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Title

Torah and tradition : papers read at the Sixteenth Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap, Edinburgh 2015 / edited by Klaas Spronk and Hans Barstad.

Author

Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap (16th : 2015 : Edinburgh, Scotland)

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Spronk, Klaas
• Barstad, Hans M.

Description

vi, 270 pages : map; 25 cm

Summary

"The proceedings of the sixteenth joint meeting presented in this volume will show the fruits of the ongoing cooperation between the members of the British Society for the Study of the Old Testament and the Dutch Oudtestamentische Werkgezelschap. The theme of the conference was 'Torah and tradition'. The volume brings together many different approaches in describing the multifaceted traditions behind the Hebrew Bible in its present form."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Oudtestamentische studiën ; volume 70

Uniform Title

Oudtestamentische studiën ; d. 70.

Subject

• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses
• Bible
• Bibel

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: Fifteen joint meetings and the Sixteenth / Klaas Spronk -- Reexamining the 'fathers' in Deuteronomy's framework / Bill T. Arnold -- Did the Assyrian envoy know the 'venite'? What did he know? What did he say? And should he be believed? / Graeme Auld -- 'I am a god and not a human being' : the divine dilemma in Hosea / Samuel E. Balentine -- Covenant, agreement, and law : the social code underlying the book of Nehemiah / Bob Becking -- Geography in Num 33 and 34 and the challenge of Pentateuchal theory / Koert van Bekkum -- The concept of Torah in the book of Isaiah / Jaap Dekker -- The kingship motif in Isaiah 61:1-3 / Hedy Hung -- The influence of the decalogue on the shape of Exodus / William Johnstone -- The Greek translators of the Pentateuch and the Epicureans / Michaël N. van der Meer -- Leviticus from a gendered perspective : making and maintaining priests / Deborah W. Rooke -- Interpreting Torah : strategies of producing, circulating, and validating authoritative scriptures in early Judaism / Jacques van Ruiten -- The inner cohesion of Jeremiah 34:8-22, on the liberation of slaves during the siege of Jerusalem, and its relation to Deuteronomy 15 / Klaas A.D. Smelik.

Call Number

JFE 17-6147

ISBN

• 9789004337480
• 9004337482

LCCN

2016047645

OCLC

958798074

Conference

Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap (16th : 2015 : Edinburgh, Scotland)

Title

Torah and tradition : papers read at the Sixteenth Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap, Edinburgh 2015 / edited by Klaas Spronk and Hans Barstad.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oudtestamentische studiën ; volume 70

Oudtestamentische studiën ; d. 70.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Spronk, Klaas, editor.

Barstad, Hans M., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6147