Divrei Shalom

Collected Studies of Shalom M. Paul on the Bible and the Ancient Near East 1967–2005

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Shalom Paul
This volume consists of philological and literary studies written by the author between the years 1967 and 2005 pertaining to the elucidation and explication of various aspects of the narrative, legal, prophetic, and wisdom genres of Biblical literature, with a major emphasis on the textual analysis of themes, idioms, terminology, and lexemes with the aid of Akkadian and Ugaritic source material.
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2005
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30 May 2005
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The Image of the Oven and the Cake in Hosea 7:4–10
Deutero-Isaiah and Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions
Cuneiform Light On Jer 9:20
Exod. 21:10: A Threefold Maintenance Clause
Sargon’s Administrative Diction in 2 Kings 17:27
Formulaic Patterns of Law in Israel and Mesopotamia
Psalm 72:5—A Traditional Blessing for the Long Life of the King
Heavenly Tablets and the Book of Life
Classifications of Wine in Mesopotamian and Rabbinic Sources
Nehemiah 6:19—Counterespionage
Amos 3:15—Winter and Summer Mansions
Fishing Imagery in Amos 4:2
An Unrecognized Medical Idiom in Song of Songs 6:12 and Job 9:21
1 Samuel 9:7: An Interview Fee
Unrecognized Biblical Legal Idioms in the Light of Comparative Akkadian Expressions
Adoption Formulae: A Study of Cuneiform and Biblical Legal Clauses
Psalm 27:10 and the Babylonian Theodicy
Two Cognate Semitic Terms for Mating and Copulation: Gen 31:10, 12 and Amos 2:7
Job 4:15—A Hair-Raising Encounter
Daniel 3:29: A Case Study of “Neglected” Blasphemy
Dan 6:8: An Aramaic Reflex of Assyrian Legal Terminology
[Arabic Text] Hosea 8:8–10 and Ancient Near Eastern Royal Epithets
A Technical Expression from Archery in Zechariah 9:13A
Biblical Analogues to Middle Assyrian Law
Exodus 1:21: “To Found a Family”: A Biblical and Akkadian Idiom
Gleanings from the Biblical and Talmudic Lexica in Light of Akkadian
Decoding a “Joint” Expression in Daniel 5:6, 16
From Mari to Daniel: Instructions for the Acceptance of Servants into the Royal Court
Euphemistically “Speaking” and a Covetous Eye
Untimely Death in the Semitic Languages
The “Plural of Ecstasy” in Mesopotamian and Biblical Love Poetry
Two Proposed Janus Parallelisms in Akkadian Literature
Hosea 7:16: Gibberish Jabber
“Emigration” from the Netherworld in the Ancient Near East
A Lover’s Garden of Verse: Literal and Metaphorical Imagery in Ancient Near Eastern Love Poetry
The Mesopotamian Background of Daniel 1–6
The Shared Legacy of Sexual Metaphors and Euphemisms in Mesopotamian and Biblical Literature
A Double Entendre in Job 15:32 in the Light of Akkadian
Daniel 12:9: A Technical Mesopotamian Scribal Term
Hebrew [Arabic Text] and its Interdialectal Equivalents
Daniel 6:20: An Aramaic Calque on an Akkadian Expression
Jerusalem of Gold—Revisited
Two Cosmographical Terms in Amos 9:6
Amos 1:3–2:3: A Concatenous Literary Pattern
Prophets and Prophecy
Literary and Ideological Echoes of Jeremiah in Deutero-Isaiah
A Literary Reinvestigation of the Authenticity of the Oracles against the Nations of Amos
Amos 3:3–8: The Irresistible Sequence of Cause and Effect
Polysensuous Polyvalency in Poetic Parallelism
Polysemous Pivotal Punctuation: More Janus Double Entendres
An Overlooked Double Entendre in Jonah 2:5
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Shalom M. Paul, Ph.D. (1964), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Bible Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1971-2004). He has published extensively on Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Literature.
Biblical scholars and specialists in the literature of the Ancient Near East
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