel. Despite his importance as a 19th century scholar, Graf never held a chair at a German university. This book describes and recognizes Graf’s Old Testament scholarship, placing it into the context of his biography and within the history of research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255447
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025543-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025544-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Festive Meals in Ancient Israel

Deuteronomy's Identity Politics in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context

Peter Altmann

Volume 424 in this series

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The festive meal texts of Deuteronomy 12–26 depict Israel as a unified people participating in cultic banquets – a powerful and earthy image for both preexilic Judahite and later audiences. Comparison of Deuteronomy 12:13–27, 14:22–29, 16:1–17, and 26:1–15 with pentateuchal texts like Exodus 20–23 is broadened to highlight the rhetorical potential of the Deuteronomic meal texts in relation to the religious and political circumstances in Israel during the Neo-Assyrian and later periods. The texts employ the concrete and rich image of festive banquets, which the monograph investigates in relation to comparative ancient Near Eastern texts and iconography, the zooarchaeological remains of the ancient Levant, and the findings of cultural anthropology with regard to meals.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255379
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025536-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025537-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Die Vertauschung des Erstgeburtssegens in der Genesis

Eine Analyse der narrativ-theologischen Grundstruktur des ersten Buches der Tora

Benedikt Hensel

Volume 423 in this series

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This study explores the literary phenomenon that, at crucial crossroads, the line of promise of “Israel” is continued through the younger brother instead of the firstborn son, which is so important otherwise. This motif of subversion is limited to the book of Genesis, where it is used not less than twelve times. The analysis of forms, contexts and functions of this motif reveals a strictly constructed narrative concept. This construction enables an attribution of identity to Israel which justifies Israel’s special role among other peoples, legitimizes it and shapes its profile theologically.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247930
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024792-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024793-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Be Wise, My Son, and Make My Heart Glad

An Exploration of the Courtly Nature of the Book of Proverbs

Christopher B. Ansberry

Volume 422 in this series

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The social and intellectual context of the material in the book of Proverbs has given rise to several proposals concerning the nature of the constituent compendia within the document as well as the function of the discourse as a whole. In light of the problems inherent in an investigation of the nature and function of Proverbs, the present study focuses on the social dimensions of the document within its distinct, literary context. That is, the study attempts to examine the nature and function of the sapiential material within its new performance context, viz., the discursive context, the Sitz im Buch. This form of analysis moves beyond the investigation of individual aphorisms to provide a concrete context through which to view the various components of the discourse as well as the discourse as a whole. In the main, the study explores the formal, discursive, and thematic features of the constituent collections within the book of Proverbs in order to identify the nature and function of the work. More specifically, the study highlights the fundamental features of the book’s discourse setting, the thematic development of the material, the ethos of the individual collections and their role within Proverbs in order to ascertain the degree to which the document may be considered a courtly piece.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247916
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024790-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024791-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Praesentia Dei

Die Vorstellungen von der Gegenwart Gottes im Hiobbuch

Roger Marcel Wanke

Volume 421 in this series

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A critical voice of Old Testament wisdom literature is the Book of Job, whose theme of unjustified and unexplained suffering concerns all of humanity. Interpreting the Book of Job is one of the great challenges of Old Testament research. Various theoretical models on its origin have emerged in recent years which mainly focus on the figure of Job and his multifaceted stance toward God. Praesentia Dei is a decidedly theological study which explores the different conceptions of the presence of God in the Book of Job. Unjustified suffering and the experience of a hidden God lead Job to a process of theological reflection. Thus, in the research on the Book of Job a new investigative perspective comes to the fore – the conception of God.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247633
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024762-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024763-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

On Stone and Scroll

Essays in Honour of Graham Ivor Davies

James K. Aitken, Katharine J. Dell, Brian A. Mastin

Volume 420 in this series

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The volume On Stone and Scroll addresses biblical exegesis from the historical, archaeological, theological, and linguistic perspectives, and discusses many of the issues central to the interpretation of the Bible. It is written by colleagues and former students of Graham Davies in his honour on his retirement. It covers three main areas central to his work: inscriptional and archaeological, including socio-historical, studies; theological and exegetical studies, especially of Exodus and the Prophets; and semantic studies. A lasting focus of Graham’s work has been the combination of sources that he has utilised in the interpretation of the biblical text. His approach has been distinctive in biblical studies in his combining of archaeological, inscriptional, linguistic and theological evidence for a deeper understanding of text. His work has ranged from archaeological studies, through an edition of Hebrew inscriptions, contributions to Hebrew semantics and biblical theology, to exegesis of the Pentateuch and Prophets. The essays in this volume reflect that broad view of Old Testament study.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110228069
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022805-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022806-9
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Arab World
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Changes in Scripture

Rewriting and Interpreting Authoritative Traditions in the Second Temple Period

Hanne von Weissenberg, Juha Pakkala, Marko Marttila

Volume 419 in this series

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The articles in this volume investigate changes in texts that became to be regarded as holy and unchangeable in Judaism and Christianity. The volume seeks to draw attention to the “empirical” evidence from Qumran, the Septuagint as well as from passages in the Hebrew Scriptures that have been shaped by the use of other texts. The contributions are divided into three main sections: The first section deals with methodological questions concerning textual changes. The second section consists of concrete examples from the Hebrew Bible, Qumran and Septuagint on how the texts were changed, corrected, edited and interpreted. The contributions of the third section will investigate the general influence and impact of Deuteronomistic ideology and phraseology on later texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240498
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024048-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024049-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Ethical Dimension of Cult in the Book of Isaiah

Bohdan Hrobon

Volume 418 in this series

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This book investigates the relationship between cult and ethics in the book of Isaiah. Part I attempts to revise some of the common Old Testament views on prophets and cult. After inspecting cultic concepts such as sacrifice, purity and impurity, holiness, and the Promised Land, it suggests that the priestly and prophetic understandings of the role of the Ancient Israelite cult were essentially the same. This general proposition is then tested on the book of Isaiah in Part II: each chapter there analyses the key passage on cult and ethics in the three main parts of the book, namely, Isa 1:10–17; 43:22–28; and 58:1–14 and concludes that, even though the role of cult and ethics in each part of the book varies significantly, the underlying principles behind the teaching about ritual and social justice in the various parts of the book of Isaiah are the same. Furthermore, these principles are cultic in nature, and in accord with priestly teaching. Far from being anti-ritualistic, the studied texts are concerned with what can be labelled The Ethical Dimension of Cult. The reason behind the variations of the role of cult and ethics in the book called Isaiah seems to be cultic as well, namely the purity or impurity of the people and the land before, during, and after the Babylonian exile.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247497
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024748-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024749-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Exile as Forced Migrations

A Sociological, Literary, and Theological Approach on the Displacement and Resettlement of the Southern Kingdom of Judah

John J. Ahn

Volume 417 in this series

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Exile as Forced Migrations injects cutting edge studies on forced migrations (DIDPS, IDPs, Refugee studies), displacement and resettlement, and generational issues that mark the exilic period (6th century B.C.E.). Founder and co-chair of the “Exile/Forced Migrations in Biblical Literature” (Society of Biblical Literature) and a member of the American Sociological Association (International Migration Section), Ahn furnishes biblical scholars with up-to-date sociological information to examine critically, the exile as forced migrations in the cadre of economics of migrations. Biblically speaking, Ahn isolates the three varying views on the exile. The 70 years in Babylon is cast as three and a half generations, with each Judeo-Babylonian generation (first-“1.5”-second-third) responding to its own set of issues and concerns (Ps 137, Jer 29, Isa 43, Num 32). This definitive work reframes the approach to study of the exilic period, as “generation-units”, sociologically, from the first forced migration in 597 B.C.E. to the first return migrations in 538 B.C.E. Exile as Forced Migrations goes beyond traditional emphasis on an important edifice and its institution. It rightfully returns to peoples in flight and plight.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240962
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024095-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024096-2
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Identity and Ethics in the Book of Ruth

A Social Identity Approach

Peter Hon Wan Lau

Volume 416 in this series

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This study demonstrates the importance of including narrative ethics in a construction of Old Testament ethics, as a correction for the current state of marginalisation of narrative in this discipline. To this end, the concept of identity is used as a lens through which to understand and derive ethics. Since self-conception in ancient Israel is generally held to be predominantly collectivist in orientation, social identity theory is used to understand ancient Israelite identity. Although collectivist sensitivities are important, a social identity approach also incorporates an understanding of individuality. This approach highlights the social emphases of a biblical text, and consequently assists in understanding a text’s original ethical message. The book of Ruth is used as a test case, employing a social identity approach for understanding the narrative, but also to model the approach so that it can be implemented more widely in study of the Old Testament and narrative ethics. Each of the protagonists in the book of Ruth is examined in regards to their personal and social self-components. This study reveals that the narrative functions to shape or reinforce the identity of an ancient Israelite implied reader. Since behavioural norms are an aspect of identity, narrative also influences behaviour.

A social identity approach can also highlight the social processes within a society. The social processes taking place in the two most commonly proposed provenances for the book of Ruth are discussed: the Monarchic and Persian Periods. It is found that the social emphases of the book of Ruth most closely correspond to the social undercurrents of the Persian Period. On this basis, a composition for the book of Ruth in the Restoration period is proposed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247619
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024760-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024761-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Studien zu Sprache und Stil der Psalmen

Klaus Seybold

Volume 415 in this series

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This book contains studies from recent years on the Psalms of the Bible that investigate the form of the language and the poetic style of these songs and prayers. The first part traces the history of research since the 18th century. In a second part, the author takes a closer look at single examples of psalm texts. The third part explores general aspects and topics of research such as the formation of groups of psalms, certain characteristic features of style, text profiles and sound figures. Two sermons explore the relationship between psalm texts and current topics in our time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240986
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024097-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024098-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Die Anderen im Spiegel

Israels Auseinandersetzung mit den Völkern in den Büchern Nahum, Zefanja, Obadja und Joel

Anselm C. Hagedorn

Volume 414 in this series

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Based on a detailed literary critical analysis of the books of the prophets Nahum, Zephaniah, Obadiah and Joel, this study investigates the relations of Israel to the peoples. The classical analysis of the biblical books is supplemented with reflections on the theory of ethnicity in antiquity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110228571
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022856-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022857-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Gott, Mensch und Geschichte

Studien zum Verständnis des Menschen und seiner Geschichte in der klassischen, biblischen und nachbiblischen Literatur

Otto Kaiser

Volume 413 in this series

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This volume of essays contains studies on the understanding of man and his history from Herodotus to Augustine, with focus on late biblical wisdom, early Jewish poetry and historiography as well as on the problem of mythological language, morality in antiquity and time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110228106
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022809-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022810-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis

Camilla Hélena von Heijne

Volume 412 in this series

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The focus of this book is on early Jewish interpretations of the ambiguous relationship between God and ‛the angel of the Lord/God’ in texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31. Genesis 32 is included since it exhibits the same ambiguity and constitutes an inseparable part of the Jacob saga. The study is set in the wider context of the development of angelology and concepts of God in various forms of early Judaism.
When identifying patterns of interpretation in Jewish texts, their chronological setting is less important than the nature of the biblical source texts. For example, a common pattern is the avoidance of anthropomorphism.
In Genesis ‛the angel of the Lord’ generally seems to be a kind of impersonal extension of God, while later Jewish writings are characterized by a more individualized angelology, but the ambivalence between God and his angel remains in many interpretations. In Philo's works and Wisdom of Solomon, the ‛Logos’ and ‛Lady Wisdom’ respectively have assumed the role of the biblical ‛angel of the Lord’. Although the angelology of Second Temple Judaism had developed in the direction of seeing angels as distinct personalities, Judaism still had room for the idea of divine hypostases.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226850
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022684-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022685-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Haggai und Sacharja 1-8

Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung

Martin Hallaschka

Volume 411 in this series

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The books of Haggai and Proto-Zechariah (Zechariah 1-8) belong to the post-exilic books of the Old Testament prophets. The topic of both books is the restitution of Judah and of the Jerusalem Temple. They share a common dating system which refers to the reign of the Persian King Darius I. This study reconstructs the genesis and development of these two prophetic books over a period of several centuries and integrates their various revisions into the historical context of the theology of ancient Judaism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110224870
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022486-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022487-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Die Freundesreden des ursprünglichen Hiobdialogs

Eine form- und traditionsgeschichtliche Studie

Urmas Nømmik

Volume 410 in this series

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The book of Job raises one of the most important and complicated questions of Old Testament exegesis. The three friends Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar demand that Job reflect on the relationship between God and man - quite in the context of tradition - but ultimately they still are condemned by God. The study investigates the original form, the character and meaning, and the biblical and ancient oriental background of the speeches of Job's friends and their role in the overall context of the poetic book of Job

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110224368
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022435-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022436-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Die Welt im Ausnahmezustand

Eine Untersuchung zu Aussagegehalt und Theologie des Wächterbuches (1 Hen 1-36)

Veronika Bachmann

Volume 409 in this series

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From a religious-historical perspective this work investigates the message and theology of the so-called Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36) as a separate book of early Judaism of the third century BC. Starting with the literary profile of the text, the study goes on to illuminate its importance in the context of the Ptolemaic supremacy over Palestine. From this perspective the Book of the Watchers appears as a powerful appeal addressed to a broad Jewish audience to recognize the relevance of its religion and of the traditional way of life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110224306
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022429-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022430-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Rétribution et intercession dans le Deutéronome

Vincent Sénéchal

Volume 408 in this series

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In this book Vincent Sénéchal presents a detailed inquiry to solve an enigma: Why does the retelling of the Golden Calf narrative in Deut. 9-10 keep silent on the punishments described in the original account of Exod. 32-34? The absence of punishment in Deut. 9-10 is more than surprising in Deuteronomy, since its theology is strongly oriented to obedience to the law given by YHWH and since it stresses particularly the seriousness of violation of the first commandment. This dissertation aims to investigate the reasons why such an omission occurred in the course of the redactional process and in what sense it is meaningful for the characterization of divine justice in the whole book. The author first offers a comprehensive state of recent exegetical research on Deuteronomy and the Pentateuch. In the course of the investigation, he reflects on categories such as sin, retribution and intercession and analyses the different kinds of retribution present in the book. He then studies the redaction history of Deut. 9:7-10:11 and describes its place and function both in the composition of the Pentateuch and in the history of Israel during the first decades of the Persian period. This historical contextualization leads to several hypotheses to solve the puzzling enigma.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110224405
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022439-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022440-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East

Military Violence in Light of Cosmology and History

C. L. Crouch

Volume 407 in this series

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The monograph considers the relationships of ethical systems in the ancient Near East through a study of warfare in Judah, Israel and Assyria in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. It argues that a common cosmological and ideological outlook generated similarities in ethical thinking.
In all three societies, the mythological traditions surrounding creation reflect a strong connection between war, kingship and the establishment of order. Human kings’ military activities are legitimated through their identification with this cosmic struggle against chaos, begun by the divine king at creation. Military violence is thereby cast not only as morally tolerable but as morally imperative.
Deviations from this point of view reflect two phenomena: the preservation of variable social perspectives and the impact of historical changes on ethical thinking.
The research begins the discussion of ancient Near Eastern ethics outside of Israel and Judah and fills a scholarly void by placing Israelite and Judahite ethics within this context, as well as contributing methodologically to future research in historical and comparative ethics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223521
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022351-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022352-1
ISBN:: 9783110485967
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Abraham and Melchizedek

Scribal Activity of Second Temple Times in Genesis 14 and Psalm 110

Gard Granerød

Volume 406 in this series

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This book, emphasizing Genesis 14 and Psalm 110, contributes to the history of composition of the patriarchal narratives in the book of Genesis and to the history of theology of the Second Temple period.
Genesis 14 was added on a late stage and in two steps: first, Genesis 14* and later, the so-called Melchizedek episode (ME, vv. 18-20). Genesis 14 is the result of inner-biblical exegesis: both Genesis 14* and the later ME originated from scribal activity in which several earlier biblical texts have served as templates/literary building blocks.
As for Genesis 14*, in particular three text groups were important: the Table of Nations, the wilderness wandering narratives and annals from the Deuteronomistic History. As for the ME, it is an example of haggadic exegesis presupposing and without any prehistory independent of its narrative framework. ME is the result of an assimilation between two texts, Genesis 14* and Psalm 110, which assumedly at one point were read as a narrative and a poetic version respectively of Abraham’s war with the kings.
Genesis 14 has no value as a source to the history of the patriarchal era and to the religion of pre-Israelite Jerusalem. In contrast, it shows how post-exilic scribes’ painstaking study of biblical texts resulted in the creation of new biblical texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223460
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022345-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022346-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

One God – One Cult – One Nation

Archaeological and Biblical Perspectives

Reinhard G. Kratz, Hermann Spieckermann, Björn Corzilius, Tanja Pilger

Volume 405 in this series

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Recent archaeological and biblical research challenges the traditional view of the history of ancient Israel. This book presents the latest findings of both academic disciplines regarding the United Monarchy of David and Solomon (‛One Nation’) and the cult reform under Josiah (‛One Cult’), raising the issue of fact versus fiction. The political and cultural interrelations in the Near East are illustrated on the example of the ancient city of Beth She'an/Scythopolis and are discussed as to their significance for the transformation in the conception of God (‛One God’).

