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Review of Mann, Steven T., Run David Run: An Investigation of the Theological Speech Acts of David\u27s Departure and Return (2 Samuel 14–20) (Siphrut, 10; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013).
No full textReview of Steinberg, Julius and Timothy J. Stone (eds.), The Shape of the Writings (Siphrut, Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures, 16. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015).
No full textReview of Oshima, Takayoshi, Babylonian Poems of Pious Sufferers: Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi and the Babylonian Theodicy (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike, 14; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014).
No full textReview of Human, Dirk J. and Gert J. Steyn (eds.), Psalms and Hebrews: Studies in Reception (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 527; New York: T & T Clark, 2010).
No full textReview of Notarius, Tania, The Verb in Archaic Biblical Poetry: A Discursive, Typological, and Historical Investigation of the Tense System (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 68; Leiden: Brill, 2013).
No full textReview of Oh, Abraham Sung-Ho, Oh, That You Would Rend the Heavens and Come Down: The Eschatological Theology of Third Isaiah (Isaiah 56-66) (Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2014).
No full textReview of Moss, C. R. and J. S. Baden, Reconceiving Infertility: Biblical Perspectives on Procreation and Childlessness (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015).
No full textEmpirical Models of Textual Growth: A Challenge for the Historical-Critical Tradition
Get PDFThe last decade has seen a growing interest in empirical models from the cognate literature to trace the growth of Hebrew scriptures. Yet, deeply rooted intellectual commitments within the history of the diachronic study of the Bible retard the incorporation of this approach within source-critical theory. Intellectual winds of the Enlightenment and German historicism and romanticism contributed to this situation and a reconsideration of some basic premises of source-critical method is needed
Review of Middlemas, Jill, The Divine Image: Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate (FAT, II/74; Tübingen: Morh Siebeck, 2014).
No full textAn Alternative Approach to the Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew
Get PDFIn 2014 Avi Hurvitz published A Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Innovations in the Writings of the Second Temple Period. In the present article we offer an alternative, quantitative interpretation of the data in the Lexicon. Our main conclusions are that the late language cataloged in the Lexicon is rare and idiosyncratic in late biblical writings and accordingly the value of the late language for linguistic periodization and linguistic dating is negligible