A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics, and Language Relating to Persian Israel

344 Pages·2009·3.543 MB·

by  Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, Frank Polak

A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology,
Stylistics, and Language Relating
to Persian Israel
Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its
Contexts
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The series Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
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A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology,
Stylistics, and Language Relating
to Persian Israel
Edited by
Ehud Ben Zvi
Diana V. Edelman
Frank Polak
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A palimpsest : rhetoric, ideology, stylistics,
and language relating to Persian Israel /
edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana V. Edelman, Frank
Polak.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Bible. O.T.--Criticism, interpretation,
etc. 2. Bible. O.T.--Language, style. 3.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586
B.C.-210 A.D. 4. Jews--History--586 B.C.-70
A.D. 5. Hebrew language--Grammar. I. Ben Zvi,
Ehud, 1951- II. Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954-
III. Polak, Frank.
BS1225.52.P35 2009
221.6'609014--dc22
2009039161
Printed in the United States of America
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents.....................................................................................v
Acknowledgments..................................................................................vii
Abbreviations...........................................................................................ix
Diana V. Edelman, Introduction...........................................................1
Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Group Identities in Jeremiah: Is It
the Persian Period Conflict?” .....................................................11
Diana V. Edelman, Ezra 1–6 as Idealized Past.................................47
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Ancestor Ideologies and
the Territoriality of the Dead in Genesis...................................61
Diana V. Edelman, God Rhetoric: Reconceptualizing
YHWH Sebaot as YHWH Elohim in the Hebrew
Bible.................................................................................................89
Jean-Daniel Macchi, The Book of Esther:
A Persian story in Greek style...................................................109
Philippe Guillaume, Nahum 1: Prophet, Senet, and
Divination.....................................................................................129
Frank Polak, Verbs of Motion in Biblical Hebrew:
Lexical Shifts and Syntactic Structure......................................161
Frank Polak, Parallelism and Noun Groups in
Prophetic Poetry from the Persian Era....................................199
Robert Rezetko, What Happened to the Book of
Samuel in the Persian Period and Beyond?.............................237
Ian Young, What is ‘Late Biblical Hebrew’?....................................253
Ehud Ben Zvi, The Communicative Message of Some
Linguistic Choices.......................................................................269
Author Index.........................................................................................291
References Index..................................................................................299

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors would like to thank Gorgias Press for publishing this
volume and in particular Dr. Katie Stott for her careful editing of
the volume.

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ABBREVIATIONS
AA Archäologischer Anzeiger
AASOR Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research
AAUSSU Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia
AB Anchor Bible
ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. D. N. Freedman)
ABRL Anchor Bible Reference Library
AJSL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature
AnBib Analecta biblica
AnOr Analecta orientalia
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium
BHT Beiträge zur historischen Theologie
BibS(F) Biblische Studien (Freiburg)
BN Biblische Notizen
BWANT Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten Testament
BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wis-
senschaft
CahRB Cahiers de la Revue biblique
CAT Commentaire de l’Ancien Testament
CBC The Cambridge Bible Commentary, New English Bi-
ble
CBET Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
ConBOT Coniectanea biblica: Old Testament Series
CUF Collection des universités de France
DDD Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (eds K. van
der Toorn, B. Becking, and P. W. van der Horst)
DSD Dead Sea Discoveries
FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament
HALOT Koehler, L., W. Baumgartner, and J. J. Stamm, The
Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament.
HAT Handbuch zum Alten Testament
HS Hebrew Studies
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