Far From Minimal

Celebrating the Work and Influence of Philip R. Davies

Duncan Burns, John W. Rogerson, Duncan Burns, John W. Rogerson

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780567114358
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567313379
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Studi biblici

Marking the 60th birthday of Professor Philip R. Davies, Dr. Duncan Burns and John W. Rogerson, his former student and colleague, respectively, aim to do him justice. They have comprised articles from their peers to reflect on the impact Professor Davies has made in three particular areas of study: Hebrew Bible, Qumran, and Paleastinian Archaeology; New Testament and Early Judaism; and Biblical Interpretation. The breadth of this volume aims to reflect the scope, interest, and influence of Professor Davies from the last 30 years.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Philip R. Davies, Curriculum Vitae
• Introduction
• WRITING TIME AND ETERNITY IN SAMUEL AND KINGS -- A. Graeme Auld
• WHEN YHWH TESTS PEOPLE: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS AND PARTICULAR OBSERVATIONS REGARDING THE BOOKS OF CHRONICLES AND JOB -- Ehud Ben Zvi
• FORMLESS BUT NOT VOID: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PSALMIST-SUBJECT FROM CLAY LEVEL -- Fiona C. Black
• THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, THE TEACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THE EXALTED ONE OF 4Q491C -- Joseph Blenkinsopp
• A FLESHLY READING: MASOCHISM, ECOCRITICISM, AND THE SONG OF SONGS -- Roland Boer
• RELIGION AND POLITICS AS PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PARTNERS: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM THE GAZA STRIP, 8/2005 -- Athalya Brenner
• RULES FOR MARTYRS: THE SACRIFICE OF THE BELOVED SON IN RABBINIC JUDAISM, PATRISTIC CHRISTIANITY, SUNNI ISLAM -- Bruce Chilton
• IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: WHOSE BIBLICAL STUDIES IS IT ANYWAY? -- Edgar W. Conrad
• WERE ZERUBBABEL AND NEHEMIAH THE SAME PERSON? -- Diana Edelman
• FOUR NOTES ON ALBRIGHTIAN BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: REHOV, MEGIDDO, JERUSALEM, AND ROSH ZAYIT -- Israel Finkelstein
• PROPHECY AS INSPIRED BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION: THE TEACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND DAVID KORESH -- Lester L. Grabbe
• PRUDENT ABIGAIL, SUBMISSION, AND THE FORCE OF BEAUTY: VOLTAIRE’S VERSION OF THE BIBLE IN HIS SAÜL, 1763 -- David M. Gunn
• WHY WAS THE SECOND TEMPLE BUILT? -- John M. Halligan
• DIVINE KNOWLEDGE IN THE BOOK OF JOB AND 4QINSTRUCTION -- James E. Harding
• TURNING A SOW’S EAR INTO A SILK PURSE: ARGUMENTS AGAINST SILENCE IN THE QUEST FOR EARLY ISRAEL -- David Henige
• ONLY FOOLS AND CHILDREN: BELIEF IN GOD AS A PROBLEM FOR THE PSALMIST IN PSALMS 8–14 -- Alastair G. Hunter
• THE STINGS IN THE TALES OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH -- John Jarick
• THE POWER OF PARENTHESIS: 2 SAMUEL 4:4 IN ITS LITERARY CONTEXT -- David Jobling
• MEROZ (JUDGES 5:23) -- Ernst Axel Knauf
• ISAIAH 2: TORAH AND TERROR -- Francis Landy
• JOSHUA AND WESTERN VIOLENCE -- Niels Peter Lemche
• A STUDY IN METHODOLOGICAL (IN)CONSISTENCY, OR HOW I STOPPED WORRYING AND LEARNED TO LOVE THE WORK OF THE JESUS SEMINAR -- William John Lyons
• “JEWS BY NATURE”: PAUL, ETHNICITY, AND GALATIANS -- R. Barry Matlock
• THE SECOND TEMPLE ORIGINS OF THE HALAKHAH OF BESAH -- Jacob Neusner
• THE DECONSTRUCTION OF DEUTERONOMISM IN THE FORMER PROPHETS: MICAIAH BEN IMLAH AS EXAMPLE -- K. L. Noll
• PRODUCTIVE PRESUPPOSITIONS, EXUBERANT COMMENTARIES? THE NEW TESTAMENT DISCIPLINE READ THROUGH THE LENS OF FOUCAULT’S “L’ORDRE DU DISCOURS” -- Jorunn Økland
• THE GREEK OF THE JEWS AND EARLY CHRISTIANS: THE LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE FROM A HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE -- Stanley E. Porter
• “WHOSE PROPHECY IS IT ANYWAY?” WHAT MICAH 3:12 IS DOING IN JEREMIAH 26 -- Hugh S. Pyper
• THE STORM BEFORE THE CALM? THE SHEFFIELD DEPARTMENT OF BIBLICAL STUDIES IN THE 1980S -- J. W. Rogerson
• REFLECTIONS ON “MODERN” BIBLICAL STUDIES, OR WHY PHILIP DAVIES IS (JUST A LITTLE BIT) LIKE IMMANUEL KANT -- Yvonne Sherwood
• THE BOOK OF DANIEL, THE CANON, AND THE GRAND NARRATIVE OF CHRISTIANITY -- Izak J. J. Spangenberg
• THE VERB(S) RGL IN CLASSICAL HEBREW AND THE TASK OF THE LEXICOGRAPHER -- David M. Stec
• WITHOUT EVIDENCE OR METHOD -- Thomas L. Thompson
• COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AS IMPETUS FOR A MULTI-LEVEL HEBREW–ENGLISH INTERLINEAR TRANSLATION -- Christo H. J. van der Merwe
• THE RHETORIC OF 2 PETER: AN APOLOGIA FOR EARLY CHRISTIAN ETHICS (AND NOT “PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGY”) -- Robert L. Webb
• THE DEATH OF BIBLICAL HISTORY -- Keith W. Whitelam
• SOME RECENT DISCUSSION ON THE HEREM -- K. Lawson Younger
• Index of References