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Bible and Canon
A Modern Historical Inquiry
Av Luc Zaman
Inbunden, 2008
3613 kr
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Several decades ago canonical criticism came to dominate the study of the canon and even indeed all of biblical studies by its emphasis on the biblical canon's dogmatic content. An investigation of this canonical criticism brings its weak points to light: most notably the insufficient attention …
Protest or Propaganda
War in the Old Testament Book of Kings and in Contemporaneous Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Inbunden, 2008
3613 kr
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In this study, the war stories from the Old Testament book of Kings are compared to ten extrabiblical texts. Narratological analysis is applied to deconstruct the ideology of the respective literary compositions. The Old Testament ideology of war seems to be neither typically Israelite, as Gerhardt …
Collective and Individual Responsibility
A Description of Corporate Personality in Ezekiel 18 and 20
Av Jurrien Mol
Inbunden, 2009
2648 kr
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A long discussed theme concerning Ezekiel 18 and 20 is the relationship between collective and individual responsibility. In the first half of the twentieth century the discussion appeared to end as a result of the introduction of the corporate personality by Henry Wheeler Robinson (1872-1945). …
Tradition and Transformation in the Book of Chronicles
Inbunden, 2008
2544 kr
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This monograph contributes to a better understanding of the Book of Chronicles. The past forty years have seen a complete transformation in the study of the Book of Chronicles. The former domination of Chronicles by parallel texts in the Books of Samuel and Kings made way for studying the …
Lexical Field of the Substantives of “Gift” in Ancient Hebrew
Inbunden, 2010
3378 kr
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This monograph exhaustively investigates the semantic domain of ‘gift’ in Ancient Hebrew, which comprises 28 substantives. The investigation firstly focuses on the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations that determine the meanings of each individual lexeme and subsequently provides an overall …
From Linguistics to Hermeneutics
A Functional and Cognitive Approach to Job 12-14
Inbunden, 2010
3688 kr
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Linguistics and hermeneutics are often regarded as two mutually exclusive scholarly disciplines. Recent decades, however, have witnessed the rise of linguistic approaches that take meaning back to the heart of their inquiry and can be fruitful for textual interpretation. This book applies the …
From Two Kingdoms To One Nation - Israel and Judah
Studies in Division and Unification
Inbunden, 2011
3114 kr
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How did two separate peoples become one? All the signs are that the creation of a unified Israelite kingdom under King David had failed to erase the differences between the Northern and Southern tribes. This book sets out to highlight these essential differences between Judah and Israel as they …
Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation
Studies Presented to Professor Eep Talstra on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Av Willem Th. van Peursen, Janet Dyk
Inbunden, 2011
3730 kr
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The theme of this volume in honour of Eep Talstra is ‘Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation’, with an emphasis on the innovative role of computer-assisted textual analysis. It focusses on the role of tradition in biblical interpretation and of the innovations brought about by ICT in …
Book of Job in Form
A Literary Translation with Commentary
Inbunden, 2012
2719 kr
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The Book of Job in Form presents to the reader a platform for a personal and intensive encounter with a great work of art. Its bilingual centre offers the text in Hebrew and English, and shows the forty poems in their original form, in 412 strophes and 165 stanzas. The commentary points out how …
Role of Zion/Jerusalem in Isaiah 40-55: A Corpus-Linguistic Approach
Inbunden, 2012
3078 kr
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In The Role of Zion/Jerusalem in Isaiah 40–55: A Corpus-Linguistic Approach Reinoud Oosting offers a linguistic and literary analysis of the Biblical Hebrew text of Isaiah 40-55, focusing on the depiction of Zion/Jerusalem in these chapters. The analysis shows that the designations 'Zion' and …
Understanding Participant-Reference Shifts in the Book of Jeremiah
A Study of Exegetical Method and its Consequences for the Interpretation of Referential Incoherence
Av Oliver Glanz
Inbunden, 2012
3140 kr
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In prophetic and poetic literature of the Old Testament references to textual participants are inconsistent with regard to their gender, number and person characteristics. Oliver Glanz for the first time provides a systematic study of the phenomenon of participant-reference shifts. The study is …
Approaches to Literary Readings of Ancient Jewish Writings
Av Klaas Smelik, Karolien Vermeulen
Inbunden, 2013
2698 kr
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In this volume twelve contributions discuss the relevance, accuracy, potential, and possible alternatives to a literary reading of ancient Jewish writings, especially the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on different academic fields (biblical studies, rabbinic studies, and literary studies) and on various …
Translation Technique in the Peshitta to Ezekiel 1-24
A Frame Semantics Approach
Inbunden, 2014
2693 kr
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The Peshitta Institute Leiden is fulfilling its aim of producing a critical edition of the Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshitta version. As this critical edition becomes available, Translation Technique in the Peshitta to Ezekiel 1-24: A Frame Semantics Approach takes its role in …
Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Qumran Hebrew Texts
Inbunden, 2015
2192 kr
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In The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls Ken M. Penner determines whether Qumran Hebrew finite verbs are primarily temporal, aspectual, or modal. Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect-prominent in the Bible, and tense-prominent in the Mishnah. But the semantic value of the verb forms in the …
