Marbeh Ḥokmah

Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz

Shamir Yonah, Edward L. Greenstein, Mayer I. Gruber, Peter Machinist, Shalom M. Paul

• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781575063331
• eBook ISBN: 9781575063614
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

The title, Marbeh ?okmah, meaning "increases wisdom," reflects the fact that Victor Avigdor Hurowitz was a scholar who increased wisdom and who continues to increase the wisdom of scholars throughout the world even after his untimely death at the age of 64. The book was edited by five of Professor Hurowitz's colleagues: Profs. Shamir Yona and Mayer I. Gruber of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Edward L. Greenstein of Bar-Ilan University, Peter Machinist of Harvard University, and Shalom M. Paul of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The two-volume collection contains 49 groundbreaking essays written by 53 distinguished authors from various institutions of higher learning in Israel and around the world. The authors include Victor's teachers, colleagues, and students, and the essays deal with a great variety of subjects. The breadth of subject matter featured in Marbeh ?okmah is a most appropriate tribute to Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, whose published scholarship encompassed a wide variety of fields of interest pertaining to the study of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East: Wisdom Literature, Psalmody, prophecy and prophets, the priesthood, eschatology, historiography, ancient inscriptions, medieval Hebrew biblical exegesis, religious rites, building and architecture, temples, the art of warfare, Semitic philology, Sumerian proverbs, epigraphy, rhetoric and stylistics, poetry, lamentations, the interconnections between Hebrew Scripture and the ancient Near East, the cultures of ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia, innerbiblical parallels, and many other subjects.

Table of contents

• Disclaimer
• Contents
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Personal and Academic Biography of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz
• Publications of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz
• English Abstracts of the Hebrew Essays
• Abbreviations
• Tablet II: Its Literary Frame and Formation
• Images of the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Calah in the Throne-Room Vision of Isaiah 6
• Bathing the Goddess (CTH 714)
• Psalm 132: A Prayer for the Restoration of Judah
• Josiah in Bethel: An Ancient Prophecy Newly Fulfilled
• The Well-Attested BH-Akk. Simile
• The Pastoral Idea of Hesed and the Symbolism of Matzo and Hamets
• The Tower and City of Babel Story (Genesis 11:1–9): Problems of Interpretation and Background
• Human Tribulation and Transience in Job: The Metaphor of the Moth
• Did Ezra Create Judaism?
• Ancient Mesopotamian Cultic Whispering into the Ears
• Two New Cultic Inscriptions from Seventh-Century B.C.E. Ekron
• Reflections on the Intersection between “Song” and Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible
• To Whom Can a Wronged Person Turn for Help in the Old Babylonian Period?
• Finding One’s Way in Proverbs 30:18–19
• ʾel = ʾet: An Unrecognized Lexeme in Biblical Hebrew
• A Sumerian Incantation for the Lavatory and Neo-Assyrian Eschatology
• Religion and Ethics in Sumerian Proverb Literature
• How Did Rabshakeh Know the Language of Judah?
• From Accountability to Commandment: Trends in the Evolution of the Ancient Near Eastern Ritual Genre
• Idol Moments: Reading the Bible in Abraham’s Father’s Idol Shop
• Portable Sanctuaries and Their Evolution: The Biblical Tabernacle (ʿōhel môʿēd/miškān) and the Akkadian qersu
• “Your Father Is an Amorite and Your Mother a Hittite” (Ezekiel 16:3)
• Vain Imprecations on Having Been Born in Job 3 and Mesopotamian Literature
• The Discourse Structure of the Mesha Inscription
• Anointing Documents with Oil and Sacrificing before Them
• Repetition with Variation in Legal-Cultic Texts of the Torah
• The Question of David’s Voice(s) in the Lament of 2 Samuel 1:19–27
• Gudea’s Kingship and Divinity
• Eschatology in the Book of Jeremiah
• Saul’s Pursuit of David in the Land of Judah and the Geographical Background
• Under The Skin: A Study of SU, the Sumerian Bodyscape
• Another Look at the Nomadic Tribal Arameans in the Inscriptions of Ninurta-kudurri-u.ur of Su.u
• Taking the Measure of the Ten-Cubit Gap, Isaiah’s Vision, and Iron Age Bones
• Index of Authors
• Index of Scripture
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