Let us Go up to Zion: Essays in Honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday PDF
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Let us Go up to Zion Supplements to Vetus Testamentum Editor in Chief H.M. Barstad Editorial Board r.p. gordon – j. joosten – g.n. knoppers – a. van der kooij – a. lemaire – s.l. mckenzie – c.a. newsom – h. spieckermann – j. trebolle barrera – n. wazana – s.d. weeks – h.g.m. williamson VOLUME 153 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.nl/vts H. G. M. Williamson Let us Go up to Zion Essays in Honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday Edited by Iain Provan and Mark J. Boda LEIDEN • BOSTON 2012 This book is printed on acid-free paper. This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.nl/brill-typeface. ISSN 0083-5889 ISBN 978 90 04 21598 6 (hardback) ISBN 978 90 04 22658 6 (e-book) Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. CONTENTS Preface ............................................................................................................. ix The Achievements of Hugh Williamson ............................................... xi John A. Emerton Academic Accomplishments of H. G. M. Williamson ...................... xvii List of Contributors ..................................................................................... xxix Abbreviations ................................................................................................ xxxiii PART I HISTORy OF RESEARCH The Beginnings of “Biblical Archaeology” ............................................ 3 Graham Davies Mission Among the Jews, Holy Land and Aramaic Studies: The Case of Gustaf Dalman ................................................................. 17 Thomas Willi PART II HEBREW LANGUAGE AND TExTUAL TRADITIONS Traces of Ergativity in Biblical Hebrew ................................................ 33 John Barton Isaiah 30:15 תחנו הבושׁב and Akkadian šubat nēḫti/šubtu nēḫtu, ‘Quiet Abode’ ............................................................................................ 45 Kevin J. Cathcart Who “Began to Call on the Name of the Lord” in Genesis 4:26b?: The MT and the Versions ..................................................................... 57 Robert P. Gordon The Septuagint of Isaiah and Priesthood ............................................. 69 Arie van der Kooij vi contents Proverbs 30:32 and the Root לבנ ............................................................... 79 A. A. Macintosh The Role of Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion in Modern Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible ................................................... 95 Alison Salvesen PART III ISAIAH AND THE PROPHETS The Many Voices of Isaiah 40 ..................................................................... 113 David J. A. Clines Tyre and the Mediterranean in the Book of Isaiah .............................. 127 Anselm C. Hagedorn The One Who Brings Justice: Conceptualizing the Role of ‘The Servant’ in Isaiah 42:1–4 and Matthew 12:15–21 ...................... 143 Elizabeth R. Hayes Who or What Is Israel in Trito-Isaiah? ..................................................... 153 Gary N. Knoppers The Two Houses of Israel ............................................................................. 167 Reinhard G. Kratz ‘I Am Like A Luxuriant Juniper’: Language About God in Hosea .... 181 J. G. McConville From Woe to Weal: Completing A Pattern in the Bible and the Ancient Near East ...................................................................................... 193 Alan Millard On Triplets in a Trio of Prophets ............................................................... 203 David J. Reimer Zechariah and the Ambiguity of Kingship in Postexilic Israel ......... 219 Wolter H. Rose contents vii The Coming of the Lord—An Inter-Textual Reading of Isa 40:1–11; 52:7–10; 59:15b–20; 62:10–11 and 63:1–6 .......................... 233 Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer PART IV CHRONICLES-EZRA-NEHEMIAH Flashforward: Future Glimpses in the Past of Ezra 1–6 ...................... 247 Mark J. Boda Nehemiah—the Best King Judah Never Had ........................................... 261 Iain Duguid 2 Chronicles 32:30 and the Water Systems of Pre-Exilic Jerusalem ...................................................................................................... 273 Judith M. Hadley Pain in Childbirth? Further Thoughts on “An Attractive Fragment” (1 Chronicles 4:9–10) ................................................................................. 285 Iain Provan Was David a Judahite or an Ephraimite? Light from the Genealogies .................................................................................................. 297 Sara Japhet The Two Ahabs of the South: Joash and Josiah ..................................... 307 John Jarick The Citation and Interpretation of the Law in Chronicles: The Chronicler’s Distribution of Exegetical Devices in the Narratives of Solomon and Hezekiah ....................................................................... 317 Kevin L. Spawn
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