The volume contains 17 contributions by internationally eminent scholars from Israel, Finland and Germany.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223583
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022357-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022358-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts

Ehud Ben Zvi, Christoph Levin

Volume 404 in this series

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In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel. In these texts “the Exile” is a central ideological concept. It serves to explain the destruction of the monarchic polities and the social and economic disasters associated with them in terms that YHWH punished Israel/Judah for having abandoned his ways. As it develops an image of an unjust Israel, it creates one of a just deity. But YHWH is not only imagined as just, but also as loving and forgiving, for the exile is presented as a transitory state: Exile is deeply intertwined with its discursive counterpart, the certain “Return”. As the Exile comes to be understood as a necessary purification or preparation for a renewal of YHWH’s proper relationship with Israel, the seemingly unpleasant Exilic conditions begin, discursively, to shape an image of YHWH as loving Israel and teaching it. Exile is dystopia, but one that carries in itself all the seeds of utopia. The concept of Exile continued to exercise an important influence in the discourses of Israel in the Second Temple period, and was eventually influential in the production of eschatological visions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110221787
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022177-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022178-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Images of Egypt in Early Biblical Literature

Cisjordan-Israelite, Transjordan-Israelite, and Judahite Portrayals

Stephen C. Russell

Volume 403 in this series

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This book suggests a regional paradigm for understanding the development of the traditions about Egypt and the exodus in the Hebrew Bible. It offers fresh readings of the golden calf stories in 1 Kgs 12:25-33 and Exod 32, the Balaam oracles in Num 22-24, and the Song of the Sea in Exod 15:1b-18 and from these paints a picture of the differing traditions about Egypt that circulated in Cisjordan Israel, Transjordan Israel, and Judah in the 8th century B.C.E. and earlier.
In the north, an exodus from Egypt was celebrated in the Bethel calf cult as a journey of Israelites from Egypt to Cisjordan, without a detour eastward to Sinai. This exodus was envisioned in military terms as suggested by the nature of the polemic in Exod 32, and the attribution of the exodus to the warrior Yahweh, Israel’s own deity. In the east, a tradition of deliverance from Egypt was celebrated, rather than the idea of a journey, and it was credited to El. In the south, Egypt was recognized as a major enemy, whom Yahweh had defeated, but the traditions there were not formulated in terms of an exodus.
While acknowledging the reshaping of these traditions in response to the exile, Images of Egypt argues that they originated in the pre-exilic period and relate to Syro-Palestinian history as it is otherwise known.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110221725
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022171-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022172-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

The First Book of God

Tzemah L. Yoreh

Volume 402 in this series

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In this book the author thoroughly examines the pentateuchal elohistic source, its structural unity and its relationship to the yahwistic source. His conclusions differ considerably from the accepted paradigm in the following ways: 1) In contrast to current scholarly opinions, it is assumed that E is the first basic pentateuchal source and that it predates J. J functions as E’s first supplementary redactor – much as F. M. Cross, among others, conceived of P’s redaction of J. 2) The name “Elohim” is used exclusively by the elohistic source even after Exodus 3 while the verses in Exodus 3 revealing Yahweh’s name can be shown to be later additions. 3) Instead of the fragmentary source described by scholars, this study demonstrates the literary unity of E.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110221688
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022167-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022168-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

David und Klio

Historiographische Elemente in der Aufstiegsgeschichte Davids und im Alten Testament

André Heinrich

Volume 401 in this series

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This study pursues two goals: On the one hand, it examines the origins of a part of the Old Testament books of Samuel (the so-called “Story of David’s Rise”, and in particular its first seven chapters: 1 Samuel 15–21). Based on the results thereof, on the other hand, it poses the question of whether and to what extent the books of Samuel can be considered to be historical writing. For this purpose, it fruitfully applies above all the ideas of the German history theoretician, Jörn Rüsen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212747
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020695-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021274-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Die Erzväter in der biblischen Tradition

Festschrift für Matthias Köckert

Anselm C. Hagedorn, Henrik Pfeiffer

Volume 400 in this series

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The essays compiled in this festschrift deal with different aspects of the literary genesis and the biblical and non-biblical reception of the patriarchal narratives (Gen 12-50). Besides classic literary-critical approaches, cultural anthropological and religious-historical perspectives are also discussed. Current proposals concerning the origins of the Pentateuch are subjected to critical examination and developed further.

This collection of essays pays tribute to Matthias Köckert, long-standing editor of the book review in the Zeitschrift für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW) and commentator of the Abraham narrative.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209792
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020978-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020979-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Die aramäischen Achikar-Sprüche aus Elephantine und die alttestamentliche Weisheitsliteratur

Michael Weigl

Volume 399 in this series

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The monograph provides a literary, form critical and genre historical examination of the most extensive body of wise sayings recorded in the Ancient Aramaic language. The papyri upon which the collection has been preserved in its oldest traditional form, was discovered in connection with a Jewish-Aramaic military colony on Elephantine Island in the Nile, southern Egypt, at the beginning of the 20th century and dated at around the middle of the fifth century BC. The proverbs of Achikar were one of the most popular and, in terms of their historical impact and influence, most significant subjects of late Antique Oriental wisdom literature. On these papyri they are connected to a wisdom narrative with a later date of origin. Despite their outstanding form critical and literary historical significance, previous study of this collection of proverbs has dealt almost exclusively with aspects of their dialect geography and grammar, but has not examined them from a comparative literary perspective. With this monograph, the author attempts to remedy this research deficit and particularly to illustrate important formal and literary interconnections with Old Testament Wisdom Literature against the backdrop of related traditions. The results are far reaching insights into the interregional and intercultural characteristics of the (early Jewish?) discourse on wisdom and into possible formal and literary connections to central Old Testament Wisdom Literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212099
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021208-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021209-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Rumors of Wisdom

Job 28 as Poetry

Scott C. Jones

Volume 398 in this series

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Efforts at interpreting Joban poetry have often been divided between philological and literary critics. This study brings these two critical modes together to offer an account of how Job 28 achieves meaning. The heart of the study consists of two major sections. The first is a reading of the poem with special attention to the conceptual background of its metaphors. Rather than a poetic account of mining technology, Job 28 is properly understood against the heroic deeds of ancient Mesopotamian kings described in Sumerian and Akkadian royal narratives, especially the Gilgamesh epic. The second major section is a thorough philological and textual commentary in which comparative philological and text-critical methods are complemented by an aesthetic rationale for restoring the text of the poem as a work of art. The study reveals a multileveled and image-driven masterpiece whose complexity impacts how one reads Job 28 as poetry and theology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214789
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021477-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021478-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Die Lade Jahwes im Alten Testament und in den Texten vom Toten Meer

Peter Christian Porzig

Volume 397 in this series

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The book examines the history of the genesis of all the Old Testament texts where there is talk of "Jehovah's Ark" or "The Ark of the Covenant", i.e. in particular Exodus 25 and 40; Numbers 10; Joshua 3f. and 6-8; 1 Samuel (1-3) 4-6; 2 Samuel 6; 1 Kings 8 and Parallels; Jeremiah 3,16 and Psalm 132. The study attempts to proceed from the individual texts rather than be led by predefined superordinate models. The results show that the number and scope of old pre-exilic sources is significantly less than previously assumed. Only in 1 Samuel 4 are traces to be found of an old tradition, the literary growth of which started here. It can be assumed that the Ark never stood in King Solomon's Temple. It is rather the case that the majority of texts handed down are less evidence of pre-exilic religious history and more of the history of the post-exilic theology of Ancient Israel. This can be seen in exemplary fashion in researchers' quest for the contents of the Ark. One final chapter is devoted to incidences of the Ark of Jehovah in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here it occurs in what is known as the Damascus Document in a new role - in defence of David.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212938
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021292-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021293-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

The Transjordanian Palimpsest

The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in the Deuteronomistic History

Jeremy M. Hutton

Volume 396 in this series

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This study analyzes several passages in the Former Prophets (2 Sam 19:12-44; 2 Kgs 2:1-18; Judg 8:4-28) from a literary perspective, and argues that the text presents Transjordan as liminal in Israel’s history, a place from which Israel’s leaders return with inaugurated or renewed authority. It then traces the redactional development of Samuel-Kings that led to this literary symbolism, and proposes a hypothesis of continual updating and combination of texts, beginning early in Israel’s monarchy and continuing until the final formation of the Deuteronomistic History. Several source documents may be isolated, including three narratives of Saul’s rise, two distinct histories of David’s rise, and a court history that was subsequently revised with pro-Solomonic additions. These texts had been combined already in a Prophetic Record during the 9th c. B.C.E. (with A. F. Campbell), which was received as an integrated unit by the Deuteronomistic Historian. The symbolic geography of the Jordan River and Transjordan, which even extends into the New Testament, was therefore not the product of a deliberate theological formulation, but rather the accidental by-product of the contingency of textual redaction that had as its main goal the historical presentation of Israel’s life in the land.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212761
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020410-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021276-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness in Biblical Narratives

A Hermeneutical Study of Genesis 21:1-21

Kris Sonek

Volume 395 in this series

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A modern reader studying biblical narratives encounters various literary approaches and ways of understanding interpretive concepts. Hence an attempt to put forward a comprehensive hermeneutical model of reading biblical narratives. Such a model should aim at a synthesis of various approaches, and show how they are interrelated.
The book proposes a hermeneutical theory which uses modern approaches to literary texts for the exegesis of biblical narratives. The book discusses three spheres of the reader’s knowledge about reality: immanent, narrative, and transcendental. The move from immanent to transcendental knowledge through the mediation of narrative knowledge results from the mediatory role played by the biblical text, which refers the reader to a transcendent reality. This theory is then applied to the exegesis of Genesis 21:1-21, and involves the evaluation of the New Criticism, rhetorical criticism, structuralism and narrative analysis, reader-response criticism, the historical-critical method, as well as deconstruction. In order to satisfy the postulate of pluralism in interpretation, the hermeneutical theory draws upon a variety of ancient and modern sources such as Aristotle, T. S. Eliot, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Paul Ricœur.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209754
ISBN:: 9783110209747
ISBN:: 9783110209754
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Die hebräischen und griechischen Textformen der Samuel- und Königebücher

Studien zur Textgeschichte ausgehend von 2Sam 15,1-19,9

Jong-Hoon Kim

Volume 394 in this series

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The present study is concerned with the textual history of the Books of Samuel and of Kings, about which scholars have still not been able to agree. Various textual forms can be identified in these books, in both the Hebrew (MT, Qumran) and the Greek texts (“Kaige Recension”, “The Antiochian Text”). The text forms and their history are first analysed in more detail using 2 Sam 15:1-19:9. Working from this, the study then takes an overall view of the Books of Samuel and of Kings. Finally, a textual history is reconstructed from the 2nd Century BC up to the Middle Ages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212785
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020876-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021278-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

The Composition and Redaction of the Book of Amos

Tchavdar S. Hadjiev

Volume 393 in this series

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This Oxford dissertation offers a fresh redactional analysis of the Book of Amos. It starts with a critical survey of existing approaches and an examination of the methodological issues involved and proceeds with a detailed exegetical analysis of the prophetic text which forms the basis for the redactional conclusions. It steers a middle course between extreme conservative treatments which trace all the material back to the prophet Amos and more radical sceptical approaches which attribute most of the prophetic oracles to the work of later redactors. The composition of the book began with two collections: the Polemical scroll written not long after the end of Amos’ ministry and the Repentance scroll composed shortly before 722 BC. The Repentance scroll was reworked in Judah towards the end of the 8th century BC and the two scrolls were combined to form a single work sometime during the 7th century BC. The Book underwent only one redaction during the exilic period which sought to actualise its message in a new historical context. The study pays special attention to the literary structure, aim and probable historical circumstances of the various collections which gradually evolved into the present Book of Amos and seeks to show how the prophetic message lived on and spoke to the various communities which preserved and transmitted it.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212723
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021271-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021272-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Vom offenbaren und verborgenen Gott

Studien zur spätbiblischen Weisheit und Hermeneutik

Otto Kaiser

Volume 392 in this series

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The present volume contains writings by the renowned Marburg Old Testament scholar Otto Kaiser on the theology, anthropology and ethics of the Book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet, and on The Wisdom of Jesus, Son of Sirach (Ecclasisticus) and its background in the history of ideas and of theology. In addition there is an essay on topical problems of the history of salvation and one on present-day problems of the belief in eternal life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211009
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020556-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021100-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Schriftauslegung im Ezechielbuch

Redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu Ez 34-39

Anja Klein

Volume 391 in this series

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The Book of Ezekiel is remarkable for its extensive knowledge of Old Testament tradition. Individual texts and motifs are cited in the book and are then subjected to literary interpretation. The present study examines these citations and enquires into the significance of the interpretative processes for the growth of this Prophet. The chapters Ez 34-49 are foregrounded, with consideration being given to the text document Papyrus 967 for the Greek text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211146
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020858-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021114-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Zeit und Ewigkeit als Raum göttlichen Handelns

Religionsgeschichtliche, theologische und philosophische Perspektiven

Reinhard G. Kratz, Hermann Spieckermann

Volume 390 in this series

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The volume contains the papers from an international symposium held in 2007 by the Göttingen Graduate School on Images of Gods – Images of God – World Views: Polytheism and Monotheism in the Antique World. Working from the topic of Time and Eternity as Places of Divine Action, the contributors examine differing conceptions of time and eternity in a cultural region with intensive exchange. The papers deal with the Ancient Orient (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran), ancient philosophy (Aristotle, Plato, Stoa) and the three world religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211030
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020577-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021103-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Der Abschluss des Zwölfprophetenbuches

Buchübergreifende Redaktionsprozesse in den späten Sammlungen

Jakob Wöhrle

Volume 389 in this series

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This volume presents a study of the late stages in the genesis of the Book of the Twelve; it is based on a complete analysis of the editorial history of the Books of Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Deuterozachariah und Malachi and leads to a new model for the origin of the Book of the Twelve Prophets.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211153
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020674-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021115-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah

Hans M. Barstad, Reinhard G. Kratz

Volume 388 in this series

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This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium “Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah”, arranged by the Edinburgh Prophecy Network in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, 11–12 May 2007. Prophetic studies are undergoing radical changes at the moment, following the breakdown of a methodological consensus in humanities and biblical studies. One of the challenges today concerns the question how to deal with history in a “post-modern” age. The French Annales School and narrative theory have contributed toward changing the intellectual climate of biblical studies dramatically. Whereas the “historical Jeremiah” was formerly believed to be hidden under countless additions and interpretations, and changed beyond recognition, it was still assumed that it would be possible to recover the “real” prophet with the tools of historical critical methods. However, according to a majority of scholars today, the recovery of the historical Jeremiah is no longer possible. For this reason, we have to seek new and multimethodological approaches to the study of prophecy, including diachronic and synchronic methods. The Meeting in Edinburgh in 2007 gathered specialists in prophetic studies from Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the USA, focusing on different aspects of the prophet Jeremiah. Prophetic texts from the whole Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern prophecy are taken into consideration.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212815
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020506-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021281-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Jahwe als Wettergott

Studien zur althebräischen Kultlyrik anhand ausgewählter Psalmen

Reinhard Müller

Volume 387 in this series

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It has long been suspected that Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament, was originally a weather god of the same type as the Syrian Baal. The present study presents the exegetic basis for this. It demonstrates how the Psalter preserves various ancient cultic songs praising Yahweh as a royal weather god. Parallels in Syrian and Mesopotamian weather god traditions show that originally the Ancient Hebrew notion of God was not fundamentally different from that of its surroundings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211078
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020731-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021107-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Der Tyroszyklus des Ezechielbuches

Markus Saur

Volume 386 in this series

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The present study is devoted to an exact analysis of the Oracles against Tyre in the Book of Ezekiel, which are handed down in the Old Testament in Ez 26-28. The first main section locates the Old Testament text within literary history. The second section reconstructs the history of the coastal city of Tyre in the 1st millennium BC, using the Oracles against Tyre from the Book of Ezekiel as a source for the reconstruction of this history. A third section examines the image of Tyre and its development in the Old Testament as a whole.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211047
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020529-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021104-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Of Wings and Wheels

A Synthetic Study of the Biblical Cherubim

Alice Wood

Volume 385 in this series

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This study examines the physical form and cultic function of the biblical cherubim. Previous studies of the cherubim have placed too great an emphasis on archaeological and etymological data. This monograph presents a new synthetic study, which prioritises the evidence supplied by the biblical texts. Biblical exegesis, using literary and historical-critical methods, forms the large part of the investigation (Part I). The findings arising from the exegetical discussion provide the basis upon which comparison with etymological and archaeological data is made (Parts II and III).
The results suggest that traditions envisaging the cherubim as tutelary winged quadrupeds, with one head and one set of wings, were supplanted by traditions that conceived of them as more enigmatic, obeisant beings. In the portrayal of the cherubim in Ezekiel and Chronicles, we can detect signs of a conceptual shift that prefigures the description of the cherubim in post-biblical texts, such as The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and the Enochic texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211214
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020528-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021121-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

"When Gods Were Men"

The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature

Esther J. Hamori

Volume 384 in this series

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In the texts of Genesis 18 and 32, God appears to a patriarch in person and is referred to by the narrator as a man, both times by the Hebrew word īsh. In both texts, God as īsh is described in graphically human terms. This type of divine appearance is identified here as the "īsh theophany". The phenomenon of God appearing in concrete human form is first distinguished from several other types of anthropomorphism, such as divine appearance in dreams. The īsh theophany is viewed in relation to appearances of angels and other divine beings in the Bible, and in relation to anthropomorphic appearances of deities in Near Eastern literature. The īsh theophany has implications for our understanding of Israelite concepts of divine-human contact and communication, and for the relationship to Ugaritic literature in particular. The book also includes discussion of philosophical approaches to anthropomorphism. The development of philosophical opposition to anthropomorphism can be traced from Greek philosophy and early Jewish and Christian writings through Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides and Aquinas, and into the work of later philosophers such as Hume and Kant. However, the work of others can be applied fruitfully to the problem of divine anthropomorphism, such as Wittgenstein's language games.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110206715
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020348-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020671-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Vertrag, Treueid und Bund

Studien zur Rezeption des altorientalischen Vertragsrechts im Deuteronomium und zur Ausbildung der Bundestheologie im Alten Testament

Christoph Koch

Volume 383 in this series

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The notion that God, Yahweh, concluded a "Covenant" or "Contract" with his people of Israel plays a prominent part in the Old Testament. Numerous correspondences between the texts of Ancient Oriental contracts and the Book of Deuteronomy suggest that political treaties served as model for the theology of the biblical covenant. Using extant source material, the present study attempts to trace the complicated path into the Old Testament taken by an instrument used for the exercise of power in the Ancient Orient.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211238
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020245-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021123-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis

Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18

Claudia D. Bergmann

Volume 382 in this series

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Crises and catastrophes of all kinds have always confronted humans with great challenges. The present study examines the question of how literary texts process and deal with these challenges through the imaginary world of metaphors. It concentrates on the metaphor of childbirth, which compares people racked with crisis to women in labour (and sometimes vice versa). The texts examined are taken from the Ancient Orient and the Old Testament, together with a text exemplar from the Qumran corpus, which takes up the metaphor of childbirth and develops it further.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209815
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020042-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020981-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

The 'Foreignness' of the Foreign Woman in Proverbs 1-9

A Study of the Origin and Development of a Biblical Motif

Nancy Nam Hoon Tan

Volume 381 in this series

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This study is on the figure אשה זדה and נכד׳ה, also commonly called the ‘Strange Woman’ in Proverbs 1-9. It is an attempt to understand the meaning which defines her, and the origin and development of her motif. The first part argues against defining her as a sexual predator, but as an ethnic foreigner according to the lexical studies of זד and נכד. It traces her origin within the Hebrew scripture, the legal documents and especially to the DtrH's portrayal of foreign women/wives. Hence, it distinguishes the two motifs: the motif of the adulteress and the motif of the foreign woman; the latter, which symbolizes the temptation to apostasy. The study will then go on to explain how the writer of Proverbs 1-9 employs this motif of the foreign woman in his poetic composition. The second part tracks the development of this motif through the subsequent Jewish Wisdom literature and observes how it changes and loses the ‘foreignness’ of her original motif in Eccl. 7:26; 4Q184; LXX Proverbs; Hebrew Ben Sira; Greek Ben Sira; and finally disappears in Wisdom of Solomon. It proffers to understand this gradual transformation against a background of social and religious change.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209839
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020063-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020983-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

