Preface

Foreword by T. Muraoka

I. Studies on Topics

Character/Author/Reader: The Problem of Perspective in Biblical Narrative - J. Magonet

Inverted Parallelisms and Encased Parables in Isaiah and Their Significance for Old and New Testament Translation and Interpretation - K.E. Bailey

Discovering a New Path of Intertextuality: Inverted quotations and their dynamics - P.C. Beentjes

Discourse Implications of Rhetorical Questions in Job, Deuteronomy and the Minor Prophets - L.J. de Regt

The Order of Participants in Compound Clausal Elements in the Pentateuch and Earlier Prophets: Syntax, convention or rhetoric? - L.J. de Regt

The Discourse Implications of Resumption in Hebrew Clauses: A preliminary assessment from Genesis - H. Van Dyke Parunak

Coordination Interrupted, or Literary Insertion AX&B Pattern, in the Books of Samuel - D.T. Tsumura

II. Studies on Texts

The Text as an Eloquent Guide: Rhetorical, linguistic and literary features in Genesis 1 - Ellen J. van Wolde

Genesis 37 and 38 at the Interface of Structural Analysis and Hermeneutics - J.P. Fokkelman

Knowing Yahweh: Exodus 6:3 in the context of Genesis 1-Exodus 15 - L.M. Eslinger

La structure du cortege d’Israel autour de Jericho d’apres Josue 6 - J.C. Margot

Mythological Themes and the Unity of Ezekiel - L.E. Boadt

Psalm 1 and the Rhetoric of Religious Argumentation - Y. Gitay

III. Epilogue

Hebrew Rhetoric and the Translator - J. de Waard

Abbreviations

Index of Biblical References

List of Contributors