Research Catalog

Title

Making a difference : essays on the Bible and Judaism in honor of Tamara Cohn Eskenazi / edited by David J. A. Clines, Kent Harold Richards and Jacob L. Wright.

Publication

Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012

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Additional Authors

• Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn
• Clines, David J. A.
• Richards, Kent Harold, 1939-
• Wright, Jacob L.

Description

xxiv, 367 p. : port.; 24 cm

Subject

• Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn > Bibliography
• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
• Judaism

Genre/Form

• Festschriften.
• Bibliographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Festschriften

Note

• Festschrift.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes a bibliography of Tamara Eskenazi.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Rabbinic dirges and the voices of women in lament / Rachel Adler -- The sweet lie of metaphor : Levinas's reflections on metaphor and their implications for biblical hermeneutics / Annette Aronowicz -- Educating Jewish girls in medieval Muslim and Christian settings / Judith R. Baskin -- Madame Potiphar revisited out of and in the classroom / Athalya Brenner -- The politics of marriage in Genesis / Mark G. Brett -- The voice and the book / Catherine Chalier -- The failure of the flood / David J.A. Clines -- Micah Yosef Berdyczewski and the new Jewish mimesis : two stories in honor of Tamara C. Eskenazi / William Cutter -- Pual vis-a-vis Levinas / Pamela Eisenbaum -- A Zionist reading of Abraham Geiger and his biblical scholarship / David Ellenson -- The law triumphant : another look at 1 Esdras / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Standing again at Sinai? / Frederick E. Greenspahn -- The composition of Ezra-Nehemiah from the perspective of a medieval Jewish commentator / Sara Japhet
• The Samaritan schism or the judaization of Samaria? : reassessing Josephus's account of the Mt. Gerizim Temple / Gary N. Knoppers -- Levinas on prophecy / Francis Landy -- 'Where were you when I founded the earth?' : poetic subversions of a human-centered world in Job / Adriane Leveen -- Making a difference, then and now : the very different lives and afterlives of Dinah and Rizpah / Heather A. McKay -- Blood in the post-flood world / David L. Petersen -- Farewell to 'Mr. So and So' (Ruth 4.1)? / Jack M. Sasson -- Rendering the rending of the veil : what difference does it make? / Jesper Svartvik -- Eschatology in the Book of Ezekiel / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Difference among the distaff : a reading of Exodus 1.1-2.10 / Phyllis Trible -- Amos and the cult / Gene M. Tucker -- Motives behind the biblical mixed metaphors / Andrea L. Weiss -- Scribe and scroll : revisiting the great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran / H.G.M. Williamson -- Between nation and state in the Book of Samuel : the case of Ittai the Gittite / Jacob L. Wright.

ISBN

• 9781907534720 (Cloth)
• 1907534725 (Cloth)

OCLC

820120941

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library