Biblical and Near Eastern essays : studies in honour of Kevin J. Cathcart /: studies in honour of Kevin J. Cathcart. (©2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Carmel McCarthy & John F. Healey.
• Other Names: Cathcart, Kevin J; McCarthy, Carmel; Healey, John F
• Contents: Does the Old Testament refer to sacred prostitution and did it actually exist in ancient Israel? / John Day -- The Philistines : the ideological foe / Robert P. Gordon -- The finale of the Davidic succession narrative? / Henry Wansbrough -- The formation of Isaiah 2.6-22 / Hugh G.M. Williamson -- The Day of Yahweh in the Minor Prophets / John Barton -- The 'Four servant poems' in Second Isaiah in the light of recent redaction-historical studies / Charles Conroy -- Some problems in Psalm 88.16 / John A. Emerton -- 'The Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?' : from Osee to Jonas in the Septuagint / Knud Jeppesen -- Samaritan Pentateuch readings in Deuteronomy / Carmel Mccarthy -- A neglected revision of the Peshitta Psalter / Sebastian P. Brock -- Wisdom, Torah and creation in Targumic literature / Céline Mangan -- The colophon of Codex Neofiti 1 : the scribe Menahem and the Roman medical family of Manuele / Martin Mcnamara -- Marx, Weber and the religion of ancient Israel / Andrew D.H. Mayes -- Between Scylla and Charybdis : the problem of Israelite historiography / John R. Bartlett -- The politics of Biblical interpretation / John J. Collins -- Dahood's Commentary on the Psalms : a review of an academic grandparent's work after thirty years / Gerard J. Norton -- 'A lily among thorns' : Cant. 2:2 in the Latin exegetical tradition / Michael Maher -- Akkadian loanwords in Ugaritic : the Hippiatric texts / Wilfred G.E. Watson -- Ethiopic names in Sabaic and the question of matres lectionis in epigraphic South Arabian / Manfred Kropp -- Classical Arabic pattern faʻāli revisited / G. Rex Smith -- Foot-soldiers of the Byzantines or spies for the Muslims? : the role of the Samaritans in the Muslim conquest of Palestine / Reinhard Pummer -- William Lithgow of Lanark's travels in Hungary, Transylvania and Poland, 1616 / C. Edmund Bosworth -- 'Sicherheit des Auges' : the contribution to Semitic epigraphy of the explorer Julius Euting (1839-1913) / John F. Healey -- Fresh evidence on E.H. Palmer's travels from Cambridge libraries / Graham I. Davies -- A late-Victorian consul in the Near East : John Dickson (1846-1906) / David Morray.
• Publisher Details: London New York : T & T Clark International
• Publication Date: 2004
• Copyright Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 376 pages), portrait
• Subjects: 221.6; Cathcart, Kevin J; Middle East specialists; Semitic philology; RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament; Oude Testament; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780826446633; 0826446639
• Related ISBNs: 9780826466907; 0826466907
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: "Bibliography of the works of Kevin James Cathcart": pages 354-359.; Note: Print version record.
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