Kābôd of Yhwh in the Old Testament
with Particular Reference to the Book of Ezekiel
Av P. de Vries
Inbunden, 2015
4004 kr
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In this study on the kābôd of YHWH biblical texts are approached from a canonical perspective, and the synchronic approach prevails over the diachronic. Ben Sira characterized Ezekiel as the prophet who saw the appearance of the glory of God. This characterization is not based on the number of …
Semantics of Glory
A Cognitive, Corpus-Based Approach to Hebrew Word Meaning
Inbunden, 2017
1931 kr
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Despite its centrality in mainstream linguistics, cognitive semantics has only recently begun to establish a foothold in biblical studies, largely due to the challenges inherent in applying such a methodology to ancient languages. The Semantics of Glory addresses these challenges by offering a new, …
Die biblisch-hebräische Partikel נָא im Lichte der antiken Bibelübersetzungen
Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer vermuteten Höflichkeitsfunktion
Av Peter Juhás
Inbunden, 2017
1744 kr
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English:In Die biblisch-hebräische Partikel נָא im Lichte der antiken Bibelübersetzungen Peter Juhás addresses the function of the much-debated particle -nā in Biblical Hebrew from the point of view of the most important ancient Bible translations (Greek, Syriac, Latin). His research combines …
Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings
Av Klaas Spronk
Inbunden, 2018
1966 kr
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Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings offers a new perspective on Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions of the book. Their problematic relation seems to indicate that there is more that divides than unites these religions. The present volume will show that there is an …
Ancient Texts and Modern Readers
Studies in Ancient Hebrew Linguistics and Bible Translation
Av Gideon Kotzé
Inbunden, 2019
2485 kr
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The chapters of this volume address a variety of topics that pertain to modern readers’ understanding of ancient texts, as well as tools or resources that can facilitate contemporary audiences’ interpretation of these ancient writings and their language. In this regard, they cover subjects related …
Discourse Analysis of Habakkuk
Inbunden, 2019
2413 kr
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Habakkuk is unique amongst the prophetic corpus for its interchange between YHWH and the prophet. Many open research questions exist regarding the identities of the antagonists throughout and the relationships amongst the different sections of the book. In A Discourse Analysis of Habakkuk, David J. …
Aramaic Daniel
A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1–7
Inbunden, 2022
2088 kr
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The first half of the book of Daniel contains world-famous stories like the Writing on the Wall. These stories have mostly been transmitted in Aramaic, not Hebrew, as has the influential apocalypse of Daniel 7. This Aramaic corpus shows clear signs of multiple authorship. Which different textual …
Linguistic and Philological Studies of the Hebrew Bible and its Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2023
2557 kr
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This volume honors the extraordinary scholarship of Prof. Gary A. Rendsburg, whose work and friendship have influenced so many in the last five decades. Twenty-five prominent scholars from the US, Europe, Israel, and Australia have contributed significant original studies in three of Rendsburg’s …
Prose and Poetry through Time
Hebrew Verb Form Semantics in Zechariah
Inbunden, 2024
2259 kr
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This is the first major study of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system of a prophetic book. It is also the first book-length study in over 60 years to focus on how genre affects the Hebrew verbal system. It advances a data-driven argument that Biblical Hebrew verb forms do not function one way in prose …
(In)Coherence of Divine Mercy
A Discourse-Linguistic Analysis of Hosea 12–14
Inbunden, 2024
2022 kr
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How do texts of Scripture make sense or hold together as a unity? This question is especially germane to the Masoretic Text of Hosea, which is often seen as an unintegrated composition by some, or an artful literary whole by others. Such judgments often come without clear definitions and criteria …
Narrative Functions of Clothing in the Book of Joshua
Inbunden, 2026
2033 kr
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Why do terse Hebrew Bible narratives bother to mention clothing? Often presented without description nor overt contribution to plot, why were these references retained in the final forms of these stories? Through the use of a multifaceted analytical toolkit this study exhaustively examines the five …
Dismantling the ‘Prophetic’ Use of Qāṭal
A Linguistic, Comparative, and Contextualised Approach
Inbunden, 2026
1901 kr
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This is the first full-length monograph published on one of the most intriguing and knotty challenges of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system: the so-called ‘prophetic perfect’ or ‘prophetic’ use of qāṭal. This study takes a strong linguistic approach, improving and expanding on other scholars’ …
Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations
A Text-Critical Study
Av Gideon Kotzé
Inbunden, 2013
2257 kr
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In The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study, the first large-scale investigation of the topic, Gideon Kotzé establishes how the four Lamentations manuscripts from Qumran present the content of the biblical book. Kotzé takes as his point of departure the contributions of the …
Discourse and Register Analysis of the Prophetic Book of Joel
Inbunden, 2016
2244 kr
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In A Discourse and Register Analysis of the Prophetic Book of Joel, Colin M. Toffelmire presents a thorough analysis of the text of Joel from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics. While traditional explorations of Joel generally engage the book from an historical or literary …