The Pragmatics of Perception and Cognition in MT Jeremiah 1:1-6:30

A Cognitive Linguistics Approach

Elizabeth Hayes

Volume 380 in this series

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Recent advances in cognitive linguistics provide new avenues for reading and interpreting Biblical Hebrew prophetic text. This volume utilises a multi-layered cognitive linguistics approach to explore Jeremiah 1:1-6:30, incorporating insights from cognitive grammar, cognitive science and conceptual blending theory. While the modern reader is separated from the originators of these texts by time, space and culture, this analysis rests on the theory that both the originators and the modern reader share common features of embodied experience. This opens the way for utilising cognitive models, conceptual metaphor and mental spaces theory when reading and interpreting ancient texts.
This volume provides an introduction to cognitive theory and method. Initially, short examples from Jeremiah 1:1-6:30 are used to introduce the theory and method. This is followed by a detailed comparison of traditional and cognitive approaches to Biblical Hebrew grammar. These insights are then applied to further examples taken from Jeremiah 1:1-6:30 in order to test and refine the approach. These findings show that Jeremiah 1:1-1:3 establishes perspective for the text as a whole and that subsequent shifts in perspective may be tracked using aspects of mental spaces theory. Much of the textual content yields to concepts derived from conceptual metaphor studies and from conceptual blending theory, which are introduced and explained using examples taken from Jeremiah 1:1-6:30.
The entire analysis demonstrates some of the strengths and weaknesses of using recent cognitive theories and methods for analysing and interpreting ancient texts. While such theories and methods do not obviate the need for traditional interpretive methods, they do provide a more nuanced understanding of the ancient text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211221
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020229-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021122-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Languages of Asia
Subject:: Semitic Languages
Subject:: Semitic Languages, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Weisheit aus der Begegnung

Bildung nach dem Buch Ben Sira

Frank Ueberschaer

Volume 379 in this series

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The foundation for this study is the Wisdom of Ben Sira, a book of wisdom from the beginning of the 2nd century BCE. As a teacher of wisdom, Ben Sira wishes to provide education. He is the first author in the context of the Old Testament to offer explicit reflections on the linked themes of wisdom and education. This study traces the conditions for education, the process of education, the aim of education, and thus the understanding of education in the Wisdom of Ben Sira. In addition, it provides an overview of the development of educational institutions and the understanding of education in the Ancient Orient and Greek context, at the interface of which the Wisdom of Ben Sira is located.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110204148
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020064-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020414-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Die Konfessionen Jeremias

Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Studie

Hannes Bezzel

Volume 378 in this series

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The study examines the five prayers known as Jeremiah’s confessions (Jer 11,18-12,6; 15,10-21; 17,14-18; 18,18-23; 20,7-18) in their immediate and wider context. Are they older or younger than the texts surrounding them? What is their significance in the Book of Jeremiah? The analysis aims to demonstrate how the form of the prophet’s apparently personal prayer is used to highlight the theological problem of unjust suffering. This process is carried out in a number of steps which consider not only Jer 11-20, but also Jer 1-20; 1-45, and finally 1-51.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110971934
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020043-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097193-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

The Return of YHWH

The Tension between Deliverance and Repentance in Isaiah 40–55

Blaženka Scheuer

Volume 377 in this series

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The theology of Isaiah 40-55 has two seemingly contradictory aspects: the tension between the consolatory message of deliverance, and the harsh tone of accusation and the call to repentance. This study argues that such tension does not necessarily disclose a different authorship, but that it expresses the basic nature of the relationship between YHWH and the Israelites, in which the actions of YHWH and the actions of the people stand in a relationship of interdependence. Such interdependence is essential for the re-establishment and the continued existence of the relationship between YHWH and his people, as well as for shaping the identity of both the exiled and the non-exiled Israelite communities in the latter part of the sixth century B.C.E.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211023
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019034-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021102-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Die Welt der Götterbilder

Brigitte Groneberg, Hermann Spieckermann, Frauke Weiershäuser

Volume 376 in this series

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Divine images create their own world of theological reflection and religious practice. Pictorial representations have to reduce complexity, yet at the same time they create their own complexity. The present volume examines this phenomenon with papers on fundamental issues and presentations of material from the Ancient Orient, Greece and the Hellenic world. Papers on the contact between Christianity and Islam in the matter of the veneration of images make clear what compensation strategies are developed when pictorial representations are subject to theological censure. The volume contains eighteen contributions from internationally renowned researchers writing in German and English.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110204155
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019463-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020415-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

„Alle Weisheit stammt vom Herrn …“

Gesammelte Studien zu Ben Sira

Friedrich V. Reiterer, Renate Egger-Wenzel

Volume 375 in this series

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The volume presents a collection of the studies produced by the exegetist Friedrich V. Reiterer (Salzburg) from his many years of intensive work on The Wisdom of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus). The individual studies have been revised and the numbering of the passages brought in line with the "Zählsynopse zum Buch Ben Sira" (Colometric Synopsis of the Wisdom of Ben Sira) edited by Reiterer in 2002.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110898835
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017814-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089883-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Studien zu Ritual und Sozialgeschichte im Alten Orient / Studies on Ritual and Society in the Ancient Near East

Tartuer Symposien 1998-2004

Thomas Richard Kämmerer

Volume 374 in this series

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This volume contains the revised versions of lectures that were delivered by scholars from Germany, England, USA, Finland and, more recently, Russia to the first five international symposia on ancient oriental languages and cultures held between 1998 and 2004 at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Tartu, Estonia. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of specific problems of the history of religion and medicine, of linguistics and of the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110204117
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019461-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020411-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Historiographie in der Antike

Klaus-Peter Adam

Volume 373 in this series

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Historiographical documents from Ancient Greece have existed at least since the time of Herodotus; an historical awareness developed before his time, as evidenced in historical omnia, epic literature from Mesopotamia, in the texts of Hittite letters and treaties, and in Egyptian sources. The book explores the conceptual and formal characteristics of texts from different contexts and epochs from the 3rd millennium until the 5th century AD, together with the evolution of historical awareness and interest in historiography.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110206722
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018890-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020672-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Moses in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Traditions

Axel Graupner, Michael Wolter

Volume 372 in this series

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The papers in this volume revolve around the history of the influence exerted by the person of Moses and the traditions associated with him. They deal not only with the function of the figure of Moses in the Pentateuch, the salvation in the Red Sea and the final day of Moses’ life, but also with the way Moses was received in the Deuteronomic history, the Psalms, the Book of Jeremiah, the Septuagint, in Qumran, early Jewish extra-biblical literature, the New Testament and the Early Church.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901368
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019460-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090136-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Die Geschichte der Daniel-Auslegung in Judentum, Christentum und Islam

Studien zur Kommentierung des Danielbuches in Literatur und Kunst

Katharina Bracht, David S. du Toit

Volume 371 in this series

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The subject of this volume is the history of the interpretation of the Book of Daniel, with topics ranging from the Book of Daniel itself, its reception in Hellenic Judaism, in St Mark's Gospel, in the ancient Church to representatives of the Middle Ages and the Reformation, and right up to Isaac Newton. Texts and works of art are discussed from all three monotheistic world religions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110896473
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019301-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089647-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Auf dem Weg zur Endgestalt von Genesis bis II Regum

Festschrift Hans-Christoph Schmitt zum 65. Geburtstag am 11.11.2006

Martin Beck, Ulrike Schorn

Volume 370 in this series

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This Festschrift presents papers by colleagues and friends of Hans-Christoph Schmitt on the history of the Old Testament from Genesis to 2 Kings and on the final conception of these books. The research findings presented here illuminate the processes responsible for the composition and collation of the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomic History or even - as the honoree proposed - of an enneateuch.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923230
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018576-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092323-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth

Y. V. Koh

Volume 369 in this series

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This book examines the literary genre(s) to which the book of Qoheleth belongs and on which it is modelled. It suggests that Qoheleth is best described as a royal autobiography based on the arguments of specific literary features of style and content, resemblance to various kinds of royal autobiographical narrative from the ancient Near East, and the existence, despite first impressions, of a coherent worldview. The analyses in this book cover various aspects from textual criticism, through aspects of vocabulary and style, to the interpretation of particular passages and the problem of making sense of the book as a whole.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923155
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019228-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092315-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

The Sanctuary of Bethel and the Configuration of Israelite Identity

Jules Francis Gomes

Volume 368 in this series

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After Jerusalem, Bethel is the most frequently cited sanctuary in the Hebrew Bible. The book offers a detailed analysis of Bethel and its sanctuary from archaeological and biblical evidence. It reconstructs the history of Bethel and by analysing the presence of pro- and anti-Bethel propaganda, it argues that the latter, with its own pro-Jerusalem/Judah bias, has resulted in an unfair denigration of Bethel as an idolatrous place of worship. The study suggests that Bethel was a legitimate Yahwistic shrine and continued to be so even after the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians. Hence, Bethel in a real sense was the principal means of configuring Israelite identity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110925180
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018993-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092518-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

"Juda wird aufsteigen!"

Untersuchungen zum ersten Kapitel des Richterbuches

Mareike Rake

Volume 367 in this series

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The study deals with a key passage within the composition of the historical books of the Old Testament and proposes a new solution to the problems of Judg 1. Using detailed literary critical analyses together with the context of historical editorial considerations beyond the limits of the book itself, the author proves that the peculiar report of the occupation of land in Judg 1 never existed independently - in the sense of a "negative inventory" - but from its inception was written as a pro-Judaic programmatic text for its literary context. Thus Judg 1 cannot be used as a source for the early history of Israel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918045
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019072-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091804-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Die Rolle der Tag-JHWHs-Dichtungen im Dodekapropheton

Paul-Gerhard Schwesig

Volume 366 in this series

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The texts thematising the Day of JHWH are Am 5,18-20; Zp 1,2-18; Ob; Jl 2,1-11; 4,1-17; Zc 14; Ml 3,13-21.22-24. They are interpreted within the context of their relevant books, their connections with preliminary editorial phases of the Book of the Twelve are investigated, and their connections with each other are examined on both a diachronic and a synchronic level. The results of this study feed into the current debate on the origins and unity of the Book of the Twelve and the history of the concept of the Day of JHWH.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110925081
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019017-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092508-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Die deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerke

Redaktions- und religionsgeschichtliche Perspektiven zur "Deuteronomismus"-Diskussion in Tora und Vorderen Propheten

Jan Christian Gertz, Doris Prechel, Konrad Schmid, Markus Witte, Johannes F. Diehl

Volume 365 in this series

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The volume presents a collection of international papers on the literary genesis of the deuteronomistic history and on “Deuteronomism” in the books from Genesis to Kings. They discuss the essence of Old Testament historiography together with the overall historical editorial and compositional relationship between “Pentateuch”, “Hexateuch” and “Early Prophets”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927344
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018667-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092734-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Primäre und sekundäre Religion als Kategorie der Religionsgeschichte des Alten Testaments

Andreas Wagner

Volume 364 in this series

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The change in the "type of religion" in ancient Israel from the time of Exile to the post-exilic period, which was paralleled by and connected with the creation of a canon, has been the subject of various research studies in religious history. It is the purpose of the present volume of collected papers to examine whether and how the categories of "Primary and secondary religion" developed by T. Sundermeier and J. Assmann can be used to describe this change. The volume combines contributions from various disciplines (Theology/Old Testament Studies, Egyptology, Ancient Oriental Studies, Classical Studies and Religious Studies).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110899009
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018499-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089900-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Jahre, Jahrwochen und Jubiläen

Heptadische Geschichtskonzeptionen im Antiken Judentum

Christoph Berner

Volume 363 in this series

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This study presents the first analysis of all the heptadically structured models of Jewish history from the time of the Second Temple. It deals with Daniel 9, the Ethiopian Book of Henoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Qumran texts and the Testament of Levi. Detailed individual exegesis shows that each text displays an individual theology of history. There is no universally valid reference chronology behind those commonalities which can be registered; instead, the writers work with the same chronological traditions, but restructure them according to their own theological interests.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200768
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019054-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020076-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Was ist ein Text?

Alttestamentliche, ägyptologische und altorientalistische Perspektiven

Ludwig Morenz, Stefan Schorch

Volume 362 in this series

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The work of Egyptologists, scholars in Ancient Oriental Studies and biblical exegesis concentrates on texts which are translated, commented on, and used as sources. The production and reception of texts in these closely interrelated cultures hardly seems comparable to corresponding models in our world. The present volume resulted from a conference on those differences and commonalities, and addresses the question of what constitutes a linguistic "text" in the cultures referred to. It presents papers on the reconstruction of culturally specific concepts of text from the perspective of the disciplines concerned.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110924336
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018496-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092433-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Provocation and Punishment

The Anger of God in the Book of Jeremiah and Deuteronomistic Theology

Samantha Joo

Volume 361 in this series

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This book examines the problem of theodicy arising from the fall of Jerusalem (587 B.C.E.) in the book of Jeremiah. It explores the ways in which the authors of the book of Jeremiah tried to explain away their God's responsibility while clinging to the idea of divine mastery over human affairs. In order to trace the development of a particular book's understanding of God's role in meting out punishments, this book analyzes all the passages containing the word pivotal, הכעיס (“to provoke to anger”) in Deuteronomistic History and the book of Jeremiah.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110909937
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018994-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090993-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Die frühen Sammlungen des Zwölfprophetenbuches

Entstehung und Komposition

Jakob Wöhrle

Volume 360 in this series

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The book deals with the genesis of the Book of the Four Prophets (Hosea, Amos, Micah, Zephaniah) from the time of exile, the Haggai-Zechariah-Corpus and the integration of the Book of Joel into the Book of the Four Prophets from the time of exile. In contrast to previous research, the findings are based for the first time on an analysis of the editorial history of each of the individual books. Thus it is possible to provide a precise description of the composition, intention and historical theological backgrounds of these early collections.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922936
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018996-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092293-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Mais tu élargiras mon cœur

Nouvelle étude structurelle du psaume 119

Pierre Auffret

Volume 359 in this series

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After a structural analysis of each stanza, the author analyzes all structural units beginning with the first stanza (including the sequence of stanzas I through XII) and afterwards in reverse order the study of all units leading towards stanza XXII (including the sequence of stanzas XII through XXII).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911053
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018889-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091105-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Davids Thron

Redaktionskritische Studien zur Geschichte von der Thronnachfolge Davids

Thilo A. Rudnig

Volume 358 in this series

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The book addresses the literary problems posed by II Sam 9 – I Kings 1f. The starting point is provided by contemporary pro-dynastic source texts, which under Solomon’s reign were already edited to provide a foundation document for the nascent dynasty. Intensive theological debates are reflected in several comprehensive reworkings until the 3rd century BC. One edit influenced by the connection between action and effect lends the text its theological profile.

The study results in important new insights into the early kingdom of Israel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110920536
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018848-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092053-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Au-delà du refus: l'espoir

Recherches sur la cohérence narrative de Jr 32-45 (TM)

Elena Di Pede

Volume 357 in this series

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This synchronic analysis of the longest narrative passage of the Book of Jeremiah uses a specific narratological method to try to resolve some riddles of the text, e.g., the curious narrative sequence of chap. 32, the "chaotic" chronology, and the intention of the report. It focuses on the characters and their relations, especially Jeremiah himself as mediator of God's word - but also other characters. Finally, the chapters 32-45 are determined to be an original narrative unit.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110924220
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018846-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092422-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Der "Tag YHWHs" im Dodekapropheton

Studien im Spannungsfeld von Traditions- und Redaktionsgeschichte

Martin Beck

Volume 356 in this series

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The study deals with the central Day of YHWH texts Am 5:18-20; Zp 1:2-18, 2:1-3, Jl 1:15-20, 2:1-11, 3:1-5, 4:14-17; Zc 14; Ml 2,17-3,5; 3:13-24. First, they are subjected to a literary analysis, and then their references are evaluated in a methodologically differentiated manner. Thus the study makes a contribution to the ongoing intensive debate about the genesis and unity of the Dodecapropheton.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110926743
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018575-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092674-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Vereinte Suche nach JHWH

Die Hiskianische und Josianische Reform in der Chronik

Hee-Sook Bae

Volume 355 in this series

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In contrast to the Deuteronomist, the Chronicler places great value on presenting the reforms carried out by Ezechias/Hezekiah. The present study examines the reasons for this and attempts to locate the Chronicler's work historically and theologically from this perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927474
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018451-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092747-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

The Hermeneutics of the 'Happy' Ending in Job 42:7-17

Kenneth Numfor Ngwa

Volume 354 in this series

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The hermeneutics employed in this work is partly referred to as hindsight hermeneutics, and upholds the resonance and dissonance between the Epilogue of the Book of Job and the preceding sections. Within the Theophany-epilogue continuum, rebuke and approval, retribution and its suspension, divine transcendence and accessibility are all held together. The dramatically discordant traditions in the preceding section are not interpreted as competing alternatives but as complementary possibilities for understanding the nature of the divine-human relationship and responding to the threat and reality of chaos and suffering.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927337
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018412-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092733-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

The Vitality of Enjoyment in Qohelet's Theological Rhetoric

Eunny P. Lee

Volume 353 in this series

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This study explores the interplay between the commendation of enjoyment and the injunction to fear God in Ecclesiastes. Previous studies have tended to examine these seemingly antithetical themes in isolation from one another. Seeing enjoyment and fear to be positively correlated, however, enables a fresh articulation of the book’s theology. Enjoyment of life lies at the heart of Qohelet’s vision of piety, which may be characterized as faithful realism, calling for an authentic engagement with both the tragic and joyous dimensions of human existence.

