Go to the Land I Will Show You
Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young
Go to the Land I Will Show You
Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young
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Hardback
£53.99
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN: 9780931464911
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 30/06/1996
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
Dwight Young taught ancient Near Eastern Languages at Brandeis University for many years. More than 20 essays are presented by students and friends in his honor. Indexes of authors and scripture references complete the volume.
Appreciation
Publications of Dwight W. Young
Abbreviations
SECTION I
BIBLICAL STUDIES
F. W. Bush - Ruth 4:17: A Semantic Wordplay
C. M. Carmichael - Joseph, Moses, and the Institution of the Israelite Judicature
J. E. Coleson - The Peasant Woman and the Fugitive Prophet: A Study in Biblical Narrative Settings
D. H. Engelhard - Ezekiel 47:13-48:29 as Royal Grant
C. H. Gordon - The Background of Some Distinctive Values in the Hebrew Bible
F. E. Greenspahn - Primogeniture in Ancient Israel
J. E. Hartley and T. Dwyer - An Investigation into the Location of the Laws on Offerings to Molek in the Book of Leviticus
W. C. Kaiser, Jr. - Balaam Son of Beor in Light of Deir Alla and Scripture: Saint or Soothsayer?
B. A. Levine - Offerings Rejected by God: Numbers 16:15 in Comparative Perspective
C. Meyers - The Hannah Narrative in Feminist Perspective
E. M. Meyers - Messianism in First and Second Zechariah and the ‘End’ of Biblical Prophecy
C. Schultz - The Cohesive Issue of mispat in Job
R. B. Widbin - Center Structure in the Center Oracles of Amos
J. E. Wright - Baruch, the Ideal Sage
SECTION II
ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN HISTORY AND LINGUISTICS
M. C. Astour - Some Unrecognized North Syrian Toponyms in Egyptian Sources
C. W. Hedrick - A New Coptic Fragment of the Book of Hebrews
H. A. Hoffner, Jr. - From Head to Toe in Hittite: The Language of the Human Body
P. Y. Hoskisson - The Scission and Ascendancy of a Goddess: Diritum at Mari
V. H. Matthews - Messengers and the Transmission of Information in the Mari Kingdom
P. Overland - Structure in The Wisdom of Amenemope and Proverbs
W. T. Pitard - An Historical Overview of Pastoral Nomadism in the Central Euphrates Valley
A. F. Rainey - The Imperative ‘See’ as an Introductory Particle: An Egyptian—West Semitic Calque
I. A. Todd - The Vasilikos Valley: Its Place in Cypriot and Near Eastern Prehistory
D. T. Tsumura - The ‘Word Pair’ qst and mt in Habakkuk 3:9 in the Light of Ugaritic and Akkadian
M. K. Wakeman - Religious Conservatism and Political Invention in Ancient Sumer
E. Yamauchi - Cambyses in Egypt
A. York - The Maturation Theme in the Adam and Eve Story
INDEXES
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture Citations
