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Reflection and refraction : studies in biblical historiography in honour of A. Graeme Auld / edited by Robert Rezetko, Timothy H. Lim and W. Brian Aucker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 113Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.Description: xxix, 572 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9789004145122 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 221.6 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1171.3 .R44 2007
Other classification:
  • 11.41
Online resources:
Contents:
A prophet in king's clothes: kingly and divine re-presentation in 2 Kings 4 and 5 / W. Brian Aucker -- Historiography and theodicy in the Old Testament / John Barton -- The books of Chronicles and the scrolls from Qumran / George J. Brooke -- A royal privilege: dining in the presence of the great king (2 Kings 25.27-30) / Ronald E. Clements -- Translating Psalm 23 / David J. A. Clines -- The just king: fact or fancy? Some Ugaritic reflections / Adrian H. W. Curtis -- The trouble with Benjamin / Philip R. Davies -- Gibeon and the Gibeonites in the Old Testament / John Day -- Reading Numbers after Samuel / Mary Douglas -- Mighty oaks from (genetically manipulated?) acorns grow: The chronicle of the kings of Judah as a source of the Deuteronomistic history / Lester L. Grabbe -- The 'original text' of Sefer Yesira or the 'earliest recoverable text'? / A. Peter Hayman -- 'The righteous generation': the use of Dr̥ in Psalms 14 and 24 / Alastair G. Hunter -- Exodus 20.24b: linchpin of Pentateuchal criticism or just a further link between the Decalogue and the Book of the Covenant? / Willliam Johnstone -- Cutheans or children of Jacob? The issue of Samaritan origins in 2 Kings 17 / Gary N. Knoppers -- Obeisance in the biblical stories of David / Lydie Kucov̀ --
The book of Ruth and its literary voice / Timothy H. Lim -- Bugs through the looking glass: the infestation of meaning in Joel / James R. Linville -- The trouble with King Jehoshaphat / Steven L. McKenzie -- The Deuteronomic history and the books of Chronicles: contemporary competing historiographies / Raymond F. Person, Jr. -- Swallowed by a song: Jonah and the Jonah-Psalm through the looking-glass /Hugh S. Pyper -- Stories of forgiveness: narrative ethics and the Old Testament / David J. Reimer -- 'Late' common nouns in the book of Chronicles / Robert Rezetko -- Israel's sojourn in the wilderness and the construction of the book of Numbers / Thomas Christian RmÌøer -- The notion of Jerusalem as a holy city / Margreet L. Steiner -- Biliteral exegesis of Hebrew roots in the Septuagint? / Emanuel Tov -- Kings (MT/LXX) and Chronicles: the double and triple textual tradition / Julio Trebolle -- The 'shared text' of Samuel-Kings and Chronicles re-examined / John Van Seters -- Once upon a time---? / H. G. M. Williamson -- Gideon: a new Moses? / Gregory T. K. Wong -- The seventy sons of Athirat, the nations of the world, Deuteronomy 32.6b, 8-9, and the myth of divine election / N. Wyatt.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A prophet in king's clothes: kingly and divine re-presentation in 2 Kings 4 and 5 / W. Brian Aucker -- Historiography and theodicy in the Old Testament / John Barton -- The books of Chronicles and the scrolls from Qumran / George J. Brooke -- A royal privilege: dining in the presence of the great king (2 Kings 25.27-30) / Ronald E. Clements -- Translating Psalm 23 / David J. A. Clines -- The just king: fact or fancy? Some Ugaritic reflections / Adrian H. W. Curtis -- The trouble with Benjamin / Philip R. Davies -- Gibeon and the Gibeonites in the Old Testament / John Day -- Reading Numbers after Samuel / Mary Douglas -- Mighty oaks from (genetically manipulated?) acorns grow: The chronicle of the kings of Judah as a source of the Deuteronomistic history / Lester L. Grabbe -- The 'original text' of Sefer Yesira or the 'earliest recoverable text'? / A. Peter Hayman -- 'The righteous generation': the use of Dr̥ in Psalms 14 and 24 / Alastair G. Hunter -- Exodus 20.24b: linchpin of Pentateuchal criticism or just a further link between the Decalogue and the Book of the Covenant? / Willliam Johnstone -- Cutheans or children of Jacob? The issue of Samaritan origins in 2 Kings 17 / Gary N. Knoppers -- Obeisance in the biblical stories of David / Lydie Kucov̀ --

The book of Ruth and its literary voice / Timothy H. Lim -- Bugs through the looking glass: the infestation of meaning in Joel / James R. Linville -- The trouble with King Jehoshaphat / Steven L. McKenzie -- The Deuteronomic history and the books of Chronicles: contemporary competing historiographies / Raymond F. Person, Jr. -- Swallowed by a song: Jonah and the Jonah-Psalm through the looking-glass /Hugh S. Pyper -- Stories of forgiveness: narrative ethics and the Old Testament / David J. Reimer -- 'Late' common nouns in the book of Chronicles / Robert Rezetko -- Israel's sojourn in the wilderness and the construction of the book of Numbers / Thomas Christian RmÌøer -- The notion of Jerusalem as a holy city / Margreet L. Steiner -- Biliteral exegesis of Hebrew roots in the Septuagint? / Emanuel Tov -- Kings (MT/LXX) and Chronicles: the double and triple textual tradition / Julio Trebolle -- The 'shared text' of Samuel-Kings and Chronicles re-examined / John Van Seters -- Once upon a time---? / H. G. M. Williamson -- Gideon: a new Moses? / Gregory T. K. Wong -- The seventy sons of Athirat, the nations of the world, Deuteronomy 32.6b, 8-9, and the myth of divine election / N. Wyatt.