Biblical Hebrew in Context: Essays in Semitics and Old Testament Texts in Honour of Professor Jan P. Lettinga

220 Pages·2018·1.4 MB·English

by  Koert van Bekkum

Biblical Hebrew in Context
Oudtestamentische Studiën
Old Testament Studies published on behalf of the
Societies for Old Testament Studies in the Netherlands
and Belgium, South Africa, the United Kingdom
and Ireland
Editor
H. Ausloos (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Editorial Board
M. Popović (Groningen)
H. F. Van Rooy (Potchefstroom)
H. G. M. Williamson (Oxford)
Volume 74
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Professor Jan P. Lettinga
Biblical Hebrew
in Context
Essays in Semitics and Old Testament Texts
in Honour of Professor Jan P. Lettinga
Edited by
Koert van Bekkum
Gert Kwakkel
Wolter H. Rose
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bekkum, K. van, editor. | Kwakkel, Gert, editor. | Rose, Wolter H.,
 editor.
Title: Biblical Hebrew in context : essays in Semitics and Old Testament
 texts in honour of Professor Jan P. Lettinga / edited by Koert van Bekkum,
 Gert Kwakkel, Wolter H. Rose.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] | Series: Oudtestamentische
 studiën/Old Testament studies ; Volume 74 | Includes bibliographical
 references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018026309 (print) | LCCN 2018026767 (ebook) | ISBN
 9789004380851 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004380844 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Semitic languages. | Hebrew language—Grammar. | Bible. Old
 Testament—Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Bible. Old
 Testament—Language, style. | Lettinga, Jan Pieter, 1921-
Classification: LCC PJ3002.Z5 (ebook) | LCC PJ3002.Z5 L48 2018 (print) | DDC
 492.4/5—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018026309
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Contents
Abbreviations vii
Contributors xiii
List of Figures xv
1 A Leiden Semitist in Kampen: Honouring Professor Jan P. Lettinga 1
Koert van Bekkum
2 Hebrew pelīlīm and Old Assyrian palālum 12
Klaas R. Veenhof
3 Keilalphabetische Briefe aus Ugarit: Deutsche Übertragung von KTU3
2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.16 und 2.26 28
Willem H.Ph. Römer
4 Remarks on the Verbal Rection in Biblical Aramaic 33
Takamitsu Muraoka
5 A Dutch Grammar of Biblical Hebrew: J.P. Lettinga’s Grammatica van
het Bijbels Hebreeuws and Its Revisions 39
Wido van Peursen and Martin Baasten
6 A Paradigm Shift: Reflections on Teaching Hebrew in the Theology
Curriculum 54
Wolter H. Rose
7 The ‘Language of Canaan’: Ancient Israel’s History and the Origins of
Hebrew 67
Koert van Bekkum
8 Forgiveness of Sin for the Price of a New-born’s Life? 2 Samuel 12:13–15
Reconsidered 89
Willem A.M. Beuken
9 Stilling or Stirring up the Sea? The Translation of Isaiah 51:15 100
Jaap Dekker
vi contents
10 ‘But Fear not, O Jacob my Servant!’ Place and Function of the
Salvation Oracle Jeremiah 46:27–28 MT 114
Eric Peels
11 Hosea 4:16–19: A Century of Work on an Obscure Text 130
Gert Kwakkel
12 Living Linguistic Legacy. The ‘Sons of God’ in the Non-Biblical Dead
Sea Scrolls 156
Jaap Doedens
Bibliography Professor Jan P. Lettinga 177
Index of Authors 180
Index of Semitic Words and Phrases 186
Index of Ancient Sources 187
Abbreviations
ÄAT Ägypten und Altes Testament
ABS Archaeology and Biblical Studies
ACEBT Amsterdamse cahiers voor exegese van de Bijbel en zijn tradities
AfO Archiv für Orientforschung
AIL Ancient Israel and Its Literature
AJSL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures
AKT Ankara Kültepe Tabletleri, Ankara, Türuk Tarih Kurumu, 1990–
vol. 6. M.T. Larsen, The Archive of the Šalim-Aššur Family, 2010–2014
vol. 8. K.R. Veenhof, The Archive of Elamma, son of Iddin-Suen and his Fam-
ily, 2017
AncBib Anchor Bible
ANEM Ancient Near East Monographs
ANESSup Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement
ANYAS Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
AOAT Altes Orient und Altes Testament
ArBib M. McNamara (ed.), The Aramaic Bible, Collegeville MN 1987–2008
ARET Archivi Reali di Ebla. Testi
AS Assyriological Studies
ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch
AThANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BBB Bonner biblische Beiträge
BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research
BC Biblischer Commentar über das Alte Testament
bce Before the Common Era
BDB F. Brown, S.R. Driver, C.A. Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old
Testament. With an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Based on the
Lexicon of Wilhelm Gesenius as Translated by Edward Robinson, Oxford
1906
BHK3 Biblia Hebraica, ed. R. Kittel, Stuttgart 1937, 196614
BHQ Biblia Hebraica Quinta, Stuttgart 2004–
BHS Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Stuttgart 1977, 19975
Bib Biblica
BibOr Biblica et Orientalia
BJER La Bible de Jérusalem
BJS Brown Judaic Studies
BKAT Biblischer Kommentar zum alten Testament