In Memoriam Paul Kahle

292 Pages·1968·26.047 MB·German

by  Matthew Black, Georg Fohrer

In Memoriam Paul Kahle

In Memoriam Paul Kahle
Herausgegeben von
Matthew Black und Georg Fohrer
Verlag Alfred Töpelmann
Berlin 1968
Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Herausgegeben von Georg Fohrer
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Preface
The idea of a commemorative volume to form a tribute to the life
and labours, as Old Testament scholar and Orientalist, of the late
Professor Paul E. Kahle was one which occurred independently to
several of his many friends shortly after his lamented death in 1965;
and it at once commended itself to the still wider circle of colleagues,
former pupils, and pupils of his pupils. The first proposal was to collect
a volume of personal reminiscences from close friends and acquaintances
of long standing, but this suggestion was subsequently abandoned in
favour of a collection of scholarly essays in Kahle's own main fields of
learned activity, namely, the Old Testament and Judaica, the volume
to be prefaced by a brief personal tribute from one who had known
him for many years as fellow-Semitist and friend, Professor Nyberg
of Uppsala.
It was felt that any such volume, while it should reflect by re-
presentative contributions Kahle's own wide range of interests in the
Oriental field, in particular in Islamica, ought nevertheless to con-
centrate mainly on the field of Old Testament studies and Judaica
where Dr. Kahle's most notable contributions to learning had been
made.
When Professor Fohrer, Editor of the Zeitschrift fur die Alt-
testamentliche Wissenschaft, was asked if such a volume could be
accepted for the series of Beihefte, he readily agreed and later accepted
my invitation to act together with me as joint editor of the volume.
While the volume appears under the joint editorship of Professor
Fohrer and myself, it is only right to put on record that the main
burden of actual editorial labour has fallen to the Editor of the
ZAW.
As I have written elsewhere1, Kahle was, for nearly a generation
before his death, the doyen of European Orientalists; and that emin-
ence was attained and maintained by an achievement in the field of
Oriental study which is in many respects without parallel in this
century. The secret of his great distinction is not far to seek: he was
1 Obituary, Paul E. Kahle, British Academy Proceedings, 1965, p. 494.
filled with an unbounded zeal for his subject and in his total dedication
to his chosen life work he never spared himself. Zeal for his subject,
however, and painstaking industry were only part of Kahle's great-
ness as a scholar. His achievement lay not only in his ability to un-
cover historical data but, in the light of them, to open up new and
important points of view and above all to stimulate others to follow
in the paths he had opened up. He introduced his pupils to fresh
vistas of historical understanding and showed us new solutions for
problems old and new.
To all his many pupils throughout the world Kahle's scholarly
generosity was unbounded: meum et tuum did not matter in scholar-
ship — what really counted was the advancement of the subject. The
following words were written by a pupil and protégé in a review of the
second edition of The Cairo Geniza: 'Throughout its pages, it is ap-
parent that the author is not only an indefatigable pursuer of new
ideas, but also a generator of new scholars, in that his unselfish love
of learning has led him to share with them not only his opinions and
knowledge, but even the unpublished manuscripts in his possession.
His example is particularly bright and conspicuous in these gloomy
times, when dissatisfied students, their work brought to a halt, fret
after fragments inaccessible and languish after Scrolls still unseen'2.
Kahle's scholarly generosity was matched by the great hospitality of
his home: his home in Oxford became like his Seminar in Bonn, a
centre of learning which attracted students from all over the world.
This volume is not only a tribute to his memory; it is also a
token of the immense gratitude his friends and pupils feel for one
who himself gave so freely and so unstintingly throughout his long
and active life of his scholarly labours and discoveries.
St. Mary's College, St. Andrews. January 1967.
MATTHEW BLACK
8 G. Vermes, in NSt 6 p. 325.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
NYBERG, H. S.: Paul Kahle I
ALTHEIM, FRANZ UND STIEHL, ROTH: Mashafa faläsfä tabibän 3
ATIYA, AZIZ S.: The Arabic and Turkish Scrolls of Mount Sinai 10
BLACK, MATTHEW: Aramaic Studies and the Language of Jesus 17
BLAU, JOSHUA: Some Difficulties in the Reconstruction of „Proto-Hebrew"
and „Proto-Canaanite" 29
DE BOER, P. A. H.: Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts in the Netherlands 44
BOWMAN, JOHN: Temple and Festivals in the Persian Diatessaron 53
DÍEZ-MACHO, ALEJANDRO: A Fundamental Manuscript for an Edition of the
Babylonian Onqelos to Genesis 62
DOUBLES, MALCOLM C.: Indications of Antiquity in the Orthography and
Morphology of the Fragment Targum 79
DRIVER, G. R.: Isaiah 52,3 - 5312: the Servant of the Lord 90
DUNLOP, D.M.: A Letter of HärQn ar-Rashid to the Emperor Constantine VI. 106
EDELMANN, R.: Soferim - Massoretes, „Massoretes" - Nakdanim 116
EISSFELDT, OTTO: Neue Belege für das phönizische Hermes-Emblem 124
FOHRER, GEORG : Die israelitischen Propheten in der samaritanischen Chronik II 129
HENNING, W. B.: Ein persischer Titel im Altaramäischen 138
KILPATRICK, G. D.: BAEIIETE Philippians 32 146
KUIPER, G. J.: A Study of the Relationship between A Genesis Apocryphon
and the Pentateuchal Targumim in Genesis I4i_!2 149
LEVI DELLA VIDA, G. The Shiloah Inscription Reconsidered 162
LUND, SHIRLEY: The Sources of the Variant Readings to Deuteronomy IJ-2G17
of Codex Neofiti I 167
MCHARDY, W. D.: The Horses in Zechariah 174
MURTONEN, A. : Prolegomena to a Comparative Description of Non-Masoretic
Hebrew Dialects and Traditions 180
PÉREZ CASTRO, F. AND AZCARRAGA, M. J. : The Edition of the Kitäb al-Khilaf
of MiSael Ben 'Uzziel 188
VON ROHR SAUER, ALFRED : The Cultic Role of the Pig in Ancient Times ... 201
SCHEIBER, A. : Von den Gebetbüchern der Proselyten 208
THOMAS, D. WINTON : "A Drop of a Bucket" ? Some Observations on the
Hebrew Text of Isaiah 4015 214
VAJDA, GEORGES: DU prologue de Qirqisânï à son commentaire sur la Genèse 222
VERMES, GEZA: The Decalogue and the Minim 232
WEIL, GÉRARD E. : Nouveau fragment de la Massorah Magna du Targum de
Babylone 241
Abbildungsteil 255