Biblical & Near Eastern Essays [Hardcover]

This collection of essays contains a wide range of topics reflecting the depth and breadth of interest of the scholar in whose honour they were commissioned - Kevin J. Cathcart.

The central focus is Near Eastern, and covers a range of philological, linguistic, exegetical, historical and interpretative issues. The Near Eastern languages examined include Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Septuagintal Greek, Syriac and Ugaritic, while exegetical and text-critical topics include treatments of issues in Deuteronomy, 1 Kings, Isaiah, Amos, Psalms and the Song of Songs. Hermeneutical and historical essays touch on Ancient Israel's history and its interpretation, as well as on the significance of such individuals as the consular official John Dickson, E.H. Palmer in the Cambridge Libraries, William Lithgow of Lanark, and the contribution to Semitic epigraphy of the explorer Julius Euting.

This is volume 375 in the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series.

PrefaceAbbreviations List of ContributorsPART ITEXTS AND THEMES IN THE BIBLEJOHN DAY Does the Old Testament refer to Sacred Prostitution and did it actually exist in Ancient Israel?ROBERT P. GORDONThe Philistines: the Ideological FoeHENRY WANSBROUGH The Finale of the Davidic Succession Narrative?HUGH G.M. WILLIAMSON The Formation of Isaiah 2.6-22JOHN BARTONThe Day of Yahweh in the Minor ProphetsCHARLES CONROYThe 'Four Servant Poems' in Second Isaiah in the Light of Recent Redaction-Historical Studies JOHN A. EMERTONSome Problems in Psalm 88.16PART IITEXTS AND THEMES IN THE ANCIENT VERSIONSKNUD JEPPESEN 'The Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?' From Osee to Jonas in the SeptuagintCARMEL MCCARTHY Samaritan Pentateuch Readings in DeuteronomySEBASTIAN P. BROCKA Neglected Revision of the Peshitta PsalterC?LINE MANGAN Wisdom, Torah and Creation in Targumic LiteratureMARTIN MCNAMARAThe Colophon of Codex Neofiti 1: The Scribe Menahem and the Roman Medical Family of Malã'