Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients : Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Part 1: "Seeking Out Wisdom and Concerned with Prophecies" (Sirach 39:1): Studies in Biblical Texts -- Observations on Ezekiel as a Book Prophet -- The Decrees of Yahweh That Are "Not Good": Ezekiel 20:25-26 -- Ellipsis Involving Negation in Biblical Poetry -- Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22: Two Versions of the Same Song -- The Wisdom of Creation in Psalm 104 -- "Come, O Children . . . I Will Teach You the Fear of the Lord" (Psalm 34:12): Comparing Psalms and Proverbs -- A Proverb in the Mouth of a Fool -- Genericity, Tense, and Verbal Patterns in the Sentence Literature of Proverbs -- Word Order in the Book of Proverbs -- Exegetical and Stylistic Analysis of a Number of Aphorisms in the Book of Proverbs: Mitigation of Monotony in Repetitions in Parallel Texts -- Forming "Fearers of Yahweh": Repetition and Contradiction as Pedagogy in Proverbs -- Visual Metaphors and Proverbs 5:15-20: Some Archaeological Reflections on Gendered Iconography -- The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17-24:22 from the Perspective of Contemporary Research -- The Woman of Valor and A Woman Large of Head: Matchmaking in the Ancient Near East -- The Fly and the Dog: Observations on Ideational Polarity in the Book of Qoheleth -- A Sense of Timing: A Neglected Aspect of Qoheleth's Wisdom -- The Little Sister and Solomon's Vineyard: Song of Songs 8:8-12 as a Lovers' Dialogue -- Answering Questions, Questioning Answers: The Rhetoric of Interrogatives in the Speeches of Job and His Friends -- Part 2: "Preserving the Sayings of the Famous" (Sirach 39:2): Text, Versions, and Method -- The Mysterious Disappearance of Zerubbabel -- Textual Criticism of the Book of Deuteronomy and the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project -- What's in a Name? Contemporization and Toponyms in LXX-Isaiah -- Characterization in the Old Greek of Job.

On the Influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic Literature -- Becoming Canon: Women, Texts, and Scribes in Proverbs and Sirach -- Translating Biblical Words of Wisdom into the Modern World -- The Text-Critical Value of the Septuagint of Proverbs -- Christian Aramaism: The Birth and Growth of Aramaic Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century -- Spying out the Land: A Report from Genology -- What's in a Calendar? Calendar Conformity, Calendar Controversy, and Calendar Reform in Ancient and Medieval Judaism -- Competing Commentaries -- Indexes.

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