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Book SynopsisNineteen friends and colleagues present this Festschrift to Ellen van Wolde, honouring her life-long contribution to the field of Biblical studies. The contributions focus on the major topics that define her research: the books of Genesis and of Job, and study of the Hebrew language. Profoundly inspired by the lasting legacy of the jubilarian, the articles present innovative and thought-provoking developments in the linguistic study of the Hebrew Bible, with a particular attention to cognitive linguistics, and in the research – literary as well as linguistic – of two of its most fascinating books.
Table of ContentsPreface Part 1 Genesis A Coat of Many Colors and a Range of Many Dates The Origins of the Story of Joseph in Genesis 37–50 Robert Rezetko Yahweh’s Kin A Comparative Linguistic and Mythological Analysis of ‘The Children of God’ in the Hebrew Bible Aren M. Wilson-Wright Be My Knife Representation and the Akedah Revisited Diana Lipton The Symbolism of the Spatial-Temporal Concepts ‘in front of, before’ (לפני) and ‘behind, after’ (אחרי) in the Hebrew Bible, with a Special Focus on the Jacob Narratives Talia Sutskover The πανοῦργος Problem Semantic Change and Septuagint Self-Criticism James K. Aitken Ways of Understanding Divine Creation in Late Antique and Medieval Piyyut Wout van Bekkum Imago Dei and the Challenge of Racism Soundings in the History of Interpretation of Genesis 1:26–27 Matthijs den Dulk Part 2 Book of Job The State of the Text of Job David J.A. Clines Syntax and Poetics in the Interpretation of Job Edward L. Greenstein Theory of Mind and Cognitive Dissonance in the Book of Job Carol A. Newsom “Let Me Sow and Another will Eat?” The Meaning of the Cohortatives in Job 6:10 and Job 31:8 Hanneke van Loon What Are You Doing Here, Master Elihu? The Role(s) of Elihu in the Book of Job Katharine J. Dell The Fate of the Wicked in Job 38:13–15 and the Birth of the Sea Francis Landy Part 3 Hebrew Language and Linguistics Seeing and Shining The Extramission Theory of Vision and Hebrew Polysemy Pierre Van Hecke The Conceptualisation of Heart as an Active Zone Body Part in Biblical Hebrew An Exploratory Study Christo H.J. van der Merwe Conceptualizing Love in the Song of Songs J. Cheryl Exum ‘But a Few Days’ Ways of Intensification of Love and Affection in Biblical Hebrew Ruti Vardi The Root נחם Niphal and Hitpael in the Hebrew Bible Broken Continuity and Disengagement Françoise Mirguet Voice, Discourse Prominence, and Aspect The Niphal and Passive Qal of Yālad Camil Staps Index Locorum
