Mishneh Todah

Studies in Deuteronomy and Its Cultural Environment in Honor of Jeffrey H. Tigay

Nili Sacher Fox, David A. Glatt-Gilad, Michael J. Williams

• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781575061566
• eBook ISBN: 9781575066042
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

Jeffrey H. Tigay, A. M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, master teacher and scholar extraordinaire, conservative rabbi and lifelong student of Torah receives due ovation in this exceptional volume, a tribute to his indelible impression on Jewish scholarship and pedagogy.

The volume is arranged according to Professor Tigay's primary topics of interest: deuteronomic studies, ancient Israelite religion and its Near Eastern context, and ancient Israelite literary tradition. The reader will enjoy diverse studies such as "Gender Transformation and Transgression: Contextualizing the Prohibition of Cross-dressing in Deuteronomy 22:5," "The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job," and "Linen and the Linguistic Dating of P" and will value the erudition of scholars such as Moshe Greenberg, Emanuel Tov, Gary Rendsburg, William Hallo, and Baruch Levine.

In the customary appreciations and throughout the volume, colleagues, students, and friends laud Professor Tigay's intellectual tenacity, relational warmth, pedagogical prowess, and devotion to Torah. A former student aptly speaks for those who know him best: "A scholar's immortality lies in his or her work. It rests too in his or her students and in the respect won from his or her colleagues. A Festschrift like this one for Jeff Tigay is merely a token of that legacy, the acknowledgment by his students and colleagues that the work is indeed worth celebrating." This legacy will surely be a boon and delight to the reader.

Table of contents

• COVER Front
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1: A Deuteronomic Voice inthe Joseph Story
• Chapter 2: Textual Harmonizations in the Ancient Texts of Deuter
• Chapter 3: The Visit of Jethro: A Case of Chronological Displacement ? The Source-Critical Solution
• Chapter 4: Gender Transformation and Transgression: Contextualizing the Prohibition of Cross-Dressing in Deuteronomy 22:5
• Chapter 5: Dinah, ºInnah, and Related Matters
• Chapter 6: Sex and the Single Girl in Deuteronomy 22
• Chapter 7: Taking Interest in Taking Interest
• Chapter 8: “My Father Was a Wandering Aramean” (Deuteronomy 26:5) or “Edom Served My Father”?
• Chapter 9: Rewritten Deuteronomy in 1QS andin m. So†ah 7:5
• Chapter 10: The Lost Meaning of Deuteronomy 33:2as Preserved in the Palestinian Targum to the Decalogue
• Chapter 11: Israelian Hebrew Features in Deuteronomy 33
• Chapter 12: Revealed and Concealed:The Status of the Law (Book) of Moses within the Deuteronomistic History
• Chapter 13 : Deuteronomy in the Temple: An Exercise in Historical Imagining
• Chapter 14: Deuteronom(ist)ic Influenceson Deutero-Isaiah
• Chapter 15: The Scribal Concern for the Torah as Evidenced by the Textual Witnesses of the Hebrew Bible
• Chapter 16: Three Midrashim Concerning Our Great Leaders, Moses and David:The Doctrine of Grace in Sifre Deuteronomy
• Chapter 17: One God for Many: Philological Glosses on Monotheism
• Chapter 18: The Divinity of Humankind in the Bible and the Ancient Near East:A New Mesopotamian Parallel
• Chapter 19: Does God Deceive? An Examination of the Dark Side of Isaiah’s Prophecy
• Chapter 20: The Unique Features of Ezekiel’s Sanctuary
• Chapter 21: On the Place of Psalm 21 in Israelite Royal Ideology
• Chapter 22: Myth and Syntax in Psalm 93
• Chapter 23: The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job
• Chapter 24: Examples of Restatement inthe Laws of Hammurabi
• Chapter 25: Literary-Critical Issues in the Hebrew Bible from an Assyriological Perspective: Additions and Omissions
• Chapter 26: Biblical Naming Reports with arq kAl[
• Chapter 27: The Ancient Critical Misunderstanding of Exodus 21:22–25 and Its Implications for the Current Debate on Abortion
• Chapter 28: Linen and the Linguistic Dating of
• Chapter 29: A New Approach to Metaphor in Biblical Poetry
• Chapter 30: The Four Private Persons Who Lost Their Share in the World to Come:The Judgment of m. Sanh. 10:2
• Chapter 31: Hermeneutical Freedom and Constraint in Jewish Bible Exegesis
• Index