Research Catalog

Title

Words remembered, texts renewed : essays in honour of John F.A. Sawyer / edited by Jon Davies, Graham Harvey and Wilfred G.E. Watson.

Publication

Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sawyer, John F. A.
• Davies, Jon.
• Harvey, Graham.
• Watson, Wilfred G. E.

Description

533 p. : port.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. 195

Alternative Title

Essays in honour of John F.A. Sawyer

Subjects

• Sawyer, John F. A
• Sawyer, John F. A > Bibliography
• Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc

Bibliography (note)

• "Publications" [of John F.A. Sawyer]: p. 510-513.
• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Language (note)

• Portions of text in Hebrew.

Contents

All they need is love : once more Genesis 6.1-4 / Marc Vervenne -- 'Traditions of remembrance': post-Holocaust interpretations of Genesis 22 / Isabel Wollaston -- What biblical scholars might learn from Emily Dickinson / Francis I. Andersen -- The names of God in biblical narratives / Jonathan Magonet -- The Ten Commandments, reading from left to right / David Clines -- The suffering of witches and children : uses of the witchcraft passages in the Bible / Graham Harvey -- What does 'deuteronomistic' mean? / Richard Coggins -- Sociology or history : towards a (human) history of ancient Palestine? / Keith Whitelam -- Reading Joshua after Kings / Graeme Auld -- 'Aha! Assyria! rod of my fury, very staff of my sentencing-curse' / Clyde Curry Smith -- God of Cyrus, God of Israel : some religio-historical reflections on Isaiah 40-55 / Philip Davies -- Revisionings : echoes and traces of Isaiah in the poetry of William Blake / Robert Carroll --Hosea III in the Septuagint version / Takamitsu Muraoka -- Some ancient Near Eastern parallels to the Song of Songs / Wilfred Watson -- Coordination by vav in biblical Hebrew / John Gibson -- Moses and Patmos : reflections on the Jewish background of early Christianity / Christopher Rowland -- Water and blood : birthing images in John's gospel / Deborah Sawyer -- The marriage at Cana of Galilee / Calum Carmichael -- Using Scripture : community and letterality / Gerard Loughlin -- Historical text as historical text : some basic hermeneutical reflections in relation to the New Testament / James Dunn -- The New Testament in fiction and film : a biblical scholar's perspective / William R. Telford -- On the unity of Scripture / Robert Morgan --"A sixtieth part of prophecy' : the problem of continuing revelation in Judaism / Philip Alexander -- The 'original text' : a scholarly illusion? / Peter Hayman -- Isaac Israeli and his Sefer hasheten : Glasgow MS Hunter 477 / Max Sussman -- The Maḥberet of Menahem : proposals for a lexicographic theory, with sample translation and notes / John Elwolde -- Rammohun Roy and Bishop Hefer's view of the Trinity / Dermot Killingley -- Judaism traduced : the House of Lords and the war crimes debate, 1989-1990 / Jon Davies.

Call Number

*PDB 95-3235

ISBN

1850755426

OCLC

• 33102584
• 32710038

Title

Words remembered, texts renewed : essays in honour of John F.A. Sawyer / edited by Jon Davies, Graham Harvey and Wilfred G.E. Watson.

Imprint

Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, c1995.

Series

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 195

Bibliography

"Publications" [of John F.A. Sawyer]: p. 510-513.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Language

Portions of text in Hebrew.

Added Author

Sawyer, John F. A.

Davies, Jon.

Harvey, Graham.

Watson, Wilfred G. E.

Research Call Number

*PDB 95-3235