Divrei Shalom: Collected Studies of Shalom M. Paul on the Bible and the Ancient Near East, 1967-2005 (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East)

Divrei Shalom: Collected Studies of Shalom M. Paul on the Bible and the Ancient Near East 1967–2005......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
The Bible and the Ancient Near East......Page 24
1. "The Image of the Oven and the Cake in Hosea 7:4–10," Vetus Testamentum 18 (1968), 114–120......Page 26
2. "Deutero-Isaiah and Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions," Journal of the American Oriental Society 88 (1968) (= Essays in Memory of E. A. Speiser, ed. W. W. Hallo [New Haven, 1968], 180–186)......Page 34
3. "Cuneiform Light on Jer. 9:20," Biblica 49 (1968), 373–376......Page 46
4. "Exod. 21:10: A Threefold Maintenance Clause," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 28 (1969), 48–53......Page 50
5. "Sargon's Administrative Diction in 2 Kings 17:27," Journal of Biblical Literature 88 (1969), 73–74......Page 60
6. "Formulaic Patterns of Law in Israel and Mesopotamia," Leàonénu 34 (1970), 257–266. Hebrew (translation into English)......Page 62
7. "Psalm 72:5–A Traditional Blessing for the Long Life of the King," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 31 (1972), 351–355......Page 74
8. "Heavenly Tablets and the Book of Life," in: T. H. Gaster Festschrift (New York, 1973) (= Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University 5), 345–354......Page 82
9. "Classifications of Wine in Mesopotamian and Rabbinic Sources," Israel Exploration Journal 25 (1975), 42–44......Page 94
10. "Nehemiah 6:19—Counterespionage," Hebrew Annual Review 1 (1977), 177–179......Page 98
11. "Amos 3:15—Winter and Summer Mansions," Vetus Testamentum 28 (1978), 358–360......Page 100
12. "Fishing Imagery in Amos 4:2," Journal of Biblical Literature 97 (1978), 183–190......Page 104
13. "An Unrecognized Medical Idiom in Song of Songs 6:12 and Job 9:21," Biblica 59 (1978), 545–547......Page 114
14. "1 Samuel 9:7: An Interview Fee," Biblica 59 (1978), 542–544......Page 118
15. "Unrecognized Biblical Legal Idioms in the Light of Comparative Akkadian Expressions," Revue Biblique 86 (1979), 231–239......Page 122
16. "Adoption Formulae: A Study of Cuneiform and Biblical Legal Clauses," Maarav 2/2 (1979–80), 173–185......Page 132
17. "Psalm 27:10 and the Babylonian Theodicy," Vetus Testamentum 32 (1982), 489–492......Page 144
18. "Two Cognate Semitic Terms for Mating and Copulation," Vetus Testamentum 32 (1982), 492–493......Page 148
19. "Job 4:15—A Hair Raising Encounter," Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 95 (1983), 119–121......Page 152
20. "Daniel 3:29 — A Case of 'Neglected' Blasphemy," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 42 (1983), 291–294......Page 156
21. "Dan 6:8: An Aramaic Reflex of Assyrian Legal Terminology," Biblica 65 (1984), 106–110......Page 162
22. "Hosea 8:8–10 and Ancient Near Eastern Royal Epithets," Scripta Hierosolymitana 31: Studies in Bible (Jerusalem, 1986)......Page 168
23. "A Technical Expression from Archery in Zechariah 9:13a," Vetus Testamentum 39 (1989), 495–497......Page 178
24. "Biblical Analogues to Middle Assyrian Law," in: Religion  and Law: Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives, ed. E. B. Firmage et al. (Winona Lake, IN, 1990), 333–350......Page 182
25. "Exodus 1:21: 'To Found a Family': A Biblical and Akka- dian Idiom," in: Let Your Colleagues Praise You: Studies in Memory of Stanley Gevirtz, Part II, ed. R. J. Ratner et al. (= Maarav 8 [1992]), 139–142......Page 200
26. "Gleanings from the Biblical and Talmudic Lexica in Light of Akkadian," in: Minhah le-Nahum: Biblical and Other Studies Presented to Nahum M. Sarna in Honour of His 70th Birthday, ed. M. Brettler and M. Fishbane (= Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series (Sheffield, 1993), 242–256......Page 204
27. "Decoding a 'Joint' Expression in Daniel 5:6, 16," in: Comparative Studies in Honor of Yochanan Muffs, ed. E. L. Greenstein and D. Marcus (= Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 22 [1993]), 121–127......Page 218
28. "From Mari to Daniel: Instructions for the Acceptance of Servants into the Royal Court," in: Eretz Israel 22 (Abraham Malamat Volume), eds. S. Ahituv and B. Levine (Jerusalem, 1993), 161–163. Hebrew (translation into English)......Page 228
29. "Euphemistically 'Speaking' and a Covetous Eye," in: Biblical and Other Studies in Honor of Reuben Ahroni on the Occasion of  His Sixtieth Birthday, ed. T. J. Lewis (= Hebrew Annual Review 14 [1994]), 193–204......Page 236
