Words remembered, text renewed : essays in honor of John F.A. Sawyer / [print]
edited by Jon Davies, Graham Harvey and Wilfred G.E. Watson.
- Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, (c)1995.
- 533 pages 22 cm
- Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series 195 9781850755425. .
- Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 195. .
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 passage in the Bible What does 'Deuteronomistic' mean? / Richard Coggins -- Sociology or history: towards a (human) history of ancient Palestine? / Keith Whitelam -- Reading Joshua after kings 'Aha! Assyria! Rod of my fury, very staff of my sentencing-curse' / Clyde Curry Smith -- God of Cyruss, 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 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? / Peter Hayman -- Isaac Israeli and his Sfer Hasheten: Glasgow Mississippi 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 Marc Vervenne -- Isabel Wollaston -- Francis I. Andersen -- Jonathan Magonet -- David Clines -- Graham Harvey -- Graeme Auld -- Philip Davies -- Robert Carroll -- Takamitsu Muraoka -- Wilfred Watson -- John Gibson -- Christopher Rowland -- Deborah Sawyer -- Calum Carmichael -- Gerard Loughlin -- James Dunn -- William R. Telford -- Robert Morgan -- Philip Alexander -- Max Sussman -- John Elwolde -- Dermot Killingley -- Jon Davies