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THINKING OF
WATER IN THE
EARLY SECOND
TEMPLE PERIOD
Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period
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Foreword
This volume evolved out of the papers presented and the conversations
conducted at a workshop organized by the Faculties of Catholic Theol-
ogy and Protestant Theology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
(LMU) Munich on the one hand and the Dept. of History and Classics
and the Program of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta on
the other. This workshop, which is part and parcel of a large, multi-
year collaboration project involving the University of Alberta and LMU
Munich, was held on May 7–11, 2012 in Edmonton. It involved mainly,
but not only, scholars in other institutions in Canada and the EU. The
papers vividly discussed in this workshop evolved into the revised
versions included in this volume. The editors asked a few other col-
leagues to write chapters to complement, in terms of scope, those
emerging from the volume and the result is this present collection
The editors wish to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Re-
search Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Office of the Vice-President
International at the University of Alberta, the Faculty of Arts, the Dept.
of History and Classics and the Religious Studies Interdisciplinary Pro-
gram for the financial and in kind support that they provided for the
workshop. Ms. Melanie Marvin (History and Classics, Univ. of Alberta)
was the key person for all administrative matters. The editors would
like also to acknowledge the volunteer graduate students who took
care of some of the practicalities of holding such a workshop. Without
their assistance, neither the workshop nor this volume would have seen
the light of day.
The editors and the contributors would like to thank the editors of
BZAW for accepting this volume in the series, de Gruyter for publish-
ing this volume, Ms. Melanie Marvin, Ms. Anna Cwikla and Ms. Frie-
derike Hoffmann for preparing the volume for publication and Ms.
Sabina Dabrowski and Ms. Sophie Wagenhofer (de Gruyter) for her
assistance in the final stage.
Table of Contents
Foreword ......................................................................................................... v
Abbreviations ................................................................................................ ix
Christoph Levin
Introduction .................................................................................................... 1
Ehud Ben Zvi
Thinking of Water in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Judah:
An Exploration ............................................................................................. 11
Martti Nissinen
Sacred Springs and Liminal Rivers:
Water and Prophecy in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean ................. 29
Stéphanie Anthonioz
Water(s) of Abundance in the Ancient Near East
and in Hebrew Bible Texts: A Sign of Kingship....................................... 49
Diana Edelman
The Nile in Biblical Memory ....................................................................... 77
Kåre Berge
Polluted, Bitter, and Sweet Water as a Matter of Ethnic Identity-
Formation in Persian Yehud ..................................................................... 103
Ian Douglas Wilson
The Song of the Sea and Isaiah:
Exodus 15 in Post-monarchic Prophetic Discourse ............................... 123
Sonya Kostamo
Imagining Water: The Overflowing Stream in Isa 66:12 ...................... 149
Hermann-Josef Stipp
“But into the Water You Must Not Dip It” (Jeremiah 13:1) –
Methodological Reflections on How to Identify the Work of the
Deuteronomistic Redaction in the Book of Jeremiah ............................ 167
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Christoph Levin
Drought and Locust Plague in Joel 1-2 .................................................... 197
Bob Becking
Coping with Drought and Famine in some Post-Exilic Texts .............. 229
Reinhard Müller
Adad’s Overflowing Scourge and the Weather God of Zion:
Observations on Motif History in Isa 28:14-18 ....................................... 257
Urmas Nõmmik
Thinking of Water in the Book of Job:
A Fluvial Introduction to the Job Literature ........................................... 279
Juha Pakkala
Water in 1-2 Kings ...................................................................................... 299
William S. Morrow
Water Control and Royal Propaganda:
Sennacherib’s Boast in 2 Kgs 19:24 (= Isa 37:25) ..................................... 317
Louis Jonker
Manasseh in Paradise? The Influence of ANE Palace Garden Imagery
in LXX 2 Chronicles 33:20.......................................................................... 339
Peter Juhás
Dew in the Enochic Literature .................................................................. 359
Samuel I. Thomas
Living Water by the Dead Sea:
Some Water Metaphors in the Qumran Scrolls ...................................... 375
James R. Linville
The Fluid Boundaries of Life, the Universe and Yahweh ..................... 393
Peter Sabo
Drawing Out Moses:
Water as a Personal Motif of the Biblical Character .............................. 409
Francis Landy
Fluvial Fantasies ......................................................................................... 437
Author Index ............................................................................................... 457
Reference Index .......................................................................................... 471
Abbreviations
AASF Annales Acadmiae scientiarum fennicae
AASOR Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research
AB Anchor Bible
ABC Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles. A. K. Grayson. TCS
5. Locus Valley, New York, 1975
ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by D. N. Freedman. 6
vols. New York, 1992
ABG Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte
ABL Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belonging to the Kouyunjik
Collections of the British Museum. Edited by R. F. Harper.
14 vols. Chicago, 1892–1914
ABRL Anchor Bible Reference Library
AfO Archiv für Orientforschung
AJBI Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute
AJSL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature
ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament.
Edited by J. B. Pritchard. 3d ed. Princeton, 1969
ANES Ancient Near Eastern Studies
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament
AOTC Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries
ARAB Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia. Daniel David
Luckenbill. 2 vols. Chicago, 1926–1927
ArBib The Aramaic Bible
ArOr Archiv Orientální
ARRIM Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia
ASORDS American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation
Series
ASTI Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute
ATANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen
Testaments
ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch
ATSAT Arbeiten zu Text und Sprache im Alten Testament
BA Biblical Archaeologist
BAR Biblical Archaeology Review
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BBB Bonner biblische Beiträge
BBB Bulletin de bibliographie biblique
