Words Remembered, Texts Renewed

Essays in Honour of John F.A. Sawyer

Jon Davies, Graham Harvey, Wilfred G. E. Watson, Jon Davies, Graham Harvey, Wilfred G. E. Watson

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Year: 1995
• Print ISBN:
  9780567634238
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567532145
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

To mark the retirement of John F. A. Sawyer, Professor of Religious Studies in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, colleagues and former students from around the world have contributed studies on his areas of interest: the study of Hebrew, the books of the Jewish Bible, and the culture and traditions of Judaism. The essayists consider not simply the origin of the meaning of word and text, but also the many and strange ways in which word and text become transposed, re-oriented and often enough traduced by later interests and purposes. The roll call of scholars reads: Philip Alexander, Francis Andersen, Graeme Auld, Calvin Carmichael, Robert Carroll, David Clines, Richard Coggins, Jon Davies, Philip Davies, James Dunn, John Elwolde, John Gibson, Graham Harvey, Peter Hayman, Dermot Killingley, Jonathan Magonet, Robert Morgan, Takamitsu Muraoka, Christopher Rowland, Deborah Sawyer, Clyde Curry Smith, Max Sussman, William Telford, Marc Vervenne, Wilfred Watson, Keith Whitelam and Isabel Wollaston.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• All They Need is Love: Once More Genesis 6.1-4
• 'Traditions of Remembrance': Post-Holocaust Interpretations of Genesis 22
• What Biblical Scholars Might Learn from Emily Dickinson
• The Names of God in Biblical Narratives
• The Ten Commandments, Reading from Left to Right
• The Suffering of Witches and Children: Uses of the Witchcraft Passages in the Bible
• What Does 'Deuteronomistic' Mean?
• Sociology or History: Towards a (Human) History of Ancient Palestine?
• Reading Joshua after Kings
• 'Aha! Assyria! Rod of my Fury, Very Staff of My Sentencing-Curse'
• God of Cyrus, God of Israel: Some Religio-Historical Reflections on Isaiah 40–55
• Revisionings: Echoes and Traces of Isaiah in the Poetry of William Blake
• Hosea III in the Septuagint Version
• Some Ancient Near Eastern Parallels to the Song of Songs
• Coordination by Vav in Biblical Hebrew
• Moses and Patmos: Reflections on the Jewish Background of Early Christianity
• Water and Blood: Birthing Images in John's Gospel
• The Marriage at Cana of Galilee
• Using Scripture: Community and Letterality
• Historical Text as Historical Text: Some Basic Hermeneutical Reflections in Relation to the New Testament
• The New Testament in Fiction and Film: A Biblical Scholar's Perspective
• On the Unity of Scripture
• 'A Sixtieth Part of Prophecy': The Problem of Continuing Revelation in Judaism
• The 'Original Text': A Scholarly Illusion?
• Isaac Israeli and his Sefer Hasheten: Glasgow MS Hunter 477
• The Mahberet of Menahem: Proposals for a Lexicographic Theory, with Sample Translation and Notes
• Rammohun Roy and Bishop Heber's View of the Trinity
• Judaism Traduced: The House of Lords and the War Crimes Debate, 1989–1990
• Professor John F.A. Sawyer
• Index of References
• Index of Authors