Understanding Poets and Prophets: Essays in Honour of George Wishart Anderson

by A. Graeme Auld

Publisher:

Sheffield Academic Press

, 1993

Overview

This volume contains a rich collection of essays by twenty eight of Professor G.W. Anderson’s students, colleagues, and successors in Edinburgh, and associates in the world of Hebrew and biblical studies.

Key Features

• Includes contributions from various scholars
• All references to the Old Testament are linked to original language texts and English translations in your library

Contributors

• "Wilhelm Vischer and Allegory," J. Barr
• "Inscribing the Covenant: Writing and the Written in Jeremiah," R.P. Carroll
• "Clans, Etat Monarchique, et Tribus," H. Cazelles
• "Jeremiah 1–25 and the Deuteronomistic History," R.E. Clements
• "The Old Testament and the Church," R. Davidson
• "Lice or a Veil in the Song of Songs 1.7?," J.A. Emerton
• "The Anatomy of Hebrew Narrative Poetry," J.C.L. Gibson
• "Qohelet, the Rabbis, and the Wisdom Text from the Cairo Geniza," A.P. Hayman
• "The Deuteronomistic Cycles of Signs and Wonders in Exodus 1–13," W. Johnstone
• "Genesis 1 from the Perspective of a Chinese Creation Myth," A.C.C. Lee
• "The Great Commandment and the Golden Rule," J.I.H. McDonald
• "Old and New Covenant (Testament): A Terminological Enquiry," W. McKane
• "John 5 and the Limits of Rhetorical Criticism," D.L. Mealand
• "Notes on the Joseph Story," J.A. Soggin
• "Judges 1.1–2.5: The Conquest Under the Leadership of the House of Judah" M. Weinfeld
• "Isaiah 1.11 and the Septuagint of Isaiah," H.G.M. Williamson

Product Details

• Title: Understanding Poets and Prophets: Essays in Honour of George Wishart Anderson
• Editor: A. Graeme Auld
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Pages: 448

About A. Graeme Auld

A. Graeme Auld is professor emeritus of Hebrew Bible at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland..