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A critical engagement : essays on the Hebrew Bible in honour of J. Cheryl Exum / edited by David J.A. Clines and Ellen van Wolde.

Contributor(s): Wolde, E. J. van | Exum, J. Cheryl | Clines, David J. A
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011Description: xvi, 428 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781907534331; 1907534334Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible. Old Testament -- Theology | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, Textual | Reader-response criticism | Exum, J. CherylBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Hidden polemics in the story of Judah and Tamar / Yairah Amit -- Contexts for Tamar : Samuel and the Song of Songs / A. Graeme Auld -- 'If there are such things as miracles, Israel has to be one!' : narratives from the Hollywood vault / Alice Bach -- Maurice Halbwachs, memory, and the Hebrew Bible / Hans M. Barstad -- The Shulammite's burning bush : passion, im/possibility and the existence of God in Song 8.6 and Exodus 3 / Fiona C. Black -- Ruth : the art of memorizing territory and religion / Athalya Brenner -- Illustrations of the Sotah in popular printed works in the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / Claudia V. Camp -- Reading the Song of Songs as a classic / David J.A. Clines -- Tears in Jerusalem : David's response to the death of Absalom in 2 Samuel and Tomkins's 'When David heard' / Andrew Davies -- Reading the tale of Job / Michael V. Fox -- The comic plots of the bibles / Edwin M. Good -- On the alleged wisdom of kings : an application of Adorno's immanent criticism of Qohelet / Norman Gottwald --
'Difficulty' in the poetry of Job / Edward L. Greenstein -- Samson improved for youth in an age of empire : Mr Atherton, gentleman and genial giant in G.A. Henty's Maori and settler (1891), as a case of biblical reception / David M. Gunn -- The 'Description poems' in ancient Jewish sources and in the Jewish exegesis of the Song of Songs / Sara Japhet -- The book that cannot be read / Francis Landy -- Flesh of my flesh / Burke O. Long -- Is God mentioned in the Song of Songs? : flame of Yahweh, love, and death in Songs of Songs 8.6-7a / Martti Nissinen -- The Bible in Orientalist art / Martin O'Kane -- Other mothers : maternity and masculinity in the Book of Ruth / Hugh S. Pyper -- 'A breeder or two for each leader' : on mothers in Judges 4 and 5 / Jack M. Sasson -- Interpreting Hebrew writing in Christian art / John F.A. Sawyer -- God and Cyrus in Isaiah 41.2-3 / H.G.M. Williamson -- The bow in the clouds in Genesis 9.12-17 : when cognitive linguistics meets visual criticism / Ellen van Wolde -- 'A woman of valor, 'eshet hayil' (Proverbs 31.10-31) : a conservative response to the Song of Songs / Yair Zakovitch.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 East BS1171.3 .C75 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903259675

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hidden polemics in the story of Judah and Tamar / Yairah Amit -- Contexts for Tamar : Samuel and the Song of Songs / A. Graeme Auld -- 'If there are such things as miracles, Israel has to be one!' : narratives from the Hollywood vault / Alice Bach -- Maurice Halbwachs, memory, and the Hebrew Bible / Hans M. Barstad -- The Shulammite's burning bush : passion, im/possibility and the existence of God in Song 8.6 and Exodus 3 / Fiona C. Black -- Ruth : the art of memorizing territory and religion / Athalya Brenner -- Illustrations of the Sotah in popular printed works in the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / Claudia V. Camp -- Reading the Song of Songs as a classic / David J.A. Clines -- Tears in Jerusalem : David's response to the death of Absalom in 2 Samuel and Tomkins's 'When David heard' / Andrew Davies -- Reading the tale of Job / Michael V. Fox -- The comic plots of the bibles / Edwin M. Good -- On the alleged wisdom of kings : an application of Adorno's immanent criticism of Qohelet / Norman Gottwald --

'Difficulty' in the poetry of Job / Edward L. Greenstein -- Samson improved for youth in an age of empire : Mr Atherton, gentleman and genial giant in G.A. Henty's Maori and settler (1891), as a case of biblical reception / David M. Gunn -- The 'Description poems' in ancient Jewish sources and in the Jewish exegesis of the Song of Songs / Sara Japhet -- The book that cannot be read / Francis Landy -- Flesh of my flesh / Burke O. Long -- Is God mentioned in the Song of Songs? : flame of Yahweh, love, and death in Songs of Songs 8.6-7a / Martti Nissinen -- The Bible in Orientalist art / Martin O'Kane -- Other mothers : maternity and masculinity in the Book of Ruth / Hugh S. Pyper -- 'A breeder or two for each leader' : on mothers in Judges 4 and 5 / Jack M. Sasson -- Interpreting Hebrew writing in Christian art / John F.A. Sawyer -- God and Cyrus in Isaiah 41.2-3 / H.G.M. Williamson -- The bow in the clouds in Genesis 9.12-17 : when cognitive linguistics meets visual criticism / Ellen van Wolde -- 'A woman of valor, 'eshet hayil' (Proverbs 31.10-31) : a conservative response to the Song of Songs / Yair Zakovitch.

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