Pomegranates and Golden Bells
Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom
Edited by David P. Wright, David Noel Freedman, and Avi M. Hurvitz
Pomegranates and Golden Bells
Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom
Edited by David P. Wright, David Noel Freedman, and Avi M. Hurvitz
Colleagues, students, and friends honor Professor Milgrom by celebrating his contributions to biblical and Near Eastern scholarship with special emphasis on his primary areas of expertise. The first section of the book, Ritual, Law, and Their Sources, contains thirty-five essays on cultic and legal issues found in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and texts from Qumran. The second section, Other Literary, Historical, and Linguistic Studies, includes twenty-four essays, primarily dealing with interpretive issues in the Hebrew Bible.
- Description
- Table of Contents
Preface, by David Noel Freedman
Bibliography of the Published Writings of Jacob Milgrom
Abbreviations
SECTION I: RITUAL, LAW, AND THEIR SOURCES
The Bearing of Sin in the Priestly Literature - Baruch J. Schwartz
Another Prolegomenon to Leviticus 17:11 - Rolf Rendtorff
Philology, Archaeology, and a Terminus a Quo for P’s ‘hatta’t’ Legislation - Ziony Zevit
‘ola’ and ‘hatta’t’ in the ‘Temple Scroll’ - Lawrence H. Schiffman
Intentional and Unintentional Sin in the Dead Sea Scrolls - Gary A. Anderson
Some Considerations on the Translation of ‘kapporet’ in the Septuagint - Klaus Koch
An Ethnoarchaeological Analysis of Hannah’s Sacrifice - Carol Meyers
The Akedah: A Paradigm of Sacrifice - Gordon J. Wenham
Census and Intercession in a Priestly Text (Exodus 30:11-16) and in Its Midrashic Transformation - Michael Fishbane
Conceptual Aspects in Exodus 25:1-9 - Rolf P. Knierim
The Incense of the Tabernacle - Yehuda Feliks
Solomon’s Golden Vessels (1 Kings 7:48-50) and the Cult of the First Temple - Victor Avigdor Hurowitz
Terms and Epithets Relating to the Jerusalem Temple Compound in the Book of Chronicles: The Linguistic Aspect - Avi Hurvitz
Prophets, Priests, and the Efficacy of Ritual - Ronald S. Hendel
Concerning Amos’ Repudiation of the Cult - Meir Weiss
David Autem Remansit in Hierusalem: Felix Coniunctio! - David P. Wright
Sacred Geography as Narrative Structure in 2 Kings 11 - Burke O. Long
Poetic Structure in Leviticus - Mary Douglas
4QLev (4Q25, 26a, 26b) - Emanuel Tov
A Calendrical Scroll from a Qumran Cave: ‘Mismarot’ B, 4Q321 - Shemaryahu Talmon and Israel Knohl
Simon the Just: Simon I or Simon II? - James C. VanderKam
The Road to En-dor - Mordechai Cogan
The Significance of the Veil in the Ancient Near East - Karel van der Toorn
The Formula ‘If He Shall Not (Do)’ and the Problem of Sanctions in Biblical Law - Gershon Brin
The Fundamental Code Illustrated: The Third Commandment - Herbert B. Huffmon
Some Archaeological Notes on Deuteronomy - Jeffrey H. Tigay
Could keleb in Deuteronomy 23:19 Actually Refer to a Canine? - Elaine Adler Goodfriend
The Social-Legal Origin for the Image of God as Redeemer of Israel - Jeremiah Unterman
The Place of the People in the Making of Law and Judgment - Ze’ev Weisman
The Rhetoric of Collective Responsibility in Deuteronomic Law - Dale Patrick
Matrilineal Determination of Jewishness: Biblical and Near Eastern Roots - Mayer I. Gruber
A Fragment on Fetal Life and Pregnancy in 4Q270 - Joseph M. Baumgarten
Stylistic Conceits II: The Absolute Infinitive in Biblical Law - Reuven Yaron
On the Political Use of the Bible in Modern Israel: An Engaged Critique - Moshe Greenberg
A Peace of Compromise between Israel and the Arabs - Ze’ev W. Falk
SECTION II: OTHER LITERARY, HISTORICAL, AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES
Unruly Elements in Late Bronze Canaanite Society: Anson F. Rainey
Genesis 14: An Enigma - Francis I. Andersen
Juxtaposition in the Abraham Cycle - Yair Zakovitch
Reuben’s Sin with Bilhah in the ‘Testament of Reuben’ - James Kugel
The Firstborn Plague and the Reading Process - Edward L. Greenstein
A Contest of Magicians? The Plague Stories in P - John Van Seters
The Hidden Made Manifest: Muslim Traditions and the ‘Latent Content’ of Biblical and Rabbinic Stories - David J. Halperin
The Song of Deborah and Barak: Its Prosodic Levels and Structure - Jan P. Fokkelman
Observations on the Jael-Sisera Story (Judges 4-5) - Baruch Margalit
Reflections on Historiography in the Account of Jehoshaphat - Ralph W. Klein
The Deuteronomist and the Exile - Yair Hoffman
The ‘Desert of the Sea’ Pronouncement (Isaiah 21:1-10) - Benjamin Uffenheimer
A Misunderstood Medieval Translation of ‘sered’ (Isaiah 44:13) and Its Impact on Modern Scholarship - Joshua Blau
Jeremiah’s Instructions to Seraiah (Jeremiah 51:59-64) - William McKane
Hosea 7:16: Gibberish Jabber - Shalom M. Paul
The Crisis of the Mid-fifth Century B.C.E. Second Zechariah and the ‘End’ of Prophecy - Eric M. Meyers
The Structure of Psalm 119 - David Noel Freedman
Some Performative Utterances in the Bible - Delbert R. Hillers
Scurrilous Etymologies - William W. Hallo
Some Remarks on the Semantics of the Root ‘b’t’ in Classical Hebrew - Jacob Hoftijzer
Is There a Word for the Royal Harem in the Bible? - Abraham Malamat
The ‘*qatala’ Form in Ugaritic Narrative Poetry - Mark S. Smith
4Q127: An Unknown Jewish Apocryphal Work? - Devorah Dimant
Sage and Super-sage in Philo of Alexandria - David Winston
INDEXES
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
Index of Ancient Sources
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