On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998, Volume II

468 Pages·1998·22.02 MB·English

by  David J. A. Clines

JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
SUPPLEMENT SERIES
293
Editors
David J.A. Clines
Philip R. Davies
Executive Editor
John Jarick
Editorial Board
Robert P. Carroll, Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, J. Cheryl Exum,
John Goldingay, Robert P. Gordon, Norman K. Gottwald,
Andrew D.H. Mayes, Carol Meyers, Patrick D. Miller
Sheffield Academic Press
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On the Way to the
Postmodern
Old Testament Essays, 1967-1998
Volume II
David J.A. Clines
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Supplement Series 293
Copyright © 1998 Sheffield Academic Press
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Vol. 1 ISBN 1-85075-901-4
Vol. 2 ISBN 1-85075-983-9
CONTENTS
Volume 1
Abbreviations x
Introduction xv
METHOD
1 Reading Esther from Left to Right:
Contemporary Strategies for Reading a Biblical Text 3
2 Methods in Old Testament Study 23
3 Possibilities and Priorities of Biblical Interpretation
in an International Perspective 46
4 Beyond Synchronic/Diachronic 68
5 Nehemiah 10 as an Example of Early Jewish Biblical Exegesis 88
6 Ethics as Deconstruction, and, The Ethics of Deconstruction 95
7 Varieties of Indeterminacy 126
8 The Pyramid and the Net:
The Postmodern Adventure in Biblical Studies 138
9 From Salamanca to Cracow:
What Has (and Has Not) Happened at
SBL International Meetings 158
10 From Copenhagen to Oslo:
What Has (and Has Not) Happened at
Congresses of the IOSOT 194
vi On the Way to the Postmodern
LITERATURE
11 Story and Poem:
The Old Testament as Literature and as Scripture 225
12 X, X ten Y, ten Y:
Personal Names in Hebrew Narrative Style 240
13 Form, Occasion and Redaction in Jeremiah 20
(with David M. Gunn) 263
14 'You tried to persuade me' and 'Violence! Outrage!'
in Jeremiah 20.7-8
(with David M. Gunn) 285
15 Hosea 2: Structure and Interpretation 293
16 The Parallelism of Greater Precision:
Notes from Isaiah 40 for a Theory of Hebrew Poetry 314
17 The Significance of the 'Sons of God' Episode (Genesis 6.1-4)
in the Context of the 'Primaeval History' (Genesis 1-11) 337
18 The Force of the Text:
A Response to Tamara C. Eskenazi's
'Ezra-Nehemiah: From Text to Actuality' 351
HISTORY
19 The Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in
Pre-exilic Israel Reconsidered 371
20 Regnal Year Reckoning
in the Last Years of the Kingdom of Judah 395
21 New Year 426
22 In Quest of the Historical Mordecai 436
Contents vii
Volume 2
Abbreviations x
THEOLOGY
23 Humanity as the Image of God 447
24 Yahweh and the God of Christian Theology 498
25 The Theology of the Flood Narrative 508
26 Predestination in the Old Testament 524
27 Sacred Space, Holy Places and Suchlike 542
28 Sin and Maturity 555
LANGUAGE
29 The Etymology of Hebrew Selem 577
30 Was There an 'bl II 'be dry' in Classical Hebrew? 585
31 Kit 111-114 (I iii 7-10):
Gatherers of Wood and Drawers of Water 595
32 The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew 602
33 Philology and Power 613
34 Squares and Streets:
The Distinction of HilTl 'Square' and rrniTI 'Streets' 631
viii On the Way to the Postmodern
PSALMS
35 Psalm Research since 1955:1. The Psalms and the Cult 639
36 Psalm Research since 1955: II. The Literary Genres 665
37 The Psalms and the King 687
38 Universal Dominion in Psalm 2? 701
39 The Tree of Knowledge and the Law of Yahweh (Psalm 19) 708
JOB
40 The Arguments of Job' s Three Friends 719
41 False Naivety in the Prologue to Job 735
42 Job 4.13: A Byronic Suggestion 745
43 Verb Modality and the Interpretation of Job 4.20-21 748
44 Job 5.1-8: A New Exegesis 752
45 Belief, Desire and Wish in Job 19.23-27:
Clues for the Identity of Job's 'Redeemer' 762
46 In Search of the Indian Job 770
47 Those Golden Days: Job and the Perils of Nostalgia 792
48 Quarter Days Gone:
Job 24 and the Absence of God 801
Contents ix
DIVERTIMENTI
49 The History of Bo-Peep:
An Agricultural Worker's Tragedy in
Contemporary Literary Perspective 823
50 New Directions in Pooh Studies:
tiberlieferungs- und traditionsgeschichtliche Studien
zum Pu-Buch 830
Bibliography of David J.A. Clines 841
Index of Biblical References 855
Index of Authors 873
Index of Subjects 884