Winner of the 2007 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923063
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018441-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092306-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Cultic Prophecy in the Psalms

John W. Hilber

Volume 352 in this series

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Doubts about the contribution of cult-prophetic speech to psalmody remain in debate. Psalms containing first-person divine speech exhibit numerous features and suggest life settings that conform to actual prophetic speech. Alternative explanations lack comparable examples external to psalms. On the other hand, Assyrian cultic prophecies parallel the characteristics of prophetic speech found in psalms. The Assyrian sources support possible composition and performance scenarios that overcome objections raised against the compatibility of genuine prophecy with psalmody. A model of cultic prophecy remains the best explanation for the origin of psalms containing first-person divine speech.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912739
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018440-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091273-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Profanität und Sakralisierung im Alten Testament

Volker Wagner

Volume 351 in this series

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Old Testament texts on the Sabbath, on the domestic utilisation of animals and on legal life are examined for evidence of profanity and sacralisation. The sources do not reveal whether the profanity of the areas examined is the result of a process of secularisation. They show rather that the cult is advancing into everyday life – the cultic community provides its own specific means for maintaining customs and usages deemed worthy of protection and for establishing legal peace.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110891805
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018463-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089180-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Abram - Abraham

Kompositionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu Genesis 14, 15 und 17

Benjamin Ziemer

Volume 350 in this series

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This substantial contribution to Pentateuch research shows paradigmatically how the politico-geographical concepts from Genesis 14 and the concepts of the theology of promise in Gen 15 are taken up and specifically re-formed in Gen 17 and the final editorial layer. The hypothesis that Genesis is a basic priestly document is challenged, and instead, Genesis 17 is acknowledged as the keystone which was created specially for the final compositional systematisation of Genesis as an immediate prelude to the publication of the Torah (approx. 400 BC) and left a lasting mark on the Biblical image of Abraham.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199611
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018294-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019961-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Das Werden des Buches Hosea

Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung

Roman Vielhauer

Volume 349 in this series

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The study examines the redaction history of the whole of the Book of Hosea; starting from a nucleus in Hosea 4-9, the book grew to its present form in a successive manner. Accordingly, the historical reviews from Hosea 9:10 on and the symbolic biographical actions in Hosea 1 and 3 represent later editorial layers. Thus a historical literary and theological link is formed spanning the period from the beginnings of prophetic writings in the 8th century BC to their reception in Qumran.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907100
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018242-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090710-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Rebuilding Identity

The Nehemiah-Memoir and its Earliest Readers

Jacob L. Wright

Volume 348 in this series

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This monograph presents a fresh and detailed treatment of the problems posed by the Nehemiah-Memoir. Starting from the pre-critical interpretations of Ezra-Neh, the study demonstrates that the use of the first-person does not suffice as a criterion for distinguishing between the verba Neemiae and the additions of later authors. The earliest edition of the Memoir is confined to a building report, which was expanded as early generations of readers developed the implications of Nehemiah's accomplishments for the consolidation and centralization of Judah. The expansions occasioned in turn the composition of the history of the "Restoration" in Ezra-Neh.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927207
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018319-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092720-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Ezra the Scribe

The Development of Ezra 7-10 and Nehemia 8

Juha Pakkala

Volume 347 in this series

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This monograph investigates the literary development of Ezra 7-10 and Neh 8. With a detailed literary critical analysis, the investigation shows that the text was produced in several successive editorial phases for at least two centuries. Thus the final text cannot be used for historical purposes. The oldest text emerged as a short narrative, entirely written in the third person. It describes how a Torah scribe (Schriftgelehrter) called Ezra came from Babylon to Jerusalem to reinstate the written Torah. In the later editorial phases, Ezra's role was transformed from a scribe to a priest who brought cultic vessels to the Temple. The editorial development reveals that the text was originally influenced by Deuteronomy and the (Deutero)nomistic theology. Later, it came under priestly and Levitical influence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110915624
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018280-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091562-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Perspectives on the Song of Songs / Perspektiven der Hoheliedauslegung

Anselm C. Hagedorn

Volume 346 in this series

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The collection of essays contains nineteen contributions that aim at locating the Song of Songs in its ancient context as well as addressing problems of interpretation and the reception of this biblical book in later literature. In contrast to previous studies this work devotes considerable attention to parallels from the Greek world without neglecting the Ancient Near East or Egypt. Several contributions deal with the use of the Song in Byzantine, Medieval, German Romantic and modern Greek Literature. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the collection new perspectives and avenues of approach are opened.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110897012
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017632-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089701-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Gott und Mensch im Dialog

Festschrift für Otto Kaiser zum 80. Geburtstag

Markus Witte

Volume 345 in this series

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The Festschrift offers contributions on religious communication in the Ancient Near East and in Classical Antiquity. One of the main foci of the volumes, which are a result of a collaboration of 57 reseachers from Europe, South Africa and the U.S.A., includes studies on the Pentateuch, the Book of Isaiah, Old Testamentary wisdom and biblical hermeneutics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910001
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018354-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091000-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

The Social Meanings of Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible

A Study of Four Writings

David Janzen

Volume 344 in this series

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This work uses anthropological theory and field studies to investigate the social function and meaning of sacrifice. All rituals, including sacrifice, communicate social beliefs and morality, but these cannot be determined outside of a study of the social context. Thus, there is no single explanation for sacrifice - such as those advanced by René Girard or Walter Burkert or late-19^th and early-20^th century scholars. The book then examines four different writings in the Hebrew Bible - the Priestly Writing, the Deuteronomistic History, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Chronicles - to demonstrate how different social origins result in different social meanings of sacrifice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110904819
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018158-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090481-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

L'oracle de Nathan et l'unité du livre d'Isaïe

Dominique Janthial

Volume 343 in this series

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This monograph enquires into the unity of the Book of Isaiah. Was the final text of Isaiah intended to give an answer to the prophet Nathan's questioning of YHWH's faithfulness to his promises to David (II Sam 7)? The background to Nathan's prophecy - anchored above all in the union between the Royal House of David and the House of YHWH - forms the thread leading the reader through the 66 chapters of the Book of Isaiah and presenting it as the inheritance of the promise. The added meaning given by the final redaction in its turn poses the question of the role played by redactors in the prophetic literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110915693
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018183-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091569-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

The Turn of the Cycle

1 Samuel 1–8 in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

Serge Frolov

Volume 342 in this series

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The monograph produces a new interpretation of the opening chapter of 1 Samuel by combining several hermeneutical models, including the theory of chaotic (dynamically unstable) systems and the most recent, essentially post-modern, form criticism, to produce a new interpretation of the opening chapters of 1 Samuel. It argues that 1 Samuel 1-8 is an integral literary unit whose stance on such pivotal issues as monarchy and cultic centralization poorly agrees with that of the balance of Deuteronomy - Kings. In the diachronic perspective, this unit can be construed as a post-Deuteronomistic redactional interpolation polemically directed against several planks of the Deuteronomic/Deuteronomistic agenda. In the synchronic perspective, the pattern of relationship between 1 Samuel 1-8 and the balance of Genesis - Kings calls for a non-linear, multi-dimensional reading of the corpus. Both interpretational trajectories lead to the conclusion that the thrust of the Former Prophets in its final form is controlled to a considerable extent by non-Deuteronomistic elements.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907353
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018123-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090735-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Chaos Uncreated

A Reassessment of the Theme of "Chaos" in the Hebrew Bible

Rebecca S. Watson

Volume 341 in this series

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This monograph presents a challenge to the view that the Hebrew Bible contains allusions to Yahweh’s battle with chaos, showing how the term has been inappropriately applied in a range of contexts where far more diverse spheres of imagery should instead be recognised. Through the construction of a careful diachronic model (developed with particular reference to the Psalter), the author presents a persuasive case for reversing common assumptions about the development of Israelite religion, finding instead that the combat motif was absent in the earliest period, whilst the slaying of a dragon was attributed to Yahweh only in a distinctive monotheistic adaptation, which arose from around 587 B.C.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110900866
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017993-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090086-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Die Königspsalmen

Studien zur Entstehung und Theologie

Markus Saur

Volume 340 in this series

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This monograph examines the Royal Psalms against the background of recent advances in research into the Psalms and the Psalter, which addresses not only the detailed examination of the individual texts but also the connections between the individual psalms. A detailed textual analysis refutes the thesis that the Royal Psalms were composed exclusively before the time of exile, showing a literary development beyond the time of exile and demonstrating that the Royal Psalms display a coherent theology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913255
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018015-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091325-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

1 Das Buch Genesis

Stefan Schorch

Part of the multi-volume work Die Vokale des Gesetzes

Volume 339 in this series

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Beside the Masoretic text, the orally transmitted Samaritan reading tradition is the most important source for the vocalisation of the Torah. The author points to parallel developments in Qumran, and sees the development of the Samaritan tradition from the 2^nd century BC as part of the creation of specific group identities within Judaism, and examines its transmission. In addition, the work offers a comprehensive analysis of the more than 400 textually relevant differences in vocalisation between the Samaritan and Masoretic traditions in the Book of Genesis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110924039
ISBN:: 9783110181012
ISBN:: 9783110924039
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice

Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities

Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Volume 338 in this series

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The Hebrew Bible portrays King Manasseh and child sacrifice as the most reprehensible person and the most objectionable practice within the story of 'Israel'. This monograph suggests that historically, neither were as deviant as the Hebrew Bible appears to insist. Through careful historical reconstruction, it is argued that Manasseh was one of Judah's most successful monarchs, and child sacrifice played a central role in ancient Judahite religious practice. The biblical writers, motivated by ideological concerns, have thus deliberately distorted the truth about Manasseh and child sacrifice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110899641
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017994-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089964-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Das Edikt des Artaxerxes

Eine Untersuchung zum religionspolitischen und historischen Umfeld von Esra 7,12–26

Sebastian Grätz

Volume 337 in this series

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The letter from a King Artaxerxes to Ezra recounted in Ezra 7 is interpreted against the background of royal Hellenistic foundations and gifts. The euergetism rooted in the Hellenistic kingly ideology cannot be shown for the Persian royal ideology. Thus, Ezra 7 probably belongs into (early) Hellenistic times. This has consequences firstly for the understanding of the letter as an historical document, but then also for those historical models which seek to explain the genesis of the Torah principally from Ezra 7.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110900996
ISBN:: 9783110179675
ISBN:: 9783110900996
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Hiob und sein Anwalt

Die Prosatexte des Hiobbuches und ihre Rolle in seiner Redaktions- und Rezeptionsgeschichte

Wolf-Dieter Syring

Volume 336 in this series

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The study examines the prose sections of the Book of Job and their relationship to the poetic dialogues. The core of the study consists of a detailed critical literary analysis of the prose texts (Job 1,1-2,13; 32,1-5; 42,7-17), complemented by an examination of the poetic texts with related content (especially Job 27-31). The evaluation of the redaction history based on these examinations leads to the conclusion that a redactor combined pre-forms of Job's dialogue and the narrative to a composite work, and thus formed the image of Job which has determined the history of its reception.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110896039
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018102-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089603-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Von Hebron nach Jerusalem

Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Studie zur Erzählung von König David in II Sam 1-5

Alexander Achilles Fischer

Volume 335 in this series

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Recent research has led to a weakening of the two classical hypotheses on the story of David's rise and a succession narrative. Instead, attention has focussed on the texts in II Samuel 1-5, which are seen as being of crucial importance for the literary genesis of the story of David. The present study reveals a first continuous account from before the time of exile, which was produced in the 7th century BC. Thus it explains David's double kingship of Israel and Juda as a proto-deuteronomistic foundation narrative from the late Age of Kings. The study closes with a sketch of the editorial history of the David narratives in II Samuel and a revision of the historical records.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919561
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017899-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091956-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Judit – über Schönheit, Macht und Widerstand im Krieg

Eine feministisch-intertextuelle Lektüre

Claudia Rakel

Volume 334 in this series

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The Book of Judith contains a veritable wealth of intertextual references. Models for the figure of Judith were not just provided by Moses, David and Judas Maccabeus, but also by biblical female figures who were either the victims or themselves the perpetrators of violence. The study is centred on the song in Judith 16, 1-17, which provides a theological interpretation of the events in the Book of Judith and puts forward the statement that God crushes wars. In the intertextual biblical dialogue, the Book of Judith is read as a plea for resistance to a violent regime, not with warlike means but through the strategic deployment of female beauty.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110899986
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017926-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089998-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Wesen und Wirken der Weisheit in der Sapientia Salomonis

Martin Neher

Volume 333 in this series

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The author addresses the controversial question of whether the personification of wisdom in the Sapientia Salomonis already represents a hypostasis or whether it is merely a preliminary stage in the sense of a poetic personification. Following an analysis of the historical traditions of the relevant wisdom texts in Proverbs 1-9, Job 28, Ecclesiasticus 1:1-10 and 24, the author proceeds to interpret the central texts of the Sapientia Salomonis (Wisdom 1:1-10; 7:1-8:1; 9:1-18 and 0:1-11:1).

When looking at the concept of wisdom and the associated problem of the mediation between God and the human being, one must assume that there are influences from contemporary philosophy, as numerous philosophical borrowings are to be found in the late Jewish text (Middle Stoa: Poseidonios of Apamea; Middle Platonism: Antiochos of Ascalon, Eudoros of Alexandria).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110925265
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017880-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092526-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Abraham, Blessing and the Nations

A Philological and Exegetical Study of Genesis 12:3 in its Narrative Context

Keith N. Grüneberg

Volume 332 in this series

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This monograph investigates Genesis 12:3 in its context in the final form of Genesis. The author argues that the verse is, first, a promise of security and greatness to Abraham and Israel. However, its position following Genesis 1-11 also indicates a divine plan to extend blessing to all the peoples of the earth. Supporting this understanding of the verse, the author examines the close parallels that Genesis and Numbers 24:9 have to Genesis 12:3. He also presents a detailed consideration of the concept of blessing in the Old Testament and of the niphal and hithpael stems of the verb barak.

Ph.D. dissertation under the supervision of Dr R. W. L. Moberly, Durham, UK.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110895117
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017837-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089511-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Auf den Spuren der schriftgelehrten Weisen

Festschrift für Johannes Marböck anlässlich seiner Emeritierung

Irmtraud Fischer, Ursula Rapp, Johannes Schiller

Volume 331 in this series

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This volume of papers presented as a Festschrift to Professor Johannes Marböck on the occasion of his retirement is devoted to his most important field of work - the wisdom literature of the Old Testament. In their papers, numerous renowned scholars cast light on this topic from a wide variety of perspectives.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923988
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017889-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092398-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Que seulement de tes yeux tu regardes ...

Etude structurelle de treize psaumes

Pierre Auffret

Volume 330 in this series

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The author again presents a collection of studies examining the literary structure of the Psalms (in this case 9-10, 37, 46-48, 68, 78, 105, 106, 143) (cf. BZAW 235 and 289). The study starts by listing structural elements (recurrences of terms, phonetic similarities, synonyms, turns of phrase, oppositions) and working from these examines first the smallest structures, and then proceeds to larger and larger structures until the structure of the whole psalm has been revealed. It is thus possible to incorporate into the interpretation all the relationships inherent in the text itself, which thus provides a major part of its meanings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200751
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017867-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020075-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Segen für Isaak

Eine rezeptionsästhetische Auslegung von Gen 26 und Kotexten

Detlef Dieckmann

Volume 329 in this series

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In contrast to the romantic aesthetic of originality, this analysis of the texts of Genesis 26 and its co-texts proceeds from an aesthetic of valuing repetitions and 'doubling'. After presenting the concept of interpretation based on a reception aesthetic, the study reconstructs the process of reading Genesis 12:10–20, Genesis 20 and Genesis 26, considering not only Christian secondary literature, but also making extensive use of Jewish exegeses.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892390
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017761-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089239-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Finding Morality in the Diaspora?

Moral Ambiguity and Transformed Morality in the Books of Esther

Charles D. Harvey

Volume 328 in this series

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This volume explores issues of moral character found in the different text versions of the book of Esther. First the study suggests the two most common approaches to perceived moral problems in the story of Esther: avoidance and transformation. Then it investigates selected portions of the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint Text, and the Greek Alpha-Text stories of Esther, focusing on issues of morality via character analysis. Finally it concentrates on the moral ambiguity found in all three versions, and on the ways in which moral character in the Greek stories has been transformed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110893960
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017743-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089396-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Opferkult und Priestertum in Alt-Israel

Ein kultur- und religionswissenschaftlicher Beitrag

Ulrike Dahm

Volume 327 in this series

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The study examines the ancient Israelite sacrificial cult and the priestly genealogies of the Hebrew Bible from a cultural and historical religious perspective.

The first section accesses the collective biography of the Zadokite-Aaronite lineages through genealogical analysis. The beginnings of their office as High Priests can be dated back to the 4th century BC. A multidimensional approach to the Levites can be demonstrated. The second section analyses the sacrificial rites (Ex 12 and Lev 1-7) and shows them to be cultural communication media. The statements and messages of Pesach and other rites are presented. An authorship hypothesis on the basis of cultural anthropological findings concludes this study which proposes a revaluation of the development of the priesthood in the era of the Second Temple.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110897036
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017669-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089703-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Geschichte und Theologie

Studien zur Exegese des Alten Testaments und zur Religionsgeschichte Israels

Rainer Albertz, Ingo Kottsieper, Jakob Wöhrle, Gabi Kern

Volume 326 in this series

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Besides two hitherto unpublished papers, this collection contains 15 of Rainer Albertz' papers from the period 1978 - 2000. They reflect the author's concern to understand biblical developments against the background of the religious and socio-historical developments and currents in Israel and the Ancient Orient. The volume includes, for example, reflections on the development of the tradition of prehistory, of the commandment to honour one's parents, of the issue of monotheism, or of the significance of personal piety. The collection is completed with socio-historical studies on the social background to the Book of Job or the moving forces behind the Deuteronomistic History, together with approaches to the editorial history of the Books of Jeremiah and Deuteroisaiah.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110897005
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017633-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089700-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Thematic Threads in the Book of the Twelve

Paul L. Redditt, Aaron Schart

Volume 325 in this series

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For some years the view has become established that the Book of the Twelve is a systematically structured literary unity. An exegesis which takes the final canonical text seriously undertakes to understand the structure and theological intention of this unity. The papers collected here attempt to reveal significant structures which overarch the individual components. Particular emphasis is placed on the reconstruction of thematic threads which are created when individual prophets take up topics from their predecessors (e.g. Jehovah's Day, conversion, role of the peoples) and intensify them. The papers were written between 1999 and 2002 under the aegis of the Society of Biblical Literature's Working Group on The Formation of the Book of the Twelve.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892512
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017594-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089251-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Der Ruf in die Entscheidung

Studien zur Komposition, zur Entstehung und Vorgeschichte, zum Wirklichkeitsverständnis und zur kanonischen Stellung von Lev 20

Ludwig Massmann

Volume 324 in this series

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An interpretation of Lev 20, updated for publication. In addition to classical methods of exegesis, it also uses other approaches, particularly those from cultural anthropology. The study first clarifies the scholarly prerequisites, working on the assumption that Lev 17-26 is an integral part of the Priestly Source ("P" text). The text itself is examined in both its synchronic and diachronic aspects and identified as a reader and sermon which reflects internal Jewish conflicts in the post-exile community. The whole of the formulaic content of the death sentences in Lev 20 is analysed thoroughly and discussed against the background of the thesis of "social death" (H.-P. Hasenfratz). Within the text complex of Lev 11-22, Lev 20 is concerned with irreversible impurity, which leads to exclusion from Israel, and the concluding interpretation of Israel as a people sacred to YHWH. The study closes with a theology of Lev 20 and a preview of the history of capital punishment in later Judaism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110902198
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017644-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090219-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Les biens pour rien en Qohéleth 5,9–6,6 ou. La traversée d’un contraste

Françoise Laurent

Volume 323 in this series

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This French work presents an exegetic and theological interpretation of Qoheleth's speech on riches (Ecclesiastes 5:9-6:6). The detailed exegetic analysis distinguishes the existential meaning from the anthropological and theological meaning, and develops a rhetorical figure of wisdom which is characterised by two aspects - either the denial of God or the reference to God. Using a parallel to the Book of Job, the intertextuality of the discourse of wisdom becomes clear.

To the extent that the critical literary and the hermeneutic approach foregrounds the text in its final form, it points directly to the internal tension of the text, which is marked by contrasts, and questions the conditions of the process of composition. This approach also provides a new access to Qoheleth's provocative thinking.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110904437
ISBN:: 9783110904437
ISBN:: 9783110174984
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Die sogenannte „Armenfrömmigkeit“ im nachexilischen Israel

Johannes Un-Sok Ro

Volume 322 in this series

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This study examines the thematisation of "poverty" in the Qumran, the Psalms and in the Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zephaniah) and the emerging religious conflict situation. It tests the thesis presented to an increasing degree in recent research that the so-called "piety of the poor" pre-supposes some "paupers' movement" among the exploited and destitute under-classes.

The author concludes that "poverty" is a form of existence with a religious foundation. The deficits which are bemoaned are not material in nature.

