Minhah Le-Nahum

Biblical and Other Studies Presented to Nahum M. Sarna in Honour of his 70th Birthday

Marc Zvi Brettler, Michael Fishbane, Marc Zvi Brettler, Michael Fishbane

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Year: 1993
• Print ISBN: 9780567338020
• eBook ISBN: 9780567195609
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

Nahum Sarna's distinctive and original scholarship has taken in a wide range of subject areas from work on Genesis and the Psalms to his Jewish Bible commentary and the English translation of the Ketuvim. At first Assistant Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in the 1950s, he was Dora Golding Professor of Bible at Brandeis University from 1965 to his retirement. This collection of 22 essays reflects Professor Sarna's breadth of interests, with contributions from the late Gershon Cohen on the Hebrew Crusade Chronicle and the Ashkenazic tradition; Judah Goldin on Reuben; Moshe Greenberg and Jonas Greenfield on the work of the Jewish Publication Society's Ketuvim translators; and Shemaryahu Talmon on fragments of a Psalms scroll from Masada.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Editors' Preface
• Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Interpretation and Prayer: Notes on the Composition of 1 Kings 8.15-53
• The Hebrew Crusade Chronicles and the Ashkenazic Tradition
• The Route of Jacob's Funeral Cortege and the Problem of 'Eber Hayyarden (Genesis 50.10-11)
• Law to Canon: Some 'Ideal-Typical' Stages of Development
• R. Isaac Arama's Philosophical Exegesis of the Golden Calf Episode
• Menahem ben Aaron ibn Zemah's Anti-Polygyny Torah Commentary from the Geniza
• The Holy Scriptures Defile the Hands—The Transformation of a Biblical Concept in Rabbinic Theology
• Reuben
• The Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Historic Perspective
• From the Workshop of the New Jewish Publication Society Ketuvim Translators
• How Modern are Modern Biblical Studies?
• Disturbing the Dead
• 11QPs[sup(a)] and the Canonical Book of Psalms
• An Essay on Prophetic Attitudes toward Temple and Cult in Biblical Israel
• Translation as Polemic: The Case of Toledot Yeshu
• Gleanings from the Biblical and Talmudic Lexica in Light of Akkadian
• Elephantine Aramaic Contracts and the Priestly Literature
• Pharisees and Sadducees in Pesher Nahum
• Penitence, Prayer and (Charity?)
• Yishaki: A Spanish Biblical Commentator whose 'Book Should be Burned', According to Abraham Ibn Ezra
• Fragments of a Psalms Scroll from Masada, MPs[sup(b)] (Masada 1103–1742)
• A Talmudic Parallel to the Petition from Yavneh-Yam
• The Published Writings of Nahum M. Sarna