Biblical & Near Eastern Essays

Preface Abbreviations List of Contributors

PART I TEXTS AND THEMES IN THE BIBLE

JOHN DAY Does the Old Testament refer to Sacred Prostitution and did it actually exist in Ancient Israel?

ROBERT P. GORDON The Philistines: the Ideological Foe

HENRY WANSBROUGH The Finale of the Davidic Succession Narrative?

HUGH G.M. WILLIAMSON The Formation of Isaiah 2.6-22

JOHN BARTON The Day of Yahweh in the Minor Prophets

CHARLES CONROY The 'Four Servant Poems' in Second Isaiah in the Light of Recent Redaction-Historical Studies

JOHN A. EMERTON Some Problems in Psalm 88.16

PART II TEXTS AND THEMES IN THE ANCIENT VERSIONS

KNUD JEPPESEN 'The Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?' From Osee to Jonas in the Septuagint

CARMEL MCCARTHY Samaritan Pentateuch Readings in Deuteronomy

SEBASTIAN P. BROCK A Neglected Revision of the Peshitta Psalter

CELINE MANGAN Wisdom, Torah and Creation in Targumic Literature

MARTIN MCNAMARA The Colophon of Codex Neofiti 1: The Scribe Menahem and the Roman Medical Family of Manuele

PART III INTERPRETATION AND HISTORY OF THE BIBLE

ANDREW D.H. MAYES Marx, Weber and the Religion of Ancient Israel

JOHN R. BARTLETT Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Problem of Israelite Historiography

JOHN J. COLLINS The Politics of Biblical Interpretation

GERARD J. NORTON Dahood's Commentary on the Psalms: A Review of an Academic Grandparent's Work after Thirty Years

MICHAEL MAHER 'A Lily among Thorns': Cant. 2:2 in the Latin Exegetical Tradition

PART IV NEAR EASTERN PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY

WILFRED G.E. WATSON Akkadian Loanwords in Ugaritic: The Hippiatric Texts

MANFRED KROPP Ethiopic Names in Sabaic and the Question of matres lectionis in Epigraphic South Arabian

G. REX SMITH Classical Arabic Pattern Fa(a4li Revisited

REINHARD PUMMER Foot-Soldiers of the Byzantines or Spies for the Muslims? The Role of the Samaritans in the Muslim Conquest of Palestine

PART V NEAR EASTERN NOTABLES

C. EDMUND BOSWORTH William Lithgow of Lanark's travels in Hungary, Transylvania and Poland, 1616

JOHN F. HEALEY 'Sicherheit des Auges': the Contribution to Semitic Epigraphy of the Explorer Julius Euting (1839-1913)

GRAHAM I. DAVIES Fresh Evidence on E.H. Palmer's Travels from Cambridge Libraries

DAVID MORRAY A Late-Victorian Consul in the Near East: John Dickson (1846-1906)