As a number of the theological positions and oppositions of the piety of the poor are reminiscent of the Qumran Essenes, it is not unreasonable to see there a structural parallel to the piety of the poor and to postulate historical connections of an intellectual and a theological nature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864793
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017471-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086479-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Historical, Political and Cultural Background
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Ben Sira's God

Proceedings of the International Ben Sira Conference, Durham - Ushaw College 2001

Renate Egger-Wenzel

Volume 321 in this series

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What is said about God in Ben Sira is illuminated against Old and New Testament background. This volume of proceedings contains separate overarching and exegetic studies on the subject matter. A broad consideration of Jewish influence throughout history rounds out the picture. In addition to individual studies, the appendix offers various reports relating to Ben Sira and a list of errata for the edition by P. C. Beentjes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901184
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017559-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090118-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Zwischen Athen und Jerusalem

Studien zur griechischen und biblischen Theologie, ihrer Eigenart und ihrem Verhältnis

Otto Kaiser

Volume 320 in this series

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Der Band enthält teilweise grundlegend überarbeitete und aktualisierte Aufsätze von Otto Kaiser, dem Herausgeber der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, aus den Jahren 1992-2002.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907049
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017577-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090704-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Zukunft jenseits des Gerichts

Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Studie zum Enneateuch

Erik Aurelius

Volume 319 in this series

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Starting from 2 Kings 17-18, the study investigates the original size of the Deuteronomic History and the redaction of the Enneateuch. It examines the various assumptions that the Books of Kings at one time concluded before the present ending and rejects them. It identifies a redaction in Exodus and 2 Kings which prophesies a future for the people after the Fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC. Using further redactional reflexion texts, it shows how redaction of the Enneateuch was gradually completed and developed its visions of the future.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110903201
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017854-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090320-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology

leshakken shemo sham in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

Sandra L. Richter

Volume 318 in this series

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This monograph is a comparative, socio-linguistic reassessment of the Deuteronomic idiom, leshakken shemo sham, and its synonymous biblical reflexes in the Deuteronomistic History, lashum shemo sham, and lihyot shemo sham. These particular formulae have long been understood as evidence of the Name Theology - the evolution in Israelite religion toward a more abstracted mode of divine presence in the temple. Utilizing epigraphic material gathered from Mesopotamian and Levantine contexts, this study demonstrates that leshakken shemo sham and lashum shemo sham are loan-adaptations of Akkadian shuma shakanu, an idiom common to the royal monumental tradition of Mesopotamia. The resulting retranslation and reinterpretation of the biblical idiom profoundly impacts the classic formulation of the Name Theology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110899351
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017376-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089935-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Mirjam

Eine feministisch-rhetorische Lektüre der Mirjamtexte in der hebräischen Bibel

Ursula Rapp

Volume 317 in this series

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This study examines the rhetoric of the Old Testament Miriam references and their socio-historical contexts, and processes the history of research into Miriam from a feminist perspective.

Previous research into Miriam was largely determined by prior decisions on literary history, and was thus only able to make rudimentary statements about Miriam. In contrast, a feminist rhetorical analysis inquiring into the aesthetics of reception and production reveals new contexts for what Miriam represents in the text. She can no longer be regarded as a 'prophetess' from the early history of Israel, but instead represents a particular theo-political position in Persian times.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892369
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017384-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089236-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Fortschreibungen

Gesammelte Studien zum Alten Testament

Christoph Levin

Volume 316 in this series

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This volume contains twenty studies from 1981 to 2002 concerning the history of literature and theology of the Old Testament and the early history of Israel as well.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110905847
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017160-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090584-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Abschied vom Jahwisten

Die Komposition des Hexateuch in der jüngsten Diskussion

Jan Christian Gertz, Konrad Schmid, Markus Witte

Volume 315 in this series

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The contributors to this volume on the literary and editorial history of the books from Genesis to Joshua present a collection of programmatic papers dealing with the history of research and individual points of exegesis which demonstrate the problematic nature of the Yahwist hypothesis and take new approaches to an interpretation of the redaction history of the Hexateuch, particularly in the parts not emanating from the priestly code.

The individual papers are written by international Old Testament authorities from Europe, Israel and the USA. The contributors are: A. Graeme Auld, Uwe Becker, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Erhard Blum, Thomas B. Dozeman, William Johnstone, Ernst Axel Knauf, Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Albert de Pury, Thomas Römer, Hans-Christoph Schmitt, Jean Louis Ska.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110886887
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017121-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088688-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Grace in the Midst of Judgment

Grappling with Genesis 1-11

Johnson T. K. Lim

Volume 314 in this series

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This book presents the development of a theological reading strategy in conversation with contemporary hermeneutical theories. Using that as a model, Gen 1-11 is read as a unified text refracted through the prism of textuality from a canonical approach.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110882209
ISBN:: 9783110174205
ISBN:: 9783110882209
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Palace and Temple

A Study of Architectural and Verbal Icons

Clifford Mark McCormick

Volume 313 in this series

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This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world.

It explains a palace as an element in royal propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the relationship between God and human beings.

Applying the methods of analysis developed in built environment studies, the author interprets the palace and temple building programs of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, and Solomon, King of Israel. The physical evidence for the palace and the verbal evidence for the temple are explained as presenting communicative icons intended to influence contemporary political and religious concepts. The volume concludes with innovative interpretations of the contributions of architectural and verbal icons to religious and political reform.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907940
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017277-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090794-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Cosmology and Character

Qoheleth´s Pedagogy from a Rhetorical-Critical Perspective

Naoto Kamano

Volume 312 in this series

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In this rhetorical-critical study of Ecclesiates, the author elucidates how Qoheleth teaches in his discourse, paying particular attention to the use of the cosmological texts (1:4-11 and 3:1-8) and the first-person speeches.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870701
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017242-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087070-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

"As It Is Written" and Other Citation Formulae in the Old Testament

Their Use, Development, Syntax, and Significance

Kevin L. Spawn

Volume 311 in this series

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This volume examines the use of citation formulae in the Old Testament. After demonstrating the lack of consensus and method in the treatment of such exegetical devices, the author addresses the need for a sustained examination of citation formulae and related expressions.

This inquiry focuses on the careful identification of the referents of citation bases as a basis for the study of inner-biblical exegesis. Further insights are offered on the development of such exegetical devices, the hermeneutics of the post-exilic community, and the syntax of comparative statements in Hebrew.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110889154
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017161-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088915-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Theologie in Prophetie und Pentateuch

Gesammelte Schriften

Hans-Christoph Schmitt, Ulrike Schorn, Matthias Büttner

Volume 310 in this series

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This collection of papers by Hans-Christoph Schmitt makes his writings more accessible to scholars and students. It provides a representative overview of his fields of research under the headings of "Prophecy", "Pentateuch", "Late deuteronomic final editing of the Pentateuch" and "Theology".

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110879544
ISBN:: 9783110171884
ISBN:: 9783110879544
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Psalmstudien

Kolometrie, Strophik und Theologie ausgewählter Psalmen

Oswald Loretz

Volume 309 in this series

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This volume presents detailed commentary on Psalms 1-3, 6, 11, 13, 72, 81, 82, 88, 127, 137, and 149 as well as separate essays on the issue of the citations interlinking Ugaritic texts and psalms and on the political theology of monarchy. New insights from Ugaritology and the study of ancient Oriental civilizations and cultures are brought to bear on the poetic, philological, and theological interpretation of the Psalms.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907056
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017578-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090705-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Ringen um die Verfassung Judas

Eine Studie zu den theologisch-politischen Vorstellungen im Esra-Nehemia-Buch

Christiane Karrer

Volume 308 in this series

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The author analyzes the different ideas of the political structure of the province of Juda which is presupposed by the book Esra-Nehemia. Three constitutional concepts and their theological outline are worked out to give insight into the development of the theological-political thoughts of post-exilic times.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851939
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017055-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085193-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Literarkritik und Stilstatistik im Alten Testament

Eine Studie zur literarkritischen Methode, durchgeführt an Texten aus den Büchern Jeremia, Ezechiel und 1 Könige

Jutta Krispenz

Volume 307 in this series

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This study subjects the conventional processes of literary criticism to a critical analysis which shows up the weaknesses of arguments from literary criticism in the Old Testament. It explores new ways for literary criticism using a concept of text derived from modern literary theories together with statistical procedures for the examination of style.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870909
ISBN:: 9783110870909
ISBN:: 9783110170573
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Der Gesalbte

Studien zur alttestamentlichen Theologie

Ernst-Joachim Waschke

Volume 306 in this series

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This volume draws together the author's studies on the concept of the Messiah in the Old Testament, primarily a completely new revision of his up to now unpublished 1986 inaugural dissertation, as well as other essays, including those on anthropology and on the relationship of theology and the history of religion in the Old Testament.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869576
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017017-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086957-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Doppelt besetztes Vorfeld

Syntaktische, pragmatische und übersetzungstechnische Studien zum althebräischen Verbalsatz

Walter Groß

Volume 305 in this series

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The syntactical and textual-pragmatical desription of the unknown Hebrew verbal phrase uncovers important nuances of meaning. It enforces an hypothesis concerning the verbal phrase in ancient Hebrew which turns out to be incompatible with the theory of the "compound nominal phrase". The criticism of translation shows to what extent this type of sentence, which is ungrammatical in German, is signalized to German readers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110872736
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017009-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087273-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Wisdom as a Woman of Substance

A Socioeconomic Reading of Proverbs 1–9 and 31:10–31

Christine Roy Yoder

Volume 304 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110879988
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017007-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087998-8
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Heaven and Earth, Law and Love

Studies in Biblical Thought

Etan Levine

Volume 303 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110833676
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016952-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083367-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Sacharjas Nachtgesichte

Zur Aufnahme und Abwandlung prophetischer Traditionen

Holger Delkurt

Volume 302 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110829006
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016934-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082900-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Can These Bones Live?

The Problem of the Moral Self in the Book of Ezekiel

Jacqueline E. Lapsley

Volume 301 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110822977
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016997-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082297-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Schriftauslegung in der Schrift

Festschrift für Odil Hannes Steck zu seinem 65. Geburtstag

Reinhard G. Kratz, Thomas Krüger, Konrad Schmid

Volume 300 in this series

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In this collection of essays the innerbiblical exegesis of the Old Testament is reexamined from various angles.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823806
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016902-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082380-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

III The Legacy of Iranian Imperialism and the Individual

With Cumulative Indexes to Vols. I-III

John Pairman Brown

Part of the multi-volume work Israel and Hellas

Volume 299 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110882391
ISBN:: 9783110882391
ISBN:: 9783110168822
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Göttliche Providenz und menschliche Verantwortung bei Ben Sira und in der Frühen Stoa

Ursel Wicke-Reuter

Volume 298 in this series

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The author deals with the Jewish scholar Ben Sira and with Stoic philosophy. She analyzes their various views concerning God’s foresight and care of the world. These are illuminated in their relationship of tension to the freedom and responsibility of man.

Ben Sira’s position to the context of Hellenism is the object of this study, which is located in the border area between exegesis and systematic theology. The ancient Stoa is the central point of reference. The comparison shows in many points a closeness of Ben Sira to Stoic thought. Ben Sira’s dealing with the Stoa, however, does not lead to a loss of Jewish identity, but to a re-establishing of it.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110814415
ISBN:: 9783110168631
ISBN:: 9783110814415
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Trägerschaft und Intentionen des deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerks

Untersuchungen zu den Reflexionsreden Jos 1;23;24, 1 Sam 12 und 1 Kön 8

Jochen Nentel

Volume 297 in this series

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The texts Joshua 1, 23 and 24, 1 Samuel 12, and 1 Kings 8 as “speeches” interpret the central epochs of the presentation of history from Deuteronomy 1 ‑ 2 Kings 25. The author analyzes these texts and their contextual relationships in regard to redaction, literary and genre criticism. On the basis of these studies, in regard to the presentation of history found in Deuteronomy 1 ‑ 2 Kings 25 a differentiation can be made between an exilic (DtrH) and an extensive post-exilic layer (DtrS). DtrH and DtrS show characteristic differences above all in their theological profile.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110814408
ISBN:: 9783110814408
ISBN:: 9783110168648
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Gerechtigkeit und Leben im hellenistischen Zeitalter

Symposium anläßlich des 75. Geburtstags von Otto Kaiser

Jörg Jeremias

Volume 296 in this series

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Professor Dr. Dres. h.c. Otto Kaiser celebrated his 75th birthday on 30th November 1999. To mark the occasion, the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Marburg organised an international symposium and one of the plenary lectures was given by Professor Kaiser. The book contains the four plenary lectures of the symposium.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110872729
ISBN:: 9783110168235
ISBN:: 9783110872729
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Handbuch des nordwestsemitischen Briefformulars

Ein Beitrag zur Echtheitsfrage der aramäischen Briefe des Esrabuches

Dirk Schwiderski

Volume 295 in this series

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A formgeschichtlich study of the Hebrew and Aramaic letters of the Old Testament and its environment (9th century BCE to 2nd century CE) presenting a history of the genre of the northwest Semitic epistolary form, including the Babylonian-Assyrian, demotic and Greek epistolary form of the first millennium, as well as a form criticism of the Aramaic letters of the book of Ezra (the question of authenticity).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110812336
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016851-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081233-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Rethinking the Foundations

Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible. Essays in Honour of John Van Seters

Steven L. McKenzie, Thomas Römer

Volume 294 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805802
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016519-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080580-2
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

The Numinous and Modernity

An Interpretation of Rudolf Otto`s Philosophy of Religion

Todd A. Gooch

Volume 293 in this series

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The author traces the development of Rudolf Otto’s attempt to construct a normative science of religion. This should respond to concerns facing Protestant theologians in Germany at the turn of the century. Moreover, he examines the reception of Otto’s ideas after World War One. The volume contains name and subject indexes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110816860
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016799-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081686-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Der Gegenwart verpflichtet

Studien zur biblischen Literatur des Frühjudentums

Armin Schmitt, Christian Wagner

Volume 292 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110809510
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016820-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080951-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Proverbien 1-9

Der Weisheit neue Kleider

Achim Müller

Volume 291 in this series

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The author analyzes the literary structure of Proverbs 1‑9 and delineates how this first “collection” of the book of Proverbs came about. One emphasis of the volume is its classification of the stages of growth in regard to the history of wisdom in Israel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110808957
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016755-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080895-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Double Narratives in the Old Testament

The Foundations of Method in Biblical Criticism

Aulikki Nahkola

Volume 290 in this series

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A study of the importance of variant forms of Old Testament narratives in prompting the development of the criticism of the Bible.

The recognition of the recurrence of stories in variant forms in the Old Testament has been seminal to the birth and development of biblical criticism. The author assesses the role of the “double narrative phenomenon” in the evolution of Old Testament methodology, from its earliest documentary theories to its most recent literary ones, with the help of current literary, folklore and textual studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870916
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016731-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087091-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Là montent les tribus

Etude structurelle de la collection des Psaumes des Montées, d'Ex 15,1-18 et des rapports entre eux

Pierre Auffret

Volume 289 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110816594
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016694-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081659-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Prophecy and Teaching

Prophetic Authority, Form Problems, and the Use of Traditions in the Book of Malachi

Karl William Weyde

Volume 288 in this series

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Application and re-Interpretation of biblical traditions in the Book of Malachi.
A traditio-historical study.

Six passages in Malachi, together with the superscription (Mal 1:1) and the additions (Mal 3:22‑24), are analyzed. The creative use of the traditions is demonstrated, including the prophet's exegetical techniques. Lines of connections are detected between Malachi and legal texts (Leviticus and Deuteronomy), earlier prophetic words, Chronicles, and Wisdom literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110811780
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016692-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081178-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Heilig und Profan

Redaktionskritische Studien zu Ez 40–48

Thilo Alexander Rudnig

Volume 287 in this series

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The author deals with the origin of Ezekiel 40‑48 within the literary genesis of the book of Ezekiel. For the first time these chapters are not viewed in isolation, but rather as a genuine final vision which, together with the various redactions of the book of Ezekiel, continued to grow.

In addition to thorough literary study of Ezekiel 40‑48, this monograph offers a contribution to the illumination of Israelite sociology of religion in the post-exilic period, for example in regard to the role of the descendants of Jehoiachin’s exile or the Second Temple controversies in the theology of the cult.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813364
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016638-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081336-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Zwischen Tod und Lebensglück

Eine Untersuchung zur Anthropologie Kohelets

Tilmann Zimmer

Volume 286 in this series

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In this study the author is concerned with how human life is understood in the biblical book of Qoheleth (the Preacher).

In Qoheleth, insight into one's own mortality leads to a new evaluation of happiness in life. Both the various areas of human life (for example work and rest, poverty and wealth, youth and old age) and the relationship of human beings to God are developed by Qoheleth between the poles of "death" and "happiness in life".

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813357
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016637-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081335-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Der Schall des Schofar

Israels Feste im Herbst

Corinna Körting

Volume 285 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803709
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016636-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080370-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Das Deuteronomium

Politische Theologie und Rechtsreform in Juda und Assyrien

Eckart Otto

Volume 284 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802191
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016621-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080219-1
Subject:: Law
Subject:: History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Alterity and Identity in Israel

The "ger" in the Old Testament

José E. Ramírez Kidd

Volume 283 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802221
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016625-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080222-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Die Septuaginta-Hapaxlegomena im Buch Jesus Sirach

Untersuchungen zu Wortwahl und Wortbildung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des textritischen und übersetzungstechnischen Aspekts

Christian Wagner

Volume 282 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800456
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016506-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080045-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Elia und die Monolatrie

Ein Beitrag zur religionsgeschichtlichen Rückfrage nach dem vorschriftprophetischen Jahwe-Glauben

Martin Beck

Volume 281 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802276
ISBN:: 9783110802276
ISBN:: 9783110164558
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Hellenistische Bildung im Buch der Weisheit

Studien zur Sprachgestalt und Theologie der Sapientia Salomonis

Martina Kepper

Volume 280 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802337
ISBN:: 9783110802337
ISBN:: 9783110164060
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

The Three Biblical Altar Laws

Developments in the Sacrificial Cult in Practice and Theology. Political and Economic Background

Paul Heger

Volume 279 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803235
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016474-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080323-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Mythos im Alten Testament und seiner Umwelt

Festschrift für Hans-Peter Müller zum 65. Geburtstag

Armin Lange, Hermann Lichtenberger, Diethard Römheld

Volume 278 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800388
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014653-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080038-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Praying the Tradition

The Origin and the Use of Tradition in Nehemiah 9

Mark J. Boda

Volume 277 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800357
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016433-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080035-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

II Sacred Institutions with Roman Counterparts

Part of the multi-volume work Israel and Hellas

Volume 276 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800333
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016434-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080033-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Transcendency and Symbols in the Old Testament

A Genealogy of the Hermeneutical Experiences

Seizo Sekine

Volume 275 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806991
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016098-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080699-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Die Elenden in Gottes Thronrat

Stilistisch-kompositorische Untersuchungen zu Jesaja 24-27

Reinhard Scholl

Volume 274 in this series

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The author here presents an attempt to understand four especially puzzling chapters of late Old Testament prophets (Isaiah 24‑27). He interprets Isaiah 24‑27 as a component of the final redaction of the book of Isaiah. The so-called “Isaiah apocalypse” is understood as a fruit of the liturgically influenced interpretation of Scripture at the end of the Ptolemaic period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110807844
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016377-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080784-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Like Grapes of Gold Set in Silver

An Interpretation of Proverbial Clusters in Proverbs 10:1-22:16

Knut Martin Heim

Volume 273 in this series

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Exegetical study of Proverbs 10:1‑22:16. Proverbs are neither statements of this-worldly cause and effect nor universally applicable doctrines of divine order. Rather, a proverb’s meaning and ‚truth‘ are conditioned by the context. The author delimits sections which the editor(s) of the collection consciously grouped together in their present sequence. He then examines how these literary arrangements both influence the meaning of the individual proverbs and determine their function in context. Indexes of names, passages and subjects are included.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864588
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016376-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086458-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Weisheit im Wandel