30. "Untimely Death in the Semitic Languages," in: The Bible in the Light of its Interpreters: Sarah Kamin Memorial Volume, ed. S. Japhet (Jerusalem, 1994), 575–586 (translation into English)......Page 246
31. "The 'Plural of Ecstasy' in Mesopotamian and Biblical Love Poetry," in: Solving Riddles and Untying Knots: Biblical, Epigraphic, and Semitic Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield, ed. Z. Zevit et al. (Winona Lake, IN, 1995), 585–597......Page 262
32. "Two Proposed Janus Parallelisms in Akkadian Literature," N.A.B.U. (1995), 11–12 (co-authored with W. Horowitz)......Page 276
33. "Hosea 7:16: Gibberish Jabber," in: Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom, ed. D. P. Wright et al. (Winona Lake, IN, 1995), 707–712......Page 280
34. "'Emigration' from the Netherworld in the Ancient Near East," in: Immigration and Emigration Within the Ancient Near East: Festschrift E. Lipiński, ed. K. van Lerberghe and A. Schoors (Leuven, 1995), 221–227......Page 286
35. "A Lover's Garden of Verse: Literal and Metaphorical Imagery in Ancient Near Eastern Love Poetry," in: Tehillah leMoshe: Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Moshe Greenberg, ed. M. Cogan et al. (Winona Lake, IN, 1997) 99–110......Page 294
36. "The Mesopotamian Background of Daniel 1–6," in: The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception, I, ed. J. J. Collins and P. W. Flint (Leiden, Boston & Köln, 2001), 55–68......Page 308
37. "The Shared Legacy of Sexual Metaphors and Euphemisms Mesopotamian and Biblical Literature," in: Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2–6, 2001, II, ed. S. Parpola and R. M. Whiting (Helsinki, 2002)......Page 322
38. "A Double Entendre in Job 15:32 in the Light of Akkadian," in: Emanuel: Studies in Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and Dead Sea Scrolls in Honor of Emanuel Tov, ed. S. M. Paul et al. (Leiden, 2003), 755–757......Page 338
39. "Daniel 12:9: A Technical Mesopotamian Scribal Term," in: Sefer Moshe: The Moshe Weinfeld Jubilee Volume : Studies in the  Bible and the Ancient Near East, Qumran, and Post-Biblical Judaism, ed. C. Cohen, A. Hurvitz, and S. M. Paul (Winona Lake, IN, 2003), 115–118......Page 342
40. "Hebrew and Its Interdialectal Equivalents," in: “An Experienced Scribe Who Neglects Nothing”—Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Jacob Klein, ed. Y. Sefati, P. Artzi, C. Cohen, B. L. Eichler, and V. A. Hurowitz (Bethesda, MD, 2004)......Page 346
41. "Daniel 6:20: An Aramaic Calque on an Akkadian Expression," Scriptura 87 (2004), 315–316......Page 352
42. "Jerusalem of Gold—Revisited," "I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times" (Ps 78:2b): Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, ed. A.M. Maeir and P. de Miroschedji (Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, IN, 2005), 707–711 (revised version of: "Jerusalem — A City of Gold," Israel Exploration Journal 17 [1967], 259–263 [= "Jerusalem of Gold: A Song and an Ancient Crown," Biblical Archaeology Review 3 [1977], 38–41)......Page 356
43. "Two Cosmographical Terms in Amos 9:6," in: Sara Japhet Jubilee Volume (Jerusalem, forthcoming), Hebrew (translation into English)......Page 366
Biblical Studies......Page 374
44. "Amos 1:3–2:3: A Concatenous Literary Pattern," Journal of  Biblical Literature 90 (1971), 397–403......Page 376
45. "Prophets and Prophecy," Encyclopaedia Judaica, 13 [1971], 1150–1175) (a revised version appears in: Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary, ed. D. Lieber et al. [Philadephia, 2001], 1407–1412)......Page 386
46. "Literary and Ideological Echoes of Jeremiah in Deutero-Isaiah," Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, 1972), 102–120......Page 422
47. "A Literary Reinvestigation of the Authenticity of the Oracles against the Nations of Amos," in: De la Torah au Messie: Mélanges Henri Cazelles, ed. J. Doré et al. (Paris, 1981), 189–204......Page 440
48. "Amos 3:3–8: The Irresistible Sequence of Cause and Effect," Hebrew Annual Review 7 (1983), 203–220......Page 462
49. "Polysensuous Polyvalency in Poetic Parallelism," in: "Sha-'arei Talmon": Studies in the Bible, Qumran, and Ancient Near East Presented to Shemaryahu Talmon, ed. M. Fishbane and E. Tov (Winona Lake, IN, 1992), 147–163......Page 480
50. "Polysemous Pivotal Punctuation: More Janus Double Entendres," in: Texts, Temples, and Traditions: A Tribute to Menahem Haran, ed. M. V. Fox et al. (Winona Lake, IN, 1996), 369–374......Page 500
51. "An Overlooked Double Entendre in Jonah 2:5," in: The Honeycomb of the Word: Interpreting the Primary Testament with André LaCocque, ed. W. Dow Edgerton (Chicago, 2001), 155–157......Page 508
Additional Writings of Shalom M. Paul......Page 512
Source Index......Page 514
Lexeme and Expression Index......Page 558