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History, Prophecy, Identity and Language in the Hebrew Bible
Proceedings of the 18th Joint Meeting of the Society for Old âTestament Study (SOTS) and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en België (OTW), Nottingham, 2022
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This volume contains the Proceedings of the 18th Joint Meeting of the Society âfor Old âTestament Study (SOTS) and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap âin Nederland en België (OTW) in the summer âof 2022 in Nottingham. The ten âcontributions are prefaced by an editorial Introduction (Hempel, Ausloos) followed by studies on âHebrew Semantics (Raymond de Hoop, Paul Sanders, Ellen van Wolde), the Pentateuch (Gert Kwakkel, Jan-Wim Wesseliusâ, Philip Yoo), exilic and post-exilic historiography (Carly Crouch, Michaël van der Meer) and two chapters that draw on Sumerian poetry and gender-based violence âin contemporary South Africa, respectively, to illuminate biblical narratives in Judges and 1-2 Samuel (Ekaterina E. Kozlova, Nozipho Princess S. Dlodlo).
Charlotte Hempel, University of Birmingham, UK, is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria. She has published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible, including The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary (Mohr Siebeck, 2020) and with George Brooke, T&T Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Hans Ausloosâ, F.R.S.-FNRS / Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, is Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS). He is Director of the Louvain Centre for Septuagint Studies and Textual criticism, and has published mainly on the so-called Deuteronomistic redaction of the Pentateuch, on textual criticism and on the Septuagintâs translation technique.
Hans Ausloosâ, F.R.S.-FNRS / Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, is Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS). He is Director of the Louvain Centre for Septuagint Studies and Textual criticism, and has published mainly on the so-called Deuteronomistic redaction of the Pentateuch, on textual criticism and on the Septuagintâs translation technique.
Contributors
1 Introduction
âCharlotte Hempel and Hans Ausloos
2 âGnawing Bonesâ or âLacking Backboneâ? *ï¬²Ö¸×¨Ö·× (qal) in Zephaniah 3:3b and the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew
âRaymond de Hoop
3 The Urim and Thummim in Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database
âPaul Sanders
4 yhwh the Terminator: A Study of Amos 4:13, Including an Analysis of the Polysemous Structure of the Verb ×ר×
âEllen van Wolde
5 âA Kingdom of Priestsâ: An Enigmatic Element in Godâs Promises to Israel in Exodus 19:5â6
âGert Kwakkel
6 Contradiction, Imitation and Emulation as Essential Literary Aspects of the Hebrew Bibleâs Primary History
âJan-Wim Wesselius
7 Rethinking Pentateuch and Hexateuch: The âPost-Mosaic Periodâ in Joshua 3â4
âPhilip Y. Yoo
8 Identity, Displaced: Israel and Judah in the Aftermath of Empire
âCarly L. Crough
9 The Ideological Background of the Books of Chronicles
âMichael N. van der Meer
10 Human-Divine Commensality and Transformation in Judges 6â8 and the Aratta Cycle
âEkaterina E. Kozlova
11 Narrative Analysis and Coming of Age: A Masculinist Reading of David in 1 and 2â¯Samuel
âNozipho Princess S. Dlodlo
Index
1 Introduction
âCharlotte Hempel and Hans Ausloos
Part 1 Semantics
2 âGnawing Bonesâ or âLacking Backboneâ? *ï¬²Ö¸×¨Ö·× (qal) in Zephaniah 3:3b and the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew
âRaymond de Hoop
3 The Urim and Thummim in Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database
âPaul Sanders
4 yhwh the Terminator: A Study of Amos 4:13, Including an Analysis of the Polysemous Structure of the Verb ×ר×
âEllen van Wolde
Part 2 The Pentateuch
5 âA Kingdom of Priestsâ: An Enigmatic Element in Godâs Promises to Israel in Exodus 19:5â6
âGert Kwakkel
6 Contradiction, Imitation and Emulation as Essential Literary Aspects of the Hebrew Bibleâs Primary History
âJan-Wim Wesselius
7 Rethinking Pentateuch and Hexateuch: The âPost-Mosaic Periodâ in Joshua 3â4
âPhilip Y. Yoo
Part 3 Identity, Ideology, and Historiography
8 Identity, Displaced: Israel and Judah in the Aftermath of Empire
âCarly L. Crough
9 The Ideological Background of the Books of Chronicles
âMichael N. van der Meer
10 Human-Divine Commensality and Transformation in Judges 6â8 and the Aratta Cycle
âEkaterina E. Kozlova
11 Narrative Analysis and Coming of Age: A Masculinist Reading of David in 1 and 2â¯Samuel
âNozipho Princess S. Dlodlo
Index
This volume will be of interest to academic institutes, libraries, specialists, and postgraduate students in the field of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.