Untersuchungen zur Weisheitstheologie bei Ben Sira. Mit Nachwort und Bibliographie zur Neuauflage

Johannes Marböck

Volume 272 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110807851
ISBN:: 9783110807851
ISBN:: 9783110163759
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Das Heiligkeitsgesetz Leviticus 17–26

Ursprüngliche Gestalt, Tradition und Theologie

Klaus Grünwaldt

Volume 271 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800777
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016279-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080077-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Der Einzelne und seine Gemeinschaft bei Ben Sira

Renate Egger-Wenzel, Ingrid Krammer

Volume 270 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810912
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016371-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081091-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Illusions et salut dans la prédication prophétique de Jérémie

Joëlle Ferry

Volume 269 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802580
ISBN:: 9783110802580
ISBN:: 9783110162394
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Wegmetaphorik im Alten Testament

Eine semantische Untersuchung der alttestamentlichen und altorientalischen Weg-Lexeme mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer metaphorischen Verwendung

Markus Philipp Zehnder

Volume 268 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810967
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016300-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081096-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Die Geschichte von der Thronfolge Davids (2 Sam 9–20; 1 Kön 1–2)

Untersuchungen zur Literarkritik und Tendenz

Stefan Seiler

Volume 267 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802108
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016234-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080210-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Bibliographie zu Ben Sira

Friedrich Vinzenz Reiterer

Volume 266 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803525
ISBN:: 9783110803525
ISBN:: 9783110161366
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Die biblische Urgeschichte

Redaktions- und theologiegeschichtliche Beobachtungen zu Genesis 1,1–11,26

Markus Witte

Volume 265 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804614
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016209-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080461-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Die Familie in der Nachexilszeit

Untersuchungen zur Bedeutung der Verwandtschaft in ausgewählten Texten des Alten Testaments

Friedrich Fechter

Volume 264 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806106
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016205-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080610-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Gesammelte Aufsätze zum Pentateuch

Ludwig Schmidt

Volume 263 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110807516
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016123-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080751-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Die Ungeduld des Papiers

Studien zum alttestamentlichen Verständnis des Schreibens anhand des Verbums "katab" im Kontext administrativer Vorgänge

Thomas Schaack

Volume 262 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110811209
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015907-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081120-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Gottes und der Menschen Weisheit

Gesammelte Aufsätze

Otto Kaiser

Volume 261 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810158
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016087-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081015-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Die Entstehung des Zwölfprophetenbuchs

Neubearbeitungen von Amos im Rahmen schriftenübergreifender Redaktionsprozesse

Aaron Schart

Volume 260 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110808254
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016078-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080825-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Von Gott und den Göttern

Gesammelte Aufsätze zum Alten Testament

Wolfram Herrmann

Volume 259 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810776
ISBN:: 9783110151152
ISBN:: 9783110810776
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 1997

Die Jakobserzählungen

Studien zu ihrer mündlichen Überlieferung, Verschriftung und Historizität

Harald M. Wahl

Volume 258 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110804560
ISBN:: 9783110804560
ISBN:: 9783110157581
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

Theologie aus der Peripherie

Die gespaltene Koordination im Biblischen Hebräisch

Andreas Michel

Volume 257 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110815122
ISBN:: 9783110156898
ISBN:: 9783110815122
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

Redaktionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Michabuch im Kontext des Dodekapropheton

Burkard M. Zapff

Volume 256 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806038
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015764-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080603-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

The Book of Ben Sira in Modern Research

Proceedings of the First International Ben Sira Conference, 28-31 July 1996 Soesterberg, Netherlands

Pancratius C. Beentjes

Volume 255 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803006
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015673-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080300-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

Das Buch Kohelet

Studien zur Struktur, Geschichte, Rezeption und Theologie

Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger

Volume 254 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805963
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015757-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080596-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

Sprechakte und Sprechaktanalyse im Alten Testament

Untersuchungen im biblischen Hebräisch an der Nahtstelle zwischen Handlungsebene und Grammatik

Andreas Wagner

Volume 253 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810622
ISBN:: 9783110810622
ISBN:: 9783110155495
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

The Kings – Isaiah and Kings – Jeremiah Recensions

Raymond F. Person

Volume 252 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800845
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015457-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080084-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

Die Bamah

Matthias Gleis

Volume 251 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110815115
ISBN:: 9783110815115
ISBN:: 9783110156904
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

Der Mosesegen im Deuteronomium

Eine text-, kompositions- und formkritische Studie zu Deuteronomium 33

Stefan Beyerle

Volume 250 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823660
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015062-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082366-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

The State of the Pentateuch

A Comparison of the Approaches of M. Noth and E. Blum

Damian J. Wynn-Williams

Volume 249 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110830408
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015397-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083040-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

Ruben und das System der zwölf Stämme Israels

Redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur Bedeutung des Erstgeborenen Jakobs

Ulrike Schorn

Volume 248 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110830392
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015396-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083039-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

Skepsis oder Furcht Gottes?

Studien zur Komposition und Theologie des Buches Kohelet

Alexander A. Fischer

Volume 247 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800838
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015458-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080083-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

Structuration des grands ensembles bibliques et intertextualité à l'époque perse

De la rédaction sacerdotale du livre d'Isaie à la contestation de la Sagesse

Bernard Gosse

Volume 246 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110820904
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015395-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082090-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

The Development of Incense Cult in Israel

Paul Heger

Volume 245 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110809831
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015367-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080983-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1996

Freundschaft bei Ben Sira

Beiträge des Symposions zu Ben Sira. Salzburg 1995

Friedrich V. Reiterer

Volume 244 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110811537
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015261-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081153-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1996

Studien zur Redaktion und Komposition des Amosbuchs

Dirk U. Rottzoll

Volume 243 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110821598
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015240-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082159-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1996

A Historical-Critical Study of the Book of Obadiah

Ehud Ben Zvi

Volume 242 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110809633
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015225-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080963-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1996

"Jedes Ding hat seine Zeit ..."

Studien zur israelitischen und altorientalischen Weisheit. Diethelm Michel zum 65. Geburtstag

Anja A. Diesel, Reinhard G. Lehmann, Eckart Otto, Andreas Wagner

Volume 241 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813029
ISBN:: 9783110150520
ISBN:: 9783110813029
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1996

Ausgewählte Aufsätze zum Alten Testament

Siegfried Wagner, Dietmar Mathias

Volume 240 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110890631
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014833-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089063-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1996

Der Chronist in seiner Mitwelt

Joel Weinberg

Volume 239 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110814934
ISBN:: 9783110814934
ISBN:: 9783110146752
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1995

Ephraim

Studien zur Geschichte des Stammes Ephraim von der Landnahme bis zur frühen Königszeit

Heinz-Dieter Neef

Volume 238 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110868739
ISBN:: 9783110868739
ISBN:: 9783110147568
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Arab World
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
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Book 1996

Wende des Lebens

Untersuchungen zu einem Situations-Motiv der Bibel

Armin Schmitt

Volume 237 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110868746
ISBN:: 9783110868746
ISBN:: 9783110147575
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
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Book 1995

Defending Zion

Edom's Desolation and Jacob's Restoration (Isaiah 34-35) in Context

Claire R. Mathews

Volume 236 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110814927
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014665-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081492-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
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Book 1995

Merveilles à nos yeux

Etude structurelle de vingt psaumes dont celui de 1Ch 16,8-36

Pierre Auffret

Volume 235 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110816303
ISBN:: 9783110146660
ISBN:: 9783110816303
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
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Book 1995

Philologische Notizen zu Hiob 21–27

Markus Witte

Volume 234 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110875485
ISBN:: 9783110875485
ISBN:: 9783110146561
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
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Book 1995

Historie und Dogmatik

Ein Beitrag zur Genese und Entfaltung von Johann Salomo Semlers Verständnis des Alten Testaments

Andreas Lüder

Volume 233 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110878387
ISBN:: 9783110878387
ISBN:: 9783110146271
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 19th-Century Thinkers
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Book 1995

Einzelspruch und Sammlung

Komposition im Buch der Sprichwörter Kapitel 10-15

Ruth Scoralick

Volume 232 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110881424
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014440-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088142-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
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Book 1995

[I]

John Pairman Brown

Part of the multi-volume work Israel and Hellas

Volume 231 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110882940
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014233-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088294-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Vom Leiden zur Lehre

Der dritte Redegang (Hiob 21-27) und die Redaktionsgeschichte des Hiobbuches

Markus Witte

Volume 230 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867893
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014375-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086789-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Heil den Gerechten - Unheil den Sündern!

Ein Beitrag zur Theologie der Prophetenbücher

Klaus Koenen

Volume 229 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869224
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014376-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086922-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1995

The Use of Scripture in the Damascus Document 1-8, 19-20

Jonathan G. Campbell

Volume 228 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110875768
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014240-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087576-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Studien zum Deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerk

Ernst Würthwein

Volume 227 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110880984
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014269-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088098-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1995

Zur Geschichtsschreibung des Chronisten

Literarisch-historiographische Abweichungen der Chronik von ihren Paralleltexten in den Samuel- und Königsbüchern

Isaac Kalimi

Volume 226 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110884036
ISBN:: 9783110884036
ISBN:: 9783110142372
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Schriftgelehrte Prophetie in Jes 56-66

Eine Untersuchung zu den literarischen Bezügen in den letzten elf Kapiteln des Jesajabuches

Wolfgang Lau

Volume 225 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110878066
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014239-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087806-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Aufsätze zum Alten Testament

Aus vier Jahrzehnten

Herbert Donner

Volume 224 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110877168
ISBN:: 9783110877168
ISBN:: 9783110140972
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Übersetzung als Vollendung der Auslegung

Studien zur Genesis-Septuaginta

Martin Rösel

Volume 223 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110877014
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014234-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087701-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
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Book 1994

Die Erzeltern Israels

Feministisch-theologische Studien zu Genesis 12-36

Irmtraud Fischer

Volume 222 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110887167
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014232-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088716-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
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Book 1994

Text and Transmission

An Empirical Model for the Literary Development of Old Testament Narratives

Hans J. Tertel

Volume 221 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864625
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013921-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086462-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
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Book 1994

Studien zum Buch Tobit

Merten Rabenau

Volume 220 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110884616
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014125-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088461-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
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Book 1994

Mose in den Chronikbüchern

Garant theokratischer Zukunftserwartung

Ernst Michael Dörrfuß

Volume 219 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110879612
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014017-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087961-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
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Book 1993

Redactional Processes in the Book of the Twelve

James Nogalski

Volume 218 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110889338
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013767-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088933-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
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Book 1993

Literary Precursors to the Book of the Twelve

James Nogalski

Volume 217 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864304
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013702-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086430-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1993

The View of Women Found in the Deuteronomic Family Laws

Carolyn Pressler

Volume 216 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110882223
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013743-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088222-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1993

dominium terrae

Studien zur Genese einer alttestamentlichen Vorstellung

Udo Rüterswörden

Volume 215 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110883756
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013948-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088375-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
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Book 1993

Studien zur Priesterschrift

Ludwig Schmidt

Volume 214 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110883947
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013867-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088394-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1993

Karl David Ilgen und die Pentateuchforschung im Umkreis der sogenannten Älteren Urkundenhypothese

Studien zur Geschichte der exegetischen Hermeneutik in der späten Aufklärung

Bodo Seidel

Volume 213 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110876925
ISBN:: 9783110876925
ISBN:: 9783110138337
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1993

Altes Testament - Literatursammlung und Heilige Schrift

Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Entstehung, Geschichte und Auslegung des Alten Testaments

Hans-Jürgen Zobel, Julia Männchen, Ernst-Joachim Waschke

Volume 212 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110885385
ISBN:: 9783110885385
ISBN:: 9783110139822
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1992

Das Stufenschema

Untersuchungen zur Struktur alttestamentlicher Texte

Theodor Lescow

Volume 211 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110885347
ISBN:: 9783110885347
ISBN:: 9783110137682
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Le songe et la parole

Etude sur le rêve et sa fonction dans l’ancien Israël

Jean-Marie Husser

Volume 210 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110883336
ISBN:: 9783110883336
ISBN:: 9783110137194
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1993

Beiträge zur Geschichte von Text und Sprache des Alten Testaments

Gesammelte Aufsätze

Rudolf Meyer, Waltraut Bernhardt

Volume 209 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864274
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013695-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086427-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1992

Bewältigung der Katastrophe

Untersuchungen zu ausgewählten Fremdvölkersprüchen im Ezechielbuch

Friedrich Fechter

Volume 208 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110888898
ISBN:: 9783110888898
ISBN:: 9783110136425
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1993

Der gerechte Schöpfer

Eine redaktions- und theologiegeschichtliche Untersuchung der Elihureden - Hiob 32-37

Harald-Martin Wahl

Volume 207 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110888874
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013637-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088887-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
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Book 1993

Von Babel zum Zion

Eine literarkritische und redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung

Jürgen van Oorschot

Volume 206 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869385
ISBN:: 9783110869385
ISBN:: 9783110136067
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1992

The Promise of the Land as Oath

A Key to the Formation of the Pentateuch

Suzanne Boorer

Volume 205 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110884654
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013505-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088465-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1992

Studien zur literarkritischen Methode

Gericht und Heil in Jesaja 7,1-17 und 29,1-8

Jürgen Werlitz

Volume 204 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110854718
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013488-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085471-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1991

Studien zu Tritojesaja

Odil Hannes Steck

Volume 203 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110878172
ISBN:: 9783110878172
ISBN:: 9783110134346
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1992

Ezechielstudien

Karl-Friedrich Pohlmann

Volume 202 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110850437
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012976-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085043-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1991

Tradition als Interpretation in der Chronik

König Josaphat als Paradigma chronistischer Hermeneutik und Theologie

Kim Strübind

Volume 201 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110878905
ISBN:: 9783110127911
ISBN:: 9783110878905
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1991

Mythos - Kerygma - Wahrheit

Gesammelte Aufsätze zum Alten Testament in seiner Umwelt und zur Biblischen Theologie

Hans-Peter Müller

Volume 200 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870091
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012885-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087009-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1992

Prophetie und Deuteronomium

Die Rezeption prophetischer Theologie durch das Deuteronomium

Konstantin Zobel

Volume 199 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110888034
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012838-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088803-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1991

A Historical-Critical Study of the Book of Zephaniah

Ehud Ben Zvi

Volume 198 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110854381
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012837-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085438-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1991

The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature

Katharine J. Dell

Volume 197 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110858730
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012554-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085873-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 1991

Studien zum Alten Testament (1966–1988)

Georg Fohrer

Volume 196 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110886191
ISBN:: 9783110886191
ISBN:: 9783110128192
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1991

The Song of the Sea

Ex 15:1 - 21

Martin L. Brenner

Volume 195 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867220
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012340-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086722-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1990

Die Sprache der Ahiqarsprüche

Ingo Kottsieper

Volume 194 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110846348
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012331-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084634-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1990

Klagender Gott - klagende Menschen

Studien zur Klage im Jeremiabuch

Dong Hyun Bak

Volume 193 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867237
ISBN:: 9783110867237
ISBN:: 9783110123418
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1990

Richterzeit und Königtum

Redaktionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Richterbuch

Uwe Becker

Volume 192 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110872873
ISBN:: 9783110872873
ISBN:: 9783110124408
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1990

Hosea and Salvation History

The Early Traditions of Israel in the Prophecy of Hosea

Dwight R. Daniels

Volume 191 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110872286
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012143-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087228-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1990

Der höchste Gott

Alttestamentlicher JHWH-Glaube im Kontext syrisch-kanaanäischer Religion des 1. Jahrtausends v. Chr.

Herbert Niehr

Volume 190 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867244
ISBN:: 9783110867244
ISBN:: 9783110123425
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1990

Studien zur Komposition des Pentateuch

Erhard Blum

Volume 189 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110879506
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012027-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087950-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1990

Das Bundesbuch (Ex 20,22-23,33)

Studien zu seiner Entstehung und Theologie

Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger

Volume 188 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867190
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012404-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086719-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1990

Prophetie im Streit vor dem Untergang Judas

Erzählkommunikative Studien zur Entstehungssituation der Jesaja- und Jeremiaerzählungen in II Reg 18–20 und Jer 37–40

Christof Hardmeier

Volume 187 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849462
ISBN:: 9783110849462
ISBN:: 9783110117356
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1990

Die Zeit des Jahwisten

Ein Beitrag zur Datierung jahwistischer Vätertexte

Kåre Berge

Volume 186 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110853971
ISBN:: 9783110853971
ISBN:: 9783110118926
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

Prophet und Prophetenbuch

Festschrift für Otto Kaiser zum 65. Geburtstag

Volkmar Fritz, Karl-Friedrich Pohlmann, Hans-Christoph Schmitt

Volume 185 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110862546
ISBN:: 978-3-11-011339-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086254-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

Wege der Weisheit

Die Lehren Amenemopes und Proverbien 22,17–24,22

Diethard Römheld

Volume 184 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110847611
ISBN:: 9783110847611
ISBN:: 9783110119589
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

Untersuchungen zur Eigenart des Buches Qohelet

Diethelm Michel

Volume 183 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110874396
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012161-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087439-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

The Ugaritic Poem of AQHT

Text, Translation, Commentary

Baruch Margalit

Volume 182 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863482
ISBN:: 978-3-11-011632-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086348-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

Genesis 15

A Theological Compendium of Pentateuchal History

John Ha

Volume 181 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867046
ISBN:: 978-3-11-011206-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086704-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

Geschichtskonzepte im Ezechielbuch

Thomas Krüger

Volume 180 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110846683
ISBN:: 9783110846683
ISBN:: 9783110114737
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

Die Ferne Gottes

Studien zum Jeremiabuch. Beiträge zu den "Konfessionen" im Jeremiabuch und ein Versuch zur Frage nach den Anfängen der Jeremiatradition

Karl-Friedrich Pohlmann

Volume 179 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110886184
ISBN:: 9783110886184
ISBN:: 9783110118285
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

Die Frühgeschichte Israels in Bekenntnis und Verkündigung des Alten Testaments

Siegfried Kreuzer

Volume 178 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849479
ISBN:: 9783110849479
ISBN:: 9783110117363
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

Divine War in the Old Testament and in the Ancient Near East

Sa-Moon Kang

Volume 177 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110884920
ISBN:: 9783110111569
ISBN:: 9783110884920
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

Theology in Conflict

Reactions to the Exile in the Book of Jeremiah

Christopher R. Seitz

Volume 176 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110866889
ISBN:: 978-3-11-011223-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086688-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1989

Die Tritojesajanische Sammlung (Jes 56–66) redaktionsgeschichtlich untersucht

Seizo Sekine

Volume 175 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864557
ISBN:: 9783110864557
ISBN:: 9783110116335
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1988

The Aramaic Version of the Bible

Contents and Context

Etan Levine

Volume 174 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110846690
ISBN:: 978-3-11-011474-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084669-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1988

Studien zur alttestamentlichen Vorstellung vom Plan Jahwes

Wolfgang Werner

Volume 173 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863260
ISBN:: 9783110863260
ISBN:: 9783110112559
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1988

Hezekiah and the Books of Kings

A Contribution to the Debate about the Composition of the Deuteronomistic History

Iain W. Provan

Volume 172 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849424
ISBN:: 978-3-11-011557-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084942-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1988

