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Sacred History, Sacred Literature : Essays on Ancient Israel, the Bible, and Religion in Honor of R. E. Friedman on His Sixtieth Birthday.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (363 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781575065953
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sacred History, Sacred LiteratureDDC classification:
  • 221.6
LOC classification:
  • BS1171.3 .S23 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Ezekiel and the Levites -- Chapter 2: Framing Aaron:Incense Altar and Lamp Oil in the Tabernacle Texts -- Chapter 3: Necromancy and 1 Samuel 19:22 -- Chapter 4: A Tale of the Prophet and the Courtier:A Responsive Reading ofthe Nathan Texts -- Chapter 5: A Forgotten Cultic Reform?2 Kings 3:2b -- Chapter 6: Scribal Error and the Transmission of 2 Kings 18-20 and Isaiah 36-39 -- Chapter 7: Empirical Taxonomy and the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 8: Place-Names as Superlatives in Classical Hebrew -- Chapter 9: The Real Formal Full Personal Name of the God of Israel -- Chapter 10: Leitwort Style and Literary Structure in the J Primeval Narrative -- Chapter 11: How Moses Gained and Lost the Reputation of Being the Torah's Author:Higher Criticism prior to Julius Wellhausen -- Chapter 12: How Was the Bible Written?Reflections on Sources and Authors in the Book of Kings -- Chapter 13: The "Biblical" Origins of Passover -- Chapter 14: "Plowing with a Heifer" in Judges 14:18:Tracing a Sexual Euphemism -- Chapter 15: Aramean Skin Care:A New Perspective on Naaman's Leprosy -- Chapter 16: Abraham and Damascus in Some Greek and Latin Texts of the Hellenistic Period -- Chapter 17: Rethinking Sectarian Judaism:The Centrality of the Priesthood in the Second Temple Period -- Chapter 18: In Defense of Forgery -- Chapter 19: Can Archaeology Serve as a Tool in Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 20: "You Shall Make for Yourself No Molten Gods":Some Thoughts on Archaeology and Edomite Ethnic Identity -- Chapter 21: Female Infanticide in Iron IIIsrael and Judah -- Chapter 22: Elements of Popular Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Psalms Commentary -- Chapter 23: The Biblical Icon.
Chapter24: Walter Rauschenbusch, the Social Gospel Movement, and How Julius Wellhausen Unwittingly Helped Create American Progressivism in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 25: "Starving" the Patient:A Jewish Perspective on Terry Schiavo and the Feeding Tube Controversy -- Index.
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Intro -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Ezekiel and the Levites -- Chapter 2: Framing Aaron:Incense Altar and Lamp Oil in the Tabernacle Texts -- Chapter 3: Necromancy and 1 Samuel 19:22 -- Chapter 4: A Tale of the Prophet and the Courtier:A Responsive Reading ofthe Nathan Texts -- Chapter 5: A Forgotten Cultic Reform?2 Kings 3:2b -- Chapter 6: Scribal Error and the Transmission of 2 Kings 18-20 and Isaiah 36-39 -- Chapter 7: Empirical Taxonomy and the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 8: Place-Names as Superlatives in Classical Hebrew -- Chapter 9: The Real Formal Full Personal Name of the God of Israel -- Chapter 10: Leitwort Style and Literary Structure in the J Primeval Narrative -- Chapter 11: How Moses Gained and Lost the Reputation of Being the Torah's Author:Higher Criticism prior to Julius Wellhausen -- Chapter 12: How Was the Bible Written?Reflections on Sources and Authors in the Book of Kings -- Chapter 13: The "Biblical" Origins of Passover -- Chapter 14: "Plowing with a Heifer" in Judges 14:18:Tracing a Sexual Euphemism -- Chapter 15: Aramean Skin Care:A New Perspective on Naaman's Leprosy -- Chapter 16: Abraham and Damascus in Some Greek and Latin Texts of the Hellenistic Period -- Chapter 17: Rethinking Sectarian Judaism:The Centrality of the Priesthood in the Second Temple Period -- Chapter 18: In Defense of Forgery -- Chapter 19: Can Archaeology Serve as a Tool in Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 20: "You Shall Make for Yourself No Molten Gods":Some Thoughts on Archaeology and Edomite Ethnic Identity -- Chapter 21: Female Infanticide in Iron IIIsrael and Judah -- Chapter 22: Elements of Popular Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Psalms Commentary -- Chapter 23: The Biblical Icon.

Chapter24: Walter Rauschenbusch, the Social Gospel Movement, and How Julius Wellhausen Unwittingly Helped Create American Progressivism in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 25: "Starving" the Patient:A Jewish Perspective on Terry Schiavo and the Feeding Tube Controversy -- Index.

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