Studies on the Text and Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon

459 Pages·2011·2.571 MB·English

by  Geoffrey Khan, Diana Lipton

Studies on the Text and Versions of the
Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon
Supplements
to
Vetus Testamentum
Editor-in-Chief
christl m. maier
Editorial Board
r.p. gordon – j. joosten – a. van der kooij – g.n. knoppers –
a. lemaire – s.l. mckenzie – c.a. newsom – h. spieckermann –
j. trebolle barrera – n. wazana – s.d. weeks – h.g.m. williamson
VOLUME 149
Robert Gordon

Studies on the Text and
Versions of the Hebrew Bible
in Honour of Robert Gordon
Edited by
Geoffrey Khan and Diana Lipton
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2012
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Studies on the text and versions of the Hebrew Bible in honour of Robert Gordon / edited by
Geoffrey Khan and Diana Lipton.
p. cm. — (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 149)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-90-04-21730-0 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Bible. O.T.—Criticism, Textual.
2. Bible. O.T.—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Gordon, R. P. II. Khan, Geoffrey.
III. Lipton, Diana.
BS1136.S78 2012
221.6’6—dc23
2011034525
ISSN 0083-5889
ISBN 978-90-04-21730-0
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CONTENTS
Preface ................................................................................................. ix
Abbreviations ..................................................................................... xi
Publications of Robert P. Gordon .................................................. xiii
RPG ...................................................................................................... 1
Andrew A. Macintosh
Anticipations of Horeb: Exodus 17 As Inner-Biblical
Commentary .................................................................................. 7
Nathan MacDonald
Legal Analogy in Deuteronomy and Fratricide in the Field ...... 21
Diana Lipton
Are There Anachronisms in the Books of Samuel? ..................... 39
Alan Millard
Incongruity in the Story of Saul in 1 Samuel 9–15:
A Methodological Survey ............................................................. 49
Katharine J. Dell
The Friendship of Jonathan and David ......................................... 65
Graham Davies
A Sign and a Portent in Isaiah 8.18 ............................................... 77
H.G.M. Williamson
Jeremiah the Historian: The Book of Jeremiah As a Source
for the History of the Near East in the Time of
Nebuchadnezzar ............................................................................ 87
Hans M. Barstad
Psalms, Biblical Theology, and the Christian Church ................. 99
Ronald E. Clements
vi contents
On the Coherence of the Third Dialogic Cycle in the
Book of Job ..................................................................................... 113
V. Philips Long
A Feature of the Dates in the Aramaic Portions of Ezra
and Daniel ...................................................................................... 127
Brian A. Mastin
Fat Eglon ............................................................................................. 141
James K. Aitken
People and Places in the Earliest Translations of Neo-Assyrian
Texts Relating to the Old Testament ......................................... 155
Kevin J. Cathcart
The Bible, the Septuagint, and the Apocrypha: A Consideration
of Their Singularity ....................................................................... 169
Peter J. Williams
The Land is Full of Foreign Children: Language and Ideology
in LXX Isa. 2.6 ............................................................................... 181
Rodrigo de Sousa
What Was an ὀπωροφυλάκιον? ....................................................... 197
Jennifer Dines
What Remains of the Hebrew Bible? The Accuracy of the Text
of the Hebrew Bible in the Light of the Qumran Samuel
(4QSAMA) ....................................................................................... 211
David J.A. Clines
The Social Matrix That Shaped the Hebrew Bible and Gave Us
the Dead Sea Scrolls ...................................................................... 221
Charlotte Hempel
Josephus and 11Q13 on Melchizedek ............................................ 239
William Horbury
contents vii
Josephus, Onkelos, and Jonathan: On the Agreements
between Josephus’ Works and Targumic Sources ................... 253
Arie van der Kooij
The Targums: Tel-Like Character and a Continuum .................. 269
Martin McNamara
Mules, Rome, and a Catalogue of Names: Genesis 36
and Its Aramaic Targumim ......................................................... 295
Robert Hayward
The Condemned Rulers in Targum Isaiah’s Eschatological
Banquet ........................................................................................... 315
William D. Barker
Targum Proverbs and the Peshitta: Reflections on the
Linguistic Environment ................................................................ 325
John F. Healey
On Some Connotations of the Word Maʿaseh ............................. 337
Stefan C. Reif
Reflections on the Christian Turn to the Hebraica Veritas
and Its Implications ...................................................................... 353
Philip Alexander
A Ninth-Century Irish Bog Psalter and Reading the Psalms
as ‘Three Fifties’ ............................................................................. 373
Susan E. Gillingham
The Grammatical Commentary on Hosea by the
Karaite Yūsuf Ibn Nūḥ ................................................................. 387
Geoffrey Khan
General Index ..................................................................................... 419
Biblical References ............................................................................. 425
Rabbinic References .......................................................................... 436