Isaiah 1–4 and the Post-Exilic Understanding of the Isaianic Tradition

Marvin A. Sweeney

Volume 171 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110854565
ISBN:: 9783110854565
ISBN:: 9783110110340
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1987

Gott als Grenze

Eine literar- und redaktionsgeschichtliche Studie zu den Gottesreden des Hiobbuches

Jürgen van Oorschot

Volume 170 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110853049
ISBN:: 9783110853049
ISBN:: 9783110111637
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1987

Die Heilstraditionen Israels in der Verkündigung des Propheten Hosea

Heinz-Dieter Neef

Volume 169 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110861273
ISBN:: 9783110861273
ISBN:: 9783110109139
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1986

Kleine Schriften zum Alten Testament

Ernst Kutsch, Ludwig Schmidt, Karl Eberlein

Volume 168 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110852127
ISBN:: 9783110852127
ISBN:: 9783110103168
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1986

The Traditional Prayer in the Psalms / Literarische Studien zur Josephsgeschichte

Anneli Aejmelaeus, Ludwig Schmidt

Volume 167 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110852981
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010480-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085298-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1986

Jahwist und Priesterschrift in Exodus 3–14

Fujiko Kohata

Volume 166 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110860283
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010649-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086028-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1986

Untersuchungen zur allegorischen Rede der Propheten Amos und Jesaja

Anders J. Bjorndalen

Volume 165 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867183
ISBN:: 9783110867183
ISBN:: 9783110101058
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1985

Das Tempussystem des biblischen Hebräisch

Eine Untersuchung zum Text

Beat Zuber

Volume 164 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851571
ISBN:: 9783110851571
ISBN:: 9783110104028
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1985

The Theology of the Book of Joel

Willem S. Prinsloo

Volume 163 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859782
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010301-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085978-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1985

Bibel und Alter Orient

Altorientalische Beiträge zum Alten Testament

Wolfram von Soden, Hans-Peter Müller

Volume 162 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867152
ISBN:: 9783110867152
ISBN:: 9783110100914
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1985

Der Mensch unter dem Schicksal

Studien zur Geschichte, Theologie und Gegenwartsbedeutung der Weisheit

Otto Kaiser

Volume 161 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867169
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010095-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086716-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1984

Habiru-Hebräer

Eine sozio-linguistische Studie über die Herkunft des Gentiliziums cibrí vom Appellativum habiru

Oswald Loretz

Volume 160 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110858365
ISBN:: 9783110097306
ISBN:: 9783110858365
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1983

Studien zum Buche Hiob (1956–1979)

Volume 159 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110871463
ISBN:: 9783110871463
ISBN:: 9783110089677
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1982

The Structure and Ethos of the Wisdom Admonitions in Proverbs

Philip Johannes Nel

Volume 158 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110858228
ISBN:: 978-3-11-008750-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085822-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1982

Mythos im Alten Testament

Bestimmung des Mythosbegriffs und Untersuchung der mythischen Elemente in den Psalmen

Claus Petersen

Volume 157 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110865165
ISBN:: 9783110865165
ISBN:: 9783110088137
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1983

Stadt und Eidgenossenschaft im Alten Testament

Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Max Webers Studie »Das antike Judentum«

Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger

Volume 156 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110845013
ISBN:: 9783110845013
ISBN:: 9783110085914
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1981

Studien zu alttestamentlichen Texten und Themen (1966–1972)

Georg Fohrer

Volume 155 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110842487
ISBN:: 9783110842487
ISBN:: 9783110084993
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1979

Die nichtpriesterliche Josephsgeschichte

Ein Beitrag zur neuesten Pentateuchkritik

Hans-Christoph Schmitt

Volume 154 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863598
ISBN:: 9783110863598
ISBN:: 9783110078343
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1978

Werden und Wesen des 107. Psalms

Walter Beyerlin

Volume 153 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110837407
ISBN:: 9783110837407
ISBN:: 9783110077551
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1979

Polar Structures in the Book of Qohelet

J. A. Loader

Volume 152 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110846539
ISBN:: 978-3-11-007636-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084653-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1980

Wisdom as a Hermeneutical Construct

A Study in the Sapientializing of the Old Testament

Gerald T. Sheppard

Volume 151 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110837087
ISBN:: 978-3-11-007504-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083708-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1980

Prophecy

Essays presented to Georg Fohrer on his sixty-fifth birthday 6. September 1980

J. A. Emerton

Volume 150 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110837414
ISBN:: 978-3-11-007761-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083741-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1978

Der Stamm ‛abad im Alten Testament

Eine Wortuntersuchung unter Berücksichtigung neuerer sprachwissenschaftlicher Methoden

Ingrid Riesener

Volume 149 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110841541
ISBN:: 9783110841541
ISBN:: 9783110072600
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1979

Koheleth

His Language and Thought

Charles F. Whitley

Volume 148 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110865172
ISBN:: 978-3-11-007602-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086517-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1977

Das überlieferungsgeschichtliche Problem des Pentateuch

Rolf Rendtorff

Volume 147 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802436
ISBN:: 978-3-11-006760-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080243-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1977

Untersuchungen zur Redaktionsgeschichte des Pentateuch

Peter Weimar

Volume 146 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110852868
ISBN:: 9783110852868
ISBN:: 9783110067316
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1976

Der spätbronzezeitliche Seevölkersturm

Ein Forschungsüberblick mit Folgerungen zur biblischen Exodusthematik

August Strobel

Volume 145 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110855036
ISBN:: 978-3-11-006761-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085503-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1977

Der Tempel von Jerusalem

Gründung Salomos oder jebusitisches Erbe?

Konrad Rupprecht

Volume 144 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110843439
ISBN:: 9783110843439
ISBN:: 9783110066197
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1976

»De Deo«

Studien zur Literaturkritik und Theologie des Buches Jona, des Gesprächs zwischen Abraham und Jahwe in Gen 18, 2 ff. und von Hi 1

Ludwig Schmidt

Volume 143 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110843422
ISBN:: 9783110843422
ISBN:: 9783110066180
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1977

The Royal Dynasties in Ancient Israel

A Study on the Formation and Development of Royal-Dynastic Ideology

Tomoo Ishida

Volume 142 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110853766
ISBN:: 978-3-11-006519-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085376-6
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Arab World
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1976

The Formation of Isaiah 40-55

Roy F. Melugin

Volume 141 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110862478
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005820-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086247-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1977

Struktur und Bezeichnung des Scheltworts

Ludwig Markert

Volume 140 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110855166
ISBN:: 9783110855166
ISBN:: 9783110058130
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1975

Deuteronomium 1,1–6,3 literarkritisch und traditionsgeschichtlich untersucht

Siegfried Mittmann

Volume 139 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110835571
ISBN:: 9783110835571
ISBN:: 9783110057287
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1976

Formula Criticism and the Poetry of the Old Testament

William R. Watters

Volume 138 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110835595
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005730-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083559-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1976

Jahwe, Juda und die anderen Völker beim Propheten Jesaja

Friedrich Huber

Volume 137 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110835588
ISBN:: 9783110835588
ISBN:: 9783110057294
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1974

Die Intention der Verkündigung Jesajas

Hans W. Hoffmann

Volume 136 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110832211
ISBN:: 9783110832211
ISBN:: 9783110046724
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1974

The Intellectual Tradition in the Old Testament

R.N. Whybray

Volume 135 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110830040
ISBN:: 9783110830040
ISBN:: 9783110044249
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1974

The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives

The Quest for the Historical Abraham

Thomas L. Thompson

Volume 133 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110841442
ISBN:: 9783110841442
ISBN:: 9783110040968
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1973

Die Prosareden des Jeremiabuches

Helga Weippert

Volume 132 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110829945
ISBN:: 9783110829945
ISBN:: 9783110038675
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1973

Verheißung und Gesetz

Untersuchungen zum sogenannten »Bund« im Alten Testament

Ernst Kutsch

Volume 131 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838299
ISBN:: 9783110838299
ISBN:: 9783110041422
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1973

Kohelet und die frühhellenistische Popularphilosophie

Rainer Braun

Volume 130 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110832815
ISBN:: 9783110832815
ISBN:: 9783110040500
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1973

Das Buch Nahum

Eine redaktionskritische Untersuchung

Hermann Schulz

Volume 129 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110831504
ISBN:: 9783110831504
ISBN:: 9783110040289
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1972

Die Entstehung der Geschichtsschreibung im Alten Israel

Hannelis Schulte

Volume 128 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110842838
ISBN:: 9783110842838
ISBN:: 9783110039603
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1972

Rechtssätze in gebundener Sprache und Rechtssatzreihen im israelischen Recht

Ein Beitrag zur Gattungsforschung

Volker Wagner

Volume 127 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110835717
ISBN:: 9783110835717
ISBN:: 9783110039450
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1972

Die deuteronomistische Pentateuchredaktion in Exodus 3–17

Werner Fuß

Volume 126 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110865561
ISBN:: 9783110865561
ISBN:: 9783110038545
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1972

Mourning Cry and Woe Oracle

Waldemar Janzen

Volume 125 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110836905
ISBN:: 978-3-11-003848-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083690-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1971

Prophetic Conflict

Its Effect Upon Israelite Religion

James L. Crenshaw

Volume 124 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110828870
ISBN:: 978-3-11-003363-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082887-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1971

Vorformen der Schriftexegese innerhalb des Alten Testaments

Untersuchungen zum literarischen Werden der auf Amos, Hosea und Micha zurückgehenden Bücher im hebräischen Zwölfprophetenbuch

Ina Willi-Plein

Volume 123 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110828504
ISBN:: 9783110828504
ISBN:: 9783110018974
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1971

Untersuchungen der sogenannten Baruchschrift

Gunther Wanke

Volume 122 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110881806
ISBN:: 9783110881806
ISBN:: 9783110064704
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1971

Ezechiel und Deuterojesaja

Berührungen in der Heilserwartung der beiden großen Exilspropheten

Dieter Baltzer

Volume 121 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110816693
ISBN:: 9783110816693
ISBN:: 9783110017564
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1970

Die Priesterschrift von Numeri 1,1 bis 10,10

Literarkritisch und traditionsgeschichtlich untersucht

Diether Kellermann

Volume 120 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110847819
ISBN:: 9783110847819
ISBN:: 9783110064391
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1971

Geschichtliche Rückblicke und Motive in der Prophetie des Amos, Hosea und Jesaja

Jochen Vollmer

Volume 119 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838886
ISBN:: 9783110838886
ISBN:: 9783110064476
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1970

Strukturen und Figuren im Kult von Jerusalem

Studien zur altorientalischen, vor- und frühisraelitischen Religion

Fritz Stolz

Volume 118 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838879
ISBN:: 978-3-11-006446-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083887-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1972

Die Psalmen

Stilistische Verfahren und Aufbau. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Ps. 1–41

Nic H. Ridderbos, Karl E. Mittring

Volume 117 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110829754
ISBN:: 978-3-11-001834-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082975-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1969

Prophet und Tradition

Versuch einer Problemstellung

Marie-Louise Henry

Volume 116 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110829099
ISBN:: 9783110829099
ISBN:: 9783110025897
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1969

Studien zur alttestamentlichen Theologie und Geschichte (1949–1966)

Georg Fohrer

Volume 115 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110827095
ISBN:: 9783110827095
ISBN:: 9783110025804
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1969

Das Todesrecht im Alten Testament

Studien zur Rechtsreform der Mot-Jumat-Sätze

Hermann Schulz

Volume 114 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110827101
ISBN:: 9783110827101
ISBN:: 9783110025811
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1969

Die Wurzel Šlm im Alten Testament

Walter Eisenbeis

Volume 113 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110827125
ISBN:: 9783110827125
ISBN:: 9783110025835
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1970

Text und Textform im hebräischen Sirach

Untersuchungen zur Textgeschichte und Textkritik der hebräischen Sirachfragmente aus der Kairoer Geniza

Hans P. Rüger

Volume 112 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110827132
ISBN:: 9783110827132
ISBN:: 9783110025842
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1969

The Prophetic Word of Hosea

A Morphological Study

Martin J. Buss

Volume 111 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110827088
ISBN:: 978-3-11-002579-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082708-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1968

Mose

Überlieferung und Geschichte

Herbert Schmid

Volume 110 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110835779
ISBN:: 9783110835779
ISBN:: 9783110055894
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1969

Ursprünge und Strukturen alttestamentlicher Eschatologie

Hans-Peter Müller

Volume 109 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110832402
ISBN:: 9783110832402
ISBN:: 9783110025781
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1968

The Problem of Etiological Narrative in the Old Testament

Burke O. Long

Volume 108 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110835786
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005590-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083578-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1969

The Samaritan Chronicle No. II (or: Sepher Ha-Yamim)

From Joshua to Nebuchadnezzar

John Macdonald

Volume 107 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110827118
ISBN:: 9783110827118
ISBN:: 9783110025828
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1967

Yarih und Nikkal und der Preis der Kutarat-Göttinnen

Ein kultisch-magischer Text aus Ras Schamra

Wolfram Herrmann

Volume 106 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110835762
ISBN:: 9783110835762
ISBN:: 9783110055870
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1967

Das ferne und nahe Wort

Festschrift. Leonhard Rost zur Vollendung seines 70. Lebensjahres am 31.11.1966 gewidmet

Fritz Maass

Volume 105 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110835755
ISBN:: 9783110835755
ISBN:: 9783110055863
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1967

Das Königtum in Israel

Ursprünge, Spannungen, Entwicklung

J. Alberto Soggin

Volume 104 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110835748
ISBN:: 9783110835748
ISBN:: 9783110055856
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1968

In Memoriam Paul Kahle

Matthew Black, Georg Fohrer

Volume 103 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110832389
ISBN:: 9783110832389
ISBN:: 9783110025774
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1967

Nehemia

Quellen, Überlieferung und Geschichte

Ulrich Kellermann

Volume 102 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110843323
ISBN:: 9783110843323
ISBN:: 9783110055849
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1966

Wesen und Geschichte der Weisheit

Eine Untersuchung zur altorientalischen und israelitischen Weisheitsliteratur

Hans Heinrich Schmid

Volume 101 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802429
ISBN:: 9783110802429
ISBN:: 9783110055818
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1967

Jüdische Lehre und Frömmigkeit in den Paralipomena Jeremiae

Gerhard Delling

Volume 100 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110843316
ISBN:: 9783110843316
ISBN:: 9783110055832
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1967

Studien zur alttestamentlichen Prophetie (1949–1965)

Georg Fohrer

Volume 99 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110843309
ISBN:: 9783110843309
ISBN:: 9783110055825
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1966

Der Erzvater Israel und die Einführung der Jahwe-Verehrung in Kanaan

Horst Seebass

Volume 98 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840599
ISBN:: 9783110840599
ISBN:: 9783110055795
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1966

Die Zionstheologie der Korachiten in ihrem traditionsgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang

Gunther Wanke

Volume 97 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840582
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005578-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084058-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1966

Die lexikalischen und grammatikalischen Aramaismen im alttestamentalischen Hebräisch

Max Wagner

Volume 96 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840629
ISBN:: 9783110840629
ISBN:: 9783110055801
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1965

Stammesspruch und Geschichte

Die Angaben der Stammessprüche von Gen 49, Dtn 33 und Jdc 5 über die politischen und kultischen Zustände im damaligen “Israel”

Hans-Jürgen Zobel

Volume 95 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840742
ISBN:: 9783110840742
ISBN:: 9783110055764
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1965

Vatke und Wellhausen

Geschichtsphilosophische Voraussetzungen und historiographische Motive für die Darstellung der Religion und Geschichte Israels durch Wilhelm Vatke und Julius Wellhausen

Lothar Perlitt

Volume 94 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840735
ISBN:: 9783110840735
ISBN:: 9783110055757
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1965

Das altisraelitische Ladeheiligtum

Johann Maier

Volume 93 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840728
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005574-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084072-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1964

Erwählungstheologie und Universalismus im Alten Testament

Peter Altmann

Volume 92 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838398
ISBN:: 9783110838398
ISBN:: 9783110055726
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1964

Überlieferung und Geschichte des Exodus

Eine Analyse von Ex 1–15

Georg Fohrer

Volume 91 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112314906
ISBN:: 9783112314906
ISBN:: 9783112303719
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1964

Tetrateuch, Pentateuch, Hexateuch

Die Berichte über die Landnahme in den drei altisraelitischen Geschichtswerken

Sigmund Mowinckel

Volume 90 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838374
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005569-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083837-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1965

Bibliographie zu den Handschriften vom Toten Meer II Nr. 1557–4459

Christoph Burchard

Volume 89 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840711
ISBN:: 9783110840711
ISBN:: 9783110055733
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1964

Untersuchungen zur israelitisch-jüdischen Chronologie

Alfred Jepsen, Robert Hanhart

Volume 88 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840568
ISBN:: 9783110840568
ISBN:: 9783110055689
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1963

Salbung als Rechtsakt im Alten Testament und im Alten Orient

Ernst Kutsch

Volume 87 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840063
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005566-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084006-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1963

Benjamin

Untersuchungen zur Entstehung und Geschichte eines israelitischen Stammes

Klaus-Dietrich Schunck

Volume 86 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840056
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005565-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084005-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1963

Der traditionsgeschichtliche Hintergrund der prophetischen Gerichtsreden

Eberhard von Waldow

Volume 85 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802412
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005564-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080241-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 1963

Memar Marqah. The Teaching of Marqah

Volume I: The Text. Volume II: The Translation

John Macdonald

Volume 84 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110840070
ISBN:: 9783110840070
ISBN:: 9783110055672
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1963

Memar Marqah

Volume 2: The Translation

John Macdonald

Volume 84/2 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112421482
ISBN:: 9783112421482
ISBN:: 9783112421475
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1963

Memar Marqah. The Teaching of Marqah

Volume 1: The Text

John Macdonald

Volume 84/1 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112421468
ISBN:: 9783112421468
ISBN:: 9783112421451
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1963

Die Farben im Alten Testament

Eine Terminologische Studie

Roland Gradwohl

Volume 83 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112314975
ISBN:: 9783112314975
ISBN:: 9783112303832
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1961

Wächter über Israel

Ezechiel und Seine Tradition

Lothar Gert Henning

Volume 82 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112319772
ISBN:: 9783112319772
ISBN:: 9783112308585
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1961

Apoxysmata

Vorarbeiten zu einer Religionsgeschichte und Theologie des Alten Testaments. Festgabe zum 30. Juli 1961

Johannes Hempel

Volume 81 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112416723
ISBN:: 9783112416723
ISBN:: 9783112416716
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1966

Königtum Gottes in Ugarit und Israel

Zur Herkunft der Königsprädikation Jahwes

Werner H. Schmidt

Volume 80 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840575
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005577-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084057-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1961

Königtum Gottes in Ugarit und Israel

Zur Herkunft der Königsprädikation Jahwes

Werner Schmidt

Volume 80 in this series

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Königtum Gottes in Ugarit und Israel ist die veröffentlichte Dissertation des zuletzt in Bonn tätigen Alttestamentlers Werner (H.) Schmidt. Sie liegt auch in einer zweiten, bearbeiteten Auflage von 1966 vor: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110840575

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112319840
ISBN:: 9783112319840
ISBN:: 9783112308653
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1960

