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Review of Kiel, Micah D., The “Whole Truth”: Rethinking Retribution in the Book of Tobit (Library of Second Temple Studies, 82; London: T & T Clark, 2012). Pp. 188. Hardback. US$120.00. ISBN 978-0-567-45885-8.
No full textReview of Changes in Scripture: Rewriting and Interpreting Authoritative Traditions in the Second Temple Period (BZAW, 419; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011).
No full textReview of Oath Formulas in Biblical Hebrew (LSAWS, 5; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011).
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The Qumran Scrolls of the Book of Judges: Literary Formation, Textual Criticism, and Historical Linguistics
Get PDFThis is a pilot attempt to combine literary-critical, text-critical, and historical linguistic approaches in an analysis of selected linguistic variants between the MT and DSS with an application to the book of Judges. The result of this interdisciplinary exercise is that future research on the history of BH will have to contend more earnestly with the “fluidity” (or “changeability”) of language and the “non-directionality” (or “patternlessness”) of linguistic variants in biblical texts
An Optative Indicative? A Real Factual Past? Toward A Cognitive-Typological Approach to the Precative Qatal
Get PDFThis article approaches the problem of the precative qatal in Biblical Hebrew from a cognitive and typological perspective. In keeping with the cognitive understanding of “meaning,” the article (re-)construes a plausible chaining procedure that relates the precative qatal to the prevailing indicative (perfect, perfective and past) domain of the gram. This chaining represents a typologically plausible scenario for rationalizing, on both conceptual and diachronic levels, the “spread” that can be observed from the central point of the network (the Proto-Semitic resultative proper sense) to the different values available in Biblical Hebrew. In this way, the article relates the two, superficially contradictory, semantic spheres (i.e., the perfect-perfective-past indicative and the precative), and advances a holistic-synchronic definition of the total semantic potential of the gram
Scripturalization and the Aaronide Dynasties
Get PDFPriests claiming descent from Aaron controlled the high priesthood of temples in Jerusalem and on Mount Gerizim in the Second Temple period. These Aaronides were in a position to influence religious developments in this period, especially the scripturalization of the Torah. The priests’ dynastic claims were probably a significant factor in the elevation of the Pentateuch to scriptural status. This claim can be tested by correlating what little we know about the Aaronide dynasties with what little we know about the scripturalization of two different portions of the Hebrew Bible, the Pentateuch and Ezra–Nehemiah
Review of Ben Zvi, Ehud and Diana V. Edelman (eds.), What Was Authoritative for Chronicles? (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011). Pp. viii + 268. Hardcover. US$39.50. ISBN 978-1-57506-28-1.
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