Understanding Poets and Prophets: Essays in Honour of George Wishart Anderson (JSOT Supplement Series)

449 Pages·1993·19.32 MB·English

by  A. Graeme Auld

JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
SUPPLEMENT SERIES
152
Editors
David J.A. Clines
Philip R. Davies
Editorial Board
Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, Tamara C. Eskenazi,
J. Cheryl Exum, Robert P. Gordon, Norman K. Gottwald,
Andrew D.H. Mayes, Carol Meyers, Patrick D. Miller
JSOT Press
Sheffield

Understanding Poets
and Prophets
Essays in Honour of
George Wishart Anderson
edited by
A. Graeme Auld
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Supplement Series 152
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Understanding Poets and Prophets: Essays
in Honour of George Wishart Anderson.—
(JSOT Supplement Series, ISSN 0309-07887;
No. 152)
I. Auld, A. Graeme II. Series
224
ISBN 1-85075-427-6
CONTENTS
Editor's Preface 9
Abbreviations 14
List of Contributors 18
Publications of George Wishart Anderson, 1983-1993 21
B. Albrektson
Grundtext och urtext: om underlaget for svenska oversattningar
av Gamla testamentet 23
J. Barr
Wilhelm Vischer and Allegory 38
R.P. Carroll
Inscribing the Covenant: Writing and the Written in Jeremiah 61
H. Gazelles
Clans, Etat Monarchique, et Tribus 77
R.E. Clements
Jeremiah 1-25 and the Deuteronomistic History 93
R. Davidson
The Old Testament in the Church? 114
J.A. Emerton
Lice or a Veil in the Song of Songs 1.7? 127
J.C.L. Gibson
The Anatomy of Hebrew Narrative Poetry 141
6 Understanding Poets and Prophets
A. P. Hay man
Qohelet, the Rabbis and the Wisdom Text from the Cairo Geniza 149
W. Johnstone
The Deuteronomistic Cycles of 'Signs' and 'Wonders' in
Exodus 1-13 166 166
A.C.C. Lee
Genesis 1 from the Perspective of a Chinese Creation Myth 186
5. Lee
Power not Novelty: The Connotations o in the Hebrew Bible 199
J.I.H. McDonald
The Great Commandment and the Golden Rule 213
W. McKane
Old and New Covenant (Testament): A Terminological Enquiry 227
A. Malamat
A New Prophetic Message from Aleppo and its Biblical
Counterparts 236
A.D.H. Mayes
The Place of the Old Testament in Understanding Israelite
History and Religion 242
D.L. Mealand
John 5 and the Limits of Rhetorical Criticism 258
E. Nielsen
Psalm 73: Scandinavian Contributions 273
J.W. Rogerson
The Enemy in the Old Testament 284
M. Saeb0
Who is 'the Man' in Lamentations 3? A Fresh Approach to the
Interpretation of the Book of Lamentations 294
Contents 1
J.F.A. Sawyer
'My Secret is With Me' (Isaiah 24.16): Some Semantic Links
between Isaiah 24-27 and Daniel 307
R. Smend
Otto Eissfeldt 1887-1973 318
J.A. Sag gin
Notes on the Joseph Story 336
D.A. Templeton
The Pauline Epistles as Border Ballads: Truth and Fiction
in the Carmen Christi 350
K.J. Vanhoozer
'The Hermeneutics of I-Witness Testimony: John 21.20-24
and the "Death" of the "Author"' 366
M. Weinfeld
Judges 1.1-2.5: The Conquest under the Leadership of the
House of Judah 388
H.G.M. Williamson
Isaiah 1.11 and the Septuagint of Isaiah 401 401
D.F. Wright
Accommodation and Barbarity in John Calvin's Old Testament
Commentaries 413
Index of References 428
Index of Authors 440
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EDITOR'S PREFACE
A proper Festschrift in honour of George Anderson is long overdue.
The beginning of his seventieth year was marked with the dedication
to him in 1982 of the first fascicle of Volume 32 of Vet us
Testamentum—he had retired in 1975 after twenty-five years on its
editorial board. But, though essays by G. Gerleman, W. McKane and
E.W. Nicholson did accompany those by his journal collaborators,
that was largely an 'in house' affair. However, his retirement from the
Chair of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies in the University of
Edinburgh was not marked in any prominent fashion. And even this
celebration of his eightieth anniversary appears—ipsius editoris
maxima culpa—at the wrong end of 1993 for one born on 25th
January 1913. And yet, given my dilatory start to the planning, the
very fact that this volume is published at all within 1993 is witness not
just to the competence of a busy cohort of contributors and the skill of
an active press, but also to the affection and respect in which the
honorand is held by all those involved, which encouraged them to give
high priority in the last year to this collaborative effort.
The Vetus Testamentum fascicle in no way makes this volume
superfluous. However, at least its preface and closing select bibliogra-
phy have rendered unnecessary either a full biographical sketch or a
complete listing of Professor Anderson's published works. He himself
has kindly supplied for this volume (p. 21) a record of his published
works of the last decade or so; and, for the other, suffice it to say that
he did retire in September 1982, that he and Anne continue to live in
Edinburgh at 51 Fountainhall Road, that he is a not-infrequent
attender at senior Hebrew seminars in the University, that he main-
tains a large correspondence—and, for the rest, his bibliography
speaks for itself.
The range and geographical spread of the essayists in the current
volume deliberately attempt to suggest something of the dedicatee.
The largest single group comes from Edinburgh where he taught for