Die Essener in der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion

Vom Ausgang des 18. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Studie

Siegfried Wagner

Volume 79 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112319789
ISBN:: 9783112319789
ISBN:: 9783112308592
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1962

Die mythische Bedeutung des Meeres in Ägypten, Ugarit und Israel

Volume 78 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110850598
ISBN:: 9783110055634
ISBN:: 9783110850598
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1959

Die mythische Bedeutung des meeres in Ägypten, Ugarit und Israel

Otto Kaiser

Volume 78 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112325568
ISBN:: 9783112325568
ISBN:: 9783112325551
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1958

Von Ugarit nach Qumran

Beiträge zur Alttestamentlichen und Altorientalischen Forschung

Otto Eissfeldt, Johannes Hempel, Leonhard Rost

Volume 77 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112314982
ISBN:: 9783112314982
ISBN:: 9783112303856
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1961

Von Ugarit nach Qumran

Beiträge zur alttestamentlichen und altorientalischen Forschung. Otto Eissfeldt zum 1. September 1957 dargebracht von Freunden und Schülern

Johannes Hempel, Leonhard Rost

Volume 77 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112416709
ISBN:: 9783112416709
ISBN:: 9783112416693
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1957

Bibliographie zu den Handschriften vom Toten Meer

Christoph Burchard

Volume 76 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112314951
ISBN:: 9783112314951
ISBN:: 9783112303818
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1959

Bibliographie zu den Handschriften vom Toten Meer

Christoph Burchard

Volume 76 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112314920
ISBN:: 9783112314920
ISBN:: 9783112303771
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1957

Die Stellung der Vorexilischen Schriftpropheten zum Kultus

Richard Hentschke

Volume 76 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112315033
ISBN:: 9783112315033
ISBN:: 9783112303870
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1957

Die Stellung der vorexilischen Schriftpropheten zum Kultus

Richard Hentschke

Volume 75 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112325629
ISBN:: 9783112325629
ISBN:: 9783112325612
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1955

Das Verstockungsproblem im Alten Testament

Eine Frömmigkeitsgeschichtliche Untersuchung

Franz Hesse

Volume 74 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112314968
ISBN:: 9783112314968
ISBN:: 9783112303825
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1953

Der Traum im Alten Testament

Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich

Volume 73 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112315040
ISBN:: 9783112315040
ISBN:: 9783112303894
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
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Book 1953

Der Traum im Alten Testament

Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich

Volume 73 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112313473
ISBN:: 9783112313473
ISBN:: 9783112302354
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
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Book 1952

Die Hauptprobleme des Buches Ezechiel

Georg Fohrer

Volume 72 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112319857
ISBN:: 9783112319857
ISBN:: 9783112308660
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1950

Die Ältesten Traditionen Israels

Ein Kritischer Bericht über C. A. Simpson's The Early Traditions of Israel

Otto Eissfeldt

Volume 71 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112314944
ISBN:: 9783112314944
ISBN:: 9783112303801
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1938

Alter und Aufkommen des Monotheismus in der israelitischen Religion

Bruno Balscheit

Volume 69 in this series

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This title from the De Gruyter Book Archive has been digitized in order to make it available for academic research. It was originally published under National Socialism and has to be viewed in this historical context. Learn more .

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Book 1938

Der “Elohist” von Exodus bis Josua

Wilhelm Rudolph

Volume 68 in this series

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Book 1964

Das Ethos des Alten Testaments

Volume 67 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838381
ISBN:: 9783110838381
ISBN:: 9783110055719
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Exegetical Monographs, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1938

Das Ethos des Alten Testaments

Johannes Hempel

Volume 67 in this series

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Book 1936

Werden und Wesen des Alten Testaments

Vorträge, gehalten auf der internationalen Tagung alttestamentlicher Forscher zu Göttingen vom 4.–10. September 1935

Paul Volz, Friedrich Stummer, Johannes Hempel

Volume 66 in this series

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Book 1934

Name und Wort Gottes im Alten Testament

Oskar Grether

Volume 64 in this series

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Book 1933

Der Elohist als Erzähler

Ein Irrweg der Pentateuchkritik? An der Genesis erläutert

Paul Volz, Wilhelm Rudolph

Volume 63 in this series

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Book 1933

Die altorientalische Weisheit in ihrer israelitisch-jüdischen Ausprägung

Eine Studie zur Nationalisierung der Weisheit in Israel

Johannes Fichtner

Volume 62 in this series

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Book Print Only 1933

Ezechielprobleme

Volkmar Herntrich

Volume 61 in this series

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ISBN:: 9783110984989
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1932

Die Passahfeier der Samaritaner und ihre Bedeutung für das Verständnis der alttestamentlichen Passahüberlieferung

Joachim Jeremias

Volume 59 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111328751
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098507-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-132875-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1929

Die Profetie des Amos

Artur Weiser

Volume 53 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111719405
ISBN:: 9783111719405
ISBN:: 9783111208312
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1929

Der hebräische Urrhythmus

Ignaz Gábor

Volume 52 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111328638
ISBN:: 9783111328638
ISBN:: 9783110984941
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1929

Die allegorische Exegese des Philo aus Alexandreia

Edmund Stein

Volume 51 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111328621
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098493-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-132862-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1928

Vorarbeiten zur Geschichte Israels, Heft 1: Die vorexilischen Gesetze Israels

Im Zusammenhang seiner kulturgeschichtlichen Entwicklung

Abram Menes

Volume 50 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111624822
ISBN:: 9783111624822
ISBN:: 9783111247205
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1928

Das Gebet der Angeklagten im Alten Testament

Hans Schmidt

Volume 49 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111328614
ISBN:: 9783111328614
ISBN:: 9783110984910
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1961

Das Wort Ḥesed

Im Alttestamentlichen Sprachgebrauche als Menschliche und Göttliche Gemeinschaftgemässe Verhaltungsweise

Nelson Glueck

Volume 47 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112314937
ISBN:: 9783112314937
ISBN:: 9783112303795
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1927

Spuren magischer Formeln in den Psalmen

Nicolaj Nicolsky, Georg Petzold

Volume 46 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111328584
ISBN:: 9783111328584
ISBN:: 9783110984880
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1927

Studien zur Geschichte der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Verhältnisse im israelitisch-jüdischen Reiche

Von der Einwanderung in Kanaan bis zum babylonischen Exil

M. Lurje

Volume 45 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111328577
ISBN:: 9783111328577
ISBN:: 9783110984873
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1926

Zur Septuaginta-Vorlage im Pentateuch

Johann Fischer

Volume 42 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111327020
ISBN:: 9783111327020
ISBN:: 9783110983708
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1925

Vom Alten Testament

Karl Marti zum 70. Geburtstage gewidmet ...

Karl Budde

Volume 41 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111327013
ISBN:: 9783111327013
ISBN:: 9783110983692
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1925

Suv sevut - die endzeitliche Wiederherstellung bei den Propheten

Ernst Ludwig Dietrich

Volume 40 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111663401
ISBN:: 9783111663401
ISBN:: 9783111278957
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1924

Untersuchungen zum Hexateuchproblem, Band 1: Der Priesterkodex in der Genesis

Max Löhr

Volume 38 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111608563
ISBN:: 9783111608563
ISBN:: 9783111233291
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1923

Deuterojesaja (Jesaja 40-55) stilkritisch untersucht

Ludwig Köhler

Volume 37 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326986
ISBN:: 9783111326986
ISBN:: 9783110983661
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1923

Das hebräische Leichenlied im Rahmen der Völkerdichtung

Hedwig Jahnow

Volume 36 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326979
ISBN:: 9783111326979
ISBN:: 9783110983654
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1922

Der Menschensohn in den Bilderreden des Henoch

Nils Messel

Volume 35 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326962
ISBN:: 9783111326962
ISBN:: 9783110983647
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1920

Beiträge zur alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft

Karl Budde zum siebzigsten Geburtstag am 13. April 1920 überreicht von Freunden und Schülern und in ihrem Namen

Karl Marti

Volume 34 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326955
ISBN:: 9783111326955
ISBN:: 9783110983630
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1918

Abhandlungen zur semitischen Religionskunde und Sprachwissenschaft

Wolf Wilhelm Graf von Baudissin zum 26. September 1917 überreicht von Freunden und Schülern ...

Wilhelm Frankenberg, Friedrich Küchler

Volume 33 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111627212
ISBN:: 9783111627212
ISBN:: 9783111249025
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1917

Die Klagegedichte des Jeremia

Walter Baumgartner

Volume 32 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111675794
ISBN:: 9783111675794
ISBN:: 9783111290799
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1916

Die Quellen der Genesis von neuem untersucht

Walther Eichrodt

Volume 31 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326948
ISBN:: 9783111326948
ISBN:: 9783110983623
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1915

Die Entwicklung des Gerichtsgedankens bei den alttestamentlichen Propheten

Willy Cossmann

Volume 29 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111698403
ISBN:: 9783111698403
ISBN:: 9783111310152
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1916

Syrisch-griechisches Wörterbuch zu den vier kanonischen Evangelien nebst einleitenden Untersuchungen

Otto Klein

Volume 28 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326924
ISBN:: 9783111326924
ISBN:: 9783110983609
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1914

Studien zur semitischen Philologie und Religionsgeschichte

Julius Wellhausen zum 70. Geburtstag am 17. Mai 1914 gewidmet von Freunden und Schülern

Karl Marti

Volume 27 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326917
ISBN:: 9783111326917
ISBN:: 9783110983593
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1913

Der Organismus der semitischen Wortbildung

Wilhelm Frankenberg

Volume 26 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326900
ISBN:: 9783111326900
ISBN:: 9783110983586
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1913

Der Maschal im Alten Testament

Eine wortgeschichtliche Untersuchung nebst einer literargeschichtlichen Untersuchung der ... genannten Gattungen "Volkssprichwort" und "Spottlied"

Otto Eissfeldt

Volume 24 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326894
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098356-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-132689-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 1912

Der Tosephtatraktat Berakot

Text, Übersetzung und Erklärung

Oscar Holtzmann

Volume 23 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326887
ISBN:: 9783111326887
ISBN:: 9783110983555
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1911

1. Mose 14

Eine historisch-kritische Untersuchung

Johannes Meinhold

Volume 22 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111727387
ISBN:: 9783111727387
ISBN:: 9783110984446
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1911

Das Verständnis der Oden Salomos

Wilhelm Frankenberg

Volume 21 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111608631
ISBN:: 9783111608631
ISBN:: 9783111233338
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1911

Die außermasorethischen Übereinstimmungen zwischen der Septuaginta und der Peschittha in der Genesis

Johannes Hänel

Volume 20 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111327761
ISBN:: 9783111327761
ISBN:: 9783110984439
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1910

Jüdische Reinheitslehre und ihre Beschreibung in den Evangelien

Wilhelm Brandt

Volume 19 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111327747
ISBN:: 9783111327747
ISBN:: 9783110984415
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1910

Die jüdischen Baptismen oder das religiöse Waschen und Baden im Judentum mit Einschluß des Judenchristentums

Wilhelm Brandt

Volume 18 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112324165
ISBN:: 9783112324165
ISBN:: 9783112324158
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1908

Die Benutzung der Pflanzenwelt in der alttestamentlichen Religion

Eine Studie

Friedrich Lundgreen

Volume 14 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111327686
ISBN:: 9783111327686
ISBN:: 9783110984354
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1908

Beiträge zur Erklärung und Kritik des Buches Tobit

Johannes Müller

Volume 13 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111581170
ISBN:: 9783111581170
ISBN:: 9783111208282
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1907

Die Beziehungen der Nichtisraeliten zu Jahwe nach der Anschauung der altisraelitischen Quellenschriften

Martin Peisker

Volume 12 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111662787
ISBN:: 9783111662787
ISBN:: 9783111278377
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1906

Sozialismus und Individualismus im Alten Testament

Ein Beitrag zur alttestamentlichen Religionsgeschichte

Max Löhr

Volume 10 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111327709
ISBN:: 9783111327709
ISBN:: 9783110984378
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1905

Ein Apparatus criticus zur Pesitto zum Propheten Jesaia

G. Diettrich

Volume 8 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111328720
ISBN:: 9783111328720
ISBN:: 9783110985047
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1898

Altisraelitische Kultstätten

August von Gall

Volume 3 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111662206
ISBN:: 9783111662206
ISBN:: 9783111277820
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1896

The composition and historical value of Ezra - Nehemiah

Charles C. Torrey

Volume 2 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111327754
ISBN:: 9783111327754
ISBN:: 9783110984422
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1896

Die Datierung der Psalmen Salomos

Ein Beitrag zur jüdischen Geschichte

W. Frankenberg

Volume 1 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111327693
ISBN:: 9783111327693
ISBN:: 9783110984361
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2024

Autoritätskonstruktion im Recht der Hebräischen Bibel

Rechtsbegründung im Bundesbuch aus textgeschichtlicher und exegetischer Perspektive

Amrei Koch

Volume 557 in this series

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How is law established in the Hebrew Bible? This volume carries out text-historical and literary studies investigations to show how law and narrative are interwoven in the Pentateuch and mutually enrich each other’s meaning. It looks at individual text witnesses to illustrate how the contexts of the law’s establishment are refined within the scope of various Torah concepts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111341712
ISBN:: 9783111341712
ISBN:: 9783111341750
ISBN:: 9783111341538
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

Judah's Desire and the Making of the Abrahamic Israel

A Contextual and Functional Approach

Hong Guk-Pyoung

Volume 559 in this series

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In this refreshing exploration of Judah’s identity formation, the emphasis is placed on the psychological underpinnings of Judah’s sentiments towards Israel, aiming to illuminate the significance of Judah's appropriation of Israel. Richly contextual, this book draws parallels observed in Asian contexts, notably those of North and South Korea, and China with its marginal Others. Central to the thesis is that Judah’s perceived inferiority to Israel played a crucial role in its quest to appropriate Israel’s legacy and identity.

Adopting a functionalist lens, Judah’s rewriting of Israel’s ancestral past is examined. The Abraham and Jacob traditions are understood as competing "identity narratives," serving as critical discursive tools to construct their pasts. The study scrutinizes how the southern Abraham tradition fundamentally reoriented the Jacob tradition, North Israel’s standalone ancestral myth. Set against the broader canvas of continued efforts to redefine and embody "Israel" within the history of Judeo-Christian religions, this exploration underscores how Judah's pivotal appropriation of Israel has established a paradigm for all future endeavors of "becoming Israel."

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111376004
ISBN:: 9783111376004
ISBN:: 9783111377759
ISBN:: 9783111376554
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Israel and Palestine
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

Torastudien

Reinhard G. Kratz

Volume 558 in this series

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This volume contains contributions to Pentateuch research from the past twenty years, arranged according to thematic criteria, which are further explained in the introductions to the five sections and placed within the broader context of Pentateuch analysis: the literary problem of the Pentateuch; ancient history and patriarchs; the law between exodus and Canaan; the Torah and former prophets; the reception of the Torah in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111367057
ISBN:: 9783111367057
ISBN:: 9783111366319
ISBN:: 9783111367682
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

Esther against Joseph’s Backdrop

The Theology and History of an Intertextual Relationship

Gabriel Fischer Hornung

Volume 553 in this series

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An examination of MT Esther’s relationship to the Joseph story, this study employs recent advances in author-oriented biblical intertextuality to address the debate concerning the religious purpose of the Scroll. While previous scholarship has seen Esther’s divine silence indicating God’s hidden hand, the characters’ or readers’ quiet faiths, or the secular concerns of an ancient Jewish nationalism, key aspects of Esther’s allusive character illustrate how the book purposefully constructs a theology of divine absence. As good-looking Israelites continue to rise in foreign courts to deliver themselves and their people from imminent dangers, the patterns God initiated in the Egyptian past are shown to extend into the Persian present even when the divine remains out of sight. Since this diachronically-oriented analysis suggests this theological interest was developed by Esther’s authors, it engages with Esther’s ancient Greek witnesses to demonstrate that the MT redactors altered an earlier version of the Scroll to position the Hebrew Megillah alongside Joseph’s instructive backdrop. By attending to these historical and interpretive issues, this work thus speaks to both Scroll scholarship and the study of inner-biblical allusions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111216836
ISBN:: 9783111216836
ISBN:: 9783111214139
ISBN:: 9783111216119
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2024

Zur Kritik der exegetischen Vernunft

Beiträge zu Theorie und Pragmatik der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft

Andrea Beyer, Lars Allolio-Näcke

Volume 555 in this series

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This volume opens up new perspectives on the developing methodological diversity of Old Testament exegesis. It sets out how it must become radically historical and therefore radically canonical, while revealing the wide-ranging significance of myth, history, and reason in Old Testament writing. Examples of methodological hybridity and exegesis as a transparent, open game flank the concluding sketch of a hermeneutical theory of practice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111317564
ISBN:: 9783111317564
ISBN:: 9783111317847
ISBN:: 9783111317397
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2024

Die Tempelweiherzählung

Ein Modell ihrer Genese ausgehend von 1 Kön 8,1–9,9, 3 Kgtm 8,1–9,9 und 2 Chr 5–7

Marcel Friesen

Volume 554 in this series

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This study reconstructs the genesis of the story of the temple dedication to trace its historical development. To do so, Part I closes gaps in the basic text-critical research (especially LXX). This is the foundation on which Part II investigates its literary history. The findings show that the historical origins of the story lie not to the age of kings but in the age of the Second Temple.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111290973
ISBN:: 9783111290973
ISBN:: 9783111290911
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

Geschichte und Theologie II

Studien zur Literatur-, Religions- und Theologiegeschichte des Alten Testaments

Rainer Albertz, Ruth Ebach, Jakob Wöhrle

Volume 551 in this series

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The second volume of History and Theology contains 23 articles by Rainer Albertz on the history of Israel, on literary and religious history, and on the anthropology and theology of the Old Testament. These articles demonstrate the Münster-based scholar’s project to explain the development, diversity, and societal, political, and theological relevance of Old Testament transmissions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111202228
ISBN:: 9783111202228
ISBN:: 9783111202938
ISBN:: 9783111179810
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

A Transverse Dreamer

Essays on the Book of Micah

Bob Becking

Volume 552 in this series

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The final text of the Book of Micah provokes a series of questions:
- Can the Book be read as a coherent composition or is it the result of a complex redaction history?
- Was Micah a prophet of doom whose literary heritage was later softened by the inclusion of oracles of salvation?
The essays in this book center around these questions. Some of them are of a more general character, while others analyze specific passages. Some articles discuss the Book of Micah by looking at specific themes (prophecy; religious polemics; metaphors). The others are concerned with the proclamation of a peaceful future (Micah 4:1-5); the famous moral incentive in Micah 6:8 and the question of prophetic and divine gender in Micah 7:8-13. They have two features in common:
- A thorough reading of the Hebrew text informed by grammar and syntax.
- A comparative approach: the Book of Micah is seen as part of the ancient Near Eastern culture.
All in all, the author defends the view that the Book of Micah contains three independent literary elements: Micah 1: a prophecy of doom; Micah 2-5 a two-sided futurology, and 6-8 a later appropriation of Micah’s message.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111208657
ISBN:: 9783111208657
ISBN:: 9783111209319
ISBN:: 9783111207834
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Overviews and Introductions
Subject:: Hellenistic-Roman Era
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Subject:: Prophets
Publisher:: De Gruyter